Friday, 19 July 2013

There are some media articles where one thinks..."well..." .....and there's no need to say anything else.

Man dead after choking in pie eating contest at State of Origin Football function

Updated 5 hours 6 minutes ago

Investigations are continuing into the death of a Townsville man who died after choking during a pie-eating competition.

Bruce Holland, 64, started choking on a piece of chilli pie during the contest at the Bushland Beach Tavern during the State of Origin half-time break.
He was taken to Townsville Hospital and died at about 10:30pm (local time).

Belief and Money

I recall an interview with a master of marketing in the 1960s who said his best product was a simple prayer on an A4 sheet of paper that he sold, at the time, by mail, for one dollar. He sold hundreds of thousands of them...money just rolled in and the roneo/photocopier thing of the time was always churning them out. It was probably a really nice prayer and I'd kind of like to have read it, in retrospect. I guess I would have printed it on some nice looking aged-type paper, but that wasn't necessary then.
It was the remarkable Teilhard de Chardin who noted that one day the God who became Man will come face to face with the Man who became God and they will notice remarkable similarities in each other to the point that they will realise that they are indeed the same being.