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Did You Know

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

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

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

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  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

  • Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

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

Quips

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

Filed Under: Signs


Thursday night is Potluck Supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

Filed Under: Church Notices


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

Filed Under: Signs


Fun Book Titles

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

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Good Question

  • 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?

  • 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

World Firsts

  • Bruce McCandless of the United States, makes the 1st untethered space walk.

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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

    Friday February 9, 1540

  • Filed Under: → Sports


  • "Stars & Stripes Weekly", the United States Armed Forces newspaper is first published.

    Friday February 8, 1918

  • Filed Under: → War


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


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

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

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb

World Firsts

  • 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 appearance of cholera happens in Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Monday February 6, 1832

  • Filed Under: → Medicine


  • 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

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

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb

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

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

  • Why do you need a drivers license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?

  • Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

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