Kings ..

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades – King David
Hearts – Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds – Julius Caesar

freaky …

111,111,111 x
111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321

Sleep Tight

In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.

When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened,
making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase………. ‘goodnight, sleep tight.’

Losing Colour Underwater

Direct light from the sun is called white light. It appears to have no color, however it is actually composed of all the colors in the spectrum. If you were to project it through a prism, you would see it break up into bands of color. Each color is a wavelength of light.

When we go underwater, water absorbs the wavelengths of light one by one as you get deeper.

• Red will disappear at a depth of around 15 to 20 feet.
• Orange at between 25 to 30 feet
• Yellow at 45 to 60 feet
• Green at 70 feet
• at 100 feet, everything will appear blue or grayish green
• at extreme depths all the light will be absorbed and everything will appear deep blue or black.

This explains why when I went diving and cut my hand at 25 meters … the blood appeared green !

Why is Christmas red and green

Contrary to popular belief, the red and green of christmas was not a corporate gimick (unlike how santas suit turned from green to red thanks to the sponsorship of Coke).

• Red sybolises Jesus blood dying on the cross
• Green is the sybol for the afterlife and rsurection

If you are late for lunch …..

Then you are going to finish after everyone else .. hmm .. deep thought … thanks PaulieG

cappuccino is not the same as a latte

A cappuccino doesn’t just have the extra sprinkle of chocolaty goodness. A cappucccino has about 50/50 milk and coffee, where as the latte has about 70/30…… not a morning coffee for the lactose intolerant.