Thursday, January 3, 2008

connect four

Heylook -- my sibbies and me all in one place (and two leetle ones tah boot). A wave of okayness always washes over me whenever I see the four of us smooshed together on couches in photos like this.

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Fab fours, s'mores:

* Four elements (Greek Classical): fire, air, water, earth.
* Four seasons : spring, summer, autumn, winter.
* Four parts of a day: night, morning, afternoon, evening.
* Four rules : addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.
* Four cardinal directions: north, south, east, west.
* Four Temperaments : sanguine, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic.
* Four Humors : blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm.
* Four Evangelists : Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.
* Four horsemen of the Apocalypse : war, famine, plague, death.
* Four suits of playing cards : hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades.
* Four US time zones: Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern.
* The number of tines of most forks is four.
* There are four Noble Truths in the Buddhist faith.
* There were four Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve.
* The Fantastic Four: Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, and The Thing.
* The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Donatello, Rafael, and Michelangelo.
* The Beatles: John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney.
* Pac-Man is constantly on the run from four ghosts: Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde.

2 comments:

Aparna said...

there are also four ways to make me laugh:

-giggle
-burp
-fart
-joke

inthemiddle said...

yes, and there are four ways to make me cry:

-say something
-say nothing
-do something
-do nothing