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Did You Know

  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.

  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.

  • A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

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  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.

  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.

Quips

Sign seen in a bar: "Those drinking to forget, please pay in advance."

Filed Under: Signs


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

Filed Under: Church Notices


Our next song is: "Angels We Have Heard Get High."

Filed Under: Church Notices


Fun Book Titles

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

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

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

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Good Question

  • How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

  • 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?

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

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

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

    Friday February 8, 1918

  • Filed Under: → War


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

    Friday February 9, 1540

  • Filed Under: → Sports


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

    Monday February 6, 1832

  • Filed Under: → Medicine


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


  • 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


  • 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


  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

World Firsts

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

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

  • Filed Under: → Sports


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

    Friday February 8, 1918

  • Filed Under: → War


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

    Monday February 6, 1815

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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Wise Words

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

  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - 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?

  • How long will a floating point operation float?

  • 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?

Filed Under: → Good Question