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This
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I'm named
after nothing, though I'm awfully clamorous. And whenI'm not working,
your house is less glamorous. What am I?
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Quote of the week
Great changes may not happen right away, but
with effort even the difficult may become easy.
- Bill Blackman
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This week’s Brain Teaser
Answer
at end of letter
I shine in the light like sun off the sea
Girls sometimes say they couldn't live without me
Despite how popular I am with they,
I never have anything original to say.
What am I?
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Riddle of
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Quote of
the week
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This
week’s brain teaser
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Joke of
the week
Rescue at Sea
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Pun of the
week
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Limerick
of the week
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Celebrate
this week
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Say what?
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The editor
speaks out
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A Web Site
of Interest
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Riddle
answer
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‘Say what’
translated
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Subscribe/unsubscribe information.
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Joke of
the week
Wife
helps out the cop
A male driver is pulled over by a cop and the
following conversation takes place:
Man: What's the problem officer?
Cop: You were going at least 75 in a 55 zone.
Man: No sir, I was going 65.
Wife: Oh Harry. You were going 80.
(Man gives his wife a dirty look.)
Cop: I'm also going to give you a ticket for your broken tail light.
Man: Broken tail light? I didn't know about a broken tail light!
Wife: Oh Harry, you've known about that tail light for weeks.
(Man gives his wife a dirty look.)
Cop: I'm also going to give you a citation for not wearing your seat
belt.
Man: Oh, I just took it off when you were walking up to the car.
Wife: Oh Harry, you never wear your seat belt.
Man: Shut your mouth, woman!
Cop: Ma'am, does your husband always talk to you this way?
Wife: No, only when he's drunk.
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| Rescue at Sea
Years ago, in a small fishing village in
Holland, a young boy taught the world about the rewards of unselfish
service. Because the entire village revolved around the fishing
industry, a volunteer rescue team was needed in cases of emergency. One
night the winds raged, the clouds burst and a gale force storm capsized
a fishing boat at sea. Stranded and in trouble, the crew sent out the
S.O.S. The captain of the rescue rowboat team sounded the alarm and the
villagers assembled in the town square overlooking the bay.
While the team launched their rowboat and fought their way through the
wild waves, the villagers waited restlessly on the beach, holding
lanterns to light the way back. An hour later, the rescue boat
reappeared through the fog and the cheering villagers ran to greet them.
Falling exhausted on the sand, the volunteers reported that the rescue
boat could not hold any more passengers and they had to leave one man
behind. Even one more passenger would have surely capsized the rescue
boat and all would have been lost.
Frantically, the captain called for another volunteer team to go after
the lone survivor. Sixteen-year-old Hans stepped forward. His mother
grabbed his arm, pleading, "Please don't go. Your father died in a
shipwreck 10 years ago and your older brother, Paul, has been lost at
sea for three weeks.
Hans, you are all I have left." Hans replied, "Mother, I have to go.
What if everyone said, 'I can't go, let someone else do it?' Mother,
this time I have to do my duty. When the call for service comes, we all
need to take our turn and do our part." Hans kissed his mother, joined
the team and disappeared into the night. Another hour passed, which
seemed to Hans' mother like an eternity. Finally, the rescue boat darted
through the fog with Hans standing up in the bow. Cupping his hands, the
captain called, "Did you find the lost man?" Barely able to contain
himself, Hans excitedly yelled back, "Yes, we found him. Tell my mother
it's my older brother, Paul!"
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Pun
of the Week
Jose lived in San Juan, and all he ever wanted was to see a baseball
game in Yankee Stadium. Jose loved baseball, he loved the Yankees.
He worked and saved and at long last bought a ticket, took a plane,
but when he got to Yankee Stadium, it was all sold out. Not a seat to be
had. Jose pleaded, touched the heart of the ticket office and they found
him a seat way out in the bleachers behind the flagpole.
Jose saw his baseball game and went back to Puerto Rico, flying so
high he almost didn't need a plane. Well, Jose, they asked when he
returned, "How was it?"
Jose raved. The stadium, the game, the Yankees and, oh yes, most of
all the fans.....They were so friendly, so concerned about him that it
was unbelievable. "Can you imagine it? Before the game began, they all
stood up and turned, looked at me and sang,.....
...... "Jose? Can you see?"!
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Limerick of the week
There was once a girl name Nicole
Her favorite thing to do was bowl
She threw the ball
It went right through the wall
And it left a very big hole
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Cynic’s Corner
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man
--Mark Twain
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
--Elbert Hubbard
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Celebrate
Nov 10
1871
Jouranlist and explorer
Henry Stanley
found the missing
David Livingstone
in
Central Africa and
made his famous comment, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1851
The first long
distance telephone call without operator assistance took place.
1969
Sesame Street
premiered on PBS TV.
1982 The
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
opened in
Washington, DC.
Nov 11
1889
Washington became
the 42nd state.
1918
The Allies and Germany
signed an armistice ending
World War I.
Nov 12
1927
Leon Trotsky was
expelled from the Communist Party and
Joseph Stalin
became the ruler of the
Soviet Union.
1912
The
World War II
battle of
Guadalcanal
begins.
1981
The space shuttle
Columbia
was launched for the second time. It was the first time a space vehicle
was used more than once.
Nov 13
1946
Vincent Schaefer produced artificial snow from a
natural cloud for the first time at
Mount Greylock in
Massachusetts.
1956
The
Supreme Court
struck down laws calling for racial segregation on buses.
Nov 14
1851
Herman Melville's
novel Moby Dick was published.
1922
The British Broadcasting Corporation began its
domestic
radio service.
Nov 15
1763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began surveying the
Mason-Dixon line
1806
Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now
known as
Pikes Peak.
Nov
16
1907
Oklahoma became
the 46th state.
1933
The
United States and
the
Soviet Union
established diplomatic relations.
Nov 17
1538
Queen Elizabeth I
of England ascended to the throne upon the death of her half-sister
Queen Mary.
1800
Congress met in
Washington, DC, for the first time.
1869
The
Suez Canal opened
in
Egypt.
Nov 18
1820
Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered
Antarctica.
1928
Mickey Mouse made his
debut in Steamboat Willie.
Nov
19
1863
Lincoln
delivered his
Gettysburg Address
at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield
of
Gettysburg, Pa.
1985
Ronald Reagan and
Mikhail Gorbachev
met for the first time in
Geneva.
Nov 20
1789
New Jersey became
the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1945
The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II
leaders began in
Nuremberg,
Germany.
1962
President
John F. Kennedy
agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the
Cuban missile crisis
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Fun
Facts
The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our
sun. If our sun were the size of a softball, the star Antares would be
as large as a house.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a
scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
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Say
What?
The herbage is customarily more verduous on the diametrical selvage of
the property barrier
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The editor speaks out
It
has been two weeks since I last sent an issue, and I need to apologize.
I have been sick. but not life threatening. I just had a bad cold that
caused me to sleep all the time and kept me from doing much of anything
in the way of reading or typing.
I had
a major history test, but I was lucky that I had made a study guide
before I got sick. So I didn't lose enough points to change my grade.
Jay has the cold now, and he is taking it pretty easy.
Killer has really changed color the last two weeks, She is turning blue
over a large part of her body. It is hard to know what color she will
be when she finishes changing.
I
sold my first personalized book this weekend. It looks even better than
I expected. I am so impressed with this company. I have given out
hundred of business cards, and lots of people seem really excited, but
no one is ordering. I think most will order closer to Christmas. I
hope they don't wait too long, as I have limited stock, and may have to
order more. I would hate for any gift to be late because the giver
waited too long to order.
Only
six more weeks of school. Then I will have more time to catch up on my
web site, write my stories and take pictures of Killer.
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A web site of interest
I needed some information for a class and
discovered homeworkcentral.com is no longer an easy way to find
information. So I did some searching and came up with
http://www.infoplease.com/index.html
It isn't as comprehensive as I would
like, but I found a lot of good information for my research.
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Riddle
Answer
A vacuum cleaner.
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Brain Teaser Answer
A mirror
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Say
what’ translated
The grass is always greener on the other side of
the fence.
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Two men were
playing tennis. They played five sets and each man won three sets.
How can this be possible?
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Quote of the week
Courage is the ladder
on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987),
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This week’s Brain Teaser
Answer
at end of letter
You are a
prisoner sentenced to death. The Emperor offers you a chance to live by
playing a simple game. He gives you 50 black marbles, 50 white marbles
and 2 empty bowls. He then says, "Divide these 100 marbles into these 2
bowls. You can divide them any way you like as long as you use all the
marbles. Then I will blind-fold you and mix the bowls around. You then
can choose one bowl and remove ONE marble. If the marble is WHITE you
will live, but if the marble is BLACK... you will die."
How do you divide the marbles up so that you have
the greatest probability of choosing a WHITE marble?
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Quote of
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This
week’s brain teaser
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Joke of
the week
Poverty
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Pun of the
week
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Limerick
of the week
·
Celebrate
this week
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Say what?
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The editor
speaks out
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A Web Site
of Interest
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Riddle
answer
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‘Say what’
translated
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Joke of
the week
One night a police
officer was staking out a particularly rowdy bar for possible DUI
violations. At closing time, he saw a fellow stumble out of the bar,
trip on the curb and try his keys on five different cars before he found
his. The man sat in the front seat fumbling around with his keys for
several minutes.
Meanwhile, all the other patrons left the bar and drove off. Finally he
started his engine and began to pull away. The police officer was
waiting for him. As soon as he pulled onto the street, the officer
stopped him, read him his rights and administered the breathalyzer test
to determine his blood-alcohol content.
The results showed a reading of 0.0.
The puzzled officer demanded to know how that could be. The driver
replied, "Tonight I'm the DD.”
“Designated
driver?” asked the cop.
“No, designated decoy."
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Poverty
One day, a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the
country with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people live.
They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be
considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, the
father asked his son, "How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."
"Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked.
"Oh yeah," said the son.
"So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.
The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We
have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a
creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and
they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and
they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on
and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who
serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs.
We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to
protect them."
The boy's father was speechless.
Then his son added, "Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are."
Isn't perspective a wonderful thing? Makes you wonder what would
happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying
about what we don't have.
Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!
Please pass this page on to friends and acquaintances to help them
refresh their perspective and appreciation.
"Life is too short and friends are too few."
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Pun
of the Week
A mother was anxiously awaiting her daughter's plane. She had just
come back from a far away land trying to find adventure.
As the daughter was exiting the plane, the mother noticed a man
directly behind her daughter dressed in feathers with exotic markings
all over his body and carrying a shrunken head. The daughter introduced
this man as her new husband.
The mother gasped in disbelief and disappointment and screamed,
"I said for you to marry a RICH Doctor! A RICH Doctor!"
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Limerick of the week
John
R. Teeter
A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus 3 times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared plus zero, nothing more.
Abhijeet
Joshi
The bottle of perfume that Willie sent,
Was highly displeasing to Milicent,
Her thanks were so cold,
That they quarelled, I'm told,
Over that silly scent Willie sent Milicent
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Cynic’s Corner
"People Ask Me, "Why is
it free?" and I tell them (really slowly) "Because it doesn't cost
anything."
If the minimum wasn't acceptable
it wouldn't be called the minimum.
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Celebrate
Nov 23
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake
Merced
to drop 30' (9m)
1863 Patent granted for a process of making color
photographs
1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel,
San Francisco)
Nov 24 166 -BC- Origin of
Era of Maccabees
1759 Destructive
eruption of Vesuvius
1954 1st US
Presidential airplane christened
1874
Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
Nov 25 1867 Alfred Nobel
invents dynamite
1930 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito
Japan)
1933 1st
Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
Nov 26
1716 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1789 1st national thanksgiving
1865 Alice in Wonderland published
Lebanon : Independence Day (1941)
Nov 27 1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village,
beginning Seminole War
1870 NY Times
dubs baseball "The National Game"
1885 Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made
1889 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central
Park (Curtis Brady)
Nov 28 1929 Adm Richard
E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out
strategy
1863 Thanksgiving was first observed as a regular
American
holiday. Proclaimed by President Lincoln the
previous month,
it
was declared that the event would be observed annually,
on the fourth Thursday in November
Nov 29
1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates the
hand-cranked phonograph
1944
John Hopkins hospital performs 1st
open heart surgery
1951
1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos)
to orbit
Nov 30
1947 Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements
attacked
1948 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in
East Berlin
1886 1st commercially successful AC electric power
plant
opens, Buffalo
Dec 1
1835 Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy
tales
1878 1st White House telephone installed
1909 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya
Aleff
1913 Continuous moving assembly line
introduced by
Ford (car every 2 :38)
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Fun
Facts
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may
occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the
two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds
of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was
discovered.
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Say
What?
Everything is legitimate in matters pertaining to
ardent affection and armed conflict between nations.
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The editor speaks out
This
week we have been fighting with Ugly Car. For those of you who don't
know, Ugly Car is a worn out car my dad gave me that just keeps
running. We love every dent and spot on Ugly Car because it keeps going
and is reliable, and gets great gas mileage, and we can't afford another
one. This car is known to several of our friends as Ugly Car and has
been faithful for many years. Alas, Ugly Car has a problem with the
choke and is no longer moving. We look forward to repairing it after
payday. We tried to keep it running, but the cold weather is against
us. So Jay has to take me to sckool in his truck, which is not reliable
like Ugly Car.
School
is almost over, and I am looking forward to the rest. I took a large
load because it would give me my AA and I thought I would be done. But
one class I needed for my AA was cancelled and I have learned I must
take 4 more classes to get into the bachelor's program I want.
Unfortunately, they all contain too much work to take in one semester,
so I am going to split them up and mix in a few more computer classes.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of year. We have so much to be
thankful for. We have a warm house and a great garden, and a car that
ususally works. We have loving pets, and ourt family is all healthy,
even if we can't be together. We have our lovely Killer, and Jayleen
has time to be with us this year. Also, we belong to a church with
people who really care. Add to that a computer on the internet, and we
are fully blessed. God has been very good to us, and we are truly
thankful.
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A web
site of interest
This man
makes art out of old toilet seats
http://www.unusualmuseums.org/toilet/
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Riddle
Answer
The two men were partners playing doubles.
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Brain Teaser Answer
Place 1 white marble in one bowl, and
place the rest of the marbles in the other bowl (49 whites, and 50
blacks). Place the black marbles in the bowl first and cover them with
the white ones.
This way you begin with a 50/50 chance of choosing the bowl with just
one white marble, therefore life! BUT even if you choose the other bowl,
you still have ALMOST a 50/50 chance at picking one of the 49 white
marbles.
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Say
what’ translated
All’s fair in love and war.
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