ALL THE REST –    April 28 & 29
  

 

Today's Quotations – More Last Words

 

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Take away those pillows - I shall need them no more.

– Lewis Carroll 
(C. L. Dodgson) 1898

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Folks, you're about to see a baked Appel." 

- George Appel, just before he was electrocuted in 1928 

 
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Thank God I have done my duty.

 Horatio Nelson

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Curtain! Fast music! Lights! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!’ 

Florenz Ziegfeld

 

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The bullet hasn’t been made that can kill me!’ 

Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond, US gangster, killed in 1931

 

Today's Short Words of  Wisdom



Everything has been figured out except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

 

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  Today's Word – GARRULOUS 
   

 



gar·ru·lous  

adjective 1. Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative.  Synonym talkative. 2. Wordy and rambling: a garrulous speech.

TNovello appeared his old, garrulous self, cracking jokes and capering about as if he had never intercepted flying lead.

The Hofburg Treasures
Stephen Adams


Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

 

Fastest and Slowest
 

Quick trivia - What is the fastest and the slowest animal?

 

 

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The cheetah is the fastest land animal. It is able to run just over 70 miles an hour for short bursts. The cheetah, however, is not nearly the fastest animal. The peregrine falcon receives that honor. The peregrine falcon is able to dive at speeds of up to 240 miles an hour. One may think that this is due primarily to gravity and falling. This is not the case. The peregrine falcon can climb upward at just over half that speed.


OK – the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal in the world. What animal gets the award for the slowest? No, it isn’t that certain coworker. Guess again. The three toed sloth is the slowest animal in the world. The top speed of this animal is a blistering eight feet a minute.

This does not, of course, include those animals that never move from their spot as adults. These animals include sponges and sea anemones.

Source: The Unbelievable Truth – Jeff Rovin


And God said, "Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind." So God created great sea creatures and every sort of fish and every kind of bird. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:20-21 (NLT)


 

 

Daily Miscellany TIMES


April 28, 1758

Old NEWS is History


James Monroe -

Born on this day - April 28, 1758. He became the 5th United States President. He served two terms as president beginning in 1816 and 1820.

He was good friends with   Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

Monroe was:

* The first president to hold the inaugural outdoors.

*  The first president to ride on a steamboat.

* The first U.S. senator to become president.

* The first president to have the U.S. Marine Band play his ignaugration. They played at his second inaugural and have played at every inaugural since.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -- liberty!

James Monroe

 

 

  James Monroe was born on Apr. 28, 1758, on his parents' small plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He entered William and Mary College in July 1774, but attended only two years. He was caught up by the fervor of the revolutionary spirit and quit college to join the Third Virginia Regiment in the spring of 1776.

As a lieutenant he saw action in the battles in New York preceding Washington's retreat into New Jersey, and he distinguished himself in a vanguard action at Trenton, where he was seriously wounded. For two years he served as an aide with the rank of colonel to Gen. William Alexander. He was present during the winter of Valley Forge (1777-1778) and participated in the Battle of Monmouth.

In 1780 Monroe returned to Virginia to study law under Thomas Jefferson, who became a lifelong friend. Monroe was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1782, and his abilities and total dedication to public service won him election in 1783 to the Confederation Congress, where he sat until 1786. He was generally recognized for his integrity and honesty, and was known for his personal charm. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1790. There he joined  Madison (then in the House) in combating Hamilton's domestic measures, which emphasized centralization of powers in the federal government.  Monroe worked with Jefferson and Madison in organizing the Republican Party.

In 1794, when Washington named Monroe as minister to France. From 1799 to 1802, Monroe served as governor of Virginia, demonstrating great administrative ability and winning praise for his decisive action to suppress a slave uprising  in 1800. From 1803 to 1807, Monroe served as minister to Britain.

In 1816 he was elected president by a wide margin. In 1820 he won reelection. As the 5th U.S. president, he announced the "Monroe Doctrine," 1832 and created the "era of good feeling." The Monroe doctrine in 1823 declared that America would be hostile to any extension of European power in the Americas.

 

 

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Today's SMILE

 

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

 
   

 

 

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Joseph Addison

 

A FEW SMILES   


Invention

Did you hear about the inventor of old that came up with a knife that would slice two loaves of bread at the same time?  He sold it to a large bakery. 

He then developed a knife that could slice three loaves of bread at the same time.   He sold that idea, too!

Finally, the ultimate.  He made a huge knife that could cut four loaves of bread at the same time!

  And so, on that day that shall live in all our hearts, was born the world's first four-loaf cleaver.

 


YOU MIGHT BE A SOUTHERN BAPTIST IF...

 

1. You believe you are supposed to take a covered dish to heaven when you die. 

2. You have never sung the third verse of any hymn.

 3. You have ever put an IOU in the collection plate.

 4. You think God's presence is always strongest in the back three pews.

 5. You think John the Baptist founded the Southern Baptist Convention.

 6. You clapped in church last Sunday and felt guilty about it all week.

 7. You judge the quality of a service by its duration.

 8. You also judge the quality of the sermon by how much sweat the preacher worked up.

 9. You think the Holy Land is Nashville.

 10. You are old enough to get a senior citizen discount at the pharmacy, but not old enough to be promoted into the senior adult Sunday School Class.

 11. You think someone who says "amen" while the Pastor is preaching might be a charismatic. 

12. You complained because your Pastor only works one day a week and then he works too long.

 13. You think "Amazing Grace" is the national anthem.

 14. The first complete sentence you uttered was "We've never done it this way before." 

15. You think the epistles are probably the wives of the apostles.

 16. Your definition of "fellowship" has something to do with food.

 17. You wonder if Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong will ever be paid off.

 18. You honestly believe the Apostle Paul spoke King James English.

 19. You think worship service music has to be loud.

 20. You think Jesus actually used Welch's grape juice and saltine crackers.

 21. You think preachers who wear robes are in cahoots with the communists.

 22. You once woke up craving fried chicken and interpreted that as a call to preach.


You Know You've Been Online Too Long When...

Tech Support calls "YOU" for help.

When you are reading something printed, you wish you could use a search function to get to the point.

Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL."

When you reply to someone verbally, your fingers start typing your response.

You check your e-mail over and over, even when you know there's nothing there.

You watch TV with the closed captioning turned on.

You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other.

You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hang out."

Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

You've even gotten on an airplane just to meet "sweet_girl" face-to-face.

You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it.

You have to get a 2nd phone line just so you can call Pizza Hut.

You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation, or complete sentences.

You begin to say "heh heh heh" instead of laughing.

When someone says "What did you say?" you reply "Scroll up!"

You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the night when your spouse is asleep.

You turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know you're online again.

You know more about online friends' daily routines than you do your own spouse's.

You find yourself lying to others about your time online and when they complain that your phone was busy you claim it was off the hook.

You have an identity crisis if someone is using a screen name close to your own.

You would rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much than the truth.

You change your screen name so much that you have to do a who is to know who you are.

You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time.

You won't work at a job that doesn't have a modem involved.

Your dog leaves you.

You bring a bag lunch and a cooler to the computer.

You type faster than you can think.

You can actually read and follow all the names of the cast that scrolls up your TV screen at the end of a movie.

You don't want to leave in case you miss something.

You set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted to check your mail and while there you "just wanted to see who was online."




A mirror is something that looks a lot like you.

 


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