Quips

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

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The 1991 Spring Council Retreat will be hell May 10 and 11.

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

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Good Question

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

• Why do you need a drivers license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?

• Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

World Firsts

• New Jersey issues its 1st U.S. railroad charter. The proprietors included the famous inventor John Stevens.
  

  Monday February 6, 1815

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• Astronomical Society of Pacific holds its 1st meeting in San Francisco.
  

  Thursday February 7, 1889

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• "Monopoly" the board game goes on sale for the 1st time.
  

  Wednesday February 6, 1935

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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

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• 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

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• 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

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New Used News

• 25,000 Workers Died Building The Panama Canal

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• The Most Expensive Domain Name

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• Microsoft Windows 98

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• Backward Flowing River

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