The Answer

To those of us who have children in our lives,
whether they are our own,
grandchildren,
nieces,
nephews,
or students…
here is something to make you chuckle.

Whenever your children are out of control,
you can take comfort from the thought that
even God’s omnipotence did not extend
to His own children.

After creating heaven and earth,
God created Adam and Eve.

And the first thing he said was
‘ DON’T !’

‘Don ‘t what ? ‘
Adam replied.

‘Don’t eat the forbidden fruit.’
God said.

‘Forbidden fruit ?
We have forbidden fruit ?
Hey Eve…we have forbidden fruit ! ‘

‘ No Way ! ‘
‘Yes way ! ‘

‘Do NOT eat the fruit ! ‘
said God.

‘Why ? ‘

‘Because I am your Father and I said so ! ‘
God replied,
wondering why He hadn’t stopped
creation after making the elephants

A few minutes later,
God saw His children having an apple break
and He was ticked !
‘Didn’t I tell you not to eat the fruit ? ‘
God asked.

‘Uh huh,’
Adam replied.

‘Then why did you ? ‘
said the Father.

‘I don’t know,’
said Eve.
‘She started it! ‘
Adam said.

‘Did not ! ‘
‘Did too ! ‘
‘DID NOT ! ‘

Having had it with the two of them,
God’s punishment was that Adam and Eve
should have children of their own.
Thus the pattern was set and it has never changed.

If you have persistently and lovingly tried to give children wisdom and they haven’t taken it,
don’t be hard on yourself.

If God had trouble raising children,
what makes you think it would be
a piece of cake for you ?

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT !

1. You spend the first two years of their life
teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend
the next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up.

2. Grandchildren are God’s reward
for not killing your own children.

3. Mothers of teens now know why
some animals eat their young.

4. Children seldom misquote you.
In fact,
they usually repeat word for word
what you shouldn’t have said

5. The main purpose of holding children’s parties
is to remind yourself that there are children
more awful than your own

6. We childproofed our homes,
but they are still getting in.

ADVICE FOR THE DAY:

Be nice to your kids.
They will choose your
nursing home one day

AND FINALLY:

IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF TENSION
AND YOU GET A HEADACHE,
DO WHAT IT SAYS
ON THE ASPIRIN BOTTLE:

‘TAKE TWO ASPIRIN’
AND ‘KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN’!!!!!

Quick,
send this on to ten people
within the next five minutes.
Nothing will happen if you don’t,
but if you do,
ten people will be laughing

No Comments »

1. Go to a secondhand store and buy a pair of
men’s used size 14-16 work boots.

2. Place them on your front porch, along with a copy of Guns & Ammo Magazine.

3. Put a few giant dog dishes next to the boots and magazines.

4. Leave a note on your door that reads:

“Bubba,

Bertha, Duke, Slim, & I went for more ammo and beer. Be back in an hour. Don’t mess with the pit bulls; they attacked the mailman this morning and messed him up bad. I don’t think Killer took part, but it was hard to tell from all the blood. Anyway, I locked all four of ‘em in the house.

Better wait outside. Be right back.

Cooter”

No Comments »

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors,
and tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army;
another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or
hardships of the Revolutionary War.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.
Eleven were merchants,
nine were farmers and large plantation owners;
men of means, well educated,
but they signed the Declaration of Independence
knowing full well that the penalty would be death if
they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and
trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the
British Navy. He sold his home and properties to
pay his debts, and died in rags.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British
that he was forced to move his family almost constantly.
He served in the Congress without pay, and his family
was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him,
and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,
Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown , Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that
the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson
home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General
George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed,
and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed.
The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying.
Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill
were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests
and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his
children vanished.

So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and
silently thank these patriots. It’s not much to ask for the price they paid.

Remember: freedom is never free!

I hope you will show your support by sending this to as many
people as you can, please. It’s time we get the word out that patriotism
is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July has more to it than beer,
picnics and baseball games.

No Comments »

I bought this domain and built this website back in December of 2009 and I’ve been wrestling with what to do with it since I got it. Originally it was supposed to be an encyclopedia to rival Wikipedia, but I think I may have been having some slight delusions of grandeur when I cooked that one up. For those of you who know, I’m sure that’s hard to believe.

Now, I’ve decided to have some fun. I re-wrote the Ask-o-Pedia page and then hid all of the rest of the pages on this site from public view. You can still access all of them, but you need to put a keyword in the search box to do it. If you’re looking for something specific you might find it, or you might not.

What am I going to do now? I’m going to add as much random material as I can possibly find. I’ll throw links in for all of my own websites of course and I’ll start writing short paragraphs every time I do some writing for myself or for a client. All of it will be placed on this website and all of it will be accessible by search only. It will not be visible to public view, but its here.

Perhaps you’re wondering at this point what my purpose is. It’s simple. As a writer, I’m always looking for inspiration for my next article or blog post. Sometimes I’ll get an assignment from a client and stare at a blank screen for half an hour before I can come up with that first word. This site can help me get through that moment. It’s designed for writers, but anyone who wants to get out of their own head and into better space can use it. There are jokes here, funny stories, and I might even include some of that adult material I wrote when I first started out.

Anyway, I’m going to have some fun with this, use it as a release for when I don’t feel like working. You can join me if you like. I added a contact page if you want to submit your own content. I’ll be happy to do it. Just please understand that no one will see it, unless they happen to be looking for it.

No Comments »

The Answer to Your Question isn’t just a directory and encyclopedia of information. It’s a resource that you as a business owner or an aspiring writer can use to get the word out about your products or services. We’re in the beginning stages of this project but we are already getting significant traffic and we’d like to share it with you.

We need content. You need traffic and back links. Provide us with the former and we’ll give you the latter in return. It’s that simple. We’re searching for folks who want to post information about their business, publish some of their writing, or those who just want to share a bit of knowledge with the rest of the world. You submit the content, we give you a back link.

There are two ways to do it. The first is to use the Link Exchange page and enter your content and site link into the message box. We’re looking for definitions. For instance, if you run a pet supply store, don’t send us promotional content for a product, send us a definition of a certain type of dog or a history of breeding practices. We also have a How To section if you want to send instructions of some kind. Keep it short, about 200 words, and we’ll post it with your link as a source for more information.

The second way to exchange links with us is to submit the definition described in the last paragraph and then write an article about that
same topic and submit it to Ezine Articles. Here’s an example of what we mean:

Original Description: Mesothelioma

Ezine Article: Mesothelioma and Modern Day Asbestos Hazards

You’ll notice that in the last paragraph of the Ezine article the word “Mesothelioma” is in blue and underlined. That is a link back to this site known as anchor text. There is also an additional link in the resource box at the bottom of the article.

The Benefit to You

Every day in 2010 we’ll be posting definitions and the writers at Content and Article Writing will be producing supporting articles for different topics. We’ll be building the services and shopping sections and doing SEO work to drive traffic to the site. This week alone we’re being submitted to over 1200 directories and 500 social bookmarking sites. If you’re not sure what that means, it means that a lot of traffic will be coming here very soon.

Our PPC campaign has already begun. Keep your eyes on Google Adwords ads in your sidebar this year and you’ll see “The Answer” advertised regularly. We’ve also set up Facebook, Twitter and MySpace accounts with software that is building those networks automatically, recommended to us by our friends at Affiliate Resource Guide.

The benefit of all of this to you is Traffic. That is the point of this website. By pooling our efforts we can all get that most elusive of commodities that we need to be successful. Traffic is essential whether you run an ecommerce website or a blog where you express your thoughts and ideas. Someone needs to see it or what’s the point? We’ll bring you the audience. You tell us what you want them to see when they get here.

1 Comment »

We recently added a new section called Health and Wellness and chose Mesothelioma as the first topic to write about. In the course of doing research for the articles we’re posting we found that asbestos, the cause of Mesothelioma, though not used in construction anymore, is still an everyday danger in the United States and throughout the world.

In two events of the past decade that received global attention, the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center and the dismantling of the SS Norway, thousands of people have been exposed to the dust kicked up by asbestos. In the case of the 911 attack, cases of Mesothelioma are expected to be seen for years to come.

On a more positive note, the Health and Wellness section of the answer is designed to help you find answers to your health questions, not just on this website but also using the valuable links and search box to the right of our information page. It will take us a long time to build this site to where we want it to be but you can expect to see new valuable information every day.

Keep checking in and please, if you have anything you’d like to add yourself, submit it with our contact form. We’ll be more than happy to publish a link to your website in return for the free content. Also, don’t forget to read our latest jokes and riddles to keep yourself positive. Laughter and smiles are a big part of what makes life worth living.

13 Comments »

For those of you who thought this was just going to be another self serving link farm of services and shopping sites, think again. This site is about creativity and free expression. The answers to the questions we’re going to ask in our new “mystery” and “fun” sections aren’t something you’ll find in any other encyclopedia or question and answer directory. That’s because we are going to ask you to answer the questions.

Who killed Kennedy? Was there really a family curse involved? Were the monuments at Stonehedge and the Pyramids in Egypt built by aliens? Is there real scientific evidence anywhere that we are not alone in the universe? These are all questions that have been asked for decades and sometimes centuries without any clear answer being declared. Do you have an opinion about them?

Want to have a little fun? Go to our “Fun” section and read the question of the day. It could be a joke, a riddle, or a question that doesn’t have one specific answer. Once again, we’re asking you to answer. We’ll tell you the solution to riddles in a day or so but stimulating brain freeze questions will be your realm to wander into. All responses not containing vulgarity or ignorance will be published.

As far as the services and shopping links are concerned, those are here too. If you’re wondering where to find good bargains or contract that service you need to build your business, this is the place to do it. If we don’t have what you need listed here, check the Google Adwords box at the top right of every page. Use the search box and you’ll find what you’re looking for.

No Comments »

How would you like to get in on the ground level for a change? Imagine if you were one of the writers who helped developed Wikipedia or Ask.com in their early stages. You could have traffic to your website right now that is astronomically higher than you have ever seen before. Wouldn’t it be nice to rewind the clock and jump on that opportunity?

Here is a chance for you to do just that, plus one better. This website, titled simply “The Answer to Your Question”, is your opportunity to answer any question about your product or service and have it posted here completely free of charge with a link back to your website tossed in as a bonus. This encyclopedia is a resource for consumers and a forum for merchants who want to get the word out about themselves.

All we ask is that all content submitted be original and accurate. These elements will be checked, so please don’t waste our time trying to slip something bogus through. This encyclopedia is human edited so “black hat” techniques will not work. We’re only interested in legitimate businesses that want to make an honest living.

This website is a tool. Since we put up our sister site at Affiliate Resource Guide hundreds of newbies have started up their own internet marketing ventures and we see this as just one more way we can help make those dreams a reality. What we are doing here is very simple really. You provide us the content and we’ll drive the traffic to it. That traffic will be beneficial to us all. And for you it is absolutely FREE.

4 Comments »