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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.
Twelve Days Of Christmas


Well PNC have of course updated their figures for the current year with the following results.


For the Year 2007, the actual cost of the gifts in the Twelve Days of Christmas is as follows:


* One Partridge in a Pear Tree: $164.99 - up 13.8%.

* Two Turtle Doves: $40.00 - still steady at $20.00 each.


* Three French Hens: $45.00 - still steady at $15.00 each.

* Four Calling Birds: $599.96 - $149.99 each, up 25%.

* Five Gold Rings: $395.00 - $79.00 each, up 21.5%


* Six Geese-a-Laying: $360.00 - $60.00 each, up 20%.


* Seven Swans-a-Swimming: $4,200.00 - still steady at $600.00 each.


* Eight Maids-a-Milking: $46.80 - $5.85 each, up 13.6%.


* Nine Ladies Dancing: $4,759.00 - still steady at $528.80 each.


* Ten Lords-a-Leaping: $4,285.06 - $428.50 each, up 3%.


* Eleven Pipers Piping: $2,213.40 -$201.22 each, up 4.2%.


* Twelve Drummers Drumming: $2,397.85 – $199.82 each, up 4.2%.


The grand total of the song for this year - $19,507.25.
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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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