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-Flu shots work only about 70% of the time

-The creator of the Nike swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design

-Until the 1960s, men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland

-The 6th leading killer in the world is chapped lips

-When asked who they most admire, 54% of school children choose Larry Hagman

-In addition to his well-known airway obstruction maneuver, Henry Heimlich popularized several sexual positions

-Steven Seagal has never won an Academy Award

-At the first Thanksgiving, Squanto introduced the Pilgrims to green bean casserole with cream of mushroom soup and crispy onion rings

-The average Amtrak passenger spends fourteen hours a year wondering, 'What's the hold up?"

-7% of Americans lick self-adhesive stamps

-The one item most Americans say they couldn't live without is the Brother P-Touch Label Maker

-Although they all used to live in Texas, one of George Strait's exes has since relocated to Arizona

- a moth has no stomach

- Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

- More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world

- Da Vinci’s notebooks included a design for a primitive TIVO

- Originally, the Lincoln Tunnel was intended to connect Manhattan to Lincoln, Nebraska

- Due to the lengthy appeals process, Pluto won’t officially be out of the Solar System until at least 2010

- A winner never quilts and a quilter never wins

- Of all the grocery store employees, produce department mangers have the most sex

- It’s hard not to be impressed when your waiter makes guacamole tableside

- The first skydive was an incredibly lucky accident

- At the height of his feud with “The View”, Donald Trump accidentally sent a nasty letter to Rosie Perez

- Osama bin Laden tells everyone he bowled a 300 the first time he went bowling

- In the desert you can’t remember your name cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.

- Aside from kryptonite, Superman’s only weakness is cookies

- President Benjamin Harrison died when he was kicked in the head by a goat

- The most popular name for a beauty salon is “Curl Up and Dye.”

- Because he didn’t have strong religious beliefs, Dwight Eisenhower took the oath of office on a cook book

- If you type “Garfunkel” on Microsoft Word, the spell-check will ask if you meant “Carbuncle”

- The most common name in the world is ‘Chet’

- A worker loses a finger every 30 seconds at the Chef Boyardee factory

- In 1877, Alexander Graham Bell made the first obscene phone call when he asked if Watson was wearing tight pants

- For the past 12 Halloweens, George W. Bush has dressed as Gilligan

- Kim Jong Il does a dead-on Dean Martin impression

- Eddie Money is broke

- Every issue of Benjamin Franklin’s popular Almanac included etchings of nude, heavyset women

- If every person in America joined hands, it would be pointless

- 85% of a household cat’s day is spent licking something

-Jim Henson's earliest Muppets were hollowed-out animal carcasses

-Bet you wish your girlfriend was hot like me

-NASA has found evidence of water on Mars as well as trace amounts of Diet Sprite

-This year's Super Bowl was beaten in the ratings by a repeat of 'According to Jim'.

-Just to be safe, 5% of Americans bring their passports when traveling to New Mexico

-Wolf Blitzer has a sign on his front lawn that reads "Beware of the wolf."

-Bob Dylan says the one song he wishes he had written is 'Kung Fu Fighting'

-In 1985, Hall & Oates consummated their relationship

-In 1946, a powerful windstorm blew away Mount Rushmore's four giant hats

Bob H

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 2006: The Year Is Now In Rehab
 

Since some of us have been out of the loop for three weeks, please pretend this is January 3. Better late than never, perhaps? Also, please pretend that it is funny. Thank you.

I would really like to apologize for the year 2006. I really don't know what happened, but I know that it wasn't me. Actually, it was the drink speaking.

For the most part, 2006 seemed to be the year of the apology. A whole lot of people did a whole lot of stupid things (usually those people named Spears or Hilton), but I can't say the year was a total loss. Revenue at rehab centers in Hollywood reportedly increased about 200 percent.

We began the year with high gasoline prices, we were stuck in the war in Iraq, and we saw a slew of unpopular politicians in office. So you can see we've made great time in the process of getting nowhere fast in the past twelve months.

So with heavy hearts, overactive thyroids and a bottle of Pepcid AC, let's take one more look back in horror at our fondest memories from 2006.

As we began January 2006, our old friend Osama Bin Laden paid us a visit by way of another audio tape. His latest was Volume Twelve in his Time-Life collection. Osama is currently offering a discount on the entire set and includes exclusive new cave remodeling photos on his newly designed MySpace page.

Alan Greenspan stepped down as head of the Federal Reserve Board after nineteen long years. Mr. Greenspan leaves behind a Dow Jones Index which rose above 11,000 this month, and a slew of middle class incomes who dropped below the same amount.

Potential Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton began her campaign by announcing on Martin Luther King Day, "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation."

In the South Jersey area, local football fans saw their Super Bowl hopes dashed again as the Philadelphia Eagles missed the NFL playoffs for the first time since 1999, finishing with a 6-10 record. Disappointed fans received some consolation, as the team cut all ties with modest and unassuming wide receiver Terrell Owens.

We motored into February when President Bush delivered an address on energy policy where he told the nation that high gasoline prices were our fault because the country is addicted to oil, after hours of poring through exhaustive reports put together by his crack research team from Exxon.

The Bush Administration later allowed a company owned by the United Arab Emirates to take control of six US seaports. Congress, who has been vacationing since the first of the year, hears of this and demands that control of the ports be turned over to North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Il.

While quail hunting, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally brings home the face of his friend attorney Harry Whittington as a trophy. The quail is currently still at large and living in a cave in Pakistan.

February's sports highlights saw the opening of the Winter Olympics from Turin, Italy on February 10. Special events featured that exciting, always thrill packed competition, "The Race To Promote Events That No One Will Watch." Closing ceremonies took place on February 26, and reportedly stuff happened in between.

Stuff also happened in March, when the Academy Awards saw the best picture award going to "Crash." Crash was a documentary which featured the reaction of the Awards Committee to a performance by Best Song Winners, hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia.

In economic news, gasoline news, gasoline prices continued to rise as the cost to fill a Honda Civic with unleaded regular reached an average of $329.50.

In the South Jersey area, numerous Schwinn bike accident pileups were reported on Route 70 due to people talking on cell phones which they kept in the baskets.

We then rode into April, where we heard Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announce that Iran has successfully produced enriched uranium. He claims to have no plans to use it for destructive purposes and only for weenie roasts and fireworks displays.

The national debate on illegal immigration continued as about fourteen protestors took to the streets across the US and no one noticed. Congress approved a 700-mile fence along one-third of the US-Mexico border, and then returned to recess.

Locally, the Philadelphia Phillies mounted their strategic battle to reach the World Series by finishing April with a 10-14 record. New Jersey also banned indoor smoking, despite the protests of bar, restaurant, and bowling alley owners. Strangely, the lone exception where smoking is allowed was on casino gambling floors, where high rollers who can afford to purchase their own artificial lungs were found to be much more important than mere casino employees.

Employees of major corporation Enron made headline news in May. Former executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted of fraud by a federal jury. As part of the appeal process, about two months later Lay died of heart failure.

Thoroughbred racehorse Barbaro wins the Kentucky Derby, then suffers a freak accident in the Preakness when he is shot in the leg by Dick Cheney. The horse continues to thrive today.

Television's American Idol crowns another champion before approximately one or 450 million skillion viewers including Congress as Michael Richards wins in a close battle over Rosie O'Donnell.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie celebrated the birth of their first child, Shiloh When I Was Young I Used To Call Your Name Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in total privacy with no notice whatsoever.

Meanwhile, always keeping up with the newest trends, Madonna received her choice of only the finest in Grade A Malawian babies to adopt.

Then we dribbled into June with the beginning of the World Cup soccer tournament, and the continued revival of soccer in the US. The skillful American team was backed by a screaming throng of nearly fourteen American followers in hope of victory in the tourney in Germany.

Ida Mae Frumpblossom of Huntsville, Alabama elected to adopt a baby from Malawi but was denied due to a late request from Joyce DeWitt.

Warren Buffett donates over $30 billion to Alan Greenspan.

The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Edmonton Oilers four games to three to win this year's FIFA World Cup.

When we pedaled into July, we saw Floyd Landis win the Tour deFrance bicycle race, but is disqualified when judges learned that he carried six American citizens in the basket with him due to continued rising gasoline prices.

Italy won a penalty shootout over France 5-3, to win the World Cup competition. The game was marred when French star Zinedine Zidane was ejected for headbutting Michael Richards.

In South Jersey news, Governor Jon Corzine decided to balance the state budget by shutting down the state government, including the jobs of many black lunged casino employees, which raise millions of dollars a day for the state. The casinos were able to reopen after a few days, but there has been no official word yet about New Jersey's government.

Mel Gibson was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. Mel completed the ethnic group apology tour, and later entered rehab. He later apologized to his Irish fans for not being able to hold his liquor.

Holding on to our seats we sped into August, which saw Pluto downsized among the list of planets and reclassified among a group of "dwarf" planets. Pluto immediately enlisted a high powered team of attorneys to sue said astronomers for defamation of character.

A man from Thailand claimed that he was involved in the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey in 1996. He is afforded free transportation to the US where he is found to be innocent. But authorities determine that he is so creepy that he must be guilty of something.

An outbreak of E coli bacteria in spinach affects numerous people in 26 states. For weeks consumers stayed away from raw spinach, and it could only be obtained on certain street corners in California by an undercover operative known only as "Poopdeck Pappy."

Iran defied a United Nations deadline to halt its nuclear activities, insisting that its program is to be used for peaceful purposes only, like monster truck rallies, and developing a high powered sailboat for the Summer Olympics.

September did not begin well as Steve Irwin, the enthusiastic "Crocodile Hunter" was killed by a stingray barb on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Biologists report that local approval ratings in the Australian wild have hit new lows to this day.

It was revealed that Congressman Mark Foley of Florida sent explicit e-mails to underage male pages for the past several years. Congress reportedly had no knowledge of Foley's activities for these years because they had been on recess. Foley then went on the apology circuit, and quietly entered rehab for perverts. But Foley's dealings were strongly denounced in a strongly worded statement by Michael Jackson.

On September 25 the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans re-opened thirteen months after the effects of Hurricane Katrina, repairs including the largest re-roofing job in the US. In celebration of the opening, FEMA arrived on September 26 with your ten day local forecast.

In the local area in October, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of marriage equality, allowing gay couples to have civil unions complete with full marriage benefits. Meanwhile The Confession, a memoir by gay American and former attempted New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, reaches the best-seller lists.

US Senator John Kerry, who somehow was defeated as a Presidential candidate in 2004, began a bright new career on the stand-up comedy circuit when he botched some material about the intelligence of US troops in Iraq. The troops were still smart enough to not be amused.

The Price is Right host Bob Barker announces his retirement in June 2007 after 35 years as host of the program. Meanwhile, Regis Philbin still continues to hold the airwaves hostage.

Congress authorizes the construction of a 700-mile fence between New Jersey and Delaware to prevent further illegal immigration.

We were voting at the beginning of November, and the Democrats gained control of both houses of Congress. The Republicans received their full security deposit back on Congressional meeting rooms because they had never been used. Democrats vow to make things different when they take over in Congress, then immediately take off for vacation.

Michael Richards is heckled at a comedy club and carefully thinks out his response with a vicious racial tirade. He immediately begins his apology tour and is expected in idiot rehab shortly.

OJ Simpson was scheduled to appear on a two-night special program on Fox, where he was to promote his new book. His tome was abruptly cancelled, so Fox promoted their own book, "If We Were A Real Network We Might Have Some Limits Whatsoever"

Black Friday opened the Christmas shopping season in the South Jersey area. Actually, Independence Day opened it. The hot toy this year was the Sony Playstation 3, which has been proven to not actually exist.

When we finally staggered into December, we saw the situation in Iraq crumbling, which led to the Iraq Study Group. This group will formulate ideas on how to teach President Bush to read. Republican and Democratic leaders promised to consider the report by about 2008.

The hardest working man in show business, James Brown, takes his final rest at age 73. Former President Gerald Ford died at age 93.

Saddam Hussein is hanged and makes the highlight reel at You Tube immediately.

An E coli outbreak closes more than ninety Taco Bell restaurants in the Northeast. Managements claims employees were distracted because they were to busy cleaning out their trans fats.

In South Jersey, more troops were sent in to the Deptford Best Buy for the holiday rush.

As we entered 2007, early indications were that it would be a year like no other. The ball dropped in Times Square, Saddam Hussein and his friends dropped in Iraq, and Britney Spears pants continued to drop. New Years Day temperatures dipped all the way down to a frigid sixty degrees, and Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump were the early favorites to headline at Wrestlemania.

But this year we are optimistic. We know that things will be better. We know what it's all about. And we would like to apologize for that. Head On: Apply directly to the forehead. Head On: Apply directly to the forehead.

Bob H
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 Voyage To The 20th Century
 

Yes, like a Phoenix he rises again. Actually more like Scottsdale, but here goes...

There comes a time in a young man’s life, or even an old fool’s, for that matter, where he needs to take stock of exactly where he stands in this vast universe. The beginning of year number 2007 proved to be that point for me. Upon taking solid stock, I found the inventory to be falling quite a bit short.

Yes, the beginning of the new year sent me the message. It was finally time. I was ready. I was prepared to join the 20th century. I can work on the 21st a few years down the road if I live long enough. Now I’m going to do it.

I’m getting rid of dial up Internet service.

If you’re going to do something, the only way to go is to do it right. Instead, I followed my own primal instincts.

A fresh start on the Internet can be enhanced with a new computer system. I picked up the highly acclaimed I mac computer, complete with the classic senior citizen twenty inch screen and a printer slash scanner which happen to be in fine working order. That would be the complete opposite of what had been happening previously.

Everyone knows that you need a functioning scanner in this day and age in order to take full advantage of the vast World Wide Web. Like being able to send Lucy pictures of my feet. Thankfully most home computers do not come equipped with smell-o-vision.

Anyway, my constant service provider had been a company known as Compuserve. To my knowledge, the only people on the planet who actually subscribed to Compuserve were the company president, his Uncle Earl, and myself.

Compuserve’s cancellation rules were quite reasonable. Give us a reasonable amount of notice before termination, and if you cancel within three days of a billing date you may be charged for another month.

Nothing unexpected. I thought they would want their own set of my car keys or perhaps my first born male child.

I figured I could call and cancel service, and I would probably be gone by February. Upon making the call to cancel at about 11:30 AM on January 6, I was terminated from cyberspace by about 11:45 AM on January 6.

That’s not so terrible, I thought. In fact, we have a wide range of high speed internet services here in South Jersey, consisting of a company which rhymes with horizon, the Comcast monopoly, and a tin can and a bullhorn. Choose from Column A or Column B.

The Verizon option looked like the best one on the horizon. Quite shockingly, they put the telephone service right through, but they needed until January 19th to turn on a DSL line.
Self-installation equipment is scheduled to arrive about a week before that date, including a disc and a modem.

Bottom line there means two weeks without any internet. I’m not aware of any states which have Tech Rehab Clinics, although it’s an idea whose time has come.

Rumor has it that you can occasionally walk away from your monitor and step outside your door into the outside world. For the uninitiated, this may involve physical activity. By latest reports, physical activity involves more than callouses on the thumbs and pain in the back from leaning over the monitor too much.

But I’ve never been a computer abuser. Step Three in my own twelve step program is denial.

Two weeks offline is somewhat of a challenge, but I had been looking forward to higher speed with a new provider. Compuserve had this little issue of shutting down many more times than I shut down the computer, like about three times per week on average.

And being the technical wizard that I am, I realized with an activation date scheduled for January 19th with the Verizon people, chances of that actually occurring grew slimmer when I hadn’t received the installation equipment by the 17th. It was time to call one of Verizon’s 10, 137 available phone numbers to headquarters to see where I stood.

Out of those 10,137 phone numbers, maybe three allowed you to speak to an actual human. If you were lucky enough to reach them. A recording which tells you to check the status of your order at Verizon’s site on the internet is not helpful when you cannot reach the internet without them providing the service. But screaming at recorded messages after the 35th call turns out to be very therapeutic.

Whatever your stand may be on the immigration issue, I’d be much more pleased with certain ones if the could communicate and understood their job. At least the operators who could speak English were smart enough to disconnect me while they were transferring my call to the billing department.

After trying for about two hours over three days to find out when I would receive service, I was told my phone line could not yet be qualified.

ME: How long of a delay does this mean?

OPERATOR: We don’t know.

ME: Work with me here. Does this mean seven days, seven weeks, or seven months?

OPERATOR: We don’t know.

I was then offered a compromise plan of temporary dial up service until the phone line is qualified. I could cancel in thirty days if I wasn’t satisfied, which I could guarantee.

Another fifteen minutes on hold led to this exchange:

OPERATOR: I’m sorry, but we can’t connect the dial-up service without your account number.

ME(remembering to be polite at all times): (screaming) HOW CAN I GIVE YOU AN ACCOUNT NUMBER WHEN I HAVEN’T BEEN BILLED YET?!!

That’s when I realized that I could offer Verizon a compromise plan. Take all the time you need and I’ll take my business elsewhere. The best way they could provide me with outstanding service, as their recordings say, would be if I cancelled it.

I was a free agent in Cyberspace again. My unlimited high speed internet options now consisted of Comcast and Comcast.

These people gave me the installation equipment right away, and promised immediate service. They would even install the cables themselves for a minimal fee, in case they had customers without the technical knowledge to do so. Not that I know of any.

Perhaps this explains the extent of my short sabbatical. The only thing it doesn’t explain is why it can’t be longer, for the good of the community. I can now speed into the 20th Century and provide all of you with vital, important information which you never needed anyway. Soon I hope to have color television and hot and cold running water. But at least I am eligible for Lucy’s next movie.

Bob H


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 The Year of You
 

Time Magazine announced that You were the person of the year in 2006, so why can't this work?

 

This is going to be the Year of You.

   This is the year in which you come first, and sometimes also second and third. This is the year you learn to say "Mine!" and "I don't mind if I do" and "Comin' through!" and, after those are mastered, "I'm about to lose control, and I think I like it."

   For the first time in your life you'll learn how to stare at something delicious on a dinner companion's plate and ask, "Are you gonna eat that?" in a tone that makes clear that there is only one acceptable answer. Indeed you will learn to ask the question even as the desired morsel is in transit to your gaping, slobbering maw.

   This year, you'll stop saying "Excuse me," and start saying " Excuse me???"

   You're not going to be the victim anymore. You're going to rise above such petty feelings as "wounded" and "self-pitying" and get serious about actual revenge. Make a list of the people that (1) you're really peeved at, (2) you suspect you're miffed at but can't remember why, and (3) you're feeling slightly disconnected from, possibly because of some unspoken grievance that might be resolved through frank discussion. Now put a big X through all those names. Zero them out.

   You'll need special music for your special year: "My Way," "It's My Party," "I Me Mine" and that Bobby Brown classic, "My Prerogative."

   Requested birthday gifts from everyone you know: mirrors.

   This year, ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you. For starters, take creative tax-return itemization to a new level. That wild night at Cafe Milano with the $775 tab swollen by vintage Barolos -- you spent much of the time talking about whether to move to Italy. Itemize under "Moving Expenses." Your new plasma-screen TV, bought on credit: Someday you'll give it away, so take the charitable deduction now . Go ahead, give yourself the "Tax Benefit of the Doubt."

   This is the year you can't be bothered. When someone tries to ask you to do something you don't want to do, flick your fingers at the noisome individual and say "Shoo," the way you would dismiss a mangy cat. Other phrases to master: "I don't think so," "Not gonna happen," "Nope, nope, nope," "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-no," and the brilliantly subverbal but clearly negatory "Eh."

   Here's a scenario: Your boss asks in a very polite voice if you would please terminate your two-hour coffee break and attend to a minor matter that you are generously paid to deal with. Old paradigm: "Yes, boss, I'll be right on that." New paradigm: "What is it about the phrase 'I'm not finished with my latte' that you don't understand?"

   This is the year that you quit your terrible habits, including some or all of the following: smoking, drinking, stuffing your face, hating yourself, being ridiculous, being generally low and vile, kvetching when you should be kvelling, and, most of all, listening to stupid people and psychos who fail to perceive your profound greatness. In the Year of You, people gotta get with the program, or be shunned.

   People need to grasp the fact that if an observation wasn't brilliant and irrefutably true, you wouldn't have made it to begin with. The proof of the veracity of a statement is its source in your spoken words. Don't say, "I think the moon is much bigger than the sun," because that implies uncertainty. You say so, therefore it is.

   This past year was supposed to be the Year of You, and it wasn't. Why not? Perhaps because you didn't truly believe in yourself. You had doubts. You worried that at some level you were not truly worthy. And you were right, of course, but that's where you made your biggest mistake: You failed to implement a policy of Strategic Narcissism. Self-delusion and an almost monstrous lack of conscience are your aces in the hole.

   If all goes as planned, by the end of this year, you will have become the person you truly are, inside, potentially, conceivably: the real hypothetical you. And then it's not just a question of a single year. The rest of your life will be a kind of Permanent Festival of You, with you as the guest of honor, toastmaster and chairperson of the executive committee. Your inner peace will be supplemented by your sense of absolute dictatorial power.

   But it's possible that an entire Year of You could become tedious, maybe even start to feel a little self-involved. Because when you really think about it, haven't others been the source of your greatest joys and most lasting memories?

   So let's recalibrate, and start with something very doable, which you have definitely earned:

   The Day of You.

 

Bob H

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 Fun Facts
 

-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump

-More people in China speak English than in the United States

-Lima beans contain cyanide

-a sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour

-most dreams last under 20 minutes

-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer

-after you die, your tongue continues to grow

-In the 1800s, Atlases did not include maps of Florida because it was 'too suggestive'

-Porcupines are neither pine nor pork

-Before John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, he signed a bill in favor of alternative side of the street parking

-Horoscopes accurately predict future events 85% of the time

-"Planet of the Apes" was loosely based on a true story

-The highest ratings in television history were for the Home Shopping Network the night they sold Spock's ears

-Matzo ball soup is called "Jewish Penicillin"; Gefilte fish is known as "Jewish Erythromycin"

-The earliest English Muffins contained nooks but no crannies

-In the 40s, Pontiac produced a car called the Pantywaist

-No one has a birthday on March 16th

-Yo mama's so ugly, when I took her to the zoo, they said 'Thanks for bringing her back."

-Fidel Castro is the only dictator to host "Saturday Night Live"

-After declaring bankruptcy in 1990, Donald Trump spent three years living in his car

-Due to a clerical error, from 1931 to 1932 Delaware had a dog for Governor.

-During a recent trip to the DMV, Martha Stewart received a license plate she made in prison

-As great as Michael Jordan was, he was never good enough to play for the Harlem Globetrotters

-Pat Sajak can't read

-Until the late 1700s, the earth actually was flat

-David Hasselhoff pays women $30 to call him "The Hoff"

-Mickey Rooney once Googled himself to find out if he was still alive

-In addition to Post Offices and Immigration Offices, you can renew your passports at IHOPS.

-No one named Tony has ever won a Tony Award

-Harpo Marx's production company was called "Oprah Productions" -Larry King slept his way to the top

-not only did Lincoln have a secretary named Kennedy . . .. he also nailed her.

-more people than you would imagine accidentally swallow their house keys

-during the studio's golden age, 16 crew members were mauled to death by the MGM lion

-George Washington never told a like except when Martha caught him opening a neighbor's mail

-John Wayne's real name was Lydia Schiffman

-Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench sleeps in the crouching position

-the last request of Clara Peller, the "Where's the Beef" lady from the 1980s Wendy's commercial was to be ground up and turned into a hamburger

-Edward R. Murrow ended his final newscast by dropping his pants and firing a rocket

-types of clouds are cirrus, stratus, and fluffy

-due to budget cuts, NASA faked the second and fourth moon landings

-the FBI's eleventh most wanted fugitive is Lyle Lovett

-at night, nearly 40% of America's garbage is dumped over the Canadian border

-less than 1% of the population eats the small cup of coleslaw that comes with burgers

-7% of letters sent to Apple Computer company are misdirected inquiries about fruit

-in 1983, the President was given veto power over the People's Choice Awards

-Police lineups always put the guilty guy in the middle

 

Bob H

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