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Barbara Walters of Television’s 20/20 did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands.

>From Miss Walters’ vantage point, despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime the women now seem to walk even further back behind their husbands, and are happy to Maintain the old custom.

Miss Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, ‘Why do you now seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?’

The woman looked Miss Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation said, ‘Land Mines.’

Moral of the story is…. (No matter where you go)

… BEHIND EVERY MAN, THERE’S A SMART WOMAN.

Thank you Cats

Thank You Sandra.

Here’s a couple of alligator I shot on Tuesday. Both were photographed in the Swanee River wildlife management area. usually when the gators sees you it goes underwater. This one got up walked over and slid into the water and swam over to me. And then he climbed out of the water on my side of the pond and walked towards me. It reminded me of a puppy that was happy to see its master. Somebody had been feeding this guy. Which by the way is a legal. It’s not only dangerous for humans but it’s dangerous for the gators as well. They associate humans with food and if they become a nuisance are a danger there destroyed. There’s also a hefty fine if caught feeding alligators.

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Installing Shapes

Gaffe a Minute is my favorite new find on the Web. It’s a website dedicated to stories about embarrassing mistakes, clumsy blunders and kid’s innocent sayings.

Here’re a couple of stories from the “Slips of the Young” category:

Kiss and Tell
My kindergartner was disgusted: a girl in his class liked him. She followed him everywhere and talked to him nonstop. Then one day he returned from school distraught. Kaitlyn had kissed him! “Where did she kiss you?” I asked, thinking, Forehead? Cheek? Lips? My son answered in a dramatic, horrified whisper: “In the library!”
—Liz

Burning Issue
Our local firefighters taught my six-year-old’s class what to do if they ever caught on fire. Several days later, while cooking dinner, I accidentally set off our smoke alarm. My son, who happened to be standing nearby, suddenly dove to the floor and started rolling across it while yelling, “Stop! Drop! And roll!”
—Katie

You can submit your own gaffes: Link

Give your junk to the junk mailers.

Isn’t that what those free postage envelopes are for?