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Spike Milligan Has The Last Laugh

Used News → Deaths

Tuesday May 25, 2004

Even in death Irish comic genius Spike Milligan managed to have the last laugh. Two years after his death at his home in Sussex, England, the creator of "The Goon Show" has finally got the epitaph he wanted.

A headstone bearing the words "I told you I was ill" has been erected above his grave at St. Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex. Sadly for more than two years after his death at the ...

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  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!
  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
  • All babies are color blind when they are born.
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Village Walled Up Their Local Priest

Used News → Religion

Tuesday September 16, 2003

The people in a remote Italian village walled up their local Priest in the parish church to prevent him from leaving. Fr. Emilio Succhiella became a 'prisoner of love' after Capuchin Franciscans decided to withdraw from Trasacco, in the mountainous Abruzzo region near Rome, after 428 years of service.

Protesting villagers took the unusual step after they had unsuccessfully appealed to the Order ...

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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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Handels Messiah Gets An X Rating

Used News → Entertainment

Wednesday February 19, 2003

Handel's world famous Messiah, recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, has been given an X rating by an online music store. Apple Computer's online iTunes Music Store marked the baroque composer's masterpiece with the red warning that indicates the content might not be appropriate for young children or others with sensitive tastes. ...

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Did You Know

  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
  • During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.

Quips

The 1991 Spring Council Retreat will be hell May 10 and 11.

Filed Under: Church Notices

Weight Watchers will meet at 7.30 pm at the Presbyterian Church. Please use the large double doors at the side entrance.

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

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Fun Book Titles

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh
  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor
  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

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Good Question

  • If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?
  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
  • You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
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World Firsts

  • "Monopoly" the board game goes on sale for the 1st time.

    Wednesday February 6, 1935

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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

    Saturday February 7, 1942

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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

    Friday February 9, 1540

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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

  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - African Proverb
  • Indecision is like a stepchild. If he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
    - African Proverb
  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

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

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

    • Filed Under: → Sports

  • 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

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

    Friday February 8, 1918

    • Filed Under: → War

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Wise Words

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African 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

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Good Question

  • Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
  • Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
  • Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?

Filed Under: → Good Question