Monday, February 4, 2008

19-0 Oops. Don't Print those T-Shirt

Here is a list of reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?


Here's your Today in History

February 4, 1783 -
A large earthquake in Calabria Italy leaves 50,000 dead. Luckily none of Mary or John S's forebearers were involved, or they wouldn't be here


February 4, 1861 -
State delegates meet in Montgomery, Ala., to form a Confederate government. Do you think Hallmark has a card commemorating this event?


February 4, 1889 -
Harry Longabaugh is released from Sundance Prison in Wyoming, thereby acquiring the famous nickname, "the Sundance Kid".




February 4, 1899 -
On patrol in the city of Manila, Private William Grayson shoots three Filipino soldiers when they fail to halt. The next morning, U.S. forces launch an artillery assault on the Filipino army, killing 3,000. Thus begins the three-year Philippine-American War, a brutal and disastrous campaign foreshadowing the Vietnam War.


February 4, 1902 -
Isolationist, racist, neo-nazi and early environmentalist Charles Lindbergh, first man to fly solo across the Atlantic.



Kind of complicated guy, don't you think.


February 4, 1913 -
Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama started the Civil Rights Movement.




February 4, 1974 -
Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the SLA.






February 4, 1983 -
Karen Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa. She frequently took laxatives and induced vomiting to prevent weight gain. At the time of her death she was pencil thin. No. 1 pencil thin.




February 4, 1987 -
Pianist/jewelry wearer Liberace dead from AIDS in Palm Springs, California. Nobody ever suspected the man was gay.




February 4, 1998 -
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is assaulted with a direct hit by a fluffy cream pie during a three-pronged attack in Brussels. He was in Belgium attending meetings with industry and government leaders. Rumour is that the attack was engineered by Noel Godin, infamous for his other pie throwings at government officials.




And so it goes.

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