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This week’s riddle

Answer at end of letter

When you yell help, I'm there,
But if there's an emergency, who cares?
When you're happy, I'm with you,
When you're glad, goodbye.
I'm deep in unhappiness,
But not in depression.

Who am I?

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Quote of the week

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
--Herbert Gardner

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
--Ethel Barrymore

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
--Unknown

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This week’s Brain Teaser

Answer at end of letter

Who is the first man acredited with sailing to the Isles of Langerhan?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

· Riddle of the week

· Quote of the week

· This week’s brain teaser

· Joke of the week

· Pun of the week

· Limerick of the week

Latin Corner

Strange News

· Celebrate this week

· Say what?

· The editor speaks out

· A Web Site of Interest

· Riddle answer

· ‘Say what’ translated

· Subscribe/unsubscribe information.

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Joke of the week

Oklahoma City - Dennis Newton was on trial for the armed robbery of a convenience store in a district court this week when he fired his lawyer. Assistant district attorney Larry Jones said Newton, 47, was doing a fair job of defending himself until the store manager testified that Newton was the robber. Newton jumped up, accused the woman of lying and then said, "I should have blown your [expletive] head off." The defendant paused, then quickly added, "-- if I'd been the one that was there." The jury took 20 minutes to convict Newton and recommend a 30-year sentence.

R.C. Gaitlin, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing their squad car computer equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked how the system worked, the officers asked him for a piece of identification. Gaitlin gave them his driver's license, they entered it into the computer, and moments later they arrested Gaitlin because information on the screen showed that Gaitlin was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in St. Louis, Missouri.

Police in Chicago sent Cubs tickets to people with outstanding arrest warrants. When they arrived at the game, they were promptly arrested.

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Fwd

"Dreaded Old Age"

I have always dreaded old age. I cannot imagine anything worse than being old. How awful it must be to have nothing to do all day long but stare at the walls or watch TV? So last year, when the President suggested we all celebrate Senior Citizen Week by cheering up a senior citizen, I decided to do just that. I would call on my new neighbor, an elderly retired gentleman, recently widowed, and who, I presumed, had moved in with his married daughter because he was too old to take care of himself. I baked a batch of cookies, and, without bothering to call (some old people cannot hear the phone), I went off to brighten this old guy's day.

When I rang the doorbell this "old guy" came to the door dressed in tennis shorts and a polo shirt, looking about as ancient and decrepit as Donny Osmond. "I'm sorry I can't invite you in," he said when I introduced myself, "but I'm due at the Racquet Club at two. I'm playing in the semifinals today."

"Oh that's all right," I said. "I baked you some cookies..."

"Great!" he interrupted, snatching the box. "Just what I need for bridge club tomorrow! Thanks so much!"

I continued, "...and just thought we'd visit a while. But that's okay! I'll just trot across the street and call on Granny Grady."

"Don't bother," he said. "Gran's not home; I know. I just called to remind her of our date to go dancing tonight. She may be at the beauty shop. She mentioned at breakfast (at which house?) that she had an appointment for a tint job."

. .... So I went home and called my Mother's cousin (age 83); she was in the hospital ... ... working in the gift shop. . .... I called my aunt (age 74); she was on vacation in China. . I called my husband's uncle (age 79). I forgot; ...... he was on his honeymoon. ....

.... I still dread old age, now more than ever. I just don't think I'm up to it.

-- Author Unknown

Pun of the Week

Once upon a time, two brooms fell in love and decided to get married. Before the ceremony, the bride broom informed the groom broom that she was expecting a little whisk-broom. The groom broom was aghast! 'How is this possible?' he asked. 'We've never swept together!'

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Limerick of the week

I sat next to the Duchess at tea;
It was just as I feared it would be.
Her rumblings abdominal
Were simply phenomenal,
And everyone thought it was me!

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Latin Corner

Pons Asinorum

"The Bridge of Fools," anything that divides the capable from the incapable,

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Strange News

Despite the 39-day waiting list for brain operations at the Queens Medical Center in Nottingham, England, the hospital suspended neurosurgeon Terence Hope in March (after 18 years' service), not for substandard work but because he had been accused of taking extra croutons for his soup in the hospital cafeteria, without paying. (The suspension was lifted three days later.) [Daily Telegraph (London), 3-25-04]

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Celebrate

June 13

1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves

1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians

1983 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System

Yemen Arab Rep : Reform Movement Day

1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag

1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont

1940 Auschwitz, largest of the Nazi concentration camps, was first opened near Krakow, Poland. Before its liberation by the Allies in 1945, over 3 million Jews would be exterminated there.
1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

Afghanistan : Mother's Day
US : Flag Day (1777)

763 -BC- Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet
1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England

1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state

1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
1977 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936
Arkansas : Admission Day (1836)
Denmark : Flag Day/Valdemar Day (1219)
Idaho : Pioneer Day (1910)
Korea : Farmer's Day-day to transplant rice seeds
Oregon : Treaty Day (1846)

1539 German Reformer Martin Luther declared: 'Faith justifies not as a work, nor as a quality, nor as knowledge, but as assent of the will and firm confidence in the mercy of God.'

1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa

1917 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia

1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)

1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman to fly the Atlantic
(as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
2002 Australian scientists announced that they had "teleported" a laser beam—breaking it up and reconstructing it in another location

Germany : Day of German Unity/Remembrance Day (1953)- Date changed 1990 to Oct 3rd
Iceland : Republic Day (1944)
Japan : Lily Festival
Mass : Bunker Hill Day (1775)

1178 Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno, 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on the moon (only such observation known)
1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated

1892 Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
1977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747

Egypt : Evacuation Day (1956)

240 -BC- Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth
1846 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR

Algeria : Anniversary of the Revolution (1965)
Kuwait : Independence Day (1961)
Texas : Juneteenth Day/Emancipation Day (1865)
Trinidad & Tobago : Labor Day
Uruguay : Artigas Day (1764)

Father's Day

1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique

1756 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-cell called the Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol

1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state

Argentina : Flag Day
Senegal : Independence Day (1960)
West Virginia : Admission Day (1863)

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Fun Facts

Polar bears are left handed.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever. Dumbest dog: Afghan.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfishes haven't got brains.

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

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Say What?

Exercise your visual facilities prior to executing a jump.

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The editor speaks out

I must apologize that it has been over a month since my last newsletter. I was overwhelmed with school assignments, and couldn't get organized. Then the last few weeks I was plain exhausted.

This was an eventful month for me. Jay and I celebrated our thirtieth anniversary. I graduated Junior College, finally receiving the AS I started over 30 years ago. Now I find myself tired and feeling down, which makes no sense, but is often the reaction our bodies get after achieving something important. I need to snap out of it, so have been researching my next novel. This one will be a Christian story, about some teenagers and demons and prayer warriors.

Because I want to make four teenage girls the central characters of my book, I need to research teens. I am looking to talk to or email some young people. I know teens feel inside the same way they did when I was young, but they express themselves so differently, and I want to catch some of that. Also, they see some areas differently. One character is trying to be a cheerleader, one is in love with a boy who doesn't notice her. One gets teased for red hair and freckles, and the fourth is dealing with her parents planning to divorce. Anyone who wants to send info to help my research is welcome. I'm really excited at the potential for this book, but it is going to be a lot more hard work than the last.

Other news, my sci fi novel was accepted by a publishing company. I don't know when it will hit the printers. It can take a year from acceptance to printing- and even then my royalties are only a nickel a book, so no money for a while. But it will be published, and that is a major starting place. I got to look at the cover this week, and it is pretty.

It has been a year since I sent out the first braincandy, and I hope to make next year even better, and more faithful. See you next week with a new issue.

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A web site of interest

Here is a silly, but cute game

http://www.bewellweb.com/cogans/thinkjerm/games/flash/parachute.swf

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Riddle Answer

the letter H.

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Brain Teaser Answer

Who remembered?? The Isles of Langerhan are located in the pancreas.

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Say what’ translated

Look before you leap.

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