News Thats Used
Yesterday was Tuesday April 30, 2024
EDITION #1305 This issue 5ยข
This is day 122 of 2024

Category

Did you Know
Fun Book Titles
Good Question
Quips & Quotes
Humor
Used News
Events
Quips
Wise Words
World Firsts

Loved In America, Not So Much In London

Used News → Entertainment

Sunday September 21, 2003

Famous for his magical illusions and stunts in America, but not all Londoners are impressed by David Blaine's bid to spend 40 days without food in a glass box suspended from a crane in the centre of the English capital. Shortly after the American began his stunt he was pelted with eggs, taunted with the smell of fish and chips and woken up by a man banging on a drum. ...

Read All About It →

Did You Know

  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.
  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
View More...

Quips

Quips
Did you Know
Quips
Fun Book Titles
Quips
Good Question
Quips
Quips & Quotes
Quips
Humor
Quips
Used News
Quips
Events
Quips
Quips
Quips
Wise Words
Quips
World Firsts

Latest Posts

Villagers Apologize For Eating Missionary

Used News → Religion

Monday September 15, 2003

After eating an English missionary in 1867, contrite villagers in Fiji are now eating humble pie and want to say they are sorry. Reverend Thomas Baker, from Playden, East Sussex, was cooked and eaten by the people of the remote mountain village of Navatusila.

The only thing left of Mr. Baker, a clergyman with the Wesleyan Methodist Church, were his leather boots, and they even attempted to chew ...

Read All About It →
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

Advertisement

ad

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. ...

Read All About It →

Did You Know

  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

Filed Under: Church Notices

The Senior Choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning, to join the Choir.

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

View More: Book Titles

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?
  • 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?
  • Do steam rollers really roll steam?
Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • Astronomical Society of Pacific holds its 1st meeting in San Francisco.

    Thursday February 7, 1889

    • Filed Under: → Science

  • The 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received.

    Sunday February 7, 1915

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • The 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off piloted by Bert Hinkler.

    Tuesday February 7, 1928

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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

  • 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

Wise Words

  • When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
    - African Proverb
  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb
  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb

New Used News

Copy Desk

World Firsts

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

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

    • Filed Under: → Sports

  • Autherine Lucy, the 1st black student admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled.

    Tuesday February 7, 1956

    • Filed Under: → Education

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

    Monday February 7, 1301

    • Filed Under: → Miscellaneous

View More: → World Firsts

Wise Words

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb
  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb
  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • How long will a floating point operation float?
  • 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?
  • 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?

Filed Under: → Good Question