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  • 10 things you never knew about chocolate

    // Gradly // blog, Misc. 2 Responses

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    10. The Aztecs drunk it
    Chocolate was originally a cold drink whisked from cocoa beans by the Aztecs – and women were not allowed to drink it.

    9. It was more valuable than gold
    When Cortes conquered the Aztecs in 1520, he found that cocoa beans were prized higher than gold.

    8. It was named in the 17th century
    The word ‘chocolate’ was first recorded in English use in 1604.

    7. It helped found the British Museum
    The British Museum owes its very existence to chocolate. It was based on the personal collection of Hans Soane, who invented milk chocolate.

    6. Chocolate bar an English invention
    The bar of chocolate was invented by JS Fry and Sons of Bristol in 1847.

    5. Expensive egg
    Last year’s most expensive chocolate egg was encrusted with more than 100 diamonds and made for La Maison du Chocolat with a ?0,000 prize tag.

    4. Royal approval
    On New Year’s Day 1900, Queen Victoria sent 100,000 boxes of chocolates as a personal gift to soldiers fighting in the Boer War.

    3. Brits can’t get enough of it
    The average person living in the UK – man, woman or child – spends over ? a week on chocolate.

    2. The King loved it!
    The last food Elvis Presley ate comprised four scoops of ice cream and six chocolate chip cookies.

    1. Egg-cellent selection
    Woolworths is this year selling 170 varieties of chocolate Easter egg.

  • Women = Problems

    // Gradly // blog, Funny 6 Responses

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  • Story Corner: An Office Boy at Microsoft!

    // Gradly // blog, Funny, Jokes, Stories 21 Responses

    A jobless man applied for the position of ‘office boy‘ at Microsoft.

    The HR manager interviewed him, then a test: clean the floor. “You are hired” he said, “give me your e-mail address, and I’ll send you the application to fill, as well as when you will start”. The man replied “I don’t have a computer, neither an email”.

    “I’m sorry”, said the HR manager, “if you don’t have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn’t exist, cannot have the job”. The man left with no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do, with only 10 US$ in his pocket.

    He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10 KG tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation 3 times, and returned home with 60 US$. The man realized that he can survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubles or triples every day. Shortly later, he bought a cart, then a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.

    5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the U. S. He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance.

    He called an insurance broker, and choose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied: “I don’t have an email”. The broker replied curiously, “you don’t have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Do you imagine what you could have been if you had an email ?!” The man thought for a while, and replied: “an office boy at Microsoft!“.

    The moral of this story:

    • M1– Internet is not the solution to your life.
    • M2– If you don’t have internet, and work hard, you can be a millionaire.
    • M3– If you received this message by email, you are closer to be an office boy, rather than a MILLIONAIRE.

    P.S. I am going to sell Tomatoes.

  • Let Ms. Dewey help you !!

    // Gradly // blog, Funny 4 Responses

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    It’s a new web search engine service comes up with this lady to help you searching the Internet but wait, she is not a virtual girl at all, she is true, the real acteress and singer Janina Gavankar. Nice and silly moves and even tapping on your screen !!

    + www.msdewey.com/

    + Janina Gavankar