PRICES increase in the average cost of a home in the last fifty years: 1.500%. By car: 1.400%. Eggs and chicken meat: not even doubled.
CHICKS 1923, Delmarva Peninsula (East Coast of the United States): Ms Celia Steele, a housewife, he received five hundred chickens instead of the fifty who had ordered. Kept them indoors during the winter and with the help of food supplements chickens survived. In 1926 he had ten thousand, two hundred and fifty thousand in 1935 (at that time a farm had an average of twenty-three chickens).
SEX Any turkey sold in any supermarket or served in any restaurant not has never had sex.
INDIANS According to the UN in 2030 the Indians will be more Chinese.
DIARIES "This is the diary of a normal day to shake your wrists because of the international price of futures.
I get up, I need a coffee variety Robusta gives me the right wake-up hit, I drink concentrate to taste it all the way in a year that saw the future and sketch of 52.24 percent. I drink bitter, sugar is grown by 27.61%, use caution with cookies, the flour has risen in the twelve months of 47.41%, better focus on milk, according to Reuters rose only by 10.6 percent. No flakes cereal (maize +64.40%). Breakfast strictly Mediterranean bacon and inflation of 20.74%, frozen orange juice (remember the fantastic movie Trading Places two ?) grew by 37.34 percent.
eat in the shade, I will not consume the electric wires, full copper (+29.95%) and incandescent bulbs as the Tungsten has developed a +59.62 percent.
making sure I dress shirt, cotton is booming, +90.94% in twelve months, while the merino wool vest, I can rub the future increased by only 11, 04 percent ... "( Nino Ciravegna Sole 24 Ore on Tuesday, January 4).
BREAD In 1861 a kilo of bread cost 0.44 pounds in Turin, about 1.9 € discounted according to the calculations Istat. Today a kilo of bread costs about € 3 (also 5 loaves of higher quality).
COMPLAINTS Peter Liuzzi, mayor of Walnut, in the province of Bari, in a public letter complained that the major food guides snubbing bars and restaurants in favor of the southern North. Considering only the Michelin Guide, the entire South, from Abruzzo to Sicily, locals with a three star, two stars are those with eight, no one with three stars. The North hand has 260 stars, representing 85% of total allocations.
REMEDIES In Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles Emperor suggests a sure remedy to get out of trouble: printing money.
CAB Kate Middleton, fiancée of Prince William of England, decided that the wedding day will arrive at Westminster Abbey by car. Only after the ceremony, once became princess, will rise in a glass carriage across from Buckingham Palace.
AFGHANISTAN fashion very expensive weddings in Afghanistan. Since the average annual income does not exceed $ 400, is increasingly the case that the couple end up in misery. The government is considering a law that prevents the lavish wedding.
TIPS Things Philp Roth teaches in his courses in creative writing: "First, do not take courses in creative writing. Second, bring the pain through a long illness. Third, at least two years living in a foreign country that you do not speak the language. Fourth, working in the mine. The fifth is optional: it takes at least one failed marriage behind "
July The UN has calculated that the human being number seven billion due in July.
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