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Saturday February 25, 2017

A good news newspaper called Good News was founded because its American proprietors believed people were tired of reading bad news. The bi-weekly paper refused to publish any bad news and only printed the good news.

After just 16 months in operation the paper closed down. But it stuck to its guns of publishing only good news to the bitter end and refused to announce its own failure - this would ...

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An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

All babies are color blind when they are born.

Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
- by I. M. Nutty

How to Feed Elephants
- by P. Nutts

Peek-a-Boo!
- by I. C. Hugh

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

The Barber of Seville
- by Aaron Floor

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Good Question

How long will a floating point operation float?

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 are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

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

Tuesday February 7, 1956

Filed Under: → Education

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

Friday February 9, 1540

Filed Under: → Sports

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

Monday February 7, 1301

Filed Under: → Miscellaneous

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

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

Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
- African Proverb

Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
- African Proverb

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

New Used News

25,000 Workers Died Building The Panama Canal
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Backward Flowing River
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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

1st meeting of the Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America.

Wednesday February 6, 1861

Filed Under: → Politics

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

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

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African Proverb

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Good Question

Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?

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

If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

Filed Under: → Good Question

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