Good Morning: It's Thursday
March 29, 2001!
ENON BIRTHDAY: Happy Birthday to Callie Kilgore!
BIRTHDAYS: John Tyler, 1790; Cy Young, 1867; Eugene
McCarthy, 1916; Sam Walton, 1918; Eric Idle, 1943; Earl Campbell, 1955.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1812 the first White House wedding took
place when Lucy Payne Washington married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd.
Lucy was First Lady Dolly Madison's sister, so it seemed only right that
the presidential couple host her wedding to a member of the highest court
in the land.
On this date in 1848 an ice jam formed in Lake Erie that
was so bad that Niagara Falls actually ran dry for a full day.
On this date in 1867 the British North America Act established
the Dominion of Canada.
On this date in 1932 Jack Benny made his radio debut.
On this date in 1961 Washington, D.C. residents won the
right to vote in the Presidential elections.
On this date in 1973 the last U.S. prisoners of war and
armed forces left Vietnam.
MEANINGLESS FACTS: A grasshopper has over 900 different
muscles. A human has 792... Bees and wasps are deaf... A pullicologist
is an expert of fleas.
TRIVIA: What is the most commonly used word in
the English language?
I suppose Sam Walton would have
been a good one to listen to on building successful businesses, so let's
do that now: "There is only one boss. The customer. And
he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply
by spending his money somewhere else." I have done that a time or
two... On to the real stuff:
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Thanks to EK for this one:
Here's a little part of U.S. history that makes you go
hmm....
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain 7 letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White
House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1806.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1906.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born
in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born
in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Lincoln was shot at a theater named "Ford".
Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln".
Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
(NOTE: There is nothing like a good Urban Legend
to cheer up the day, right??? ts).
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Thanks to GB for this one: Hook n Eye??
A seaman meets a pirate in a bar, and they take turns
to tell their adventures on the seas. The seaman notes that the pirate
has a peg-leg, hook, and an eye patch. Curious, the seaman asks "So, how
did you end up with the peg-leg?"
The pirate replies, "I was swept overboard into a school
of sharks. Just as my men were pulling me out, a shark bit my leg off."
"Wow!" said the seaman. "What about the hook?"
"Well...", replied the pirate, "We were boarding an
enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of the
enemy cut my hand clean off."
"Incredible!" remarked the seaman. "How did you get the
eye patch?"
"A seagull dropping fell into my eye," replied the pirate.
"You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?" the sailor
asked.
"Well..." said the pirate, "that was my first day with
the hook."
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Thanks again to GB: "I SHALL MEET YOU THERE"
Some years ago radio evangelist Charles E. Fuller announced
that he would speak the following Sunday on "Heaven." It was to be
broadcast on radio. During that week he received a letter from an old man
who was very ill. Here is part of that letter:
"Next Sunday you are to talk about "Heaven." I
am interested in that land because I have held a clear title to a bit of
property there for over 55 years. I did not buy it. It was
given to me without money and without price. But the donor purchased it
for me at a tremendous sacrifice. I am not holding it for speculation since
the title is nontransferable. It is not a vacant lot.
"For more than a half-century I have been sending material
out of which the greatest architect and builder of the universe has been
building a home for me, which will never need to be repaired because it
will suit me perfectly, individually, and will never grow old.
"Termites can never undermine its foundation for it rests
upon the Rock of Ages. Fire cannot destroy it. Floods cannot
wash it away. No locks or bolts will ever be placed upon its doors, for
no vicious person can ever enter that land where my dwelling stands, now
almost completed and ready for me to enter it and abide in peace eternally
without fear of being ejected.
"There is a valley of deep shadow between the place where
I live in California and that to which I shall journey in a very short
time. I cannot reach my home in the City of God without passing through
the dark valley of shadows. But I am not afraid, because the best
friend that I have ever had went through the same valley alone, a long,
long, time ago and drove away all the gloom. He has stuck by me through
thick and thin since we first met and became acquainted 55 years ago, and
I hold His promise in printed form, never to forsake nor to leave me alone.
He will be with me as I walk through the valley of shadows, and I shall
not lose my way when He is with me.
"I hope to hear your sermon on "Heaven" next Sunday from
my home, but I have no assurance that I shall be able to do so. My
ticket to heaven has no date marked for the journey...no return coupon...and
no permit for baggage. Yes, I am ready to go and may not be here
while you are talking next Sunday, but I shall meet you there some day."
--Author Unknown
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Thanks to a friend: Good Corn (James Bender)
James Bender, in his book How to Talk Well (New York:
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1994) relates the story of a farmer who
grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair
where it won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him
and learned something interesting about how he grew it.
The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed
corn with his neighbors. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn
with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours
each year?" the reporter asked.
"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind
picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field.
If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade
the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors
grow good corn."
He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His
corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves.
So it is in other dimensions. Those who choose
to be at peace must help their neighbors to be at peace. Those who choose
to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is
measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must
help others to find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with
the welfare of all.
The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow
good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.
Copyright © James Bender All Rights Reserved
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ANSWER: Of "THE" I sing... the most commonly used
word is "the".
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