Buried myself to some stuff, ie, quotes, survey, games, trivia. Below were what I found:
Quote Part:
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone,
each of us is deeply lonely.
-Mortimer Adler
People who lead a lonely existence always have
something on their minds that they are eager to talk
about.
-Anton Chekhov
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be
so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or
unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can
be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should
be.
-Anne Frank
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from
being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will
be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no
price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning
yourself.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; close to the
sun in lonely lands, ringed with the azure world, he
stands.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
Puzzle/Trivia Part:
The Spotlight Puzzle
A conference room contains three separate wall-mounted spotlights - right, left and front of stage. Each is controlled by its own on-off switch. These three switches are numbered 1, 2 and 3, but they are in a back-room which has no sight of the the spotlights
or the conference room (and there are no reflections or shadows or mirrors, and you are alone). How do you identify each switch correctly - right, left, front - if
you can only enter the back-room once?
What 15-letter word contains the letter 'E' five times and no other vowels?
Why do we say 'Bless you' to someone who has sneezed?
Why do we clink glasses when we say 'cheers' (or 'skol' or 'good health' etc)?
A part of a wheel is a SPOKE, another word for people is FOLK, so how do you spell the word for the white of an egg?
Answers:
Switch on number 1 and leave it on for 30 seconds, then switch it off. Switch on number 2 and leave it on. Enter the conference room. The spotlight that is on is obviously number 2. The spotlight that is warm is switch 1, and the other spotlight is number 3.
(Adapted from a suggestion by D Thomasson)
Defencelessness.
While there are variations around the theme, the main origin is that sneezing was believed in medieval times to be associated with vulnerability to evil, notably that sneezing expelled a person's soul, thus enabling an evil spirit - or specifically the devil - to steal the soul or to enter the body and take possession of it. Another contributory factor was the association of sneezing with the Black Death (Bubonic
Plague) which ravaged England and particularly London in the 14th and 17th centuries.
Not yoke or yolk - the white of an egg is called
the albumen.