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Did You Know

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

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

  • All babies are color blind when they are born.

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

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

  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices


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


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

Filed Under: Church Notices


Fun Book Titles

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

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Good Question

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

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

  • Can you repeat the part after "Listen very carefully"?

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

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

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

  • 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


  • John Ames Sherman of Massachusetts, United States, patents the 1st envelope folding and gumming machine.

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


Events

  • 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


  • 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


  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb

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

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

World Firsts

  • Edward of Caernarion, later Edward II, becomes the 1st Prince of Wales.

    Monday February 7, 1301

  • Filed Under: → Miscellaneous


  • John Ames Sherman of Massachusetts, United States, patents the 1st envelope folding and gumming machine.

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


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

    Friday February 9, 1540

  • Filed Under: → Sports


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Wise Words

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

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

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

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Good Question

  • How long will a floating point operation float?

  • You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes. Why can't they make the whole plane out of the same material?

  • Can you repeat the part after "Listen very carefully"?

Filed Under: → Good Question