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| May the Wing's of your Dreams brush the Heavens. |
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| "The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss." Diane Ravitch |
| A young businessman had just started his own firm. He'd rented a beautiful office and had it furnished with antiques. Sitting there, he saw a man come into the outer office. Wishing to appear busy, the businessman picked up the phone and started to pretend he had a big deal working. He threw huge figures around and made giant commitments. Finally, he hung up and asked the visitor, "Can I help you?" The man said, "Sure. I've come to install the phone!" |
| Three-year-old dog Spitzerich wears a traditional Bavarian hat in Hailing, near the southern German town of Straubing. Hildegard Bergbauer designs traditional Bavarian dirndl and leather trousers known as Lederhosen and combined her profession with her love of animals in a new traditional collection for dogs. REUTERS / Michaela Rehle. |
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| Bob stood over his tee shot on the 450 yard 18th hole for what seemed an eternity. He waggled, looked up, looked down, waggled again, but didn't start his backswing. Finally, his exasperated partner, John asked, "What the hell is taking so long?" "My wife is up there watching me from the clubhouse balcony", Bob explained. "I want to make a perfect shot." "Good Lord," John exclaimed. "You don't have a snowball's chance in hell of hitting her from here." |
| Three South China tiger cubs cuddle at the Shanghai Zoo. One of the cubs will be transferred to Luoyang Zoo in central China's Henan province. The South China tiger, also known as the Amoy tiger, is among the most endangered animals in the world. The four-month-old tiger cubs are the result of the 'South China Tiger Breeding Pact' involving 14 zoos across the country who aim to help save the species from the brink of extinction. REUTERS / Claro Cortes IV. |
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| "There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own." Doug Larson |
| GRAPHICALLY SPEAKING |
| The US Postal service sent out a message to all letter carriers to put a sheet of Bounce in their uniform pockets to keep yellow jackets away. I use them all the time when playing baseball and soccer; use it when I am working outside; it really works, the yellow jackets just veer around you. Eliminates static electricity from your television (or computer) screen; since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling. Golfers put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away. Repels mosquitoes; tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season. It will chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them. And all this time you've just been putting Bounce in the dryer! |
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| INDEPENDENCE DAY ISSUE JULY 2004 VOL. NO. 2, ISSUE NO. 9 |
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| We're back! Our audience became more and more of the graphics persuasion, so I decided to take PRATTLE in that direction, and in doing that, needed to bring myself up to speed at the same time. Only having two hands, I had to put PRATTLE on hiatus for a little while. Thank you for all your emails during that time. PRATTLE will still take a humourous approach and have tidbits concerning "this 'n that", trivia and oddball items. We will also continue to live up to our tag line, "much ado about nothing". In addition we plan to take a more aggresive approach towards graphics and the work of some of our subscribers. Watch for announcements and postings in future issues. If you have any questions in the meantime, please email me at: [email protected] |
| "much ado about nothing" |
| A man is driving along a highway and sees a rabbit jump out across the middle of the road. He swerves to avoid hitting it, but unfortunately the rabbit jumps right in front of the car. The driver, a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulls over and gets out to see what has become of the rabbit. Much to his dismay, the rabbit is dead. The driver feels so awful that he sits, sobbing, by the rabbit with his head in his hands. A beautiful BLONDE woman driving down the highway sees the sobbing man by the side of the road and pulls over. She steps out of the car and asks the man what's wrong? "I feel terrible, "he explains, "I accidentally hit this rabbit and killed it." The blonde says, "Don't worry." She runs to her car and pulls out a spray can. She walks over to the dead rabbit, bends down and sprays the contents onto the rabbit. The rabbit jumps up, waves its paw at the two of them and hops off down the road. Ten feet away the rabbit stops, turns around and waves again; he hops down the road another 10 feet, turns and waves, hops another ten feet, turns and waves and repeats this again and again, until he hops off out of sight. The man is astonished. He turns to the woman and demands, "What is in that can? What did you spray on that rabbit?" The woman turns the can around so that the man can read the label. It says .... Hair Spray - Restores life to dead hair, adds permanent wave. |
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| 87 YEARS AGO TODAY Susan Hayward exemplified grit with beauty and style. Her determination to succeed at her chosen profession was evident in her characterizations. She frequently played indomitable women with sometimes uncontrollable passions. Her Oscar winning role as prostitute and condemned murderess Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! is a classic not to be missed. |
| SUSAN HAYWARD |
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