Legends about white flag, green envy & red sports cars

Why is Envy a Green Monster? Color associations vary greatly from culture to culture, just as each language or dialect has unique colloquialisms that are often misunderstood or lost in translation. In many Western cultures the feelings of envy or jealousy are commonly associated with the color green. However, in German the feeling is most closely related to the color yellow, as the phrase “gelb vor neid,” or “yellow with envy” suggests. Moreover, in Arabic the same association is made, as noted in the common phrase “yasfaru wajhahu mina al-Heqd” or “his face turns yellow with envy.” Continuare

Morning sex

She was standing in the kitchen preparing to boil eggs for breakfast, wearing only the ‘T’ shirt that she normally slept in. As he walked in almost awake, she turned and said softly, “You’ve got to make love to me this very moment”.
His eyes lit up and he thought, “I am either still dreaming or this is going to be my lucky day”.
Not wanting to lose the moment, he embraced her and then gave it his all; right there on the kitchen table. Afterwards she said, “Thanks”, and returned to the stove, her ‘T’ shirt still around her neck.
A little puzzled, he asked, “What was that all about”?
She explained, “The egg timer’s broken”