Ugly who?

I love the Ugly*Betty character.

Her personality is amazing. She's the peacemaker...  She's smart yet naive, loyal, determined, and has an supportive family.

But...Betty is your average "geek". She has frizzy black hair w/ fuzzy bangs, bushy "never been plucked eyebrows", blue braces, and dorky glasses. Her fashion choices are very bright, over styled, and just plain tacky. While I believe America Ferrera is absolutely gorgeous, I cannot believe how ugly they make her look.
Betty is such an infectiously happy character that it's easy to get swept up in her life. she's just so darn likeable. I'll admit that I've wished more than once that she were real and my friend.

How does someone like this .....

 really look like this?

and this:

And while were on the subject...

how does this:

become  this:

and this !

Amazing.....

Weekly words to live by

“Each man is a hero and an oracle to someone"

     Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

”Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,

 love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

Unknown

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On the Lighter side....

Fans have come to expect a little eccentricity from legendary crooner Willie * Nelson, but he pulled off a real shocker this time.
He cut his hair.


He cut it to support the Gulf Coast oil spill, but engineers say they will NOT be using hair to sop up the oil spill….
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Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road. As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the woman if she would like a ride. With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car.
Resuming the journey, Sally tried in vain to make a bit of small talk with the Navajo woman. The old woman just sat silently, looking at everything she saw, studying every little detail, until she noticed a white bag on the seat next to Sally.

"What's in the bag?" asked the old woman.
Sally looked down at the bag and, smiling, said, "It's a box of chocolates. I got it for my husband."

The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. Then speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said: "Good trade."
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Thought to Ponder: Why is it that when you eat too much for lunch, you feel drowsy all afternoon, but when you eat a big meal in the evening, you stay awake all night?

Have a good Thursday!

World’s largest Chicken Fried Steak

 FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth restaurant is boasting the biggest, breaded beef in the world: a four-pound slab of top round, that, after being coated in crumbs, deep fried and red in cream gravy, weighs about ten pounds and packs a whopping 10,000 calories.

The Cowtown Diner started serving the "Full O Bull" platter when it opened in January. Since then, the restaurant has dished up about 15 orders of the bovine complete with sides: six pounds of mashed potatoes and ten slices of Texas toast.
How many fat grams are packed in such a preposterous meal?

"We were afraid to calculate that," said Scott Jones, owner of the Cowtown Diner. "We also didn't want to figure out the Weight Watchers points."

If you're brave enough to tackle the $70 mammoth meal by yourself, you'll get it for free. You don't even have to eat it in a certain time limit. You just have to eat it all: steak, potatoes, gravy and toast.

So far, Jones said, no one has swallowed the challenge.

Weekly words to live by....

"A person is never so empty as when he is full of himself."

Author Unknown 

"Things turn out best for the people

who make the best out of the way things turn out.”

—John R. Wooden

(1910-); retired basketball coach, author

"Surround yourself with only people

who are going to lift you higher"

Author Unknown

 

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I'll be "lost" without Lost....

Sunday will be the finale of a six - year run for the series "Lost".  I have never before been so engrossed in a television show...not missing a single episode since the beginning.
I've become so attached to these people and I think that no matter what role they may play in the future, they will always be Jack, Sawyer, and Kate to me.
And I'm gonna miss them...REALLY miss them.

There was a young lassie named "Tess"...

Who's hair was always a mess,
Tangled and brambled,

like two eggs scrambled,
"I must get some help" she confessed.

Across town lived Phil the hairdresser,
Who's father was Joe the pants presser,
He took just one look

a poor Tess's tresses,
And vowed, at no charge, to impress her.

So pleased was the lady named Tess,
She gave him her phone and address,
Ere long they were wed,

just two in a bed,
She gave him a girl they named Bess!

Written by Charlie ~ age 84