Useless Corner


This Blog is Dead
June 21, 2008, 11:37 pm
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As the over stated cliché goes, “all good things must come to an end”. The reasons are too symbolic for this useless blog and the irony is best reserved for a moment worth savoring. Perhaps this decision will be viewed as aggressive, irrational and selfish but eventually a stroke of enlightenment would find its way towards your infected minds and cure the sadness.

R.I.P Useless Corner

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Useless Activities
June 5, 2008, 4:07 pm
Filed under: Facts
  1. Sunbathing in Geneva, (can’t… Stop… the .. Rain)
  2. Bar Hopping in Saudi Arabia, (alcohol is considered illegal)
  3. Raising Ant Farms, (…)
  4. Stealing Lighters from your friends, (best if you develop other activities since it’s bound to occur)
  5. Taking a ride on Space Mountain, (it isn’t actually space…pretty pointless)
  6. Sucking other people’s blood, (it won’t turn you into a vampire)
  7. Baking bread, (you can think Spinney’s and Carrefour for that)
  8. Blog Posting
  9. Teaching frogs how to sing
  10. Collecting lint
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Recipe for Coconut Pie
May 25, 2008, 2:20 pm
Filed under: Soups&Pies

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups milk
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup biscuit mix (Bisquick, etc)
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cups flaked coconut

Preparation:

  1. Combine milk, sugar, biscuit mix, eggs, butter and vanilla in blender.
  2. Cover and blend on low speed for 3 minutes.
  3. Pour into greased 9-inch pie pan.
  4. Let stand 5 minutes then sprinkle with coconut.
  5. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
  6. Serve pie warm or cooled. Store in refrigerator.

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McUseless Facts
May 24, 2008, 8:32 am
Filed under: Facts

  1. McDonald’s opens a new restaurant every four hours.
  2. Antarctica is the only continent that does not have a McDonald’s restaurant – yet.
  3. Ronald McDonald is “Donald McDonald™” in Japan because it makes pronunciation easier for the Japanese. In Singapore he’s known as “Uncle McDonald.”
  4. McDonald’s international restaurants occasionally develop other items which appeal to local tastes, such as McSpaghetti™ in the Philippines.
  5. Sälen in Sweden opened the first SKI-THROUGH McDonald’s in the world.
  6. More than 50,000 students from all over the world have graduated with “Bachelor of Hamburgerology” degrees from McDonald’s “Hamburger University.
  7. In India the “Big Mac” is changed into the “Maharaja Mac”, a mutton burger in deference to religious injunctions against the consumption of beef and pork.
  8. 40% of McDonald’s profits comes from the sale of Happy Meals.
  9. Every day, McDonald’s serves more than 46 million people.
  10. The busiest international McDonald’s restaurant is located on Pushkin Square in Moscow, which serves 40,000 people every day.
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A Useless Rant
May 23, 2008, 6:26 pm
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“There’s an aching truth, plotting its revenge, on those who slave to bury it”.

The blind are leading the deaf towards a series of unacceptable events ranging from: discarding justice for the sake of “red carpet” recognition, to bribing the youth with the latest distractions. Nevertheless, there are a number of individuals who are determined to provoke change and to shift the gears on what has been a slow and undesirable evolutionary process. Yet, the human race has taken its collective brilliance for granted and has chosen to settle for the crust rather than the whole pizza pie. We forget that we belong to the universe and not just this wonderful planet; therefore, it must be in our greater interest, to implement strategies for space colonization. We are all fully knowledgeable of the fact that the earth is, or will be overpopulated, and many regional disputes and ethnic conflicts are unlikely to vanish; based on these two arguments alone it would be wise to assume that the human race needs to expand its territory. Obviously, there needs to be a fair amount of global consensus and investment in the fields of education and technology, as well as intelligentsias to orchestrate the proceedings successfully. The plan is feasible but unapproachable since we don’t care or want to spend time caring about the possibility of space colonization. It is useless to preach when your audience consistently refuses to act, so the alternative is to pick up our shovels and perform our duties for society and conformity. We continue to punish ourselves by acting like hamsters with a wheel fetish, constantly placing ourselves in cycles that infest our lives with mundane routines and broken record clichés.

I’m tired and you should be too.

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Useless Facts: The Grim Reaper Collection
May 23, 2008, 3:59 pm
Filed under: Facts
  1. On average, 100 people choke on ballpoint pens every year.
  2. People say “bless you” when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
  3. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul’s armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.
  4. Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln’s oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father’s assassination as well as during President Garfield’s assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
  5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
  6. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
  7. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
  8. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
  9. It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began.
  10. OJ did it!
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Recipe for Mulligatawny Soup
May 23, 2008, 1:19 pm
Filed under: Soups&Pies

Mulligatawny

Ingredients

  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1/4 teaspoon cumin seed, ground
  • 6 whole clove, finely crushed
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder(or to taste)
  • 1/4 teaspoon ginger, ground
  • cayenne pepper
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter (1/2 stick)
  • 1 roasting chicken, cut into serving pieces (4 to 4 1/4 lb)
  • chicken giblets, coarsely chopped
  • 3 stalks celery with leaves, thinly sliced
  • 2 large onions onions, chopped
  • 2 carrots, diced
  • 1 leek, thinly sliced (white part only)
  • 11 cups chicken stock, defatted (preferably homemade, 2 quarts plus 3 cups)
  • salt & pepper freshly ground
  • 2/3 cup long grain rice long grain rice
  • 2 medium-size apples peeled, cored and diced (tart)
  • 1 cup plain yogurt plain yogurt
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (or to taste)
  • 2/3 cup whipping cream warmed
  • chopped fresh parsley, to garnish
  • lightly toasted sliced almonds to garnish

Directions

  1. Combine garlic and spices.
  2. Melt butter in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken and saute until lightly browned on all sides.
  3. Add giblets and saute until cooked through.
  4. Transfer chicken and giblets to stockpot. Drain all but 1 tablespoon fat from skillet. Add celery, onion, carrot, leek and spice mixture and blend well.
  5. Add a small ladle of stock and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until vegetables are tender.
  6. Add to chicken
  7. Stir in remaining stock and season with salt and pepper
  8. cover and simmer 30 minutes.
  9. Remove chicken with slotted spoon and set aside. Add rice to soup and continue cooking 15 minutes.
  10. When chicken is cool enough to handle, cut meat into bite-size pieces, discarding skin and bones.
  11. Return chicken to soup and blend in apples and yogurt. Simmer 10 minutes.
  12. Degrease soup if necessary
  13. Stir in lemon juice then blend in cream
  14. Taste and adjust seasoning.
  15. Pour into heated tureen and sprinkle with parsley and almonds.
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The iPod Useless
May 22, 2008, 7:59 pm
Filed under: Videos

A spoof on the iPod that isn’t too corny.

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Usless Quotes: Dumb and…Yea…
May 22, 2008, 6:50 pm
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  1. ” Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything “, Ivana Trump
  2. ” Smoking kills. If you’re killed you’ve lost a very important part of your life “, Brooke Shields
  3. ” It is time for the human race to enter the solar system “, Dan Quayle former US Vice-President from 1988 to 1992
  4. ” The internet is a great way to get on the net “, Bob Dole former Republican presidential candidate
  5. ” China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese “, Charles De Gaulles
  6. ” Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver “, Carol Malia BBC Anchorwoman
  7. ” If only faces could talk “, Pat Summerall legendary American sports announcer
  8. ” I just want you to know that when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace “, President Geroges “Dubbya” Bush
  9. ” I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father “, Greg Norman former golfing great
  10. ” The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll come back as a paintbrush “, Sylvester Stallone
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Useless facts: Beyond Useless
May 22, 2008, 9:37 am
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  1. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
  2. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
  3. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
  4. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
  5. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
  6. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
  7. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  8. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
  9. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
  10. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse’s legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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