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WITandWISDOM(tm) - June 14, 2004 ISSN 1538-8794 ~~~~~~~ THOUGHTS: To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. - J.E. Buchrose Source: The Funnies, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/andychaps_the-funnies ~~~~~~~ SPECIAL THOUGHTS: In 1950 a man calling himself F. Barn Morrison went to Wetumka, Oklahoma, and got some of the local people to put up the money to bring a circus to town. The local merchants spent a lot of money on food, beverages, and souvenirs in preparation for the crowds of people who would attend. People bought lots of advance tickets. Moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas and children of all sizes were elated at the thought of a circus in their very own town. Unfortunately, the big bubble of excitement popped when shortly before the prospective date Mr. Morrison skipped town with the local residents' money. Everyone was disappointed, but ingenuity saved the day. Someone came up with the idea of having a four-day celebration called "The Sucker Festival." That way the merchants could get rid of all their extra sodas hot dogs, and souvenirs, and the people could celebrate the fact that they'd been suckered big time. The people loved the idea, and everyone had a good laugh and a good time. The incident attracted national attention as newspapers around the country reported about a town that was taken in by a con man but turned the misfortune into something good. And “The Sucker Festival" has been held most every year since. The townspeople even tried for a number of years to contact Mr. Morrison so they could invite him to the festival. Source: Signs of the Times, Copyright (c) May 2004, Pacific Press, http://www.signstimes.com ~~~~~~~ THIS & THAT: Here is a paper written by a 10-year old boy: I would like to talk about hydrogenated fats. They are bad fats. They are found in most sugary and baked foods, including white crackers, Pringles, Doritos, Cheetos, cookies, doughnuts, chocolate candy, cupcakes, cake, and stuff like that. Hydrogenated fats were once 'OK' fats. Then they are injected with hydrogen so they can last longer. Then they become bad fats. That's how Ding Dongs, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and McDonald's French fries can sit on the shelves and then in a few years you can say, 'Look it's the Krispy Kreme doughnuts we got three years ago! They look as good as new.' Hydrogenated fats clog up your arteries. When you eat a Twinkie, you are pretty much dumping garbage into your arteries. Your arteries are pretty much like little rivers that carry blood throughout your body. Eating Twinkies is kind of like dumping trash into a river. When the rivers get clogged up with trash, they can't deliver water to the factory that bottles water for us and we have a problem. Same thing with your body. That beloved Twinkie is actually clogging up your arteries so your blood can't flow to your brain and heart good and over a course of 40 to 60 years you could die. My grandpa had this sort of problem. He died at 55 years old, just before I was born. His arteries were clogged and his heart got sick. They spotted it too late. Don't let that happen to you! After all, how long your body lasts is a lot more important than how long your food lasts. I wished I had my grandpa." By Jacob Schultz, 10 years old. Submitted by Thurman C. Petty ~~~~~~~ KEEP SMILING: One caller to our answering service gave me his name, number and message and then said, "You know my name. What's yours?" "4136," I replied, since we were allowed only to give our operator numbers. Sounding disappointed, he said, "May I call you by your first digit, or would that be too personal? Source: The Funnies, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/andychaps_the-funnies ~~~~~~~ TRIVIA: It has a body like that of a pig, ears like those of a horse, feet like those of a rhinoceros, and a nose like that of an elephant. It swims like a fish, runs faster than a dog, trills like a bird, and weighs up to eight hundred pounds. What do you suppose it is? This animal lives in South America and in Southeast Asia, but nowhere in between. The ancient natives of Thailand believed that after the Creator finished making all the other animals, He made this one and called it psom-sett, which means "the mixture is finished." This animal comes in more than 150 varieties ranging in weight from four hundred to eight hundred pounds when full grown. Have you figured out what it is? Robert Wilson, a mammalogist who studies the animal described above, raised one of them on his back porch. One day he returned home to find that the animal had opened the back door by turning the knob with his nose, had gone into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, taken out thirty pounds of bananas, and had neatly pealed and eaten the whole bunch. Then the animal went into the bathroom and dislodged the sink, which broke the water pipe and sent a jet of water over into the bathtub. The beast then jumped into the tub, pulled down all of the towels, and stopped the drain. Mr. Wilson found Mr. Animal lounging in the tub making contented grunting noises. Have you guessed what it is? When they are full grown these animals are usually brown to black in color, sometimes with large patches of white. But from birth to about eight months of age the babies are said to look like banded watermelons with legs. In their range they live from sea-level tropical forests up to the rain forests, as high as fifteen-thousand feet in elevation, but nearly always in the densest, most impenetrable forests and underbrush. I'd better tell you that the animal is a tapir. Source: Glimpses of God's Love by James A. Tucker and Priscilla Tucker, Copyright (c) 1983 by Review and Herald Publishing Association, http://isbn.nu/0828002169 Submitted by Nancy Simpson What does a tapir look like? http://www.tapirback.com/tapirgal/pictures.htm |