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Dogs And Computers: Same Or Different?

Favorite Food
Dogs: kibbles
Computers: bits

Method used to end undesirable behavior
Dogs: hit with rolled up newspaper
Computers: hit control-alt-delete

After destruction of personal property
Dogs: dog not found
Computers: file not found

Favorite trick
Dogs: roll over
Computers: play dead

Comic-page hero
Dogs: Dogbert
Computers: Dilbert

Fun way to mess with their heads
Dogs: peanut butter on roof of mouth
Computers: peanut butter in CD-ROM drive

Consequence of virus
Dogs: replace valuable carpeting
Computers: replace valuable data

Waste disposal tool
Dogs: pooper-scooper
Computers: CCleaner

Sensitive internal procedures
Dogs: must be undertaken by fully qualified professional
Computers: may be undertaken by that guy at work who fixed one kind of like this once

Method of marking territory
Dogs: lifting leg
Computers: “Designed for Windows”

Unique behavior
Dogs: lick and drag
Computers: click-and-drag

Inexplicable physical feature
Dogs: declaw
Computers: scroll lock key

Estimated lifespan
Dogs: 12 years
Computers: 12 months

Received from Irene A. Mystery on GCFL.net​

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Beatlemania Hits America

Beatlemania Hits America

Article and Quiz written by Carol Kaufmann and published in AARP Bulletin/ Real Possibilities. January-February 2014.

“Fifty years ago John, Paul, George and Ringo landed in America—and the country has never been the same.  The Beatles brought a much-needed diversion from the grief of President Kennedy’s assassination just months earlier.  American teenagers, especially the girls, responded with a screaming ecstatic frenzy everywhere “the boys” went. And the parents overtime, caught on.”

How Well do you remember the Beatles in America in 1964?

1)      What did the Beatles receive for performing three times on The Ed Sullivan Show?

a)      $100,000

b)      $50,000

c)      $10,000

d)     $5,000

2)      What was the No.1 song on Billboard’s charts on Feb. 1, 1964 a week before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan?

a)      “I Want to Hold Your Hand”

b)      “She Loves You”

c)      “Love Me Do”

d)     “I Get Around”

3)      What was the first song that the Beatles performed live for an audience in America?

a)      “I Want to Hold Your Hand”

b)      “All My Loving”

c)      “Help!”

d)     “Can’t Buy Me Love”

4)      Who sent a congratulatory telegram to the Beatles before that first performance?

a)      President Lyndon B. Johnson

b)      Queen Elizabeth II

c)      Bob Dylan

d)     Elvis Presley

5)      How much did a front-row ticket to their first concert in America cost?

a)      $4

b)      $6

c)      $8.50

d)     $12.50

6)      What was stolen from Ringo while in New York for their first concert there in August?

a)      His passport

b)      His St. Christopher medal

c)      His drumsticks

d)     His autographed photo of Ed Sullivan

7)      The Beatles performed a regular set of songs (give or take a few) while on their North American tour in the summer of 1964.  Which of the following was not in the set?

a)      “A Hard Day’s Night”

b)      “Roll Over Beethoven”

c)      “Yesterday”

d)     “If I Fell”

8)      Their North American tour set a record as the zigzagged 22,621 miles across the continent in a little over a month.  Roughly how many people saw the Beatles on that tour?

a)      25,000

b)      59,000

c)      209,000

d)     454,000

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