Cubans, Coffee, and Marsupials
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Tuesday in Cuba was the first day in 47 years without Fidel Castro in charge. Castro's brother was acting premier and immediately ordered all of Fidel's fatigues washed and fumigated.
Blistering heat settled over the eastern half of the nation Tuesday. It was so hot in New York the Statue of Liberty changed into a thong.
August 2nd
John Tyndall was born on August 2nd in 1820. John discovered that heat and molecular motion are the same thing. Which means, to stay cool, all you really have to do is keep your molecules very still.
The first street mail boxes were installed on August 2nd in 1858. There were installed in Boston because Bostonians knew how to write.
- Everybody was thrilled because they no longer had to walk all the way to the post office -- which in those days was in Philadelphia.
On August 2nd in 1820, with hundreds watching in horror, Robert Johnson of New Jersey stood on the Salem Country courthouse steps and bravely ate a deadly poisonous "love apple." And to everyone's amazement, nothing happened.
- Pretty soon everybody was eating love apples, which had been grown in America for years as an ornamental shrub, but no one dared eat the deadly fruit. Today love apples are called "tomatoes."
- Makes you want to run right out and eat a horse apple, huh?
- Well, don't.
The annual Fun Day and Possum Festival is this week in Wausaus, Florida, where everybody has lots of fun playing possum.
- Intellectuals call possums "Opossums," which doesn't really mean anything since most intellectuals have never seen a possum.
- The possum is a marsupial because he has a marsupium. If you have a marsupium, you might be a possum, too. Or you might be a kangaroo or a wombat. If symptoms persist, see your veterinarian.
Love & Learn
To Be Equal - You don't need to be a Warren Buffett to effect change.
FYI Travel, Grenada: Luxury for Less - A $12 million refurbishment following Hurricane Ivan landed Spice Island Beach Resort in Grenada the AAA Four Diamond award.
Film Closeup: Scarlett Johansson - Scarlett Johansson is currently starring with Hugh Jackman in Woody Allen’s “Scoop.”
Coffee's Health Benefits - A good ol' cup of joe or two may be just what the doctor ordered.
Today's unusual but understandable law.
In Nashville it's against the law to carry wire cutters into a guitar store.
Tuesday in Cuba was the first day in 47 years without Fidel Castro in charge. Castro's brother was acting premier and immediately ordered all of Fidel's fatigues washed and fumigated.
Blistering heat settled over the eastern half of the nation Tuesday. It was so hot in New York the Statue of Liberty changed into a thong.
August 2nd
John Tyndall was born on August 2nd in 1820. John discovered that heat and molecular motion are the same thing. Which means, to stay cool, all you really have to do is keep your molecules very still.
The first street mail boxes were installed on August 2nd in 1858. There were installed in Boston because Bostonians knew how to write.
- Everybody was thrilled because they no longer had to walk all the way to the post office -- which in those days was in Philadelphia.
On August 2nd in 1820, with hundreds watching in horror, Robert Johnson of New Jersey stood on the Salem Country courthouse steps and bravely ate a deadly poisonous "love apple." And to everyone's amazement, nothing happened.
- Pretty soon everybody was eating love apples, which had been grown in America for years as an ornamental shrub, but no one dared eat the deadly fruit. Today love apples are called "tomatoes."
- Makes you want to run right out and eat a horse apple, huh?
- Well, don't.
The annual Fun Day and Possum Festival is this week in Wausaus, Florida, where everybody has lots of fun playing possum.
- Intellectuals call possums "Opossums," which doesn't really mean anything since most intellectuals have never seen a possum.
- The possum is a marsupial because he has a marsupium. If you have a marsupium, you might be a possum, too. Or you might be a kangaroo or a wombat. If symptoms persist, see your veterinarian.
Love & Learn
To Be Equal - You don't need to be a Warren Buffett to effect change.
FYI Travel, Grenada: Luxury for Less - A $12 million refurbishment following Hurricane Ivan landed Spice Island Beach Resort in Grenada the AAA Four Diamond award.
Film Closeup: Scarlett Johansson - Scarlett Johansson is currently starring with Hugh Jackman in Woody Allen’s “Scoop.”
Coffee's Health Benefits - A good ol' cup of joe or two may be just what the doctor ordered.
Today's unusual but understandable law.
In Nashville it's against the law to carry wire cutters into a guitar store.
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