News Thats Used

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 →

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

Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

Quips

Sign seen in a bar: "Those drinking to forget, please pay in advance."

Filed Under: Signs

Sign seen at a Hair Salon: We curl up and dye for you.

Filed Under: Signs

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

The Barber of Seville
- by Aaron Floor

How to Feed Elephants
- by P. Nutts

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

School Meals
- by R. E. Volting

View More: Book Titles

Good Question

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment but when you transport something by ship it's called cargo?

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

If love is blind, why is Lingerie so popular?

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

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

Tuesday February 7, 1956

Filed Under: → Education

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

Sunday February 7, 1915

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

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