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Winners Of The IgNobel Awards

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Friday October 3, 2003

An Indian who was officially dead for 18 years and the scientists who invented Murphy's law were among the winners of the IgNobel Awards.

The awards are a spoof on the Nobel Prizes, celebrated annually in Boston to honor achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced." They are presented by science humor magazine 'Annals of Improbable Research' and several groups at Harvard and Radcliffe ...

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Did You Know

  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.
  • Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
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Man Had Himself Shipped By Air

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Tuesday September 9, 2003

Criminal charges were filed by Federal Prosecutors against a man who had himself shipped by air in a crate from New York to Dallas to visit his parents. Charles D. McKinley was charged with stowing away on a cargo jet.

McKinley, a 25-year-old shipping clerk at a New York warehouse, journeyed overnight about 1,500 miles by truck, plane and delivery van before startling his parents by popping out ...

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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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19 Year Coma

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Wednesday June 6, 2007

Polish railway worker Jan Grzebski lost consciousness in 1988 after being struck by a train. He suffered horrific injuries when his head was trapped between two carriages. He didn't come out of his coma until Sunday June 3, 2007 when he opened his eyes to see his devoted wife Gertruda's face looking at him. She cared for him all through his coma. Mr. Grzebski was given only about two years to live ...

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Did You Know

  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.
  • A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
  • All babies are color blind when they are born.

Quips

The Vicar is on vacation. Massages can be given to the Church Secretary.

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Signs

Fun Book Titles

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts
  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

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Good Question

  • 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?
  • How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
  • Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?
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World Firsts

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

    Thursday February 7, 1991

    • Filed Under: → Politics

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

    Friday February 7, 1964

    • Filed Under: → Entertainment

  • 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

Events

  • 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

  • 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

Wise Words

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb
  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb
  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

  • The first storm warnings for ships was issued by English Admiral, Robert Ritzroy.

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • 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 successful United States educational magazine "Academician", starts publishing in New York City.

    Saturday February 7, 1818

    • Filed Under: → Education

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Wise Words

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb
  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb
  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?
  • 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?
  • Does killing time damage eternity?

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