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Did You Know

  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

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  • A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

  • Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

Quips

This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

Filed Under: Church Notices


Our next song is: "Angels We Have Heard Get High."

Filed Under: Church Notices


Sign seen at a Hair Salon: We curl up and dye for you.

Filed Under: Signs


Fun Book Titles

  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

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Good Question

  • If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

  • Can you repeat the part after "Listen very carefully"?

  • What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • The 1st recorded race meet in England happens at Roodee Fields, Chester.

    Friday February 9, 1540

  • Filed Under: → Sports


  • Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st United States Ski Club.

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

  • Filed Under: → Sports


  • Joe DiMaggio becomes the 1st $100,000 a year baseball player. He plays for the New York Yankees.

    Monday February 7, 1949

  • Filed Under: → Sports


Events

  • Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics, "I was born. I lived. I died.", and instructs people to "Wait the appropriate amount of time" before trying to claim her stuff.

    They wrote it in Jean Oddi's perspective, recapping the people important to her, adventures she had and her favorite activities, including playing cards and teaching her granddaughter "dirty songs".

    Thursday February 23, 2017

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • The man known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' died after his chest was punctured by a stingray barb while diving off Australia's northeast coast. The 44 year-old colourful personality was filming a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef when tragedy struck.

    According to friend and colleague, John Stainton, Steve Irwin swam too close to the ray while he was diving off his boat "Croc One" near Batt Reef, northeast of Port Douglas.

    Monday September 4, 2006

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • A father and son in Alabama were killed when they crashed into each other in a head-on collision. Jeffrey Morris Brasher and his son Austin Blaine Brasher of Bankston, Alabama, died early Saturday morning.

    Jeffrey Brasher was driving a 2006 Ford pickup and his son was driving a 2004 Chevrolet truck when they collided on a highway head-on, said Alabama State Trooper Jonathon Appling.

    Saturday February 18, 2017

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb

  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

World Firsts

  • Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected President.

    Thursday February 7, 1991

  • Filed Under: → Politics


  • The 1st recorded race meet in England happens at Roodee Fields, Chester.

    Friday February 9, 1540

  • Filed Under: → Sports


  • John Ames Sherman of Massachusetts, United States, patents the 1st envelope folding and gumming machine.

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


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Wise Words

  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - African Proverb

  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb

  • When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
    - African Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?

  • You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?

  • When a doctor doctors a doctor does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

Filed Under: → Good Question