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Britain Has A Millionaire Shoplifter

Used News → Crime Beat

Monday October 15, 2007

Britain has a Millionaire Shoplifter on their Most Wanted List. He dresses in expensive designer clothes and stays at the poshest hotels. But Kevin Castle who hides behind the face of a respectable businessman is a 'Millionaire Shoplifter' who makes £1,000 (over $2000) a day from his crimes.

British police, who are hunting the well-dressed crook with a taste for the good life, have declared hi ...

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Did You Know

  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Newspaper Called Good News Closes

Used News → Old News

Saturday February 25, 2017

A good news newspaper called Good News was founded because its American proprietors believed people were tired of reading bad news. The bi-weekly paper refused to publish any bad news and only printed the good news.

After just 16 months in operation the paper closed down. But it stuck to its guns of publishing only good news to the bitter end and refused to announce its own failure - this would ...

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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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Police Website Visitors See A Cuddly Monster

Used News → Crime Beat

Thursday February 28, 2008

Visitors to the UK's Metropolitan Police recruitment website saw a cuddly monster on the weekend, after a hacker broke into the site.

The cheeky hackers broke into London's Metropolitan Police recruitment website, and posted a picture of a cuddly toy on its front page. Beneath the picture of the green stripy animal they added taunting comments. ...

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Did You Know

  • A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

Quips

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

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

Filed Under: Signs

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor
  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann
  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty

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Good Question

  • If there are 52 weeks in a year, how many weeks are there in a light year?
  • You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
  • What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?
Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

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

    Saturday February 7, 1942

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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

    Friday February 8, 1918

    • Filed Under: → War

  • 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

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

Wise Words

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb
  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb

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World Firsts

  • The Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for their 1st United States tour.

    Friday February 7, 1964

    • Filed Under: → Entertainment

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

    Friday February 9, 1540

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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

    Monday February 7, 1983

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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Wise Words

  • When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
    - African Proverb
  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb
  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?
  • 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?
  • Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

Filed Under: → Good Question