Quips

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.

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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

• Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

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

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

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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• "Stars & Stripes Weekly", the United States Armed Forces newspaper is first published.
  

  Friday February 8, 1918

Filed Under: → War

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

  Thursday February 7, 1991

Filed Under: → Politics

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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

Filed Under: → Deaths

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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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• 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

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New Used News

• 25,000 Workers Died Building The Panama Canal

  Filed Under: Did you Know → Did you Know

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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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