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Did You Know

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

  • A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

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  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

  • A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices


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

Filed Under: Church Notices


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

Filed Under: Church Notices


Fun Book Titles

  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor

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

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

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Good Question

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

  • How come wrong numbers are never busy?

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World Firsts

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

    Monday February 7, 1301

  • Filed Under: → Miscellaneous


  • The first Guernsey Cattle Club organizes in New York City.

    Wednesday February 7, 1877

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


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

    Tuesday February 7, 1956

  • Filed Under: → Education


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


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

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

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

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


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

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


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Wise Words

  • 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

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

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Good Question

  • If love is blind, why is Lingerie so popular?

  • 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?

  • You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?

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