The Official Newsletter
of QFLEA.com
The Virtual Flea Market
Volume 8 - Number 23
December 1, 2007
Visit us at QFLEA.com
Subscribe to our newsletter
Click to join QFLEA-ShoppingNews
and be sure to share us with your friends and family.
Contact Us Anytime
Visit the QFLEA Blogs
Note: If you find our newsletter after the publication date, it is possible that not all the links will still be active.
|
The 2007 QFLEA Holiday Sale is underway. Here are the featured vendors in today's edition. Click through and see what they have to offer for your gift-giving needs this holiday season. 
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If I speak of my foot and show you my feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and three would be those, Yet hat in the plural would never be hose, And the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim! Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England. We take English for granted, but if we explore it, we find quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings square, and guinea pigs neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? We ship by truck but send cargo by ship. We have noses that run and feet that smell. We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway. And how can slim chance and fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on. And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop? |
EggCrazy.com You got 24 days till Christmas. You still have time to buy them a unique gift that says "You Care". Buy them a one of a kind piece of egg art. Go Now. Don't Wait! Deb's Build A Candle and Bath High quality home made, hand poured CP soaps. Once you try our soaps you will be hooked for life, you can feel the quality and see the great results on your skin after just one use. Also give our bath and body products a try. Creatively Belle Handmade Lampwork Glass Earrings and Necklaces make ideal Christmas gift ideas for mom and the girls. Show them off on jewelry display stands available online. Join our free email newsletter and to win a $50 Gift Voucher! Visit today! Serenquility Bath & Body Shoppe Pretty bath & body holiday gifts at terrific prices! Choose from over 100 fragrances. For a personalized gift, try our Build-A-Basket. Happy Holidays! Alabu Soap Looking for the perfect gift. Try Alabu Natural Goat milk Soap and moisturizers. Perfect for pampering that special someone. Large gift selection. Click on microphone for free gift. Beautiful Silver Jewelry Our sterling silver designer gemstone jewelry gets rave reviews from our customers... your jewelry present will be a treasured gift. Time is near! We'll gift box your jewelry and ship it quickly! Victorian Cards Christmas Cards - Shop for beautiful one-of-a-kind handmade Christmas cards designed using original Victorian postcards from the early 1900s. Add a hanky or a frame. Ideal Impressions © NEW Holiday Ornaments are here! Check out our Blue Star Family, Military Branch Logo and Hand Painted Ornaments! All new exclusive designs for 2007! A couple go for a meal at a Chinese restaurant and order the 'Chicken Surprise.' The waiter brings the meal, served in a lidded cast iron pot. Just as the wife is about to serve herself, the lid of the pot rises slightly and she briefly sees two beady little eyes looking around before the lid slams back down. 'Good grief, did you see that?' she asks her husband. He hasn't, so she asks him to look in the pot. He reaches for it and again the lid rises, and he also sees two little eyes looking around before it slams down. Rather perturbed, he calls the waiter over, explains what is happening, and demands an explanation. 'Please sir,' says the waiter, 'what did you order?' The husband replies, 'We ordered the Chicken Surprise.' 'Ah! Very sorry' says the waiter, 'I made mistake ... I bring you Peeking Duck!' "My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety now, and we don't know where the hell she is." ... Ellen DeGeneres |