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Well, my last challenge was just a joke as it was posted on Fool's Day and only a few people decided to tell us something humorous and funny. However, most of their jokes and pranks were really good. Here are my special thanks to Rose and Bet who posted very funny blogs!

Today, I'd like to propose you a challenge that is not expected to raise a new wave of misundersanding and hatred on EC. Let's calm down and speak about inventions. I hope you have learned some grammar from my tests and explanati

The tilting of the earth is deliberately set up

Xuefeng

August 15, 2002
As far as the orbit of the earth is concerned, the earth is tilted at a gradient of 23.5 degrees (you can use a globe as a sample). Without the tilting, there will be no alternating seasons on the earth, the equator will be unbearably hot, the temperate zone will be turned into the Frigid Zone, and Siberia of Russia will be part of the Antarctica. If the tilting is at 90 degrees, the ice and snow in Antarctica will all be melt

Recently, I watched a movie - a masterpiece - from my film collection; rewatched actually - going down the memory lane, ya know?

"[...]there was this king and he ruled over his kingdom. Right in the middle of the kingdom there was a well. That's where everybody drank. One night, this witch came along and she poisoned the well. And the next day, everybody drank from it except the king and they all went crazy. They got together in the street and they said, "We got to get rid of the king, 'cause the

"Kintsugi" or "Kintsukuroi" is a Japanese word that means "to repair with gold", and it's the art of repairing pottery with gold and understanding that piece is more beautiful for having been broken.... It makes it more special and unique...

Kintsugi can also relate to the Japanese philosophy of "no mind", which encompasses the concepts of non-attachment and acceptance of change as aspects of human life.

"Not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, but the repair is literally illuminated...

"Dear my people, today, in this rainy season, I summoned you here to announce a PRIZE CONTEST. Any of you who have wings to fly can participate in. The challenge is you should GO TO THE MOON and find your spouse there. If you're successful, I will let you free and START A NEW LIFE", says the King to his people.

Afterwards, millions of them take part in this challenge. They are surprised as they found many moons are there. Some moons are also moving ahead so fast that oftentimes kill participants.

I remember long time ago that I was fond of Sailor Stars. I am a big fan of anime Sailor Moon and her friends.

I love Usagi, Sailor Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Pluto, Saturn and all include Mask Tuxedo or known as Mamoru.

I also love Usagi's daughter, she is so cute and I forgot her name. Was it Usako?

Anyway that's how I spend my Sat night by drinking ice blend cappuccino and listening to some hits wonder in 2008. Ciao!

http://www.dailyinspirationalquotes.in/2017/04/tell-truth-dont-remember-anything-ma

Yes, I'm talking about 'participle clauses'. Don't confuse 'participle' with 'particle', though - participle is the form of a verb that ends with '-ed' or '-ing'. 

Adjectival participle clauses are like relative clauses, for example, "Anyone trying to move the stone will get injured." (= Anyone who tries/is trying to move the stone will get injured.)

What I really want to convey, however, is that 'adjectival participle clauses can only be used to talk about actions that happen the same time as the

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Then it occurred, there was a deafening silence.

Seen as harmless, but an equal to violence.

The silence wasn't heard before, like filtered white noise.

Nothing less and nothing more, like time, silence destroys.

As when your life's centered around an object,

Family, education, a person or concept.

Even something you can't quite detect.

One day you'll find yourself on a road,

Going down a path seldom strode.

A place you find that you don't want to be,

Take a lesson from a person such as me.

Listen to all a

"To be or not to be?" This question has never been answered and will never be. It is for us to decide. So, I have decided not to be a bright shining star on EC. It is time for me to collapse and to give birth to super novas. In fact, it is unnecessary as they already shine and their light is so bright! I can only enjoy seeing the results of my annihilation. 

Mary, it is your fault. I told you "don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you". My having been elected as a Star (I have always been!

Home Early

A blonde guy gets home early from work and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom. He rushes upstairs to find his wife naked on the bed, sweating and panting. "What's up?" he says. "I'm having a heart attack," cries the woman.
He rushes downstairs to grab the phone, but just as he's dialing, his 4-year-old son comes up and says "Daddy! Daddy! Uncle Ted's hiding in your closet and he's got no clothes on!" The guy slams the phone down and storms upstairs into the bedroom, past his s

There was a man… a silent man,

A humble man who lived alone

And seems like god had his plan

On humble man, for he was born.

The man wasn't happy nor was he sad

The man just lived and all he had

Was just one life one hope one way,

Just one bright and happy day…

That day he met a woman,

A pretty, sweet cute woman.

She loved the life and she was sure

That life is so sweet and pure.

Thus they met and fall in love

Thus they lived, enjoyed the life.

They worked, and walked and laughed and cried

They hoped and nev

Dear friends, do you know  one of our best members Seeker has already left this site? I came to know about it yesterday. He just wrote me two lines when I was not active here and later I found he deleted his account. What a loss!

He was enthusiastic about learning, he was sober, open minded and moreover was a very good friend of us. I never found him uttering any bad words and in all sense he was a very good member of this site.

Then why  has he left? So far I can understand he was not happy with

The distance from the earth to the sun is a result of deliberate arrangement

Xuefeng

August 15, 2002
The distance from the earth to the sun is 149 million kilometers, which is the ideal distance for the earth to absorb the solar energy. If it is too far, the earth will be cold and bleak place; if it is too close, the earth will be a flaming globe.

You must have had the experience of warming yourself by fire in the cold winter days. Your distance from the fire will be decided by the state of the fir

To me, Happiness is an island. An island with roads, roads where you can drive yet where you will not be "charged" with a crime. Where you can go to talk to people. It's an "island" civil enough to have roads, yet not "civil" enough to have "hatred". It's an "island" where people are "nice" yet say their opinion without hatred, just fact. We all, as humans, do not agree, but we do not have to be Hateful. It's an island where there are different roads, but all lead to the same place, "where we wa

As I am not any awesome joke teller, I decided to come up with my own stories. I mean real stories, life has written. Like you all know 1st April is Fool's Day and let me confess here that once I was perfectly fooled by my husband. On that day I had a call. Somebody had called me and later it turned out to be an officer from Health Insurance Institute telling me that I had some debts there, which must be paid. When I was told something so serious, I immediately forgot about some silly Fool's Day