Why CHINA is No. 1

SPEECH OF THE YEAR

Maria is a devoted wife:

She gets married and has 7 children.......

Soon after the last child is born, her husband dies.... .

A few weeks later she remarries, and over the following years has another 5 children with her second husband......

After the last child is born her second husband also dies......

Within a month Maria is engaged to be married for the third time.......

Unfortunately, she becomes very ill and dies.

At her funeral the priest looks tenderly at Maria as she lies in her coffin, he looks up to heaven and says:


"At last they are finally together".


A man standing next to the priest asks, "Excuse me, Father, but do you mean Maria and her first husband, or Maria and her second husband?"



The priest replied " I mean her legs !!! ".

Structural engineer in action

Whether you're a 'bird person' or not, this is stunning!!!

Not to detract from the sheer magic of it, but in practical terms,
how M A NY trips would a bird have to make with that tiny little
quantity of mud/clay it could carry? (and how far from the nest
is the source of material ?)

If you take the construction of a "circular bowl" in your stride as
instinctive – how the heck does the bird come up with the
windbreak/entrance design that shields the eggs/chicks from the
elements – and at what point in fashioning the bowl do they start