Quips

The Minister unveiled the Church's new donations campaign on Sunday: "I upped my Pledge - Up Yours".

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

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Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and the deterioration of some of the older ones.

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Good Question

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

• 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?

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

World Firsts

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

  Tuesday February 8, 1887

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• Autherine Lucy, the 1st black student admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled.
  

  Tuesday February 7, 1956

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

  Monday February 7, 1949

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Events

• 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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• 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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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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