World's Smallest Newsletter

October 2006

Seen on tombstones: Get your dog away from my tombstone!" "I can see up your dress." "Don't eat at Joe's." "I feel rotten."

To influence a child, one must be careful not to be its parent or grandparent.

SHORTS: Koala bears are not bears. Olympic gold metals are not gold. Canada has 52,455 islands. Whale songs rhyme.

Over 20% or pirates were women. Grace O'Malley (Ireland), is the most influential in history,

In 1900, average American drank 12 sodas a year. Today it's 556.

Most popular pope names: John (23) plus two John Pauls; Gregory (16); Benedict (15) and Clement (14).

On average, your heart beats 100,000 times a day.

Hollywood: Where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. - Walter Winchell

Over 180 million neckties are bought annually in the US. If they were knotted end to end, they would encircle the globe three times.

Bob Hope said, on never winning an Oscar, "Welcome to the Academy Awards, or as it's called at my house, 'Passover'."

A pigeon's bones weight less than its feathers.

Jack-O-Lanterns originated in Ireland. People placed candles in hollowed out turnips to ward off evil spirits and ghosts.

Blue Whales can weight as much as 30 elephants and be as long as three Greyhound buses.

Highway accidents are the #1 cause of death on the job, even for policemen.

Most chocolate sales are on Halloween, followed by Christmas, Easter and Valentine's Day.

"Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without your accordion." - Jed Babbin

What is the only venomous mammal in the world?

A Memphis dairy offered a free pint of ice cream to anyone sending in a four-leaf clover. They received 50,000 on the first day alone, and quickly canceled their offer!

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