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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.

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.

On their 50th wedding anniversary, everyone were pestering Mary and George to tell their secrets to such a long marriage. The couple were grinning all the time, but they weren’t talking. They were quite happy simply sitting side by side and holding each other’s hand.

“Mary, come on now. Tell us your secrets,” urged Ruth, Mary’s good friend. “Give all the youngsters here a hint. Help them look forward to their own 50th anniversaries.”

“Yes, yes. Help us out. Please do tell,” everyone agreed.

Mary finally relented, “There isn’t any secret. Really.” Everyone was disappointed. Then Mary continued, “I did make a vow to myself on wedding day though.”

If the bread in the oven is a failure you lose a week; if the harvest is a failure you lose a year; if marriage is a failure then you lose a life.

— Estonian proverb