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 ...

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

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

All babies are color blind when they are born.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Signs

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

School Meals
- by R. E. Volting

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

How to Feed Elephants
- by P. Nutts

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

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Good Question

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?

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World Firsts

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

Sunday February 7, 1915

Filed Under: → Travel Section

New Jersey issues its 1st U.S. railroad charter. The proprietors included the famous inventor John Stevens.

Monday February 6, 1815

Filed Under: → Travel Section

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

Wednesday February 6, 1861

Filed Under: → Politics

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