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Punday · February 22, 2027

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Trivia question....

How did President Benjamin Harrison turn the lights on or off?

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Consider these words of wisdom....

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. -- Benjamin Disraeli

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. -- Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

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I bet ya' didn't know....

The male silkworm moth can detect mating signals from 6.5 miles away.

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That popping sound in your knuckles is made by the release of gas trapped between bones.

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Things that make you go Hmmm....

Who decided "Hotpoint" would be a good name for a company that sells refrigerators?

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Jokes & stories....

Joke

There are two polite people having dinner together. On the table there is a dish with one big piece of fish and one small piece of fish.

They politely say to each other: "You may choose first."

"No, you may choose first."

And this goes on for a while.

Then the first person says: "OK, I'll take first."

And he takes the BIG piece of fish.

The second person: "Why did you take the big piece? That's not polite!"

The first person says: "Which piece would 'you' have taken?"

The second person replies: "Why, I would have taken the SMALL piece, of course."

The first person says: "Well, that's what you have now!"

Joke

YOU THINK GASOLINE IS EXPENSIVE?

Diet Snapple 16oz for $1.29 $10.32 per gallon

Lipton Ice Tea 16oz for $1.19 $9.52 per gallon

Gatorade 20oz for $1.59 $10.17 per gallon

Ocean Spray 16oz for $1.25 $10.00 per gallon

Pint of milk 16oz for $1.59 $12.72 per gallon

STP Brake Fluid 12oz for $3.15 $33.60 per gallon

Vick's Nyquil 6oz for $8.35 $178.13 per gallon

Pepto Bismol 4oz for $3.85 $123.20 per gallon

Whiteout 7oz for $1.39 $25.42 per gallon

Scope 1.5oz for $0.99 $84.48 per gallon

And this is the REAL KICKER......

Evian water 9oz for $1.49 $21.19 per gallon

.....$21.19 FOR WATER!!

So next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run on Nyquil, or Scope, or Whiteout!!!!

One-liner

Get into the habit of putting your billfold and car keys in the same place when entering the house.

Joke

There was this couple who had been married for 50 years. They were sitting at the breakfast table one morning when the old gentleman said to his wife, "Just think, honey, we've been married for 50 years." "Yeah," she replied, "Just think, fifty years ago we were sitting here at this breakfast table together."

"I know," the old man said, "We were probably sitting here naked as jaybirds fifty years ago."

"Well," Granny snickered, "What do you say...should we get naked?"

He agreed, so the two old folks stripped to the buff and sat back down at the table.

"You know, honey," the little old lady breathlessly replied, "My nipples are as hot for you today as they were fifty years ago!"

"I'm not surprised," grinned Gramps. "One's in your coffee and the other's in your oatmeal!!!"

Joke

A man was driving down a quiet country lane when out into the road strayed a rooster. Whack! The rooster disappeared under the car in a cloud of feathers. Shaken, the man pulled over at the farmhouse, rang the door bell. A farmer appeared.

The man, somewhat nervously said, "I think I killed your rooster. Please allow me to replace him."

"Suit yourself," the farmer replied. "The hens are 'round back." '

Red Neck

You might be a redneck if…

Your good deed for the month was hiding your brother for a few days.

Joke

When Diane found out she was pregnant, she told the good news to anyone who would listen. But her 4-year-old son overheard some of her parents' private conversations. One day when Diane and her 4-year-old were shopping a woman asked the little boy if he was excited about the new baby.

"Yes!" the 4-year-old said, "and I know what we are going to name it, too. If it's a girl we're going to call her Christina, and if it's another boy we're going to call it quits!"

Joke

The farmer stood in his chicken yard watching hundreds of baby chicks running here and there. He kept pointing to them and trying to count them. "One, two, three, four, five, six,... oh, no..."

Then he would start over, "one, two, three, four, and,... oh, no."

Then he'd start over again.

Finally he said, "I give up. They say don't count your chickens before they hatch but it sure is easier to do that than it is to count them after they hatch."


Trivia answer....

President Benjamin Harrison and the first lady never touched the light switches themselves when electric lights were installed during the renovation of the White House in 1891. Fearing shock, they would call for a servant whenever they wanted the lights on or off.

Nominated for President on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican Convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the first "front-porch" campaigns, delivering short speeches to delegations that visited him in Indianapolis. As he was only 5 feet, 6 inches tall, Democrats called him "Little Ben"; Republicans replied that he was big enough to wear the hat of his grandfather, "Old Tippecanoe."

Born in 1833 on a farm by the Ohio River below Cincinnati, Harrison attended Miami University in Ohio and read law in Cincinnati. He moved to Indianapolis, where he practiced law and campaigned for the Republican Party. He married Caroline Lavinia Scott in 1853. After the Civil War--he was Colonel of the 70th Volunteer Infantry--Harrison became a pillar of Indianapolis, enhancing his reputation as a brilliant lawyer.