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[FunOnTheNet] Oldies Beyond Our Yrs.

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A group of seniors were sitting around talking about all their ailments.
"My arms have gotten so   weak I can hardly lift this cup of coffee," said one.

"Yes, I   know," said another. "My cataracts are so bad; I can't even
see my   coffee."

"I couldn't even mark an "X" at election time, my   hands are so
crippled," volunteered a third.

"What? Speak up! What? I can't hear you!"

"I can't turn my head because of the arthritis in my neck," said a
fourth, to which several nodded Weekly in agreement.

"My blood pressure pills make me so dizzy!" exclaimed another.

"I forget where I am, and where   I'm going," said another.

"I guess that's the price we pay for getting old," winced an old man
as he slowly shook his head. The others nodded in agreement.

"Well, count your Blessings," said a woman cheerfully - - "thank God
we can all   still drive"

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[FunOnTheNet] Kim Jong Il Look Alike

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Oh well, looks like I'm out of a job: South Korean 'Dear Leader' double facing grim future after demise of North Korean dictator

'I feel very empty, as a part of me died'
Engraver Kim Young Sik impersonated Kim Jong Il for 10 years
'One day after I got out of the shower and my hair was very curly, people told me I looked like Kim Jong Il'
But received abuse from misguided few thinking he was country's leader

By Lee Moran

Last updated at 11:55 AM on 30th December 2011

He has been the spitting image of Kim Jong Il for more than decade - with his bouffant hairdo, large glasses and olive green suit.

And while he got plenty of abuse in the street from the misguided few who really thought he was the North Korean dictator, South Korean Kim Young Sik was never short of work as his double.

But now it looks like the good times are over and southern Kim will have to hang up his wide-waisted trousers for good following the death of northern Kim.

'People try to comfort me, saying some figures are more famous when they're dead, but I don't think it will be the case with Kim,' said the engraver.

But he added wistfully: 'I feel very empty, as if a part of me died.'

Look-a-like: South Korean engraver Kim Young Sik has impersonated Kim Jong Il for more than a decade

Spot the difference: Kim Young Sik (left) fears his career as a look-a-like for Kim Jong Il (right) is over

Sik, 61, said he never dreamt of becoming a part-time communist ruler and fell into the role by accident.

He said: 'One day after I got out of the shower and my hair was very curly, people told me I looked like Kim Jong Il.'

When then-South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung began the Sunshine Policy of reconciliation with the North in the late 1990s he started to be noticed and was invited to appear on television.

In mourning: The father-of-two, who has moonlighted as his look-a-like for more than a decade, said he felt a part of him had died

Who's who: Kim Young Sik (top)is the spitting image of North Korea's departed leader Kim Jong Il

Since then he has enjoyed an illustrious career appearing on Japanese TV, in a Middle East chocolate commercial, and in 1995 South Korean film The Rose of Sharon Blooms Again.

Kim Young Sik (Duplicate of Dear Leader)

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[FunOnTheNet] This Ape Can Cook

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Kanzi, the ape who HAS learned the secret of man's red fire and loves nothing more than a good fry-up

By David Derbyshire

Last updated at 10:44 AM on 30th December 2011

Eagerly he collects wood from the ground, snaps the branches into small pieces and carefully balances them in a pile. Then, taking care not to burn himself, he gently strikes a match and gets ready for a fry-up.

Like all red-blooded males, Kanzi loves messing around with a barbecue. But then, as these extraordinary pictures show, Kanzi is no man. He is a bonobo - pygmy chimpanzee - and his love of fire is challenging the way that we think about our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.

For although bonobo apes and larger chimpanzees use twigs and leaves as tools, none has ever shown such skill for cooking food.

Skill with a skillet: After slaving over a hot stove, Kanzi the bonobo, tucks in to his creation. These pictures are the first to show a primate's skill at cooking food

Kanzi is one of eight bonobos in the care of Dr Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, one of the world's leading experts in ape behaviour and language. She believes 31-year-old Kanzi's fascination with fire reveals a deep intelligence.

Dr Savage-Rumbaugh, of the Great Ape Trust, in Des Moines, Iowa, adds: 'Kanzi makes fire because he wants to. He used to watch the film Quest For Fire when he was very young which was about early man struggling to control fire. He watched it spellbound over and over hundreds of times.'

He was also fascinated by the camp fires his keepers made to cook food. And he was encouraged to interact with humans and copy them. At the age of five, he was making small piles of bone dry sticks.

Hunter-gatherer: Kanzi carries his barbie in a backpack (left) before finding some dry wood and breaking it down to size in much the same way a human would

Intelligent cooking: The pygmy chimpanzee searches for the perfect site for a camp fire then carefully piles sticks onto a bed of dry leave

He was taught to use matches, a skill he picked up quickly. There's something eerie about watching Kanzi strike a match. The way he then holds the flame - taking care not to burn himself - is remarkably human.

'Fire is one of the most important factors in our evolution,' says Dr Savage-Rumbaugh.

'When humans learned to control fire and to domesticate dogs we began to feel a new level of safety which freed us to become creative and to create more sophisticated cultures.'

'Fire enabled us to cook meat, which helped break it down and meant we could eat more of it. Plants we cooked on fires were made more digestible. In short, cooking led us to eating better, which meant we developed large brains.

'We sat around in communal groups cooking, stoking and simply watching the fire - a situation in which language and conversation started to develop.'

Adept: His hands look almost human as he strikes a match and, with a look of satisfaction, watches the smoke start to rise as the fire takes hold

Kanzi - the name means Treasure in Swahili - does not stay close to make sure his fire stays lit. But he does throw on more wood from a distance. And he has learned how to cook. He will take a marshmallow, stick it on the end of a twig and hold it carefully over the flames, ensuring it doesn't burn.

He can place a grill pan on the fire and cook hamburgers. When he has finished with the fire, Dr Savage-Rumbaugh asks him to put it out using a bottle of water. He will carefully pour the liquid over the flames until it has been extinguished.

Kanzi is now incredibly passing on his skills to other apes. His son Teco, who lives in the same research centre, watches Kanzi as he solves problems. The researchers believe he may learn to make fires, too.

Healthy flames: It's time to set up the barbecue with a makeshift grill and then get the pan on ready to cook some tasty hamburgers

Kanzi, who weighs 12st, is the brightest of the apes at the Great Ape Trust. With two other apes at the centre, he uses paper keyboards to communicate with Dr Savage-Rumbaugh and fellow primatologist Liz Pugh.

In conversation with the researchers he points to symbols, known as lexigrams, on the keyboards representing different words.

He has learnt to 'say' around 500 words through the keyboard, and understands 3,000 spoken words.

Bonobos are one of the most endangered species and there are around 10,000 to 50,000 left in the wild, all in Africa's Democratic Republic of Congo. They share 98 to 99 per cent of their DNA with us.

For Kanzi's own safety, he is only allowed to make fires under close supervision. But his behaviour raises fascinating questions.

And for dessert... he pops a marshmallow on a long stick and toasts it with care making sure he doesn't get his fingers burnt

What would happen if he was released into the wild where other bonobos could copy his behaviour? And could wild bonobos learn how to master fire independently just like our own ancestors?

You don't have to be a fan of the Planet Of The Apes movies - in which intelligent apes threaten mankind's supremacy on the Earth - to find those questions disturbing.

Or maybe, like King Louie in Disney's The Jungle Book, he just wants to ape us.

Special thanks to Great Ape Trust of Iowa -- www.GreatApeTrust.org

Just right: The barbie ape enjoys his pud... whose turn to do the washing up? Perhaps he can do that as well?

King of the Swingers: Maybe Kanzi was inspired by the 1976 film The Jungle Book where the ape King Louie (pictured) sings 'I Wanna Be Like You' to the child Mowgli

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