In loving memory of Tom Hogg, 1943–2023
MoFunny for
November 12, 2026
What is and where is America's official national Christmas tree located?
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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicures
I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. - Carl Sandburg
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. -- Bernard M. Baruch, 1940
The only desert in Canada is located in Osoyoos B.C.
Triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the nmber 13, is so widespread that 90% of the high-rise buildings in the United States have no 13th floor.
Have you ever wondered why just one letter makes all the difference between here and there?
You know it is a male blonde...
When he thinks Taco Bell is a Mexican phone company.
When he thinks a quarterback is a refund.
When he suggests you meet him at the corner of WALK DON'T WALK.
When the bottom of an application form says "Sign here", and he puts "Leo".
When on his job applications, he puts "Hooked on Phonics" for education.
If it takes him two hours to watch "60 Minutes."
A botanist was trying to research some details about a particular kind of fern, so he sent a request to all his collegues, asking them to send him any information they had about it.
Unfortunately, he didn't word his request very well, and all the botanists he'd contacted thought he was looking for details about any ferns, rather than just the one species. So within just a few hours of sending it out, his fax machine was buzzing with piles of useless documents about all kinds of ferns - there were tree ferns and wood ferns, ostrich ferns and cinnamon ferns... but very few about the particular type he wanted.
So he sent another message to everyone:
If it ain't bracken, don't fax it.
Never type a love letter. Use an ink pen.
My long-passed grandfather's birthday is coming up, and for me it is a time to reminisce. The long walks we used to take. The long drives. The special trips he would make to pick me up so I could spend weekends with him, and the advice he used to give! Much was wasted because I was young when he died.
If he were alive today and sharing his gems of wisdom, I'd be a better man. Those gems were well and good, but the one I remember most, the jewel in the crown of grand fatherly advice, came when he paused, looked me in the eye and said,
"Son. Don't marry a woman with big hands. It makes your pecker look smaller."
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Sampling of other US sites of interest:
https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/WXMAP/
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/
http://www.noaa.gov/
http://wxnation.com/
http://weather.myway.com/index_static.html http://www.weather.unisys.com/index.html http://www.weather.com/ http://edition.cnn.com/WEATHER/ http://www.intellicast.com/ http://www.my-cast.com/ http://www.tropicdesigns.net/software.html http://www.hamweather.com/ http://www.aws.com/aws_2001/broadcasters/asp/Online.asp http://www.singerscreations.com/
You might be a redneck if…
You roll you hair with soup cans and wash it once a year.
Two vampire bats wake up in the middle of the night, thirsty for blood. One says, "Let's fly out of the cave and get some blood."
"We're new here," says the second one. "It's dark out, and we don't know where to look. We'd better wait until the other bats go with us."
The first bat replies, "Who needs them? I can find some blood somewhere." He flies out of the cave. When he returns, he is covered with blood.
The second bat says excitedly, "Where did you get the blood?"
The first bat takes his buddy to the mouth of the cave. Pointing into the night, he asks, "See that black building over there?"
"Yes," the other bat answers.
"Well," says the first bat, "I didn't."
Nancy Reagan tells the story of how President Ronald Reagan was once challenged by a college student who said it was impossible for Reagan's generation to understand his.
"You grew up in a different world," the student said. Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers..."
Taking advantage or a pause in the student's litany, Reagan said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young. We invented them."
What is and where is America's official national Christmas tree located?
America's official national Christmas tree is located in King's Canyon National Park in California. The tree, a giant sequoia called the "General Grant Tree," is over 90 meters (300 feet) high. It was made the official Christmas tree in 1925.
This tree has inspired thousands of people including the late Charles E. Lee of Sanger, California. In 1924 he visited what was then General Grant National Park, and found himself standing by the Grant Tree with a little girl. As they admired the huge tree, the girl exclaimed, "what a wonderful Christmas tree it would be!"
The idea stayed with Mr. Lee, and in 1925 he organized the first Christmas program, held at the Grant Tree at noon on Christmas Day. Mr. Lee, then secretary of the Sanger Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. R.J. Senior, president of the Chamber, conceived the idea of an annual ceremony. Mr. Lee wrote to President Calvin Coolidge, who designated the General Grant as the Nation's Christmas Tree on April 28, 1926.
At one of the early gatherings, Colonel John White, longtime Park Superintendent, expressed the feeling that brings people here year after year. "We are gathered here around a tree that is worthy of representing the spirit of America on Christmas Day. That spirit is best expressed in the plain things of life, the love of the family circle, the simple life of the out-of-doors. The tree is a pillar that is a testimony that things of the spirit transcend those of the flesh."