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By Samantha Weaver • It was American paleontologist, biologist and scientific historian Stephen Jay Gould who made the following observation: “The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” • Those who study such things claim that spectators at horse races consume more snacks than fans at any other live sporting event. • Duct tape is famous for the numerous uses to which it’s been put, but you may be surprised to hear about this one: haute couture (of a sort). Every year, Duck brand duct tape holds a contest in which highschool students create prom dresses out of, yes, duct tape. The winner receives a $3,000 scholarship for college. • From the Yes, There Is a Word for It files: purlicue. When you extend your forefinger and thumb as if you’re shooting an imaginary gun, the space between the two digits is know as the purlicue. • The average bat lives approximately 18 years -- and spends about 12 of those years sleeping. • Iconic Elizabethan English playwright and poet William Shakespeare had no formal education past grammar school. • If you travel to Tokyo and have the great good fortune to dine at the exclusive restaurant called Happo-en, you might be able to get a look at the oldest bonsai trees in the world. The specimens kept in the restaurant’s private garden have been lovingly cultivated for between 400 and 800 years. • When they’re over the open ocean, tsunamis can travel at more than 500 miles per hour. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
Thought for the Day: “If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” -- Albert Einstein
I had trouble with the idea of turning 30 and was oversensitive to any signs of advancing age. When I found a prominent gray hair in my bangs, I pointed to my forehead and asked my husband, “Oh no, have you seen this?” “What?” he asked. “The wrinkles?” Billy’s father picked him up from school to take him to a dental appointment. Knowing the acting roles for the school play were being posted that day, he asked Billy if he got a part. Billy enthusiastically announced that he’d gotten a part. “I play a man who’s been married for twenty years.” “That’s great, son. Keep up the good work and before you know it they’ll be giving you a speaking part.” Senators William B. Spong of Virginia and Hiram Fong of Hawaii sponsored a bill recommending the mass ringing of church bells to welcome the arrival in Hong Kong of the U.S. Table Tennis Team after its tour of China. The bill failed cheating the Senate out of passing the Spong-Fong Hong Kong Ping Pong Ding Dong Bell Bill. One beautiful Sunday morning, a minister announced to his congregation: “My good people, I have here in my hands three sermons ... a $100 sermon that lasts five minutes, a $50 sermon that lasts fifteen minutes, and a $10 sermon that lasts a full hour. “Now, we’ll take the collection and see which one I’ll deliver.” When our second child was on the way, my wife and I attended a pre-birth class aimed at couples who had already had at least one child. The instructor raised the issue of breaking the news to the older child. It went like this: “Some parents,” she said, “tell the older child, ‘We love you so much we decided to bring another child into this family.’ But think about that. Ladies, what if your husband came home one day and said, ‘Honey, I love you so much I decided to bring home another wife.’” One of the women spoke up immediately. “Does she cook???” The police recently arrested a man selling “secret formula” tablets he claimed gave eternal youth. When going through their files they noticed it was the fifth time he was caught for committing this same criminal medical fraud. He had earlier been arrested in 1794, 1856, 1928 and 1983.... A three-year old went with his dad to see a litter of kittens. On returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother there were two boy kittens and two girl kittens. “How did you know?” his mother asked. “Daddy picked them up and looked underneath,” he replied. “I think it’s printed on the bottom.” Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. Getting together for Christmas, they discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother. The
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first said, “I built a big house for our mother.” The second said, “I sent her a Mercedes.” The third smiled and said, “I’ve got you both beat. You remember how mom enjoyed reading the Bible? And you know she can’t see very well. So I sent her a remarkable parrot that recites the entire Bible. It took elders in the church 12 years to teach him. He’s one of a kind. Mom just has to name the chapter and verse, and the parrot recites it.” Soon thereafter, Mom sent out her letters of thanks: “Dear Milton,” she wrote one son, “The house you built is too huge. I live in only one room, but I have to keep the whole house clean!” “Dear Gerald,” she wrote to another, “I am too old to travel. I stay at home most of the time, so I rarely use the Mercedes.” “Dearest Donald,” she wrote to her third son, “You have the good sense to know what your Mother likes. The chicken was Dee-licious!” A teacher was helping one of her kindergarten students put his boots on. He asked for help and she could see why. With her pulling and him pushing, the boots still didn’t want to go on. When the second boot was on, she had worked up a sweat. She almost whimpered when the little boy said, “Teacher, they’re on the wrong feet.” She looked, and sure enough, they were. It wasn’t any easier pulling the boots off than it was putting them on. She managed to keep her cool as together they worked to get the boots back on - this time on the right feet. He then announced, “These aren’t my boots.” She bit her tongue and once again she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off. He then said, “They’re my brother’s boots. My Mom made me wear them.” She didn’t know if she should laugh or cry. She than mustered up the grace to wrestle the boots onto his feet again. She said, “Now, where are your mittens?” He said,“I stuffed them in the toes of my boots...” “Good grief,” sighed the wife one morning, “I’m convinced my mind is almost completely gone!”Her husband looked up from the newspaper and commented, “I’m not surprised. You’ve been giving me a piece of it every day for twenty years!”
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