 BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE: In Lancashire
England, Ian Lewis, 43, spent 30 years tracing his family tree back to the
17th century, traveling all over England and interviewing 2,000 relatives,
before he learned that he had been adopted when he was a month old and that
his real name was David Thornton. He said he would immediately start researching
his new family history.
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Police were raiding the home of one
man (on an unrelated matter) and were surprised to discover that he had
a video library featuring a tape onto which he had recorded (videotaped)
the crimes of himself and his colleague. He had edited the crimes together
and added incidental music. (Heard on BBC Radio 2)
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* Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark
* The average 6 year-old laughs 300 times each day. The typical adult laughs
15-100 times per day..
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
* It's physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
* A ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
*The loudest sound that could be made in 1600 was that of the pipe organ.
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* "Have you ever noticed? Anybody
going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a
maniac." -- George Carlin
* I am a marvelous housekeeper. Everytime I leave a man, I keep his house."
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor
* "Sacred cows make the best hamburger." -- Mark Twain
* When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute.
But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's
relativity." -- Einstein
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DEATH BY DISHWASHER -- A woman climbed
into a portable dishwasher, closed the door and died when the machine started
up. The death of Carolyn M. Matsumoto, 25, was ruled a suicide by Alameda
County Coroner's deputies. She died of scalding and asphyxiation. Federal
safety officials and industry representatives said it was believed to be
the first time anyone had died inside a dishwasher.
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BUMPERSTICKER SIGHTINGS- * "Always
remember you're unique, just like everyone else".
* "Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math."
* "I have the body of a God... Buddah!"
* "I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."
* "Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear."
* E. Coli Happens."
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