"There was a green house.
Inside the green house there was a white house
Inside the white house there was a red house.
Inside the red house there were lots of babies."
Hint: A fruit

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Quote of the week

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- unknown

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This week’s Brain Teaser

Answer at end of letter

Several hundred years ago, a band of explorers embarked on a three-week sea journey to the far north. Standard shipboard staples consisted of crackers, biscuits and dried meat. Cooking aboard the ship was impossible because of the fear of fire. They wanted to celebrate the end of their journey with roast lamb. They discussed several ways to keep the lamb meat fresh for the three weeks of the journey. Packing enough snow and ice around the meat in the hold was the first idea. But they realized the ice and snow would melt and fill the hold with water. Tying the meat to a rope and dragging it through the icy water was suggested, but they knew there were too many predator fish. Finally they found the perfect solution. It worked perfectly and the feast was enjoyed by all.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

· Riddle of the week

· Quote of the week

· This week’s brain teaser

· Joke of the week

FWD fwd To my Friend it is always good to tell your friends you love them

· Pun of the week

· Limerick of the week

· Celebrate this week

· Say what?

· The editor speaks out

· A Web Site of Interest

· Riddle answer

· ‘Say what’ translated

· Subscribe/unsubscribe information.

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Joke of the week

Bernie was invited to his friend's home for dinner to celebrate his friend's 54th anniversary. Morris, the host, preceded every request to his wife by endearing terms, calling her Honey, My Love, Darling, Sweetheart, Pumpkin, etc. Bernie looked at Morris and remarked, "That is really nice, that after all these years that you have been married, you keep calling your wife those pet names." Morris hung his head and whispered," To tell the truth, I forgot her name three years

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Fwd fwd: To My Friends

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.

-- Stone Temple Pilots

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be
a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live
without you.

-- Winnie the Pooh

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known
until it is lost.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.

Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.
-- Albert Camus

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad
Bowl of Life.

Friendship is one mind
in two bodies.
-- Mencius

I'll lean on you and
you lean on me and
we'll be okay
-----Dave Matthews

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge,
I wouldn't jump with them,
I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.

We all take different paths in life,
but no matter where we go,
we take a little of each other everywhere.;

-- Tim McGraw

My father always used
to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
then you've had a great life.;

-- Lee Iacocca

Hold a true friend with both your hands.;

-- Nigerian Proverb

A friend is someone who knows
the song in your heart
and can sing it back to you
when you have forgotten
the words.;

-- Unknown

Pass this on to all of your FRIENDS, even if it means

sending it to the person that sent it to you.
And if you receive this e-mail many times from
many different people, it only means that you have
many FRIENDS. And if you only get it but once, do
not be
discouraged for you will know that you have
AT LEAST ONE GOOD FRIEND.

Pun of the Week

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there were two evil friars living outside this small village. The friars had tried unsuccessfully to overtake and capture the town, but finally this time, they believed they had hit upon a foolproof scheme that would allow them to rule the village. They had, through mad scientist experiments in their floral shop, come up with a plant that would devour the townspeople one by one until none were left. They set forth to put their plan into action by planting the man-eating plants so they encircled the village.

As the plants rapidly grew, they began devouring everything living in their path. The townspeople grew frightened; who or what would save them from their eminent doom? Finally, the town's elder remember Hugh, a woodcutter who lived on the outskirts of town. Frantically, the townspeople penned a desperate plea for help, tied it to the leg of a pigeon, and directed the bird toward Hugh's cabin.

Meanwhile, outside of town, Hugh had received the note from the townspeople, and realizing they were in grave danger, set forth to do what he needed to do. He honed his mightiest axe to razor-sharpness, grabbed his hat, and off he went.

Chopping his way through the dense vines, he single-handedly destroyed the carnivorous plants one by one, until all were destroyed. Then he set out to rid the village of the evil friars, chasing them out of town. The town was saved!!! The people rejoiced and knighted Hugh for his brave and timely efforts to save the village!!!

And the moral of the story is:

Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars

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Limerick of the week

dave barrett
By beauty I am not a star.
There are others more handsome by far.
My face I don't mind it.
because I'm behind it.
It's the people in front that I jar

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Cynic’s Corner

Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removinga weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement

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Celebrate in August

5 Neil Armstrong’s birthday 1930

First Federal Income tax signed into law by Lincoln1861

Sir Humphrey Gilbert established first English colony in

North America 1583

6 Bomb dropped on Hiroshima 1945

Comedian Lucille Ball born 1911

Judge Crater of the NY State Supreme Court disappeared 1930

7 U S War Department Established 1789

United Nations diplomat Ralph Bunche born 1904

First Ship on Great Lakes – Le Griffon launched 1697

International Peace Bridge between US and Canada

opened 1927

8 Richard M Nixon Resigned 1974

Poet Sara Teasdale born 1884

9 Smokey the Bear’s Birthday 1944

1^st electric washing machine patented 1901

Zebulun Pike sought source of Mississippi River 1805

10 Mother Teresa born 1910

Missouri became the 24^th state 1821

Smithsonian Institution founded by Congress 1846

President Herbert Hoover born 1874

11 Art Collector Joseph Hershhorn born 1899

12 Mary Roberts Rinehart born 1876

Moviemaker Cecille B De Mille Born 1881

A “rattle watch” –perhaps the first US police force-

established in NYC 1658

13 Fall of the Aztec Empire 1521

Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock born 1899

Roller skating derby in Chicago starts new craze 1935

Marksman Annie Oakley born 1860

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Fun Facts

In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes

Warning: THE PRACTICIONER, a British medical journal, has determined that bird-watching may be hazardous to your health. The magazine, in fact, has officially designated bird-watching a "hazardous hobby," after documenting the death of a weekend bird-watcher who became so immersed in his subject that he grew oblivious to his surroundings and consequently was eaten by a crocodile.

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Say What?

It is not advantageous to place the sum total of your barnyard collections into the same wicker receptacle.

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The editor speaks out

This week I am celebrating good news and expanding my website. I managed to lose 18 pounds in one month, which is faster than I have lost weight since I was a teenager. Since I have struggled with extremely slow weight loss for years, this proves my new regime is working beyond my wildest dreams.

Having been fat all my life, I spent a lot of time learning about overweight and what works and what doesn't. The last three years I finally worked out a plan that has helped me not only lose weight, but maintain the loss. I began collecting every trick or tip that is reported to help a person lose weight, and I tested them and made the best ones part of my weight loss plan. For the first time in my life, I am weighing less at the end of each year than I did at the beginning. I am not so much on a diet, as using every losing fact and trick I learned, while living a low carb lifestyle- mostly. Part of the plan is intentional treat weeks where I eat anything and everything I miss.

Having explored the web for years to learn about overweight, I know there is no place on the web where all these tips and tricks are listed. Most of them will work for people who are only 10 pounds overweight, yet will also help people like me who are morbidly obese. So I decided to share all I have learned on my website.

The problem is I have learned so many tricks and tips, that it would be too long to write on the website. So I am only going to list two tips each week, starting with the most important ones. Each tip has been proven to cause weight loss on its own. When put together, they increase the weight loss.

I realize my slow weight loss will not excite a lot of people. This is a comfortable plan that doesn't leave me hungry or feeling deprived. I am losing fat and not muscle. And my metabolism is slowly increasing, so maintenance isn't difficult. Two years after a normal diet, moat people have regained all the weight, and sometimes more. I am two years into the eating plan. and weigh 68 pounds less than when I started. It is not exciting, but it is effective.

Go to www.leonashappyplace.com and click on Leona's Weight Discoveries to learn more.

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A web site of interest

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Go to http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html to see a great picture each day. The archives have a lot of great pictures also.

Another site http://www.kidsastronomy.com/ isn't just for kids. I found the news section had a lot of information I didn't know.

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Riddle Answer

A watermelon

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Brain Teaser Answer

They took a live lamb

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Say what’ translated

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

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This week’s riddle

Answer at end of letter

"Runs over fields and woods all day
Under the bed at night sits not alone,
With long tongue hanging out,
A-waiting for a bone."
Hint: It's something very close to you

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Quote of the week

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes

Charles Swindoll

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This week’s Brain Teaser

Answer at end of letter

It takes Clinton three hours to paint a fence. It takes his little brother Paul six hours to paint the same sized fence. Their mother wants them both to paint the fence. How long should it take them if they both work at their normal speed.

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· Quote of the week

· This week’s brain teaser

· Joke of the week

FWD FWD Two traveling angels

· Pun of the week

· Limerick of the week

· Celebrate this week

· Say what?

· The editor speaks out

· A Web Site of Interest

· Riddle answer

· ‘Say what’ translated

· Subscribe/unsubscribe information.

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Joke of the week

A woman was trying hard to get the catsup to come out of the bottle. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her four-year-old daughter to answer the phone. "It's the minister, Mommy," the child said to her mother. Then she added, "Mommy can't come to the phone right now. She's hitting the bottle."

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FWD FWD Two traveling angels

Keep reading to the bottom of the page-don't stop at the feet (You'll see).

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a
wealthy family.

  The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's
guest room. Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold
basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel
saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why,
the older angel replied, "Things aren't always what they seem."

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but
very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they
had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good
night's rest.

When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and
his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income,
lay dead in the field.

The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could
you have let this happen? The first man had everything, yet you helped
him, she accused. The second family had little but was willing to share
everything, and you let the cow die.

"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When
we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored
in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and
unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't
find it." "Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of
death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren't always
what they seem."

Sometimes that is exactly what happens when things don't turn out the
way they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that every out-come is always to your advantage. You just might not know it until some time
later...
                                           Oooo
            Some people            (    )
             come into our lives    ) /
          and quickly go..       (_ /

         oooO
          (    )       Some people
           \ (        become friends
             \_ )    and stay awhile...

        leaving beautiful       Oooo
      footprints on our         (    )
           hearts...                   ) /
                                        ( _/

            oooO
             (    )      and we are
              \ (          never
               \_ )      quite the same
                      because we have
                        made a good
                          friend!!

Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!

I think this is special...live and savor every moment... This is not a
dress-rehearsal!

      (\        /)
      ( \ __ / )
    ( \()/ )
    ( / \ )    TAKE THIS LITTLE ANGEL
    ( / \/ \ )   AND KEEP HER CLOSE TO YOU
       /      \    SHE IS YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL
     (        )    SENT TO WATCH OVER YOU
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THIS IS A SPECIAL GUARDIAN ANGEL.... YOU MUST PASS THIS ON TO 5 PEOPLE WITHIN THE HOUR OF RECEIVING HER..AFTER YOU DO MAKE A WISH.... IF YOU HAVE PASSED HER ON, YOUR WISH WILL BE GRANTED AND SHE WILL WATCH OVER YOU
FOREVER.... IF NOT..HER TEARS WILL FLOW AND NO WISHES WILL BE GRANTED....
Now don't delete this message, because it comes from a very special angel.

(Editor’s note: I left the email in its entirety. I don’t believe there is a special blessing because 5 get sent out within an hour. But I do believe we are blessed when we forward these things to people we know, and they are encouraged or cheered up by it. It is in blessing others that we are blessed and in refreshing others we are refreshed. Please forward the whole letter instead of just a portion. Laughter is as good for the soul as inspiration- especially in hard times.)

Right Now -

-somebody is thinking of you.
-somebody is caring about you.
-somebody misses you

-somebody wants to talk to you.
-somebody wants to be with you.

-somebody hopes you aren't in trouble.
-somebody is thankful for the support you have provided.
-somebody wants to hold your hand.
-somebody hopes everything turns out all right.
-somebody wants you to be happy.
-somebody wants you to find him/her.
-somebody is celebrating your successes.
-somebody wants to give you a gift.
-somebody thinks that you ARE a gift.
-somebody loves you.
-somebody admires your strength.
-somebody is thinking of you and smiling.
-somebody wants to be your shoulder to cry on.

-SOMEBODY NEEDS YOU TO SEND THIS TO THEM

Pun of the Week

There are two guys who have been lost in the desert for weeks, and they're at death's door. As they stumble on, hoping for salvation in the form of an oasis or something similar, they suddenly spy, through the heat haze, a small tree off in the distance.

As they get closer, they can see that the tree is draped with rasher upon rasher of bacon. There's smoked bacon, crispy bacon, life-giving juicy nearly-raw bacon, all sorts. And the smell... oh, the glorious smell!"
"Look Pepe," says the first man. "It's a bacon tree!"
"You're right!" says Pepe, "We're saved!"

Pepe doesn't wait another second. He runs up to the tree salivating at the prospect of food. But just as he gets to within five feet of the tree, there's the sound of machine gun fire, and he is shot down in a hail of bullets.
His friend quickly drops down on the sand, and calls across to the dying Pepe.
"Pepe!! Pepe!! What on earth happened?"

And with his dying breath Pepe calls back: "Ugh, run, run!! It's not a Bacon Tree after all..."

"...its a ham bush!"

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Limerick of the week

Wally
To manage to keep up a brain,
It's no easy job, it is plain;
That's why a great many
Don't ever use any,
Thus avoiding the care and the strain

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Cynic’s Corner

     Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.

     Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.

     If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

By Steve Wright

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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world

weird. Now the world is weird and people take

Prozac to make it normal.        unknown

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An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking

 other toys.                    unknown

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Celebrate This Week

12 Mary Roberts Rinehart born 1876

Moviemaker Cecille B De Mille Born 1881

A “rattle watch” –perhaps the first US police force-

established in NYC 1658

13 Fall of the Aztec Empire 1521

Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock born 1899

Roller skating derby in Chicago starts new craze 1935

Marksman Annie Oakley born 1860

14 Japan surrendered in WWII 1945

Social Security Act passed by Congress, 1935

The Atlantic Charter signed 1941

15 Transcontinental Railroad Completed

Ethel Barrymore Born 1879

Julia Child born 1912

Yukon Province Discovery Day , Canada

“I Love Lucy” TV show first aired 1951

The steamer “Ancon” first through the Panama

Canal (9 hours) 1914

16 Klondike Gold discovered 1896

First Transatlantic cable message sent 1859

17 Frontiersman Davy Crocket born 1786

Actress Mae West born 1893

1^st successful Transatlantic balloon flight by

3 Albuquerque men

18 Roberto Clemente’s Birthday 1934

Virginia Dare, first American white child born 1587

Explorer Merriwether Lewis born 1774

Boston’s Braves Field –holding 40,000 baseball

fans, opened 1915

19 Orville Wright’s Birthday 1871

Patent for condensed milk granted 1856

Poet Ogden Nash born 1902

Patent for first zipper granted 1893

Radio’s “Amos and Andy” first aired 1929

20 Vitus Bering discovered Alaska 1741

President Benjamin Harrison born 1833

21 First House of Recycled Products 1973

Lincoln-Douglas debates began 1858

Hawaii became 50^th state 1959

22 First Female Newspaper Editor 1762

The “Savannah” –first American steamship to

cross the Atlantic- launched 1818

Fantasy writer Ray Bradbury born 1920

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Fun Facts

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

In ancient China and certain parts of India, mouse meat was considered a great delicacy.

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Say What?

Feathered bipeds of a kindred mind in their segregated environment associate with a high degree of amiability.

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Things people do

This really happened

A lady called the emergency room because her little daughter had eaten several ants. The receptionist tried to calm the hysterical woman, telling her the ants wouldn’t be able to chew on her daughter’s stomach because they would quickly die. The lady replied she knew they would die quickly because she made her daughter eat ant poison to kill them.

Fortunately they got the little girl quickly to the hospital and everything ended up okay.

The editor speaks out

A few weeks ago I received a letter from a subscriber announcing they no longer accepted mail with any sort of attachment. Seems a person who had always been trustworthy passed on an attachment with a virus. I am sure the person never meant to pass it on. Or else someone else sent it under an assumed name.

Since I had planned on sending many forwards with beautiful pictures as part of Leona’s Brain Candy, this created a problem for me. I wanted to share those beautiful pictures, but I didn’t want to accidentally pass an unknown virus or have the newsletter blocked because it had an attachment.

So I made a change to my web site. I will continue to send those wonderful text fwds in the body of the newsletter. But I have posted 13 of the best forwards with pictures at my website. To find them, go to http://www.leonashappyplace.com/the_best.htm to see the list. I especially recommend the tribute to Bob Hope. But take time to look at several while you are there. I will continue to post more as I have time. I have posted the URL for each page at the bottom, so all you have to do is copy that link to your email and send the link to all your friends. They can click on the link and see that page, and not have to worry about any of the problems associated with attachments.

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News of Note I received this fwd fwd last week

The Red Planet is about to become a spectacular sight! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history.

The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be the brightest except for the moon in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. Mars will be easy to spot. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10 p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.

By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m.

That's pretty convenient to see something that no human being has seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August to see Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month. Share this with your children and grandchildren.

NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN

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Another area which seems to be on everyone’s mind is too much email, especially those ads, and unsubscribing to all of them seems overwhelming. I started unsubscribing from two mailings a day just three weeks ago. Some were easy, they had an unsubscribe link that worked. Then I ran into the ones that didn’t work. Some of them had an email address in fine print hidden near the bottom (once at the top) of the letter. When it came to those with no unsubscribe I went to the site and literally went through the site page by page and line by line. (I was only doing two a day, so it wasn’t too bad) I was surprised to find many companies had their unsubscribe button way down at the bottom of their order form. So now that is the first place I look. The next best place to look is on the contact us page- if they have one. Because so many companies send multiple mailings, I am getting almost 100 fewer letters in my email now. I was surprised at how much better I feel not having to delete all those mails.

I have found one company that I find extremely offensive that has no way to unsubscribe at all. Once I get rid of everyone else, I will see if I can get rid of that one without resorting to reporting them as spammers. The fact is, every time I signed up for a contest or agreed to receive a prize I was told I’d won, I gave permission to I don’t know how many companies to mail me. Maybe I did give permission. But permission or not, everyone should give us a way to say send no more.

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A web site of interest

With school starting up again, many of us will soon be faced with homework. A good source of information for writing reports or finding explanations for things the textbook might not be clear on is www.homeworkcentral.com a division of Big Chalk. The information is somewhat divided by grade level,(there is some overlap). Itr is actually easier than the encyclopedia or internet browsing, because the information is broken down so a grade school child can understand it. I remember doing searches for reports for my fourth grader and all the info was written at college level, and I had to explain the meaning to my child before it made sense. There are resources for parents and teachers also. I used to find lesson plan ideas, and some of their explanations were very helpful.

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Riddle Answer

A shoe

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Brain Teaser Answer

Two hours. Clinton can complete 1/3 of the fence in the first hour, while Paul completes 1/6 of the fence. After two hours, Clinton has painted 2/3 of the fence, and Paul has painted 2/6 or 1/3 of the fence. So the whole job is completed in two hours.

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Say what’ translated

Birds of a feather flock together.

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This week’s riddle

Answer at end of letter

"The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place."
Hint: It's in front of you right now

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Quote of the week

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
- Blood of the Martyr

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This week’s Brain Teaser

Answer at end of letter

NASA was considering sending canaries in space to study then under zero gravity. They changed their minds when someone pointed out that no matter how much water they provided for the canaries, the birds would quickly die of dehydration. Why?

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· Quote of the week

· This week’s brain teaser

· Joke of the week

FW: The Choice

· Pun of the week

· Limerick of the week

· Celebrate this week

· Say what?

· The editor speaks out

· A Web Site of Interest

· Riddle answer

· ‘Say what’ translated

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Joke of the week

An artist asked the gallery owner if there had been any interest in his paintings currently on display. "I've got good news and bad news," the owner replied. "The good news is that a gentleman inquired about your work and wondered if it would appreciate in value after your death. When I told him it would, he bought all fifteen of your paintings."

"That's wonderful!" the artist exclaimed, "What's the bad news?". With concern, the gallery owner replied, "The guy was your doctor."

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FWD FWD: The Choice
One of the BEST that I've read.....

One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class
was walking home from school. His   name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, "Why would anyone bring
home all his books on a Friday? He must really be a nerd."

I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I   shrugged my shoulders and went on.

As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward him. They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt. His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him. He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes.

My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him and as he crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye. As I handed him his glasses, I said, "Those guys are jerks. They really should get lives." He looked
at me and said, "Hey thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. It was
one of those smiles that showed real gratitude.

I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I had never seen him before. He said he had gone to private school before now.

I would have never hung out with a private school kid before. We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books. He turned out to be a pretty cool kid. I asked him if he wanted to play a little football with my friends. He said yes. We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the same of him.

Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the huge stack of books again. I stopped him and said, "Boy, you are gonna really build some serious muscles
with this pile of books everyday!" He just laughed and handed me half the books.

Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends. When we were seniors, we began to think about college. Kyle decided on Georgetown, and I
was going to Duke. I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles would never be a problem. He was going to be a doctor, and I was going for business on a football scholarship.

Kyle was valedictorian of our class. I teased him all the time about being a nerd. He had to prepare a speech for graduation.

I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and speak. Graduation Day, I saw Kyle. He looked great. He   was one of those guys that really found himself during high school. He filled out and actually looked good in glasses. He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him.
Boy, sometimes I was jealous.

Today was one of those days. I could see that he was nervous about his speech. So, I smacked him on the back and said, "Hey, big guy, you'll be great!" He looked at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one) and smiled.
"Thanks," he said.

As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began. "Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through those tough years. Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach...but mostly your friends. I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them. I am going to tell you a story."

I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to kill himself over the weekend. He talked of how he had
cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do it later and was carrying his stuff home. He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile.

"Thankfully, I was saved. My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable."

I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome, popular boy told us all about his weakest moment. I saw his Mom and Dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile. Not until that moment did I realize it's depth.
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Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or for worse.

God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another
in some way. Look for God in others.

You now have two choices, you can:
1) Pass this on to your friends or
2) Delete it and act like it didn't touch your heart.

As you can see, I took choice number 1. "Friends are
angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have
trouble remembering how to fly."

There is no beginning or end..Yesterday is history

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Pun of the Week

In a kingdom far far away, and a long long time ago, a party was being given. To this party the king had invited everyone in the kingdom to his castle. And everyone was having a grand time. The wine was flowing, the tables were overflowing with food, and the dancing was beautiful.

Suddenly, out of thin air a gnarled old man appeared out of thin air. His hands clutched in tight fists by his body, smoke streaming from his shoulders, he walked up to the king and said, "How dare you have a party and not invite your own court wizard! For this insult I curse this castle with the dreaded Curse of the Fingers. Anyone who attempts to leave here will be rendered limb from limb by huge disembodied fingers!"

The wizard waved his bony arms about and shouted in a guttural foreign language. "There!", he said and vanished.

All at once, the people of the kingdom looked to their king. What would he do? How could he save them. The king pursed his lips and looked about him. Finally, he turned to his knights and asked for a volunteer to ride to the next kingdom and plead with their wizard to remove the curse. Of course all of the knights wished to go. The king selected the knight with the greatest seniority and sent him on his way.

The knight gathered up all his weapons, put on his best suit of armour and headed out. As soon as his foot stepped off of the drawbridge, gigantic yellow fingers appeared from nowhere and ripped him limb from limb.

One after another, each knight attempted to ride out of the castle, each one in turn was ripped to shreds. Finally, no knights were left.

The king looked about him. "Is there anyone else who would brave this curse and rescue us from this horrible curse?", he said.

"I will, sir!", said a small boy who had been serving one of the knights before he died.

The small boy packed up his belongings and provisions for the journey. Since he was a poor serving boy, and had no horse, he knew he would have to walk. But he was determined to succeed. As soon as he crossed the drawbridge, the yellow fingers appeared and tried to rip him apart. They couldn't! Each time the tried to grab him, the boy wriggled free and continued on his journey!

Several days later, the boy was back at the castle with the neighbouring kingdom's wizard. The king was overjoyed to have the curse lifted and he called the boy to him.

"How did you escape from those monstrous fingers? All my knights couldn't get past them and they were killed. How could you do it?"

The boy looked up at the king and replied, "Your majesty, it occurred to me as the last knight was being killed that the only way to escape this curse was to LET YOUR PAIGES DO THE WALKING THROUGH THE YELLOW FINGERS."

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Limerick of the week

donaldowl@infoave.net

There once was a man from Peru
Who kept all his cash in his shoe;
It¹s not like a bank,
And it¹s really quite rank,
Especially from wearing it, too.

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Cynic’s Corner

     Half the people you know are below average.

     99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

     42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

     If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.


                                   all by Steve Wright

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Celebrate

19 Orville Wright’s Birthday 1871

Patent for condensed milk granted 1856

Poet Ogden Nash born 1902

Patent for first zipper granted 1893

Radio’s “Amos and Andy” first aired 1929

20 Vitus Bering discovered Alaska 1741

President Benjamin Harrison born 1833

21 First House of Recycled Products 1973

Lincoln-Douglas debates began 1858

Hawaii became 50^th state 1959

22 First Female Newspaper Editor 1762

The “ Savannah ” –first American steamship to cross

the Atlantic- launched 1818

Fantasy writer Ray Bradbury born 1920

23 Women’s Rights Convention 1850

Gene Kelly born 1912

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry born 1785

Comic Strip “Gasoline Alley” first appeared 1919

24 Fall of Rome 410

Amelia Earhart made nonstop transcontinental flight 1932

Mt Vesuvius erupted in Italy 79AD

President Lincoln received first coast to coast

telegram from Sacramento-1861

25 National Park Service Founded 1916

City of New Orleans founded 1718

Detective Allen Pinkerton born 1819

Cartoonist Walt Kelley born 1913

26 Women’s right to vote (9^th amendment went into effect) 1920

27 Lyndon B Johnson’s Birthday

America’s first oil well drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania 1859

28 Martin Luther King’s Famous “I have a dream” Speech

Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay 1609

First American speeding ticket issued – in Newport RI 1904

29 Fall of the Incan Empire 1533

Oliver Wendell Holmes born 1809

Gamesman Edmond Hoyle –Who wrote the rules for games- died 1769

Actress Ingrid Bergman born 1915

Korean War’s largest Air raid, 1952

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Fun Facts

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.

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Say What?

Deviation from the ordinary or common routine of existence is that which gives zest to man's cycle of existence.

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The editor speaks out

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A web site of interest

http://www.coralcastle.com/

What this man has accomplished is almost unbeleivable. The intro takes a bit of time to load

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Riddle Answer

The letter ‘e’

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Brain Teaser Answer

Most birds require gravity to swallow. Humans can swallow even while hanging upside down. But canaries need to take a beakful of water and hold up their heads, allowing gravity to take the water down their throats.

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Say what’ translated

Variety is the spice of life.

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This week’s riddle

Answer at end of letter

A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in.

What should have he said?

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Quote of the week

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

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This week’s Brain Teaser

Answer at end of letter

What is unusual about the following words:

Bough

Cough

Dough

Rough

Through

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

· Riddle of the week

· Quote of the week

· This week’s brain teaser

FWD: The Brick

· Joke of the week

· Pun of the week

· Limerick of the week

· Celebrate this week

· Say what?

· The editor speaks out

· A Web Site of Interest

· Riddle answer

· ‘Say what’ translated

· Subscribe/unsubscribe information.

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FWD FWD:THE BRICK

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood
street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar.
He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars
and slowed down when he thought he saw something.

As his car passed, no children appeared.
Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door!
He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where
the brick had been thrown.

The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest
kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting,

"What was that all about and who are you?
Just what the heck are you doing?

That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of
money. Why did you do it?"

The young boy was apologetic.
"Please, mister...please,
I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to do" He pleaded.
I threw the brick because no one else would stop..."

With tears dripping down his face and off his chin,
the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car.

"It's my brother," he said.
"He rolled off the curb and fell out of his
wheelchair and I can't lift him up."

Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, "Would you please help me
get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."

Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly
swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back
into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at
the fresh scrapes and cuts.

A quick look told him everything was going to be okay.

"Thank you and may God bless you," the grateful child told the stranger.

Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy push his
wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home

It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar.

The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the
dented side door.

He kept the dent there to remind him of this message

"Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at
you to get your attention!"

God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when
we don't have time to listen,
He has to throw a brick at us.
It's our choice to listen or not.

Thought for the Day:

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning.
Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!
God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow,
sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day,
comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Read this line very slowly and let it sink in...

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Joke of the week

How many running-dog lackeys of the bourgeoisie does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to exploit the proletariat, and one to control the means of production! +++

How many referral agents does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two: One to screw you out of a fee, and the other to send you to a store where they ran out of bulbs weeks ago. +++

How many existentialists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two: One to screw it in and one to observe how the light bulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness. +++

How many dadaists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

To get to the other side. +++

How many nihilists does it take to change a light bulb?

There is nothing to change. +++

How many presidential candidates does it take to change a light bulb?

Fewer and fewer all the time. +++

How many believable, competent, ``just-right-for-the-job'' presidential candidates does it take to change a light bulb?

It's going to be a dark 4 years, isn't it? +++

How many gorillas does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Only one, but it sure takes a lot of light bulbs! +++

How many [IBM] Technical Writers does it take to change a light bulb?

Just one, provided there's an engineer around to explain how to do it. +++

How many professors does it take to change a light bulb?

Only one, but they get three tech. reports out of it. +++

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Pun of the Week

Roger Winslow was very thin because he was so afraid to spend money for food. He looked forward to the day when his grandfather would die and leave him a fortune. The grandfather died but all he left Roger was a cookie. They came to Roger looking for the fortune but couldn’t find it because it had disappeared into thin heir

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Limerick of the week

Dick Phillips
There once was a fisherman named Fisher,
Who was fishing for fish in a fissure.
Then a cod with a grin
pulled the fisherman in,
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

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Cynic’s Corner

  Some people are like Slinkies . . .

 not really good for anything, but you

still can't help but smile when you

see one tumble down the stairs     .

Why does a slight tax increase cost

you two hundred dollars and a

substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?

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Celebrate

25 National Park Service Founded 1916

City ofNew Orleans founded 1718

Detective Allen Pinkerton born 1819

Cartoonist Walt Kelley born 1913

26 Women’s right to vote (9^th amendment went into effect) 1920

27 Lyndon B Johnson’s Birthday

America’s first oil well drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania 1859

28 Martin Luther King’s Famous “I have a dream” Speech

Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay 1609

First American speeding ticket issued – in Newport RI 1904

29 Fall of the Incan Empire 1533

Oliver Wendell Holmes born 1809

Gamesman Edmond Hoyle –Who wrote the rules for games- died 1769

Actress Ingrid Bergman born 1915

Korean War’s largest Air raid, 1952

30 Marshal on the Supreme Court 1967

Henry Ford received patent for gasoline carburator 1898

Baseball great Ted Williams born 1918

31 Edison Patented the Kinetiscope 1887

Comedian and aviator Arthur Godfrey born 1903

September

1 Labor Day

America ’s first school for nurses, Boston ’s New England Hospital ,

admitted 5 students in 1872

Bobby Fischer became the first American chess champion in 1972

2 V J Day Japan signed formal surrender

Henry George born 1839

3 Treaty of Paris , ending revolutionary war, 1763

4 Henry Hudson discovered the Island of Manhattan in 1609

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Fun Facts

The Pekingese dog was considered sacred among Chinese royalty. At the court of Li Hsui, one of the last Manchu queens, all court Pekingese had human wet nurses. Each dog had its own human guard to protect it from other dogs; some even had private palaces, complete with servants.

A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

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Say What?

He who locks himself into the arms of Morpheus promptly at eventide, and starts the day before it is officially announced by the rising sun, excels in physical fitness, increases his economic assets and celebrates with remarkable efficiency.

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The editor speaks out

One question I get a lot is "how much does subscribing to the newsletter cost" Another is "How much does it cost to access your site?" As the newsletter and site get better, they look more and more like something you would pay for and not something free.

Well, the good news is:

Leona's Brain Candy is free and will continue to be for a long time to come.

Killer is doing well and has practically paper trained herself. I have never paper trained a puppy and had no idea it was so easy- a few days of playing with her on the paper until she did her thing, and then lots of praise, and she is paper trained.

School is a little challenging, but mostly because I don't have my books yet. I foolishly didn't check with the college until Aug 9, thinking school started in Sept.. I learned a big lesson. The books are ordered and in the mail, so by next week I should be in my stride.

Physically , I am walking better than expected, but I seem to be hungry a lot. I am eating on schedule, but I am still hungry every evening. I feel like I am still losing weight. I am due to get on a scale at the end of Sept., so I will see then. I am not trying to lose weight now, rather trying to build more muscle, strength and stamina while maintaining my weight loss.

Should I expose health research myths on my website?

I am thinking of adding a section to my website. Often, reports on scientific studies seem contradictory or confusing. Researching the studies more closely reveals that it usually isn't the studies that are confusing, but the facts that aren't reported because those facts threaten some company or industry. (Take the arguments over eggs and cholesterol. The answer to that one is obvious once you have all the facts. Also, what commonly prescribed prostrate medicine increases the incidence of the cancer it is prescribed to prevent?) If you would like to see me start a section on the truth behind some of those studies, please send me an email and let me know.

Because the newsletter is so long, I will simply list this week's subject and a link to the health report.

Virus

For those who are considering refusing all emails until the current virus crisis is over, I will be postng this week's issue as well as last week's at my web site.

www.leonashappyplace.com

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A web site of interest

It is fall and time to think about the Scripps National Spelling Bee. "Wait a minute!" you say. That isn't until June!" And you are exactly right.

But savvy spellers go to the Spelling Bee site and look at Carolyn's corner every week to help them prepare. There you will learn things about the roots and origins of words that will help every spelling student.

http://www.spellingbee.com/cctoc.shtml

The tips don't start until next month, but this is the time to familiarize yourself with the site and order the study booklet they offer. It is only about 59 cents for the booklet, though they have lots of other aids available. You have just about enough time to order the booklet and get it in time for the first Carolyn's corner

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Riddle Answer

Three. The doorman lets in those who answer with the number of letters in the word the doorman says.

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Brain Teaser Answer

They all end in ough, yet none of them rhyme

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Say what’ translated

Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

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