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Spike Milligan Has The Last Laugh

Used News → Deaths

Tuesday May 25, 2004

Even in death Irish comic genius Spike Milligan managed to have the last laugh. Two years after his death at his home in Sussex, England, the creator of "The Goon Show" has finally got the epitaph he wanted.

A headstone bearing the words "I told you I was ill" has been erected above his grave at St. Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex. Sadly for more than two years after his death at the ...

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Did You Know

  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.
  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
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Dog Missing For Nearly Two Years

Used News → Dog

Monday June 18, 2007

A Tibetan terrier named Arnie who went missing for nearly two years made his way home to his delighted family. Eleven-year-old Arnie, named after movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, disappeared from the garden of his home near Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, 21 months ago.

His owner Gillian Singleton believed he was stolen for breeding purposes. She said her "happy, beautifully groomed dog" had bee ...

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1st Recorded Race Meet
Stars And Stripes Weekly
1st Envelope Machine
1st United States Ski Club
1st Vice President Chosen By The Senate
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
1st Untethered Space Walk
Female Secretary Of Transportation
Beatles Land At New York JFK Airport
Autherine Lucy 1st Black Student
Joe DiMaggio Becomes The 1st
1st Indoor 15 Foot Pole Vault

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Villagers Apologize For Eating Missionary

Used News → Religion

Monday September 15, 2003

After eating an English missionary in 1867, contrite villagers in Fiji are now eating humble pie and want to say they are sorry. Reverend Thomas Baker, from Playden, East Sussex, was cooked and eaten by the people of the remote mountain village of Navatusila.

The only thing left of Mr. Baker, a clergyman with the Wesleyan Methodist Church, were his leather boots, and they even attempted to chew ...

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Did You Know

  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

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Thursday night is Potluck Supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Signs

The Senior Choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning, to join the Choir.

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Fun Book Titles

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting
  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor

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Good Question

  • Do steam rollers really roll steam?
  • If love is blind, why is Lingerie so popular?
  • If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?
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World Firsts

  • 1st meeting of the Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America.

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

    • Filed Under: → Politics

  • Richard Johnson is the 1st Vice President chosen by the United States Senate. It happened during the Van Buren administration.

    Wednesday February 8, 1837

    • Filed Under: → Politics

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

    Friday February 9, 1540

    • Filed Under: → Sports

Events

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Wise Words

  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb
  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb
  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

  • Bruce McCandless of the United States, makes the 1st untethered space walk.

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • The 1st indoor 15' pole vault, completed by Cornelius Warmerdam, achieving 15 feet 3/8 inches.

    Saturday February 7, 1942

    • Filed Under: → Sports

  • The 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received.

    Sunday February 7, 1915

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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Wise Words

  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb
  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?
  • Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
  • How come wrong numbers are never busy?

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