Kay Bennett's Talking Tennessee!

Only in America do drugstores make the sick walk all the 
way to the back of  the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people                   
can buy cigarettes 
at the front. 
 

 
 
 
Only in America ......do people order 
double cheeseburgers, large fries, and 
a diet coke. 
                                                                        

 
Only in America ......do banks leave both doors open and 
then chain the pens 
to the counters. 
 

 
 
Only in America ......do we leave cars 
worth thousands of dollars in the 
driveway and put our useless junk in the garage. 

 
Only in America ......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten 
and buns in 
packages of eight. 

 
 
Only in America .....do we use the word 'politics' 
to describe the process 
so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 
'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking 
creatures'. 
 

 
Only in America ......do they have drive-up ATM machines 
with Braille 
lettering.                                                                

 
 
EVER WONDER ....  
 
Why the sun lightens our hair, 
but darkens our skin ?                               
 
 
Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed? 
 
Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins 
Lottery'? 
 
Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word? 

 Why is it that doctors call what they do  'practice'? 
 
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and
dishwashing liquid made 
with real lemons?                                      

 
 
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? 
 
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush 
hour? 
 
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? 

 Why didn't Noah swat those two  
mosquitoes? 
 
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections? 
 
 
 
 
You know that indestructible black box that is used on 
airplanes? Why don't 
they make the whole plane out of that stuff?! 
 
 
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?       
 
 
 
Why are they called apartments when 
they are all stuck together? 
 
 
 
 
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of 
progress? 

 If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

I just got this on a foward today and though I should share with everyone from the A.R. community

Cumberland Cove is over 15,000 acres of natural subdivision in Monterey, Tn.  Located just 15 minutes from Cookeville and Crossville Tn, you can have  peaceful and easy living with shopping at your fingertips!  You can have 4 beautiful wooded acres with this 1764 square foot brick home for only $204,900.  An additional 4.1 acres can be purchased to expand your territory for an additional $25,000.

Let Cumberland Cove be your next move!  This quiet, peaceful subdivision is nestled in 15,000 acres of beautiful Hardwoods, waterfalls, bluff overlooks, and serene living!  Truly a Natural paradise!  Call Kay and make it yours today!

Photo Gallery Living RM W/StackStone FP Kitchen ~ Appliance Stay! Formal Dining Master BR Florida RM Rear Deck Description Your Private 4 acre Oasis awaits you! Beautiful like new brick rancher built in 2004 boasts plenty of upgrades to include Hardwoods/tile/berber flooring, Stainless Appliances in Kitchen, Formal Dining Room, StackStone F.P. with Mantel Lighting, Huge Master BR with His/Her Closets, Heated Jet Tub in Master Bath, plus Florida room off Master Bedroom with outside deck for easy living! Property includes 4 acres with additional acreage avail to purchase. Lots of hardwood trees, garden area, and wet weather creek completes this Cumberland Cove Paradise! Come see this home today! Features Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Year Built: 2004 Subdivision: Cumberland Cove Lot Size: 4 Acres Garage Size: 1 car School District: Putnam Cty Square Footage: 1764 Agent Name: Kay Bennett Broker: First Realty Company MLS #: 626314 Location 13 Down Place Monterey TN 38574 Powered by vFlyer.com vFlyerId: 1779713

Attend the World's Longest Yardsale, also known as the 127 Corridor Sale and is
630 Miles - From Defiance, Ohio to Gadsden, Alabama! The sale is held from August 7-10.

The sale is headquartered in Jamestown, Tennessee and is the longest yard sale.It is almost impossible for shoppers to cover that entire area in a day...(esp with gas cost and etc

You're going to discover some neat places, interesting people, and quaint stops that you'll probably want to visit again and again. So pack your camera, sunglasses, a good pair of walking shoes, and plenty of cash- you're in for the World's Longest Yardsale!

 Mr. Clean has been named as the "Official Cleaner of the 2008 World's Longest Yard Sale"! Two booths will be set up at locations along the sale route, including one location at the South Fentress Community Park, just north of Clarkrange, TN. At the booths, attendants will wipe down and clean yard sale purchases using Mr. Clean products such as Multi-Surface Wipes and Magic Eraser, and hand out product samples.

The US 127 Corridor Sale started in 1987. It now runs from north of Defiance, OH, south to Chattanooga, TN, then switches to the Lookout Mountain Parkway, continuing to Gadsden, AL. The four day sale now starts on the first Thursday in August making dates for the 21st annual sale to be August 7-10,2008. The sale is very popular, and visitors from several foreign countries have attended.

The original intent of the sale was to prove the back roads have something to offer, and that the interstate system was not the only mode for travel.

For more information on the area please call Kay Bennett today :)

So pretty much everybody now days have a cell phone, right. Well did you know that telemarketers not only can get you home number , but can now access your cell phone as well.

I know I have signed up for one thing on line and end up getting calls from like 15 different companies.... this is because telemarketers sell your number...

So after getting annoyed at telemarketers who I know are "just doing their job"

I decided to take action and do something about it..that is when I found the DO NOT CALL LIST!

The link to their website is

https://www.donotcall.gov/

It takes up to 30 days for your number to be on the list, but if you feel that your name was registered over 30 days ago...here is the website to go to find more info about the do not call list and what it covers

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/donotcall/

 Just wanted to give everybody an F.Y.I. and spread the word because I KNOW I am not the only person whose weekend has been interrupted by a tele-marketer

Jessica Danson-Assistant

It was said that In the late 1800s, a German high school mathematics instructor named Wilhelm Von Osten was pushing a few scientific envelopes from his home in Berlin. Among other things, he was a student of phrenology,but it was his keen interest in animal intelligence that would ultimately win him fame.

Von Osten firmly believed that humanity had greatly underestimated the reasoning skills and intelligence of animals. To test his hypothesis, he took it upon himself to tutor a cat, a horse, and a bear in the ways of mathematics. The cat was indifferent to his efforts, and the bear seemed outright hostile, but the arab stallion named Hans showed some real promise. With further tutelage, Hans the horse learned to use his hoof to tap out numbers written on a blackboard. Much to Von Osten's delight, jotting a "3" on the blackboard would prompt a tap-tap-tap from his pupil, a feat which Hans could repeat for any number under ten.

Starting in 1891, Von Osten began parading "Clever Hans" all over Germany to show off the horse's mathematical proficiency. As word of the spectacle spread, Hans' free exhibitions began drawing larger and larger crowds of curious onlookers. They were seldom disappointed.

"If the first day of the month is a Wednesday," Von Osten would ask Hans, who had learned to respond to verbal questions, "what is the date of the following Monday?" Six hoof-taps would follow. "What is the square root of sixteen?" Four taps. Von Osten also explained to the astonished crowds that Hans could spell out words with taps, where one tap is an "A", two taps a "B", and so on. Hans would then demonstrate this talent by spelling out the names of people he knew, and responding to simple questions. He could also tap out the time of day. Though he made mistakes occasionally, his accuracy was found to be roughly 89%. By some estimates, Hans' grasp of mathematics was equivalent to a fourteen-year-old's.

Naturally there were many skeptics, particularly after the New York Times featured the crafty horse in a front-page story. Germany's board of education asked to conduct an independent investigation into Hans' abilities, and Von Osten agreed. He was a man of science, after all, and he knew that there was no fraud to expose. The board members assembled a number of scientific minds to join the Hans Commission, including two zoologists, a psychologist, a horse trainer, several school teachers, and a circus manager. Following extensive independent testing, the commission concluded in 1904 that there was no trickery involved in Hans' responses; as far as they could tell, the horse's talents were genuine.

As expected, Hans performed very well when questions were posed by his owner, Von Osten. He also received very high marks for accuracy with other questioners under normal conditions. But when the experiment called for the questioner to stand farther away, something interesting happened: the horse's accuracy diminished somewhat, though it wasn't immediately clear why.

It was the final two variables which proved to be the most revealing. In instances where the questioner didn't know the answer to a question in advance, the accuracy of Hans' responses plummeted to nearly zero. Likewise when the questioner was completely concealed from him. It seemed that Hans' cleverness hinged on his ability to have an up-close, unobstructed view of the person who knew the correct answer. The researchers also found evidence that hounding a horse with questions he can't answer leads to painful horse-bites.:)

I found this intresting and wanted to share with everybody out there on active rain.

Amazing facts about food!!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye.. And YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums.  Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this?  It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of n utrition in each one of these foods (MO dern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actual ly bal ance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries 

  Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just l ike the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

I just felt these were very intresting facts everybody should know...

This time of the year, when the weather is muggy is a good time for tornados to strike. They can strike anywhere in any area.

There is no such thing as guaranteed safety inside a tornado. Freak accidents happen; and the most violent tornadoes can level almost any house and its occupants. Extremely violent F5 tornadoes are very rare, though. Most tornadoes are actually much weaker and can be survived using these safety ideas...

  Prevention and practice before the storm: At home, have a family tornado plan in place, based on the kind of dwelling you live in and the safety tips below. Know where you can take shelter in a matter of seconds, and practice a family tornado drill at least once a year. Have a pre-determined place to meet after a disaster. Flying debris is the greatest danger in tornadoes; so store protective coverings (e.g., mattress, sleeping bags, thick blankets, etc) in or next to your shelter space, ready to use on a few seconds' notice. When a tornado watch is issued, think about the drill and check to make sure all your safety supplies are handy. Turn on local TV, radio or NOAA Weather Radio and stay alert for warnings

Know the signs of a tornado: Weather forecasting science is not perfect and some tornadoes do occur without a tornado warning. There is no substitute for staying alert to the sky. Besides a visible tornado here are some things to look and listen for:

Strong, persistent rotation in the cloud base.

Whirling dust or debris on the ground under a cloud base -- tornadoes sometimes have no funnel

Hail or heavy rain followed by either dead calm or a fast, intense wind shift. Many tornadoes are wrapped in heavy precipitation and can't be seen.

Day or night - Loud, continuous roar or rumble, which doesn't fade in a few seconds like thunder.

Night - Small, bright, blue-green to white flashes at groud level,near a thunderstorm (as opposed to silvery lightning up in the clouds). These mean power lines are being snapped by very strong wind, maybe a tornado.

Night - Persistent lowering from the cloud base, illuminated or silhouetted by lightning -- especially if it is on the ground or there is a blue-green-white power flash underneath.

WHAT TO DO...

In a house with a basement: Avoid windows. Get in the basement and under some kind of sturdy protection (heavy table or work bench), or cover yourself with a mattress. Know where very heavy objects rest on the floor above (pianos, refrigerators, waterbeds, etc.) and do not go under them. Also, if you have time and get a warning ahead of time, take some bottled water with you in the event you were to get trapped in your home...as well as flashlights, and batteries,radio and cell phone if possible.

In a house with no basement, a dorm, or an apartment: Avoid windows. Go to the lowest floor, small center room (like a bathroom or closet) or in an interior hallway with no windows. Crouch as low as possible to the floor, facing down; and cover your head with your hands. A tub may offer a shell of partial protection.

In an office building, hospital, nursing home or skyscraper:Go directly to an enclosed, windowless area in the center of the building -- away from glass. Then, crouch down and cover your head.

Just wanted to give everybody a few tips about how to protect yourself in the event that a tornado warning is in your area..

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