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by Kathy WolfeA fool is defined as “somebody considered to lack good sense or judgment.” See if you agree if this description ap-plies to these folks. • After a voice was heard crying for help inside the wall of a
Sweden hotel, firefighters broke into a chimney pipe only to find a 22-year-old man who had been trapped there for nine hours. After overindulging at the hotel’s bar, he de-cided to get some air on the roof, only to fall 45 feet down the chimney.
• It was the brainstorm of Maryland State Police to place mannequins in old patrol cars along the interstate in an attempt to discourage speeding. The actual result was a flood of telephone calls from people worried about pos-sible injuries to officers who appeared very stiff. The de-partment’s next move was to place signs in the car win-dows enlightening drivers that these weren’t real troopers.
• Eddie Boyd made a foolish decision back in 1954 when he was listening to auditions for singers for his band. A nervous young truck driver who was earning $40 a week stepped on stage and performed a couple of numbers. Ed-die rejected the singer, telling him to stick with his current job “because you’re never going to make it as a singer.” That truck driver was none other than Elvis Presley.
• When a fire erupted in a shed on a young man’s property, he quickly called 911 to alert the fire department. Appar-ently he forgot he was illegally growing marijuana in the shed.
• Three janitors at a California high school were attempting to trap a gopher on the loose in the building. After finally cornering it in the school’s utility room, they sprayed it with numerous cans of solvent designed to remove gum from floors. Who knows why, but one of the janitors lit a cigarette in the room, which ignited the solvents. The custodians were blasted out of the room and 16 students were injured. Of course, the gopher escaped unharmed.
• Sweet revenge? A jilted Australian woman snuck into the wedding site of her former boyfriend dressed as a gar-dener, carrying a bucket of fresh cow manure. It was her intention to douse the groom as he prepared to enter the
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Page 2 For Advertising Call 251-285-4116 church. However, he was inaccessible, surrounded by friends. She instead opted for the bride and covered the poor woman from head to toe. The culprit was chased down and later pleaded guilty to assault charges and was forced to pay restitution. Her actions did nothing to stop the wedding, however, which went ahead with the bride borrowing one of the bridesmaid’s dresses.
• Move over, Orson Welles! In behavior that rivaled Welles’ Halloween “War of the Worlds” broadcast prank, on April Fools’ Day 1993, a San Diego deejay told listeners that the space shuttle Discovery would be landing at the city’s airport that morning at 8:30. Hundreds of foolish folks, carrying their video cameras, clogged the highways in an attempt to reach the field without considering that no space shuttle was in orbit at the time, or that the airport was too small to support the craft. The deejay’s com-ments? “I just light these bombs, and then I run away.”
• When a Royal Canadian Mountie found a man meander-ing down the highway in his boxer shorts, he stopped to investigate. It seems his wife was driving, towing their trailer as he relaxed in the craft. When several bears were crossing the road, she stopped, and he stepped out of the trailer to see what was going on. As soon as the road was clear, she stepped on the gas, leaving her husband strand-ed in his skivvies. The police drove 70 miles before catch-ing up with her.
• Don’t try this at home! When an Ohio gentleman experi-enced gas line freeze in his car, he was sure that heating up gasoline on the stove would solve that problem in a hurry. It’s no surprise that the fumes ignited, and when he threw a blanket on the fire, the flames quickly spread and destroyed his kitchen.
• Turn it down! A young British man had the volume so high on his headphones while listening to music that he missed the crash of a Cessna 150 plane on his front lawn. He happened to look out the kitchen window and observed “dozens of people running around my garden,” as rescu-ers came to the aid of the plane’s two injured passengers.
• It’s true. Smoking cigarettes can lead to lung cancer. Just ask the families of two men who gained fame on bill-boards as the Marlboro Man. Former professional rodeo rider Wayne McLaren modeled for the ads in the mid-1970s. His pack-and-a-half-a-day habit contributed to his death from lung cancer at age 51. David McLean, who was the Man in the 1960s, succumbed to the disease as well, and his family filed a suit against Phillip Morris, contending that McLean sometimes had had to smoke up to five packs per photo shoot as the cameraman attempted to “get the right look.”
• You’re a fool if you believe that it takes two years for your stomach to digest a piece of chewing gum. It digests and is eliminated at the same rate as anything else the body ingests. And another popular myth is also false — Don’t store your batteries in the freezer thinking it will prolong their life. The Duracell company states that extreme cold actually reduces the performance of batteries.
• Who was the dummy here? A New Jersey sheriff’s deputy was craving a snooze while on guard duty at the Somerset County courthouse, so he propped up a disguised dummy in his place. Not surprisingly, the switch was discovered, and he was suspended for three days without pay.
• After studying a year’s worth of reports of fatal accidents involving over-the-road trucks, a 1994 National Transpor-tation Safety Board report concluded that too many truck drivers fall asleep at the wheel because they’re sleepy. Gee, ya think?
• Officials at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport concluded that it was important to have bilingual signs at the facility, but they weren’t very careful about the pro-cess. One sign was to advise travelers to declare all plants, produce and meat, and to warn them that those not doing so would be fined. Up went the sign reading Violadores Seran Finados, which actually translated “Violators Will Be Deceased.”
• What are the chances? In an anatomy class at the Univer-sity of Alabama medical school, nine donated cadavers were lined up for dissection by the students. As one of the students prepared to begin her assignment, she discovered that one of the cadavers was her great-aunt. The school quickly made a substitution.
1. MATH: What is the Roman numeral for the Arabic number 400?2. PERFORMANCES: At what event would someone perform a maneuver called the veronica?3. EXPLORATION: What was the sextant once used for?4. MUSIC: What does the musical term “con bravura” mean?5. LANGUAGE: In Arabic, what is the country of Morocco called?6. INVENTIONS: What common drug was introduced to the world by Felix Hoffmann?7. MEASUREMENTS: What is the basic unit of temperature?8. MOVIES: What did the dwarfs do for a living in Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”?9. GEOGRAPHY: Which nation has a major wine-producing region called Adelaide Hills? 10. LITERATURE: What was the pen name of writer Mary Ann Evans?
Answers 1. CD 2. Bullfighting 3. Navigation 4. With boldness 5. Al-Magrib 6. Aspirin 7. Kelvin 8. Miners 9. Australia 10. George Eliot
¥ On April 17, 1790, American statesman, printer, scientist and writer Benjamin Franklin dies in Phila-delphia at age 84. Deeply interested in science and technology, his inventions include the Franklin stove, bifocal eyeglasses and the lightning rod.
¥ On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France, abdicates the throne and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean is-land of Elba. He died at age 52 on May 5, 1821, pos-sibly from stomach cancer, although some theories contend he was poisoned.
¥ On April 12, 1908, a fire in Chelsea, Mass., at the Boston Blacking Company leaves 12 dead, 85 miss-ing and presumed dead and more than 17,000 home-less. Due to high winds, a good portion of the city burned. It took nearly 10 years for Chelsea to be com-pletely rebuilt.
¥ On April 16, 1943, in Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lyser-gic acid compounds. Widespread use of the so-called mind-expanding drug did not begin until the 1960s.
¥ On April 15, 1959, new Cuban leader Fidel Cas-tro visits the United States. The trip got off to an in-auspicious start when it became clear that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had no intention of meeting with Castro. Instead, Eisenhower went to the golf course to avoid any chance meeting.
¥ On April 13, 1964, Sydney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role as a construction worker in “Lilies of the Field” (1963). He debuted on Broadway in 1946 in an all-black production of “Lysistrata,” and by 1950 he was appearing in Hollywood films, begin-ning with “No Way Out.”
¥ On April 14, 1975, the American airlift of Viet-namese orphans to the United States ends after 2,600 children are transported to America. Operation Baby Lift lasted 10 days and was carried out during the fi-nal, desperate phase of the war, as North Vietnamese forces were closing in on Saigon.
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Salt and pepper3 tablespoons margarine or butter1/2 cup fresh bread crumbs2 large (10 to 12 ounces each) onions, thinly sliced1 pound gemelli1 pound 26- to 30-count shrimp, shelled and deveined, with tail part of shell left on, if you like1 pound small broccoli florets
1. Heat covered 6-quart pot of water to boiling on high. Add 2 teaspoons salt.2. In 12-inch skillet, melt 1/2 tablespoon margarine on medium-high. Add bread crumbs and cook 2 to 3 minutes or until golden brown, stirring frequently. Stir in pinch salt and freshly ground black pepper. Transfer to plate.3. In same skillet, melt 2 tablespoons margarine on me-dium. Stir in onions and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Cover and cook 20 minutes or until golden and very tender, stirring occa-sionally.4. Meanwhile, add pasta to boiling water in pot. Cook 4 minutes less than minimum time that label directs, stirring occasionally. Add shrimp and broccoli and cook 3 minutes. Reserve 1 cup pasta cooking water. Drain pasta mixture and return to pot.5. Add onion mixture, reserved cooking water, 1/2 tea-spoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper and remaining 1/2 tablespoon margarine. Cook on medium 2 minutes, tossing to coat. To serve, top with reserved toast-ed breadcrumbs. Serves 6.
¥ Each serving: About 455 calories, 8g total fat (2g satu-rated), 112mg cholesterol, 660mg sodium, 72g total carbs, 7g dietary fiber, 26g protein.
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Light and fresh, this Asian-inspired dish tantalizes with the scents of ginger, soy and green onion. Low-cal shrimp and nearly two pounds of nutrient-rich cabbage keep it health-ful.
Salt and pepper3 tablespoons vegetable oil1 bunch green onions, thinly sliced1 tablespoon peeled finely chopped fresh ginger1 pound shelled and deveined 16- to 20-count shrimp, with tail part of shrimp left on, if you like3/4 cup water1/3 cup lower-sodium soy sauce2 bags (14- to 16-ounce) shredded cabbage mix for cole-slaw1 pound rice noodles
1. Heat covered 6-quart pot of water to boiling on high. Add 2 teaspoons salt.2. In 12-inch skillet, heat oil on medium. Add green onions and ginger; cook 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle shrimp with 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper. Add shrimp to skillet in single layer; cook 3 to 4 minutes or until shrimp just turn opaque, stirring frequently. Transfer shrimp to medium bowl.3. To same skillet, add 3/4 cup water and soy sauce, scrap-ing up browned bits. Stir in cabbage mix; cover and cook 6 to 7 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender, stirring often.4. Meanwhile, add noodles to boiling water in pot. Cook minimum time that label directs, stirring occasionally. Drain well; rinse under cold water and drain again. Return to pot; add shrimp and vegetable mixture, tossing until well combined. Serves 6.
Tip: We like to use flat, 1/8-inch-wide dried rice noodles, often labeled pad Thai, thin rice noodles or rice sticks.
¥ Each serving: About 455 calories, 8g total fat (1g satu-rated), 115mg cholesterol, 1050mg sodium, 75g total car-bohydrate, 4g dietary fiber, 18g protein.
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In a large zip-lock storage bag, combine cereal, marshmallows, peanuts, raisins and chocolate chips. Seal bag and shake well to combine. Store mixture in an airtight container. Mix well before serving. Makes 8 (3/4 cup ) servings.
¥ Each serving equals: 201 calories, 5g fat, 3g pro-tein, 36g carb., 150mg sodium, 2g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 1 Starch/Carb., 1 Fruit, 1 Fat.
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***Q: Recently my mother died at the age of 96. She had a lovely home, decorated beautifully with Early American decor. I am considering disposing of many of these items at a garage sale, but I do not want to sell something for 50 cents that is worth $50. How do I find someone who can provide me with values that I can trust? -- Christie, Rio Rancho, N.M.A: You should hire a certified appraiser who has expertise in determining the values of both household and estate items. Use the business pages of the phone book to find appraisers in your region. Call several to find one that you feel comfort-able with. Don’t be hesitant to ask for references, and expect to pay a fee for his or her help. There are generally two types of appraisals, written and verbal. A written appraisal is of-ten itemized and costs a little more than a verbal assessment. When I liquidated my mother’s estate several years ago, my sister and I avoided the stress of garage sales by making do-nations to local charities.
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Many empty seats were visible at Bristol Motor Speedway’s recent Jeff Byrd 500 Presented by Food City. There used to be a six-year waiting list for tickets to Sprint Cup races at the 160,000-seat amphitheater. (Photo: Getty Images)
Where Did All the Fans Go?
BRISTOL, Tenn. -- When I first began writing about NASCAR, the track in North Wilkesboro had 60,000
seats. Then Bruton Smith and Bob Bahre carved it up as if they were diplomats playing Monopoly with conquered land, and the capacity was revealed to be 37,000. Same when International Speedway Corporation got its hands on Martinsville and alleged attendance dropped by a third even though the grandstands remained the same.Old newsreels of Darlington in the 1960s claim 80,000 fans. Now the track has three times as many seats and draws 20,000 fewer fans. I know people have gotten larg-er, myself notably included, but not that much.Forgive me if I don’t take what NASCAR types tell me at face value.Bristol once allowed as how it had a six-year waiting list for tickets. Fontana blamed the Academy Awards for fall-ing attendance. NASCAR itself claims it’s going to put carburetor restrictor plates on engines that don’t have car-buretors next year.Nineteen years in Wonderland, a few with Alice sitting next to me in the press box, have left me just a tad cyni-cal where the Greater NASCAR Chamber of Commerce is concerned. Before I feel inclined to dwell not on “the people who weren’t there” at Bristol Motor Speedway but the “120,000 who were,” I’d have to believe in the exis-tence of 120,000, which I don’t. I could argue success-fully to a jury the wisdom of not believing a word I hear, but I’m not inclined to do so in part because journalism is more difficult when it dwells on what isn’t instead of what is. To do so would be to adapt NASCAR’s business practices to my own.A lot of the people who weren’t in the grandstands also weren’t in the campgrounds surrounding the track. Some of that is surely attributable to the economy, the price of gas and everything it affects (which is ... everything), the uncertainty of the world political situation, flooding in
New Zealand and catastrophe in Japan.But I doubt 50,000 race fans spent Sunday collecting foodstuffs for disaster relief.The more I think about it, the more I believe that one factor is the aging fan base. The more I think about it, the more I believe that the people missing from the grand-stands were the people missing from the campgrounds.The crowd isn’t as rowdy because it isn’t as young. A man gets up in his 50s and he isn’t inclined to rough it as much. Where five years ago, he (and, yes, she) stumbled around for three days and three nights, eschewing shirts and showers in favor of booze and carousing, nowadays the mantra is “let’s not and say we did.” That couch feels a lot better on race days than the cold, hard ground and navigating the bonfires from inside a fishbowl.Six or seven years ago, NASCAR claimed most of its fans were God-fearing, gun-toting, Rhodes scholars with family values, a successful practice and a six-figure in-come. There were 75 million of them watching on TV, even though only a couple dozen such people actually existed.Meanwhile, the empty seats aren’t buying hot dogs, not even the ones at Martinsville.
Alec Baldwin, who “rocked” the 2009 Oscar Awards with Steve Martin and “rolls” every week on “30 Rock,” is taking singing lessons for his role in “Rock of Ages.” The movie version of the hit Broadway musical also stars Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough and Mary J. Blige. Alec says he’ll do his own singing but ada-mantly stresses, “I draw the line at doing ANY dancing.” (Even with Julianne Hough? I guess we’ll never see him on her show “Dancing With the Stars”!)
Lea Michele sang “Don’t Rain on My Parade” on “Glee” and is the front-runner to fill Barbra Streisand’s shoes in the musical “Funny Girl,” which is headed for Broadway. Streisand, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Fanny Brice, was quoted as saying, “My niece got a DVD of ‘Funny Girl’ and asked why I was singing a song from ‘Glee’!!” Lea’s stage experience in “Ragtime,” “Les Miserables” and “Spring Awakening” on Broadway will come in handy. She’s currently shooting Garry Marshall’s latest film, “New Year’s Eve,” playing a backup singer for Jon Bon Jovi.And speaking of “New Year’s Eve,” what an all-star cast: Ashton Kutcher, a man who hates New Year’s Eve; Robert De Niro, a man dying in a hospital; Katherine Heigl, a caterer working on New Year’s Eve; Michele Pfeiffer, a frustrated executive secretary tackling unfulfilled resolu-tions; Jessica Biel, a woman giving birth; Hillary Swank, a producer of a Times Square New Year’s Eve show; and “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara and SNL’s Seth Meyers as expectant parents. Plus Zac Efron, Abigail Breslin, Sienna Miller, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alyssa Milano, Ice Cube, Josh Duhamel and Ryan Seacrest, as himself! Most of these stars will have quick, funny cameos or else the film would have to be six hours long. It will be a lot like Marshall’s (of “Happy Days”/”Laverne & Shirley” fame) “Valentine’s Day.” We’ll see it Dec. 9.The multi-talented Tom Hanks is at it again, writing (with “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” star Nia Vardalos), producing, directing and starring in “Larry Crowne”. He’ll reunite with his “Charlie Wilson’s War” co-star Julia Roberts, along with Vardalos and “Breaking Bad’s” Bryan Cranston. The last time Hanks directed a film by himself was the 1996 movie “That Thing You Do.” “Larry Crowne” is due for release July 1.It will be hard for him to top his “Toy Story 3,” the highest-grossing film of 2010, but Hanks -- who won back-to-back Oscars for “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump” -- can do anything. With a career like his, all we can say is (t)hanks for the memories!
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1. Who sang the popular “Fernando,” and when?2. Where did the 1960s band Buffalo Springfield get its name?3. In “Tell Laura I Love Her,” why does Tommy enter a drag race?4. Which singer released “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get
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Answers1. Swedish group ABBA, in 1975. The song was translated into other languages and hit No. 1 on the charts of at least 13 countries.2. From the side of a steamroller, made by the Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company, parked on the street outside a band member’s house in Los Angeles.3. In the 1960 hit, Tommy wants the prize money so he can buy Laura a wedding ring. As in all teen tragedy songs, he dies after his car crashes.4. Michael Jackson in 1979. On his “Off the Wall” album, the song was more than six minutes long.5. Cher, in 1989. The song was on her 20th album, “Heart of Stone.” In the video, a scantily dressed Cher entertains sailors on a battleship in a naval shipyard.6. Perry Como, in 1956.
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¥ It was American educator Laurence J. Peter who made the following sage observation: “An economist is an ex-pert who will know tomorrow why the things he pre-dicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” Incidentally, he also came up with what’s known as the Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
¥ Ever wonder why it’s called the silver screen? In the early days of the cinema industry, the projection screens were embedded with real silver to enhance the reflective nature of the surface.
¥ Greyhounds have better eyesight than any other breed of dog.
¥ Worried about grocery prices going up? How’s this for a pricey egg: In 2007, a Faberge egg was sold at auction for nearly $16.5 million. Good thing the ones used in your omelets aren’t encrusted with jewels. ¥ Those who study such things say that Americans drink more carbonated beverages every year than coffee, tea, sports drinks and juice combined. ¥ A legislator in the Louisiana State House of Represen-tatives once introduced a bill that would make it illegal to charge a bald man more than 25 cents for a haircut.
¥ The plant formally known as titan arum produces the largest cluster of flowers in the world, sometimes reach-ing more than 10 feet in height. What’s perhaps even more notable, though, is its odor: The plant gives off a strong smell that is most often compared to that of a decomposing animal. Hence the plant’s more common name, the corpse flower.***Thought for the Day: “First there is a time when we be-lieve everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again -- and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.” -- Georg Christoph Lichten-berg
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it took the famer all day to do. The USDA tells us that in
1965, the yield per acre was about 74 bushels. Today, that
figure is 154 bushels per acre.
• Inside each corn plant there are two flowering parts or
“inflorescences.” The male part is the tassel, and the silks
are the female parts. Each tassel releases as many as five
million grains of pollen. The silks complete the fertiliza-
tion process by transporting the pollen to the developing
ear of corn, and each spot on the cob becomes a kernel.
There is one piece of silk for each kernel. Every ear of
corn has an even number of rows, anywhere from eight
to about 22 rows. The average ear contains 800 kernels
arranged in 16 rows.
• Why are there ears of corn with missing kernels? It’s like-
ly because it was a hot summer, and the silks dried out
before all the cob’s sites were fertilized.
• An average corn plant growing under optimal conditions
will be about 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall by the middle of the
summer. Its roots will reach an amazing 6.5 feet (2 me-
ters) into the ground.
• Ever year, one U.S. farmer will provide food for 129 peo-
ple. Half of the U.S. supply comes from only four states
— Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and Minnesota. About 55 per-
cent of Iowa’s corn is exported to foreign markets.
• The state of Iowa grows more corn than any other U.S.
state, producing more in a year than most countries. In
fact, Iowa, with an area of 56,276 square miles (145,754
sq. km), grows three times as much corn as Argentina,
whose area is 1,068,296 square miles (2,766,890 sq. km).
Most of Iowa’s corn won’t ever make it to the dinner
table. As little as 0.04 percent grown is sweet corn, just
about 4,900 acres out of a whopping 11.9 million acres.
The largest portion is used for animal feed. One bushel
of corn will eventually yield 5.6 pounds (2.54 kg) of beef
at the store, or 13 pounds (5.9 kg) of pork, or 32 pounds
(14.5 kg) of chicken.
• As with all fresh produce, sweet corn tastes much bet-
ter the sooner it is eaten after being picked. After just six
hours at room temperature after picking, it loses up to 40
percent of its sugar content. And don’t husk it until you’re
ready to eat it.
• Do you know the difference between white and yellow
corn? White is smaller and sweeter than yellow.
• If you’re having a bowl of corn flakes for breakfast, those
flakes are only about 8 percent corn.
• Edward “Cookie” Jarvis travels around America compet-
ing in speed-eating competitions and holds a number of
records. Cookie has set a record by devouring 33 ½ ears
of corn in just 12 minutes. He has even been featured in
a Discovery Channel documentary entitled “Gut Busters.
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