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TODAY'S QUESTION

Las Posadas, a Christmas tradition in San Antonio, Texas, celebrates what event?  

Previous Question and Answer: 

Question: What popular Christmas flower was named for an American ambassador to Mexico?

Answer: The poinsettia, named for Joel Poinsett; the flower is native to Mexico, and Poinsett liked it so much he brought some back with him. 
 
 

Questions and answers from: J. Stephen Lang, The Big Book of American Trivia (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1997).

Merry Christmas

Christmas Quotation, Fact and Inspiration.

Groaner 1

A fellow received a mouse for his birthday and he loved it so much that he never parted with it. He took this mouse everywhere, to work, to parties, to the opera... One day, a good friend of his died and so he went to pay his respects at the funeral parlor. Naturally, he took the mouse, which was perched on his shoulder.

On his way home, he suddenly realized that the mouse was gone! He retraced all his moves for the day and realized that the last place he had seen the mouse was at the funeral parlor. He raced back across town, but arrived too late. The body had been removed and was already being transported to the cemetery in the hearse. The mouse must have jumped off his shoulder onto the casket and gotten carried into the hearse along with the casket. Probably frightened, the mouse must have sought shelter in the closed casket! It was too late...the mouse was being buried alive.

Filled with grief as he remembered an old adage his mother had told him time and time again as a kid......

Never lock a gift mouse in the hearse

Groaner 2

Two Eskimos were paddling in their kayak along the Alaskan coastline. They were out there for a long time and they started to get cold. During one of their breaks they lit a fire to warm up, but tragically their kayak caught fire and they drowned.

Moral of the story: you can't have your kayak and heat it too

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Contact Sports

Giving a man his physical, a doctor noticed several dark, ugly bruises on his shins, so he asked, "Do you play hockey, soccer, or any physical sport?"

"Not at all. I just play bridge with my wife."

Q: What sport is mentioned in the Bible?

A: Tennis. Joseph served in Pharaoh's court.

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Q:  What did the 0 say to the 8?
A:  Nice belt!

          THE LAWS OF LIFE:
    
          The Law of Volunteering:
           If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had better let him            lead.
    
          The Law of Avoiding Oversell:
           When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave room for the mouse.
    
          The Law of Location:
           You always find what you're looking for in the last place  you look.
    
          Osborne's Law:
           Variables won't; constants aren't.

Groaner 3

Once there was a monster, similar to the one from Loch Ness, living in the Thames River in London.  It terrorized the city's inhabitants until one day, those who were true and brave enough, gathered their strength together and killed the monster.  In order to deal with this landfall of suddenly available meat, they ground its carcass into spicy German sausages.  Charles Dickens, at the time a reporter  for The Times, wrote a newspaper article describing the events.  The headline read:  IT WAS THE BEAST OF THAMES; IT  WAS THE WURST OF THAMES!

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