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Did You Know

  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!

  • Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

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  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!

  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.

  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

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


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

Filed Under: Church Notices


Fun Book Titles

  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

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Good Question

  • How come wrong numbers are never busy?

  • How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

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

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • 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


  • 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


  • 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


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


  • If you refuse to be made straight when you are wet, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
    - African Proverb

  • When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
    - African Proverb

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

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


  • Bruce McCandless of the United States, makes the 1st untethered space walk.

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

  • 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

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

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

  • If you refuse to be made straight when you are wet, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
    - African Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

  • Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

  • Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. How come nobody will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down?

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