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Page 2 FATHERLY FACTS (continued) • Grammatically it should be Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day, as we are celebrating multiple mothers and fathers. However, it was initially spelled on the proposal to make it a holiday as Father’s Day and that just stuck. • Research shows that over 110 million Father’s Day cards are exchanged annually. 50% of those are purchased for dads, 20% are purchased for husbands.
lion on Father’s Day gifts this year. The average gift costs about $27.60 per person. • Neckties are the #1 gift on Father’s Day. • Other popular gifts for dad are tools. Did you know there are over 14,257 hardware stores in the U.S. alone? • There are over 64.3 million fathers in the U.S. and over 159,000 are stay-at-home dads.
• In Thailand, Father’s Day is celebrated on the same day as the king’s birthday. King Phumiphon was born December 5, 1927. • Darwin’s Frog, named after and discovered by Charles Darwin, is a native frog • There isn’t a formal Father’s Day celebrato the forests and streams of Argentina tion in Germany but there is a holiday just and Chile. The female frog lays about for men called Männertag (Men’s Day). thirty eggs and the male guards them until • Did you know there are stay at home dads they hatch. The male then takes the tadin the animal kingdom? The rhea is a flightpoles and carries them in his vocal pouch less South American bird similar to an emu as they develop. The tadpoles develop in in appearance. It is the male rhea who the baggy skin of the chin, feeding off their builds the nest and incubates the eggs, egg yolk until they are mature. Talk about much like male Emporer penguins guard a dedicated dad! and incubate their eggs while the mothers • Zeus is the Father and King of the Greek hunt. gods. He is credited with fathering Ares, • Sonora Dodd was listening to a Mother’s Aphrodite, Orion, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Day service at church when she thought Persephone and Heracles. He had conthere should a holiday honoring fathers. sorts with mortal women as well as divine She held her own father, William Smart and fathered Helen of Troy by a mortal. in particularly high esteem, as he was a widowed Civil War veteran who had raised • Father Knows Best (1954) first aired on the radio, running six years of original epiSonora and her five brothers himself. sodes before moving solely to television. • Mrs. Dodd proposed the celebration to the Spokane Ministerial Alliance in her home- • Pater Patriae, a Latin honorific, means “Father of his Country,” or literally “father town of Spokane, Washington and the first of his fatherland.” It was used to describe Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane many ancient Roman leaders like Caesar on June 19th, 1910. Augustus. Nero was offered the honor dur• In 1924, President Coolidge showed his ing the first year of his reign, but because support for making Father’s Day a nationof his youth (he was seventeen at the time) al holiday. It was in 1966 that President he turned it down although he didn’t hesiJohnson actually proclaimed it a holiday tate to accept it the second time around. throughout the nation. However, it wasn’t until 1972 that President Nixon made it an • The world’s current oldest father is Nanu Ram Jogi, a farmer from India. His fourth official U.S. holiday. wife, Suburi, gave birth to their seventh • The rose is the official flower of Father’s child in 2007 when he was 90 years old. Day. Red roses are worn if a father is still Mr. Jogi has approximately twenty-one alive. White roses are worn in remembrance of a father who has passed away. • Father’s Day cards are one of the Top Five holiday cards sold each year. It is the 4th largest card-sending holiday after Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. • Father’s Day is not an official holiday in Taiwan, but it is widely celebrated on August 8th. The pronunciation of the word for the number eight in Mandarin Chinese (ba) is similar to the pronunciation of the word that means father, so father’s day is often called Baba Day in Taiwan. • Americans are expected to spend $11 bil-
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• On June 15, 1215, following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule, King John puts his royal seal on the Magna Carta, or “Great Charter,” the cornerstone in the development of democratic England by later generations. Four original copies of the Magna Carta exist: one in Lincoln Cathedral, one in Salisbury Cathedral and two in the British Museum.
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• On June 17, 1885, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, arrives in New York City’s harbor. The last rivet of the monument was fitted on October 28, 1886, during a dedication presided over by U.S. President Grover Cleveland. In 1924, the Statue of Liberty was made a national monument.
6. LANGUAGE: In British slang, what is a torch? 7. MUSIC: Which character on “Sesame Street” had a hit single with “Rubber Duckie”? 8. GEOGRAPHY: Between which two nations does the country of Costa Rica lie?
• On June 19, 1905, the world’s first nickelodeon, showing a silent film called “The Great Train Robbery,” opens in Pittsburgh. The storefront theater boasted 96 seats and charged 5 cents. Nickelodeons typically featured live vaudeville acts as well as short films.
9. TELEVISION: Which sitcom featured the character Cliff Clavin? 10. ANATOMY: What is the common name for the axilla? Answers 1. Tim Robbins 2. Ferdinand Magellan 3. “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” 4. Earle Dickson 5. Bill Cosby 6. Flashlight 7. Ernie 8. Nicaragua and Panama 9. “Cheers” 10. Armpit
• On June 18, 1942, recording artist Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, England. McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison played together under several different names, and with assorted members, until 1960, when they adopted the name the Beatles. Ringo Starr joined the group in 1962. • On June 16, 1961, Rudolf Nureyev, the young star of the Soviet Union’s Kirov Opera Ballet Company, defects during a stopover in Paris. The high-profile defection was a blow to Soviet prestige. During the next 30 years, Nureyev danced with England’s Royal Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre.
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• It was expatriate British novelist Lawrence Durrell who made the following observation: “There are only three things to be done with a woman: You can love her, suffer for her or turn her into literature.” • Have you ever known anyone who engaged in verbolatry? In this era of reality TV and instant everything, it’s not likely. “Verbolatry” is the worship of words. • Every year, GMAC conducts its National Drivers Test, administered by telephone to drivers in all 50 states. Respondents are asked questions pulled from official driver license exams across the country. This year’s results are in, and they’re not encouraging. More than a quarter of those surveyed -- 28.1 percent -- completely failed the test. Perhaps unsurprisingly, people in New York scored the worst, while drivers aged 18 to 24 were more likely to fail than those in other age groups. Drivers in Idaho and Wisconsin tied for first place. Interestingly, more men than women passed, and drivers in the South had the highest rate of failure. • In Arkansas it is illegal to mispronounce the name of the state. • Officials at Guinness Brewing claim that the perfect pint of Draught Guinness requires a rather lengthy process (comparatively speaking), involving a double pour. They’ve got it down to a science, evidently; a proper pint should take precisely 119.5 seconds to pour. • In today’s economy, wouldn’t it be nice if your kids could contribute to the family’s finances? For instance, Marla Olmstead, who is all of 9 years old, is an artist. A serious artist, in fact: Her paintings sell for up to $25,000 each. Perhaps you should take a second look at the pictures on the fridge. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
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WEEKLY FUNNIES
BBQ - The Only Cooking a “Real” Man Will Do When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are usually put into motion: • The woman goes to the store. • The woman fixes the salad, vegetables, and dessert. • The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils, and takes it to the man, who is lounging beside the grill, drink in hand. • The man places the meat on the grill. • The woman goes inside to set the table and checks the vegetables. • The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is burning. • The man takes the meat off the grill and hands it to the woman. • The woman prepares the plates and brings them to the table. • After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes. • Everyone praises the man and thanks him for his cooking efforts. • The man asks the woman how she enjoyed ‘her night off’ and, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there’s just no pleasing some women. Got a letter from Grandma the other day. She writes... The other day I went up to a local Christian bookstore and saw a ‘Honk If You Love Jesus’ bumper sticker. I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting; so I bought
the sticker and put it on my bumper. Boy, I’m glad I did! What an uplifting experience followed! I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection and I didn’t notice that the light had changed. It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn’t honked, I’d never have noticed! I found that LOTS of people love Jesus! Why, while I was sitting there, the guy behind me started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, “For the love of GOD! GO! GO! JESUS CHRIST, GO!” What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus! Everyone started honking! I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love! There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a “sunny beach.”... I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. When I asked my teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant, he said that it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. Well, I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign back. A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed. So, I waved to all my sisters and brothers, grinning, and drove on through the intersection. I noticed I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again and I felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared; so I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away. Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks! Grandma
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Is it better to be single or married? • It’s better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need somebody to clean up after them. (Lynette, 9) • It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I’m just a kid. I don’t need that kind of trouble. (Kenny, 7) Concerning why love happens between two particular people: • No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That’s why perfume and deodorant are so popular. (Jan, 9) • I think you’re supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn’t supposed to be so painful. (Harlen, 8) What do most people do on a date? • On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date.(Mike, 10) Why do lovers often hold hands? • They want to make sure their rings don’t fall off because they paid good money for them. (Dave, 8) Confidential opinions about love: • I’m in favor of love as long as it doesn’t happen when ‘Sesame Street’ is on television. (Anita,6) • Love will find you, even if you’re trying to hide from it. I’ve been trying to hide from it since I was 5, but the girls keep finding me. (Bobby, 8) • I’m not rushing into being in love. I’m finding fourth grade hard enough. (Regina, 10)
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