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I'LL BET YOU 50 WORDS To Be PRECISE!

January 10th 2008 21:08
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The founder of Random House book publishing, Bennett Cerf once made a bet after 30 years in the company with a gentlemen by the name of Theodor Geisel, known better by his Nom-de-plume of Dr Seuss.

Cerf bet Geisel that he couldn't write a book with exactly 50 words in it.

Geisel however won the bet comfortably with the writing of the very popular children's book "Green Eggs & Ham."
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The True Nature of Santa's Reindeer!

December 21st 2007 06:33
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An old, but timely fact:

According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid-December.
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2007 Cost Of Gifts for 12 Days Of Christmas

December 16th 2007 00:05
If you were around in the early infancy of this blog, you may remember last Christmas this post on the cost of The 12 Days Of Christmas.
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Well PNC have of course updated their figures for the current year with the following results.
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The Simple FUN You Can Have With WORDS!!

December 5th 2007 00:05
1. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

2. Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
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BANANA PEELS - SLIPPERY Little Suckers!!

November 14th 2007 10:09
Banana peels - touted all over the world as being slippery little suckers. Old wives tale or just another cliche?

Up until now, that's pretty much what I had thought and that the most fun you could have with bananas (aside from any dirty-minded thoughts) was throwing old, rotten bananas into ceiling fans. Don't believe me on that one either.......well as it happens, an entire class in my high school was given detention many years ago for that one....
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The LIGHTER Side of SCRABBLE!!!

August 3rd 2007 00:35
* In 1996 a woman was charged with assault when she struck her husband over the head with a Scrabble board.

* A resident in an old people’s home was thrown out when she admitted she didn’t play Scrabble.
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PANGRAMS! How Many Do You Know?

July 18th 2007 00:50
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Pangrams are sentences containing all of the letters of the alphabet within them. Here's a rather interesting selection.

* A large fawn jumped quickly over white zinc boxes.
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Fantastic April Fools Day Pranks Of The Past!

April 2nd 2007 00:25
I'm sure most (if not all) of you have cottoned onto the real story behind yesterdays post. Indeed there is nothing actually wrong with the skywalk. (Yes, it is real the only fabrication was the closing down again part.) So after yesterdays post I thought enlighten you with some other April fools day pranks of the past.

* The Guardian printed a supplement in 1977 praising the location of a fictional resort - San Serriffe, its two main islands (Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse), its capital (Bodoni), and its leader (General Pica). Intrigued readers were later disappointed to learn that San Serriffe (sans serif) did not exist except as references to typeface terminology.
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Fantastic WORD Wrangling!

March 31st 2007 00:25
Every now and again the Washington Post's invites readers to take part in a competition whereby you take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and then give a new definition. Here are some of the previous winners:
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1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realise it was your money to start with.
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Previous Daylight Saving Time Issues

March 23rd 2007 00:25
With Daylight Saving Time ending this weekend for some states of Australia, (That’s right boys and girls – be prepared to put your watches and clocks BACKWARDS one hour.)
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I thought I’d remind you all of some relevant mishaps that can be found at webexhibits.org.
These are occasions when Daylight Saving Time caused slightly more than an issue or two due to the actual changing of the time.

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