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Did You Know

  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!

  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

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  • All babies are color blind when they are born.

  • During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.

  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices


At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?".
Come early and listen to the choir practice.

Filed Under: Church Notices


Don't let worry kill you. Let the Church help.

Filed Under: Church Notices


Fun Book Titles

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

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff

  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

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Good Question

  • If love is blind, why is Lingerie so popular?

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

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

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • 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


  • The 1st appearance of cholera happens in Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Monday February 6, 1832

  • Filed Under: → Medicine


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

    Thursday February 7, 1889

  • Filed Under: → Science


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


  • 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


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

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

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

World Firsts

  • The United States swears in its 1st female Secretary of Transportation, namely Elizabeth Dole.

    Monday February 7, 1983

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


  • The 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off piloted by Bert Hinkler.

    Tuesday February 7, 1928

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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Wise Words

  • Indecision is like a stepchild. If he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
    - African Proverb

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb

  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • If buttered toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped them both?

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

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

Filed Under: → Good Question