Carnation Milk

I received this in my e-mail this morning, and I thought it was so cute. Especially since it stars everyone's favourite: a lil' ol' lady :)
But, when I checked it out on Snopes.com, I found that it is just an urban legend. I've decided to post this anyway - along with the 'original', taken from Snopes here, which they believe might be about a hundred years old! Nice, eh?

Carnation Milk slogan contest

A little old lady from Wisconsin had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation.

When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores in the 1940s, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan. The producers wanted a rhyme beginning with 'Carnation Milk is best of all.'

She thought to herself, I know everything there is to know about milk and dairy farms. I can do this! She sent in her entry, and several weeks later, a black car pulled up in front of her house.

A large man got out, knocked on her door and said, "Ma'am,.....The president of Carnation milk absolutely LOVED your entry.....So much, in fact, that we are here to award you $1,000 even though we will not be able to use it for our advertisements!"

He did, however, have one printed up to hang on his office wall:

And here is what Snopes.com dug up:

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Usually, when you comment, Blogger immediately sends your comment to my e-mail address. It did send me e-mail notifications, but for some reason, only some were sent, while others were not :(

It is the same with my Facebook notifications.

I've gone to 'Settings' to see if I've left some complicated instruction about my notifications, but I find that I haven't.

Ahh well, I will just go to 'Moderate' every time I open my blog from now on.

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*HUGS*

New best-est friends:

It's been about five months or so since Bella joined our family... and now, she and Jolie are inseparable! They explore the garden together, chase after Mrs Potts (our resident stray cat), and now, even share the little mat in my art room :)

Toffee is a tad under the weather, right now. She had a little op, but is coming along nicely now. She's walking around with an Elizabethan collar, so she didn't want her picture taken.

Snippets from Air Traffic towers . . . .

From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: "I'm f....ing bored!"

Ground Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!"

Unknown aircraft: "I said I was f...ing bored, not f....ing stupid!"

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O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o'clock, three miles, Eastbound."

United 329: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this... I've got the little Fokker in sight."

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A Pan Am 727 flight, waiting for start clearance in Munich , overheard the following:

Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"

Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."

Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany . Why must I speak English?"

Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent):"Because you lost the bloody war!"

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The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them.

So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.

Speedbird 206: " Frankfurt , Speedbird 206! Clear of active runway."

Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Al pha One-Seven."

The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.

Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"

Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."

Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"

Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, - and I didn't land."

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Not terribly politically correct, eh? But then, that's why it's funny :)

I will heel you

I did a half-hearted search online for the source of these lines, but I couldn't find out anything about who'd written it, or when. But, it's pretty brilliant, isn't it?! :)