Delbert McClinton is the harmonica on Bruce Chanel's old hit "Hey, Baby"

Hey, hey, hey baby
I wanna know
If you'll be my girl.....

Back in the 60s, McClinton once gave harmonica lessons to John Lennon before the Beatles became a huge sensation.

Baskin Robbins uses smaller scoops (kids size) for it's sundaes than the regular size scoops. Therefore, two scoops with a topping added as an afterthought will cost more than a sundae.

Mother's Day is still the busiest day of the year for florists, restaurants and long distance phone companies. Father's Day is the day on which the most collect phone calls are made.

Father's Day goes back to a Sunday morning in May of 1909, when a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd was sitting in church in Spokane, Washington, listening to a Mother's Day sermon. She thought of her father who had raised her and her siblings after her mother died in childbirth, and she thought that fathers should get recognition too.

So she asked the minister of the church if he would deliver a sermon honoring fathers on her father's birthday, which was coming up in June, and the minister did. And the tradition of Father's Day caught on, though rather slowly. Mother's Day became an official holiday in 1914; Father's Day, not until 1972.

Wilt Chamberlain is the only NBA player to ever score 100 points in a single game. He did it in 1965 while playing for the Philadelphia Warriors. They were playing the New York Knicks in Hershey, PA. He did it in the era before the 3-point shot.

The second highest score for a player in a single game is something like 78 by David T.......and that record dates to about 1985.

Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

Nondairy creamer is flammable.

The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.

If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F."

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.


Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Your foot is the same length as the length of your forearm, measured from your inner elbow to your wrist.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

Every second, your senses send about 100 million different messages to your brain.

Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
*Obsession

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the honeymoon.

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is he phrase
inspired by this practice.

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

AND FINALLY
At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

In Jesus' time, the word hypocrite was the word used for an actor.....so, when Jesus said, "Don't pray like the hypocrites," he was telling people not to pray for the big effect of it. And when he said not to do good deeds like the hypocrites did them - to be praised by men - he was telling them not to do it for the showiness and the praise. Due to several other references he makes, it is reasonable that he was familiar with the theatre of his day.

It's Midsummer Night's Eve, also called St. John's Eve. St. John is the patron saint of beekeepers. It's a time when the hives are full of honey. So the full moon that comes this month was called the "mead moon" because honey was fermented to make mead, which is where the word "honeymoon" comes from. It's a time for lovers. As an old Swedish proverb says, "Midsummer night is not long, but it sets many cradles rocking."

(The above is from "The Writer's Almanac" by Garrisoh Keillor. If it's wrong, it's not my fault.)

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Actual Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays:

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling
ball wouldn't.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. "Oh, Jason, take me!"; she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night.

23. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

24. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

25. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

26. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

27. She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword.

28. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.

29. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

30. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

The largest convention center/hotel outside the Las Vegas area is in Nashville, TN. It is the Gaylord Opryland Hotel.

On this day in 1963, 1,250,000 West Berliners turned out to welcome President Kennedy to their city. He made his famous speech that ended with the line, "As a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner,'" not knowing that in Berlin, the word "Berliner" was a pastry. And so Berliners stood solemnly as the president of the United States told them, "I am a cupcake."



In 1974 on this date, barcodes were first used in supermarket checkout lanes.



It was on this day in 2000, that rival scientific teams completed the first rough map of the human genome. Scientists had discovered the structure of DNA back in 1953, but it took the Human Genome Project nearly 50 years to pin down exactly how DNA makes us who we are.

They discovered that there is only a modest amount of genetic variation. The DNA of any two humans is about 99.9 percent identical.

(All this is according to "The Writer's Almanac" by Garrison Keillor)

Orville Wright numbered the eggs that his chickens produced so he could eat them in the order they were laid.

oh, that sounds like an OCD person to me....hmmmm, wonder if ever made omelets?

Let us once again hear from Garrison Keillor.................

It was on this day in 1829, the Englishman James Smithson died. Even though he'd never been to America, he left behind a will that provided the money to found the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

July 1, 1938 was the date on which the first Superman comic book appeared.

07/05/1954 - Elvis Presley recorded his first rock and roll song, "That's All Right, Mama." Elvis loved to sing ballads, slow ballads, but at the Sun Studios in Memphis, Sam Phillips persuaded him to do an up-tempo song. A few weeks later, he sang it at a music show at an outdoor park. He was so nervous that he started shaking his leg in rhythm to the music as he sang, and the girls in the audience went crazy.

For his first session at Sun Records, Elvis wore a white lace shirt and pink pants with a black stripe up the sides.

An Old Farmer's Advice:


* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and
bull-strong.

* Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.

* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a
John Deere tractor.

* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.

* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner
than you.

* You cannot unsay a cruel word.

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

* The best sermons are lived, not preached.

* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get
older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't
botherin' you none.

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with,watches you from the mirror every mornin'

* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot
easier than puttin' it back in.

* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some
influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God...

Fantastic. I am entertaining my office staff with these.

PS Everyone tried to lick their elbows <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Oh my. Did anyone actually REACH their elbows?? .. I can just see everyone in Cubicle-Land trying... heheheee. Kinda reminds me of that new Capital One commercial about.. 'what's in YOUR wallet' where the guy says NO all the time and the angry guy chased him thru the office... LOL geez we got some stoopit commercials out these days...
Just curious. I was going to try it till I read that 75 percent did try..
LOL,
TDLOM

Please don't simply post all the "THIS IS REALLY TRUE" emails you get.
A large portion of them are NOT true/correct, but they get passed around continuously and become "true" ie. an urban legend (not true).