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Welcome to Bedrock City PAGE 2

Let’s make sandwiches PAGE 4

Formula Fun and Sesame Street Fur PAGE 5

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Your Proofness: Mahim Maher Master Storyteller: Sundar Waqar Creativity Analysts: Amna Iqbal, Essa Malik, Jamal Khurshid, Maha Haider, Samra Aamir, Kiran Shahid, Faizan Dawood, Anam Haleem, Umar Waqas

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2 Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.

They’re the modern Stone Age family.

From the town of Bedrock, They’re a page right out of history.

YABA DABA DOO… The Flintstones was an animated American television sitcom.

Set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock, The Flintstones was about a working-class Stone Age man’s life with his family and his next-door neighbour and best friend. The cartoon was a ‘fantasy’ version of the past, with dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and other long-extinct animals co-existing with cavemen. One of the most captivating features of The Flintstones was the appliances with a Bedrock twist. The appliances in Bedrock were made from pre-industrial materials and were largely powered through animals. From Wilma’s bone hair-clip to a pelican’s beak washing machine, let’s take a look at the whacky, imaginative Bedrock appliances:

Foot-wheel drive: When most of us hear the word ‘car’ we think of a four-wheeled vehicle with an engine used to transport passengers. We usually picture a car with doors, an air-conditioner, a horn and headlights. In The Flintstones we are shown Fred’s car and it is not like any other car we have seen. Fred’s car was not made of metal but stone, wood and animal skins. It had no doors and the horn was a bird. Fred squeezed the bird or pulled its tail whenever he wanted to honk. And the best part, the engine was replaced with Fred’s feet. You got that right, the car ran “through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet”.

Insta-rock Camera: Even in the prehistoric times cameras were used to take photographs. But the Bedrock camera did not work in the same way as our DSLRs and Cyber shots. The ‘insta-rock’ camera, which produced instant pictures, did not snap photos with the click of a button but a bird’s beak. Inside the Bedrock camera box instead of a memory card there was a small bird. And the picture was not a print but a carving on a stone tablet with the bird’s beak.

Woolly mammoth cleaner: Have you seen your mom with one hand on the hip and the other on the air pump vacuuming the house? Or seen her using a small hand-operated device to clean the sofas? That noisy device as you might know is called a vacuum cleaner. And it uses an air pump to suck up dirt or dust. Guess what, in Bedrock, Wilma used a vacuum cleaner to clean her house as well but her ‘device’ was very different than ours. Wilma’s vacuum cleaner was no ordinary air pump but a wooly mammoth on a trolley vacuuming the floor with its trunk.

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Water me: Like all the other appliances even the Bedrock water cooler was interesting and creative. What we now refer to a water cooler is a device with a water bottle on top dispensing water. Before the discovery of the water dispenser, in the Indus Valley civilization people used to have large clay matkas in which they would store water. But even before that in Bedrock, a water cooler was an elephant perched on an ice-box squirting ice water out of its trunk!

Stone Age The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools. Wood, bones and other materials were also used for tools, but stone (especially a kind of stone called flint) was used to cut things. During this period stone was used to hunt animals, create fire and make various other tools. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4500 BC and 2000 BC when the art of smelting (making metals) was discovered, Thus, giving rise to the Bronze Age.

Dino mower: The Flintstones also had their own bedrock version of a garden mower and it was very different from the one we use today. Instead of a machine with cutters attached to it, the Bedrock garden mower was a small dinosaur strapped to a dolly biting the grass with his teeth.

Buck-tooth opener: What do you do when you have to open a can? The only answer that probably comes to your head is use a can opener. However, The Flintstones had a very different answer. They used a buck-tooth lizard to open cans. The lizard poked its sharp teeth into the can and voila, it opened!

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Bedrock City Theme Park There’s a Bedrock City theme park located in Custer, South Dakota which features buildings and characters inspired by The Flintstones. The facility was created by a pair of concrete makers. The park’s entrance includes the Bronto Rib drive-in restaurant and a large statue of Dino up on a rock.

Inside the park, visitors can ride a train to a volcano called Mt St Wilma.

Bedrock’s City Hall welcomes visitors to the prehistoric town which includes the homes of the Flintstones, the Rubbles and Mr Slate. Interiors are decorated in the style of the show and feature sculpted and animated characters going about their daily lives in Bedrock. There is also a playground with a running Flintmobile which takes you on a ride around the playground.

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, JULY 21, 2013

4 Recipes Luqma Sandwich You know what makes making food more fun? When you can choose your ingredients just as you can for the Luqma, or bite-sized sandwiches ToffeeTV.com’s chef Nikhat Zafar, teaches you how to make!

Method

Ingredients: • Bread slices • Cucumber • Tomato • Cheese slices • Cream cheese • Mayonnaise • Butter • Mustard • Garlic paste • Boiled chicken cubes • Toothpick

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• Take the bread slice and cut the sides as shown in figure 1.

• Cut the bread into bite-size pieces as shown in figure 2.

• Take a bowl; add four spoons of mayonnaise, two spoons of mustard, two spoons of cream cheese and two spoons of butter (slightly melted). Mix it well as shown in figure 3.

• Now cut the tomato, cucumber and cheese slice into small squares as shown in figure 4.

• To make the sandwich take a toothpick and add bread, cheese slice, cucumber, chicken cube, tomato and in the end, add bread again as shown in figure 5 (a) and 5(b).

• Pour the creamy batter in a piping bag and add a creamy flavour on your luqma sandwich as shown in figure 6(a) and 6(b).

Enjoy your Luqma Sandwich!!

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THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, JULY 21, 2013

World wide weird

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Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny from across the globe!

Dog days are over A dog groomer has decorated a dog’s fur in bright colours that resemble the faces of beloved Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie. Catherine Opson from South California has made a name for herself dying dog fur in fluorescent colours to turn her clients’ pets into a work of art. Her intriguing work at the Estrella Pet Grooming has also seen one pooch’s fur turned into the faces of The Simpsons characters Bart and Lisa. The latest trend in dog grooming has seen Opson scoop first-prize at a major American competition. But the eye-catching work has been criticised as being abusive towards pets, leading Opson to come out to defend her unique approach to dog grooming. She said: “The idea that it’s abusive, I mean we use very pet safe products”. Opson said she uses dog-friendly dyes that do not contain harmful bleaches and the dying of the fur could in no way hurt the animals. METRO.CO.UK

Formula Fun was definitely very different from the famous F-1 race. There was no need of high-powered engines and expert racing drivers at this whacky race. All that mattered was getting your egg-shaped or pink stiletto car to the chequered flag in one piece. Daredevils propelled nearly 70 strange creations down the steepest roads in London, near Alexandra Palace, for the Red Bull Soapbox Race. Among the carts that caught the eye was one of Elvis’s blue suede shoes, an oversized royal baby carriage and an asparagus on wheels. Teams were scored on speed, creativity and showmanship, with Red Bull’s F1 team boss Christian Horner among the judges.

The race was won by Team Spit-Phya, from Newcastle, with their ‘Phya-Bird cart’ — dedicated to record speed racers Donald Campbell and John Cobb. METRO.CO.UK

Catch it It’s supposed to be easy because there’s plenty of time to get in position — but when the sun’s in your eyes and your teammates are all yelling advice, your hands can feel awfully small. So let’s have a big hand for Zack Hample, who set a world record by reeling in a baseball dropped from a helicopter flying 320m (1,050ft) above him. The American needed protective gear to avoid potential injury as the ball dropped downwards at a speed of 95mph. But after appearing to lose sight of it several times during the 12-second wait for it to fall, he calmly leaned back to catch it in his catcher’s mitt. The sports author, 35, has caught and kept more than 6,800 baseballs that were batted into the stands during major league games.

He has written a book explaining the secrets of being in the right place at the right time. METRO.CO.UK

Books and Movies

Now that’s a mower!

A mower cutting the grass is not usually associated with the roar of a 1,000cc engine that shoots flames from the exhaust. But this mower can mow your lawn in record time — while giving the neighbours a scare. Honda’s Mean Mower boasts a top speed of 130mph and goes from 0-60mph in four seconds — faster than a Porsche 911. The £50,000 lawnmower has been designed by the British engineers ‘Team Dynamics’, in collaboration with Top Gear magazine. It has been tested by British touring car champion Gordon Shedden. Engineers fit a Honda HF2620 Lawn Tractor with a lightweight chassis, bespoke suspension, a paddle shift six-speed gear system and wheels from an all-terrain vehicle. Two electric motors turn a steel cutting cable at 4,000rpm to cut grass at up to 15mph. But Honda has said it has no plans to challenge the official lawnmower speed record of 96.5mph. Kate Saxton, head of its British corporate affairs team, said the one-off machine highlighted the company’s range of products, its sporty heritage and reputation for innovation. ‘Above all, we love a challenge,’ she added. METRO.CO.UK

by Zehra Husain

The cool mom phenomenon Don’t we all wish our mothers were cool? We wish they let us stay out of the house an extra hour late. Allow our bed times to be two hours past midnight.

Wore clothes that made them stand out from all the other ordinary mummies around.

Minna’s mom is just that. There are no rules in Minna’s house — in a sense, it’s Minna who sets the rules. And in her words, her mum isn’t fit to be a parent.

This is the story from Anne Fine’s finest book, Crummy mummy and me. Minna’s mum is the quintessential crummy mummy. Her hair is the brightest, richest, deepest shade of royal-blue hair and she wears lavender fishnet tights.

She has a boyfriend whose name is Crusher Maggot. And Minna’s gran — the most sensible member of the family

Formula Fun

after Minna — severely disapproves of the dysfunctional family.

But that is precisely what makes the book such an interesting read. When Minna gets late to school every morning, as she’s the one looking after her little sister (as her mother gave the little one cherry ade to drink) you feel terribly frustrated being in Minna’s shoes.

So the next time you want your mother to stand out in a crowd, be careful with what you wish for! You don’t n’t want your classmates making fun of her deep blue hair, and eccentric dressing. g.

But then again, there is a moral to every story. And Crummy mummy and me has one too. At the end d of the he day, day the book tells us that no one ne family is alike; each is unique in its own way.

Hence, you might as well find the crummy in your mummy. A And that’s what will make her ever so o cool.

Do you have a favourite book that was made into a movie?

Send an email about it to Zehra at hifive@tribune.com.pk

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, JULY 21, 2013

Did you know?

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s n i g i r O d r o W Lead Today I found out why pencil cores are called “lead”, even though they don’t contain lead; rather, they are typically made of graphite powder with clay mixed in as a binding agent. In the 16th century, a large deposit of pure, solid graphite was discovered in Borrowdale, England. This was the first time in recorded history that high quality, solid graphite had been found. When metallurgists first encountered this substance, they thought it was some sort of black lead, rather than a form of carbon. Thus, they called it “plumbago”, which is derived from “plumbum”, which is Latin for “lead”.

It didn’t take people long to realise that solid sticks of high quality graphite were good for marking things. At that point, this newly discovered substance from the mines of Borrowdale became extremely valuable. So much so that guards were eventually posted at the entrance to the mine and laws were passed to stop people from stealing the solid graphite. In addition, once a sufficient stock of the graphite was mined, the mine itself would be flooded until more graphite was needed. Unfortunately, sticks of pure graphite are fairly brittle, so people started embedding it in various things such as hollowed out pieces of wood and also simply wrapped tightly in sheep skin. Thus, the pencil was officially born with a core of solid graphite, which was known then as black lead. The tradition of calling sticks of graphite “lead” has endured to this day.

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Cool facts Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades — King David, Clubs — Alexander the Great, Hearts — Charlemagne, Diamonds — Julius Caesar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

A 75-year-old person will have slept about 23 years.

Boeing 747’s wing span is longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight. The Wright brothers invented the airplane.

The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or older.

The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, JULY 21, 2013

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Fun & games

Crossword

How carefully did you read this week’s issue of HiFive? If you think you are upto the task, try to solve our special crossword. The answers are all over HiFive! Put on your thinking caps, it is time to put the old noggin to work!

Across 2. The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which ----- — — — was widely used to make tools.

3. The vacuum cleaner uses an air pump to suck up ---- — — — or dust.

8. But even before that in the Bedrock times, a water cooler was an ------- — — — perched on an ice-box.

11. Each king in a ------- — — — of playing cards represents a great king from history.

12. Bedrock appliances were laregly powered through the use of ----------14. Wilma’s vacuum cleaner was no ordinary air pump but a wooly mammoth on a trolley hovering the floor with its ---------.

15. ----- — — — has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

16. A 75 year old person will have ----- — — — about 23 years.

17. Inside the bedrock camera box instead of a memory card there was a small --------.

18. Fred’s car ran through the courtesy of Fred’s two --------.

Down 1. Fred’s car was not made of metal but stone, ------ — — — and animal skins.

4. The Bedrock garden mower was a small dinosaur strapped to a dolly biting the grass with his --------.

5. The ------- — — — in Bedrock were made from pre-industrial materials.

6. Meet the Flintstones. The Flintstones was a ------ — — — version of the past 7.

The ‘insta-rock’ camera snapped photos with the click of a bird’s -------.

9. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a ------ — — — light to change.

10. The dot over the letter “i” is called a ----------.

11. In The Flintstones -----------, saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and other long-extinct animals co-existed with cavemen.

13. The Wright brother’s invented the --------------.

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, JULY 21, 2013

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