I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes–and six months later you have to start all over again.
JOAN RIVERS
Great minds think alike.
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On This Date 1959 - Buddy Holly (22), Ritchie Valens (17), the Big Bopper (28) and pilot RogerPeterson died in a plane crash in Iowa.
1940 Fran Tarkenton born
1690 - The first paper money in America was issued by the Massachusetts colony. The currency was used to pay soldiers that were fighting in the war against Quebec.
1869 - Edwin Booth opened his new theatre in New York City. The first production was "Romeo and Juliet".
1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized the power to impose and collect income tax.
1998 - Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker. She was the first woman executed in the U.S. since 1984.
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The Best of The Onion Magazine Covers• “I Thought He Was Going to Kill Me”: One Woman’s Harrowing Misunderstanding of How Haircuts Work
• The 100 Worst Senators
• The World’s 10 Most Powerful Women: We Make Them Discuss Fashion and Lindsay Lohan
Source: The Onion Magazine: The Iconic Covers That Transformed an Undeserving World (Little, Brown)
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Wanted: Cemetery Superintendent“Now hiring,” read the classified ad. “Cemetery superintendent. The ideal candidate must be able to supervise in a fast-paced environment.”
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This Classified ad Speaks Volumes:“Wanted to buy: playpen, cradle, high chair; also two single beds.”
Matthew Cole, Plant City, Florida
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Bad Typos in Real NewspapersWe all make mistakes. Some are just more public than others, like these real newspaper typos:
“Here the bridal couple stood, facing the floral setting, and exchanged cows.” Modesto News-Herald (California)
“It took many rabbits many years to write the Talmud.” Holland Evening Sentinel (Michigan)
“Mrs. ____ fell down stairs at her home this morning, breaking her myhodudududududududosy, and suffered painful injuries.” Ohio paper
“A headline in an item in the Feb. 15th edition incorrectly stated ‘Stolen Groceries.’ It should have read: ‘Homicide.’” Enquirer-Bulletin
From Just My Typo, by Drummond Moir (Three Rivers Press)
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Heading Off CriticismThink the comments on Internet posts are tough? See what happened when the Washington Post asked its readers to write intentionally angry letters to actual headlines:
Headline: 20,000 Pound Pavement to Help Homeless
Response: “Are you people idiots? What the homeless need are homes, not ten tons of additional pavement!”
Headline: Maryland Agrees to Tobacco Settlement
Response: “Well, that’s all we need—an entire settlement of people devoted to their cancer sticks. What’s next, a drunk-driving commune?”
Headline: C.C. United Se Une Hoy a Campana Solidaria Pro Centroamerica
Response: “I was disgusted with
the sloppy spelling for [this] article. There were so many typos, I couldn’t understand a word.”
From gcfl.net
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File These Headlines Under: We Don’t Even Want to Know.•Firefighters Use Jaws of Life to Free High School Girl from Locker
•FDA Approves Third Silicone-Gel Breast Implant
•Missing Woman Unwittingly Joins Search Party Looking for Herself
•Woman’s “Stomach Bug” Actually Baby
Sources: Ottawa Citizen (Canada), ctpost.com, Associated Press, Toronto Sun
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Big Changes in AppletonA headline in my local newspaper: “Appleton Airport May Soon Be Known as Appleton Airport.”
Allison Nastoff, Brookfield, Wisconsin
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Department of (Ridiculous) CorrectionsJournalists and editors on deadline make the occasional error. Some are funnier than others:
• NBC reported that American students rank internationally at: “26th math, 21th science, 17th reading.”
• Britain’s Sky News showed the importance of punctuation: “Top stories: World leaders at Mandela tribute, Obama–Castro handshake and same-sex marriage date set.”
• A retraction from Wired: “A previous version of this story incorrectly quoted Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston saying ‘anyone with nipples’ instead of ‘anyone with a pulse.’”
Sources: jonathanturley.org, Washington Times, poynter.org
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Good morning everyboomie.
L4L you're so right about the dog joke. I copy/pasted a whole page of jokes before I remembered to edit it. I saw that half of them were very offensive, and rushed back in a panic to edit them all out. I missed that one, but you know I'm a dog lover. It's never my desire to offend anyone.
Well old Punxsutawney Phil says well have 6 more weeks of this.
Calera Chucky on the other hand is sayin that down here at least, we are practically done with old man Winter.
When I look at our forecast for the rest of February it's looking more like March or April.
I'm not ready for Summer, but then I'm not a Winter person either. Temperatures in the 60s is what I'd love to have year round.
Today though it was 41 degrees when I got up, and that was the high for the day. I took the dogs to the park, and walked around the path in a very cold, very stiff wind. I couldn't get around fast enough.
I exercised, but my legs still feel like lead, so I didn't walk on the treadmill.
I can't believe they got that sore from running two miles.
Have a super day everyone.
joe
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I'm so looking forward to Spring.
