A female Barbary lion is on display at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in southeast England to help draw attention to the massive decline in the species worldwide.
Once there was a beautiful princess who had many suitors who wished to marry her. Her father, the King, picked three and told them that they would have to compete in a contest to marry his daughter. Whomever won got to marry her.
He called the 3 men to his castle and told them what to do. He said I give you each 3 months to go around the world and collect as many ping pongballs as you can. Whomever collects the most can marry my daughter.
And so the three went off.
A month later one came back. He had found 2,000 ping pong balls.
The king said that was pretty good but he must wait for the others to return.
The next month another man came back. He had found 5,000 ping pong balls.
The king said that that was pretty good also but must wait for the final man.
On the last day of the last month, a dirty, beat-up looking man stumbled into the king’s castle. He was carrying something in his hands.
So the king said to him how many ping pong balls did you get?
Ping pong balls? said the guy. I thought you said King Kong’s balls.
I ordered my insulin from Walgreen’s mail order about a week ago and have been nervous about it not getting here yet. I finally did some tracking and discovered it was supposed to have been dropped off at our doorstep days ago. It took me a while to find this because although they gave me a tracking number they didn’t bother to tell me who was supposed to deliver it. Fed Ex evidently left it on the doorstep of somebody else. I will call this morning and find out what I’m supposed to do now.
Michael T. and I are scheduled to have breakfast this morning so you may notice a few of the world’s problems suddenly getting solved by our discussions!
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