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Everything Is Possible (S660)
From: Metacafe.com on 9/5/2009 |
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This movie "Everything Is Possible
With Training"
is impressive. Click on
the source above, or
'HERE',
to see it.
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Subj: The
Dangers Of Prescription Drugs
From: Anon Jr. on 3/6/2007
This article is NOT the usual
joke or article that I include
on my web site. When Anon
Jr. asked me a second time to put
it on the site, I couldn't say
no. I hope that reading it
will benefit you.
Dr. Whitaker (MD) points out
that a recent book by Dan Hurley
titled Natural Causes:.... alleges
that a "yearly average" of
"approximately nine deaths"
are "associated with - not
definitely caused by - supplements."
p.4 for March.
But he puts this allegation into
perspective by pointing out
deaths every year, yes "annually"
p.4, due to other causes:
"accidents involving bicycles kill 784"
"more than 1,000 choke to death
on food and
other household items"
"motorcycles" kill "another 4,553"
"accidental poisonings result in 4,833 deaths"
"food causes 5,000 deaths annually"
"aspirin and other over-the-counter
NSAIDs are responsible
for 16,000 fatalities"
"automobiles" kill "a whopping 33,041"
"the single most dangerous consumer
products are FDA-approved
prescription drugs. When
used exactly as prescribed, they
result in 106,000 deaths per
year - making them more than
10,000 times more deadly than
nutritional supplements."
Dr. Whitaker advises you to keep
these facts in mind when the
"dark forces" attempt to convince
us not to focus on the
"single most dangerous consumer
products" - "FDA-approved
prescription drugs".
March 2007 Health and Healing p.4
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Subj:
Interesting World Facts (S660b, S670b)
From: darrellvip on 9/2/2009 and From: tom on 11/7/2009 |
Bonehead award two, goes to Nutricia,
Ltd., a health food
company in the UK which is planning,
in the middle of the
worldwide anthrax scare, to
drop a MILLION letters into
the mail containing a WHITE
POWDER as part of a health
product promotion.
UK postal authorities are furious
because, not only are
they expecting terrified customers
to be calling authorities
in bunches, but also because
they know that some of the
packages will undoubtedly open
and leak leaving little white
powder specks all over other
mail pieces which will add to
the panic.
UK Sun 5-Nov-01
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Subj: Flags
And Day Of Morning (S243)
From: jerry on 9/24/2001
Bonehead award one , a ''political
correctness gone mad
bonehead award,'' goes to NCCI
Holdings Inc. of Boca Raton,
Florida who, on the national
day of mourning and prayer
for those lost during the terrorist
attacks, told their
managers to go around their
850 person office and confiscate
any American Flags, saying other
workers might find them
OFFENSIVE. One worker
who found the policy offensive says
she was suspended for complaining.
Many companies handed out flags to their employees that day.
Palm Beach Post (Florida) 15-Sep-01
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Subj: Rolling
Blackout Exemptions (S243)
From: jerry on 9/25/2001
Bonehead award two goes to the
following companies and
establishments that applied
for exclusions from the recent
California rolling blackouts
by claiming that power
interruptions to their businesses
posed ''a significant
threat to public health or safety.''
o Beverly Hills Liquor ? Deli
o Big Burrito Kingdom
o Doty Donuts
o El Taco Loco
o Expert Nails
o Fantastic Burgers
o Gucci America Inc.
o House of Blues
o L.A. Dance Connection
o Pacific Coast Chocolates
o T-Shirt Mart
o Valencia Pancakes Inc.
Harpers Magazine via Steve Harvey of the LA Times.
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Subj: Teens
Rob Bus (S240)
From: bonehead on 8/29/2001
Just wait until she gets him home!
Bonehead award four goes to a
teenager in Santiago, Chile
who, along with two friends,
boarded a bus with the intent
to rob the passengers, threatening
them and the driver
with knives and a baseball bat
until his mother, who
happened to be aboard, began
shouting at him to behave
himself and get off the bus.
Having a plain-clothes police
officer on board just added
to his hapless situation.
His mother will be appearing
at the trial as a witness.
One way or another... he's grounded.
Ananova 28-Aug-01
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_384371.html
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Subj: Some
Abortions Illegal (S239b)
From: bonehead on 8/27/2001
News Item: A UK government appointed
organization says that
many abortions are a violation
of the disabilities act
because they are done in response
to having learned that
the baby would be born extremely
disabled and that this is
discriminatory and offensive
to disabled people and that
"it reinforces negative stereotypes
of disability" and
abortions under these circumstances
should be illegal.
First Item: UK Telegraph 22-Aug-01
?http://portal.telegraph.
co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/22/nabor22.xml>
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Subj: Two
Sheriffs Arrest Diabetic (S238)
From: bonehead on 8/22/2001
Two Frederick County, Virginia
sheriffs who, believing a
man in a diabetic coma was drunk
and ignoring their
commands, broke his truck's
window, sprayed him with pepper
spray, beat him with batons,
and had a police dog attack
him leaving him with multiple
bites and an extended hospital
stay that sparked a grand jury
and a Justice Department
investigation, are now suing
the man for $68,000 claiming
that his complaints about the
incident have hurt their careers.
WJLA-TV via Yahoo News via http://www.overlawyered.com
?http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wjla/20010810/lo/deputies_sue_
diabetic_driver_they_beat_after_traffic_stop_1.html>
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Subj: Outrageous
Recent Court Cases (S238)
From: JBCARY1 on 8/16/2001
1. January 2000: Kathleen Robertson
of Austin Texas was
awarded $780,000.00 by a jury
of her peers after breaking
her ankle tripping over a toddler
who was running amok
inside a furniture store.
The owners of the store
were understandably surprised at
the verdict, considering the
misbehaving tyke was Ms.
Robertson's son.
2. June 1998: A 19 year old Carl
Truman of Los Angeles
won $74,000.00 and medical expenses
when his neighbor
ran over his hand with a Honda
Accord.
Mr. Truman apparently didn't
notice someone was at the
wheel of the car whose hubcap
he was trying to steal.
3. October 1998: A Terrence Dickson
of Bristol Pennsylvania
was exiting a house he finished
robbing by way of the
garage. He was not able
to get the garage door to go up,
the automatic door opener was
malfunctioning. He couldn't
reenter the house because the
door connecting the house
and garage locked when he pulled
it shut. The family was
on vacation, so Mr. Dickson
found himself locked in the
garage for eight days.
He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he
found, and a large bag of dry
dog food.
This upset Mr. Dickson, so he
sued the homeowner's
insurance company claiming the
situation caused him undue
mental anguish. The jury
agreed to the tune of half a
million dollars and change.
4. October 1999: Jerry Williams
of Little Rock Arkansas
was awarded $14,500.00 and medical
expenses after being
bitten on the buttocks by his
next door neighbor's beagle.
The beagle was on a chain in
it's owner's fenced in yard,
as was Mr. Williams. The
award was less than sought
after because the jury felt
the dog may have been provoked
by Mr. Williams who, at the
time, was shooting it repeatedly
with a pellet gun.
5. May 2000: A Philadelphia restaurant
was ordered to pay
Amber Carson of Lancaster Pennsylvania
$113,500.00 after
she slipped on a spilled soft
drink and broke her coccyx.
The beverage was on the floor
because Ms. Carson threw
it at her boyfriend 30 seconds
earlier during an argument.
6. December 1997: Kara Walton
of Claymont, Delaware
successfully sued the owner
of a night club in a neighboring
city when she fell from the
bathroom window to the floor and
knocked out her two front teeth.
This occurred while Ms.
Walton was trying to sneak through
the window in the lady's
room to avoid paying the $3.50
cover charge. She was awarded
$12,000.00 and dental expenses.
From: jessnordman@msn.com on 1/10/2002
7. And just so you know that
cooler heads do occasionally
prevail: Kenmore Inc., the makers
of Dorothy Johnson's
microwave, were found not liable
for the death of Mrs.
Johns's poodle after she gave
it a bath and attempted to
dry it by putting the poor creature
in her microwave for
"just a few minutes, on low."
The case was quickly dismissed.
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Subj: Doctor
Gets Speeding Ticket (S237b, S657)
From: bonehead on 8/14/2001
The New Zealand Health Minister,
Annette King, is unhappy
with the police who are refusing
to waive a $510 speeding
fine against a doctor who was
caught by a camera speeding
as he was responding to an emergency
call in a rural area
where no ambulances are available.
The doctor is part of
the "Primary Response in Medical
Emergency" system, created
by the government, which encourages
doctors in areas that
do not have quick access to
emergency care, to provide the
service instead.
"I would have hoped that common
sense would have prevailed
but it seems the police have
decided to ... send it to the
court, which I think shows a
lack of judgement on their
behalf," says Ms. King.
"If every time (doctors) do it
they're going to get a
speeding ticket and cost them
$500 we're going to have
people not wanting to participate
and that's going to be
ridiculous," she continued.
N.Z.P.A. (New Zealand) via Stuff.com
14-Aug-01
from http://www.stuff.co.nz
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Subj: Blowing
Up The Family Car (S237b)
From: bonehead on 8/14/2001
Bonehead award one goes to a
man in Black Country, in the UK,
who had to find a way to explain
to his wife why it was
necessary for the army to blow
up part of the family car.
He had received a box in the
mail, with no return address,
and fearing it might be a bomb,
loaded it into the trunk
(the ''boot'' to some) and drove
it down to the police
where it was detonated and found
to contain a bottle of
cologne from one of his girlfriends.
The insurance
company says the damage is not
covered by insurance either.
I wonder if his health insurance
will cover any damage done
to him by a wife who detonated.
Birmingham Post and Mail (UK) 13-Aug-01
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Subj: Low
Student Scores In New York (S235)
From: bonehead on 7/30/2001
Bonehead award two goes to a
Brooklyn, New York Social
Studies teacher and the New
York City Board of Education.
The teacher, teaching a summer
school class of young people
who are having trouble in school,
sent three letters to the
New York Post complaining about
low teacher salaries, poor
student attendance and lack
of parent involvement. He
should have included unqualified
teachers as one of the
complaints, as his incoherent
letters would indicate.
"Only if our society realize
that there are so many factors
contributing to a student's
test score, then teachers will
be willing to take the blam
game. Who is to blam when
students don't do homeworks?
who is to blam when pareants
don't care to come to the teacher
pareant conference?" He
even misspelled his own course
as ''socail studies.''
And how could he have possibly
passed the state teacher
licensing exams when he cannot
even write coherently?
According to Schools Chancellor
Harold Levy, the tests are
not difficult. Worse,
they are not difficult and yet 12
percent of New York schoolteachers
who currently teach,
have flunked the state Education
Department's liberal
arts and science test and the
classroom test.
And what says the New York City
Board of Education
President Ninfa Segarra?
"We have some issues with teaching
quality. An example
like this shows it's worse than
we might have thought."
New York Post 13-Jul-01
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Subj: Time
Travel (S234)
From: bonehead on 7/25/2001
Professor Ronald L. Mallett,
professor of physics at the
University of Connecticut, says
he has found the secret to
travelling back and forward
in time, and many colleagues
are taking him seriously.
He says he has the mathematics
to back up his theory and
hopes in the next 10 years to
send subatomic particles back
in time, and then, eventually,
to transport humans.
It's based on Einstein's general
theory of relativity that
says gravity is the curvature
of space-time. This is why
strong gravitational fields
can bend light and slow down
clocks [all clocks, equally,
whether they be mechanical,
chemical, atomic, biological,
whatever]. You age slower
as the gravitational field you
are near becomes stronger.
So if one sends a laser beam
into a circle then a gravi-
tational field is created which
therefore
bends space.
Anything put into the middle
of the light loop is dragged
around by the gravitational
force. So having two laser
lights going in opposite directions,
and controlling the
intensity of the light or slowing
it down (using work
done at Harvard University and
Harvard-Smithsonian labs
recently), the gravitational
field intensifies. Get the
gravitational field up high
enough and time becomes space.
And if time becomes space, then
moving in space is
equivalent to moving in time,
forward or backward. It's
just a cakewalk back to the
50s or into the next decade.
Hartford Courant 23-Jul-01
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Subj: African's
Thoughts on Condoms And Aids (S234)
From: 'Perspective Column' on page 17
in July 23, 2001 issue of Newsweek
"It's like eating a sweet with
the wrapper; you cannot do
that. You have to have
sex, those who will die will die,
and whoever does not get AIDS,
then good for him."
Kenyan cab driver James Karijoki,
ignoring President
Daniel arap Moi's calls to use
condoms or abstain from
sex to curb the spread of AIDS.
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Subj: Three
Year Old Criminal (S234)
From: Scott's Joke Archive on 7/22/01
On October 1, Mikey Sproul, age
3, made national news when
he commandeered the family car,
which had one flat tire,
and cruised down U. S. 41 near
Tampa, Fla., hitting two
parked cars and narrowly missing
several moving ones.
Mikey's assessment: "I go zoom."
On November 11, using a cigarette
lighter, Mikey burned
down his family's house, sending
his father to the hospital
with second- and third-degree
burns. Mikey's assessment:
"Now I have no more house."
[Tampa Tribune, 10-2-93;
Minneapolis Star Tribune-AP,
11-14-93] (304)
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Subj: Computer
Car Navigator All Wet (S234)
POTSDAM, Germany (AP)
From: Scott's Joke Archive on 7/22/01
A German couple out for a Christmas
drive ended up in a
river, apparently because their
luxury car's computer forgot
to mention they had to wait
for a ferry. The driver and his
passenger were not injured in
the accident, police said
Saturday.
Several companies sell computer
navigators, some which are
attached to dashboards and serve
as electronic road maps.
Some offer traffic updates and
Internet connections.
The German couple was driving
Friday night when they came
to a ferry crossing at the Havel
River in Caputh. That
information was never stored
in the satellite-steered
navigation system they were
using. The driver kept going
straight in the dark, expecting
a bridge, and ended up in
the water.
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Subj: Better Education Would Outlaw
Stupid Crooks (S233)
By DAVE BARRY Published Sunday, July 15, 2001 in Miami Herald -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our educational system is failing. Our schools are producing students who are -- to quote from the conclusion of an 858-page report recently issued by a distinguished blue-ribbon Presidential Task Force On Educational Quality -- ``stupid.'' The drop in our national IQ has caused many problems, including Limp Bizkit, feng shui, the U.S. Department of Education and the cancerous growth of ``reality-based'' TV shows (``Tonight on Passion Farm: Nine complete strangers churn butter!''). But the most serious problem is that, as our population gets dumber, it becomes harder and harder to find qualified workers. Nowhere is this disturbing trend more evident than in the field of crime. |
Not so long ago, American criminals ranked among the best in the world. Foreigners were terrified to come here because our criminals were so good at making our streets unsafe. Today, however, we are producing incompetent criminals who not only have allowed the crime rate to drop alarmingly, but who also, when they DO attempt to break the law, commit crimes of a quality that is, frankly, embarrassing.
Consider a story from the March 10 issue of The (Annapolis, Md.) Capital, written by Brian Schleter and sent in by many alert readers. According to this article, an alleged parole violator was about to be taken into custody in the county courthouse in Annapolis when he suddenly ran from the courtroom. So far, so good; criminals are supposed to flee. The suspect, pursued by sheriff's deputies, ran into the nearby Maryland Inn, where he hid in a closet. This is still acceptably competent criminal behavior.
But then, according to The Capital, the man decided to disguise himself by putting on a bunny suit. I am not making this up. For some reason, which is not explained in The Capital article, the closet contained a full-size bunny suit, with large pink ears, and the suspect climbed into it. Maybe he thought this would fool the deputies.
FIRST DEPUTY: He ran into that closet!
SECOND DEPUTY (opening closet door): Nope! There's nobody in here but a giant bunny!
FIRST DEPUTY: Darn!
But the deputies were not deceived, and they apprehended the suspect after a struggle. The Capital quotes an inn employee as saying: ``It looked like they were attacking the Easter Bunny.''
As pathetic as that criminal was, he was Albert Einstein compared to our next example, whose story is told in a March 10 Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal article written by Jeff Jones and sent in by several alert readers. This article states that a man armed with a knife held up a Taco Bell and got $2,300. The robber wore a ski mask to disguise his identity. This plan would have worked flawlessly, except that, during the robbery, the robber made one teensy mistake: He pulled one of the Taco Bell workers aside, lifted his mask, and said, quote, ``It's me, Tim.''
Yes. It turns out that the robber used to work at this Taco Bell, and he chose that particular moment to say hi to a former co-worker. This meant that the police had a pretty good clue as to the identity of the robber -- namely, his name -- and thus were able to apprehend him, which is good, inasmuch as a person of his apparent mental caliber should not be walking around with a sharp object.
Speaking of weapons, another excellent example of the modern criminal mind is reported in a 1999 article from the Billings (Mont.) Gazette sent in by alert reader Jon Hauxwell, M.D. This article concerns a man who attempted to hold up a Billings gas station by pointing his finger at the clerk. According to a police spokesperson, the would-be robber ``took off running when the clerk said `no'.''
What a moron! You'd think our educational system would at LEAST have taught this man that, if he's going to scare people with his finger, he must demonstrate its menace by pointing it at the ceiling and going, ``Bang! Bang!''
I could give more examples, but you get my point: The once-proud American
crime industry has become a joke. To turn the situation around, we need
better-educated criminals; to produce them, we must give our schools more
resources, in the form of money. That is why I want you to put cash in
an envelope and mail it to me, so I can give it to the schools. I'm talking
about ALL your cash. Do it RIGHT NOW. Or else. Because this finger is loaded.
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Subj: A Little
History From the 1500s (S227, S444)
From: flovilla on 6/2/2001
and
From: auntiegah on 7/22/2005
Source: http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/1500.asp
Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June
because they took their
yearly bath in May and still
smelled pretty good by June.
However, they were starting
to smell so brides carried a
bouquet of flowers to hide the
body odor.
Baths consisted of a big tub
filled with hot water. The
man of the house had the privilege
of the nice clean water,
then all the other sons and
men, then the women and finally
the children -- last of all
the babies. By then the water
was so dirty you could actually
lose someone in it-hence
the saying, "Don't throw the
baby out with the bath water."
Houses had thatched roofs-thick
straw, piled high, with no
wood underneath. It was
the only place for animals to get
warm, so all the dogs, cats
and other small animals (mice
rats, and bugs) lived in the
roof. When it rained it became
slippery and sometimes the animals
would slip and fall off
the roof -- hence the
saying "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things
from falling into the
house. This posed a real
problem in the bedroom where bugs
and other droppings could really
mess up your nice clean bed.
Hence, a bed with big posts
and a sheet hung over the top
afforded some protection.
That's how canopy beds came into
existence.
The floor was dirt. Only
the wealthy had something other
than dirt, hence the saying
"dirt poor." The wealthy had
slate floors that would get
slippery in the winter when wet,
so they spread thresh on the
floor to help keep their footing.
As the winter wore on, they
kept adding more thresh until,
when you opened the door, it
would all start slipping outside.
A piece of wood was placed in
the entranceway -- hence, a
"thresh hold."
They cooked in the kitchen with
a big kettle that always hung
over the fire. Every day
they lit the fire and added things
to the pot. They ate mostly
vegetables and did not get much
meat. They would eat the
stew for dinner, leaving leftovers
in the pot to get cold overnight
and then start over the next
day. Sometimes the stew
had food in it that had been there
for quite a while -- hence the
rhyme, "peas porridge hot,
peas porridge cold, peas porridge
in the pot nine days old."
Sometimes they could obtain pork,
which made them feel quite
special. When visitors
came over, they would hang up their
bacon to show off. It
was a sign of wealth that a man "could
bring home the bacon."
They would cut off a little to share
with guests and would all sit
around and "chew the fat."
Those with money had plates made
of pewter. Food with a high
acid content caused some of
the lead to leach onto the food,
causing lead poisoning and death.
This happened most often
with tomatoes, so for the next
400 years or so, tomatoes were
considered poisonous.
Most people did not have pewter
plates, but had trenchers, a
piece of wood with the middle
scooped out like a bowl. Often
trenchers were made from stale
pays and bread which was so
old and hard that they could
use them for quite some time.
Trenchers were never washed
and a lot of times worms and mold
got into the wood and old bread.
After eating off wormy
moldy trenchers, one would get
"trench mouth."
Bread was divided according to
status. Workers got the burnt
bottom of the loaf, the family
got the middle, and guests got
the top, or "upper crust."
Lead cups were used to drink
ale or whiskey. The combination
would sometimes knock them out
for a couple of days. Someone
walking along the road would
take them for dead and prepare
them for burial. They
were laid out on the kitchen table for
a couple of days and the family
would gather around and eat
and drink and wait and see if
they would wake up hence the
custom of holding a "wake."
England is old and small and
they started out running out of
places to bury people.
So they would dig up coffins and
would take the bones to a "bone-house"
and reuse the grave.
When reopening these coffins,
1 out of 25 coffins were found
to have scratch marks on the
inside and they realized they
had been burying people alive.
So they thought they would
tie a string on the wrist of
the corpse, lead it through the
coffin and up through the ground
and tie it to a bell.
Someone would have to sit out
in the graveyard all night
(the "graveyard shift") to listen
for the bell; thus, some-
one could be "saved by the bell"
or was considered a "dead
ringer."
And that's the truth... (and
whoever said that History was
boring?!)
This is a great story, but it
is a hoax. See Snopes.com at
http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/1500.asp
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Subj: When
My Grandmother Was A Child (S162)
From: RFSlick on 2/26/00
A Hundred Years Ago --
(From a book called "When My
Grandmother Was a Child" by
Leigh W. Rutledge, which begins,
"In the summer of 1900,
when my grandmother was a child...")
- The average life expectancy in the United States was forty-seven.
- Only 14 percent of the homes in the United States had a bathtub.
- Only 8 percent of the homes
had a telephone. A three-minute
call from Denver to New
York City cost eleven dollars.
- There were only 8,000 cars
in the US and only 144 miles
of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities
was ten mph.
- Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa,
and Tennessee were each more
heavily populated than
California. With a mere 1.4 million
residents, California
was only the twenty-first most populous
state in the Union.
- The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
- The average wage in the US
was twenty-two cents an hour. The
average US worker made
between $200 and $400 per year.
- A competent accountant could
expect to earn $2000 per year,
a dentist $2500 per year,
a veterinarian between $1500 and
$4000 per year, and a
mechanical engineer about $5000 per year.
- More than 95 percent of all
births in the United States took
place at home.
- Ninety percent of all US physicians
had no college education.
Instead, they attended
medical schools, many of which were
condemned in the press
and by the government as "substandard."
- Sugar cost four cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a
dozen. Coffee cost
fifteen cents a pound.
- Most women only washed their
hair once a month and used borax
or egg yolks for shampoo.
- Canada passed a law prohibiting
poor people from entering the
country for any reason,
either as travelers or immigrants.
- The five leading causes of
death in the US were: 1) Pneumonia
and influenza, 2) Tuberculosis,
3) Diarrhea, 4) Heart disease,
5) Stroke.
- The American flag had 45 stars.
Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Hawaii and Alaska hadn't
been admitted to the Union yet.
- Drive-by shootings -- in which
teenage boys galloped down the
street on horses and
started randomly shooting at houses,
carriages, or anything
else that caught their fancy -- were
an ongoing problem in
Denver and other cities in the West.
- The population of Las Vegas,
Nevada was thirty. The remote
desert community was
inhabited by only a handful of ranchers
and their families.
- Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics
hadn't been discovered
yet. Scotch tape,
crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced
tea hadn't been invented.
- There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
- One in ten US adults couldn't
read or write. Only 6 percent
of all Americans had
graduated from high school.
- Some medical authorities warned
that professional seamstresses
were apt to become sexually
aroused by the steady rhythm, hour
after hour, of the sewing
machine's foot pedals. They
recommended slipping
bromide - which was thought to diminish
sexual desire - into
the women's drinking water.
- Marijuana, heroin, and morphine
were all available over the
counter at corner drugstores.
According to one pharmacist,
"Heroin clears the complexion,
gives buoyancy to the mind,
regulates the stomach
and the bowels, and is, in fact, a
perfect guardian of health."
- Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of caffeine.
- Punch-card data processing
had recently been developed, and
early predecessors of
the modern computer were used for the
first time by the government
to help compile the 1900 census.
- Eighteen percent of households
in the United States had at
least one full-time servant
or domestic.
- There were about 230 reported murders in the US annually.
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Subj: Moon
on December 22, 1999 (S150, DU)
From: gheckman on 12/15/1999
Last Lunar Hurrah of the Millennium.
This year will be the first full
moon to occur on the winter
solstice, December 22, commonly
called the First Day of Winter,
in 133 years. Since the
full moon on the winter solstice will
occur in conjunction with a
lunar perigee, the point in the
moon's orbit that is closest
to Earth, the moon will appear
about 14 per cent larger than
it does at apogee, the point in
its elliptical orbit that is
farthest from the Earth. The Earth
is also several million miles
closer to the sun than in the
summer, and sunlight striking
the moon will be about 7 per cent
stronger making it brighter.
Also, this will be the closest
perigee of the Moon of the year,
since the moon's orbit is
constantly deforming.
In layman's terms, it will be
a super bright full moon, much
more than the usual AND it hasn't
happened this way for 133
years. If the weather
is clear and there isn't a snow cover
where you live, it is believed
that even car headlights will
be superfluous. Our ancestors
133 years ago saw this. Our
descendants 100 or so years
from now will see this again.
Remember, this will happen December 22, 1999.
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