Inspiration 365 Days!

Image via Wikipedia

Fish and Chips Fuel Honeymoon

An Australian engineer and his English bride have embarked on an environmentally friendly honeymoon trek around Australia, using waste vegetable oil from fish and chip shops to fuel their travel.

Civil engineer Gerard Mimmo, 36, and his wife Rachel, 28, hope to drive 30,000km in a specially converted four-wheel-drive, which they named the Battered Fish due to the pungent smell of its exhaust fumes.

The pair have so far made it more than 1000km from Sydney to Brisbane in the vehicle, which can use both diesel and vegetable oil.

When you get what you want as your struggle for self
And the world makes you queen for a day,
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that woman has to say.

For it isn’t your father or mother or husband
Who’s judgement upon you must pass;
The person whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.

She’s the person to please, never mind all the rest,
For she’s with you clear up to the end.
And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the woman in the glass if your friend.

A couple was on the verge of divorce. The husband still loved the wife and wanted to save the marriage. So he went to the pastor for council.

“Don’t argue with your wife. Keep quiet and listen to what your wife has to say,” suggested the pastor.

A month later, the husband told the pastor he had learnt to listen to every word his wife said.

“Good. Now it’s time to learn to listen to every word your wife doesn’t say,” the pastor said.

What punishment should be imposed on a man who shot a police officer almost 40 years ago and fled to Canada, but went on to live an upstanding life as a husband and father who worked in a library?

There was a rare answer here on Friday: Require him to give $250,000 to a foundation that helps the families of injured Chicago police officers.

Joseph Pannell, 58, who admits that he shot a police officer here in 1969, will serve just 30 days in jail and two years’ probation as part of a plea bargain that legal experts called extremely unusual.