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| This Seems Wrong...
It's well known that Roger Bannister was the first man to break the four-minute mile. However, it's less commonly known he did not set this mark in an actual race. On May 6, 1954, he ran 3:59.4 while being carefully paced by other runners. (Bannister's quarter-mile ...
| Sports Facts |
| A Small Town Spared
Genesis 19:17-22
17 As soon as the angels had brought them out, one of them spoke. He said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back! Don’t stop anywhere in the valley! Run to the mountains! If you don’t, you will be swept away!”
18/19 But Lot said to them, ...
| Bible |
| Knowledge vs. Wisdom
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience ...
| Philosophy |
| You Might Be a Redneck 3...
You might be a redneck if...
...you and your girlfriend broke up and she said you could still be cousins.
or
...you have ever set up a lawn chair next to a highway and cheered for the people driving to work!
| Humor |
| Endurance
It's a documented fact that humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet, able to beat horses (and everything else) in marathon distance races.
| Sports Facts |
| Lot Escapes Sodom
Genesis 19:15-16
15 When morning came, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, Arise, take your wife and two daughters who are here and be off, lest you be consumed and swept away in the iniquity and punishment of the city.
16 But while Lot lingered, ...
| Bible |
| Risk
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
-- John Paul Jones
| Philosophy |
| Last Words
Q: What were the redneck's last words?
A: I can do that!
| Humor |
| Pent Up Aggression
It's said that legendary boxer Cassius Clay - later known as Muhammad Ali - once went two months without sex before a big fight, claiming it made him unbeatable in the ring.
| Sports Facts |
| The Angels' Verdict
Genesis 19:11-13
11 And they struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, from the youths to the old men, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
12 And the angels asked Lot, "Have you any others here - sons-in-law or your ...
| Bible |
| Grasshopper
A grasshopper hops into a bar and the bartender says, 'Hey, we have a drink named after you!'
The grasshopper looks surprised and says, 'You have a drink named Steve?'
| Humor |
| Mr. Good Wrench
Boxing great and heavyweight champion Jack Johnson also invented the household wrench in 1922.
| Sports Facts |
| To Worship a President
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
| Philosophy |
| The Angels Save Lot
Genesis 19:9-10
9 But the Sodomites said, "Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow came in to live here temporarily, and now he presumes to be our judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." So they rushed at and pressed violently against Lot ...
| Bible |
| Old-School Tech Problem
Back in the day, a customer service call center of a national pager company dealt with the usual complaints regarding poor pager operation, as well as the occasional crank caller demanding to be paged less often, more often, or by more interesting people. ...
| Humor |
| Not Morning People
Surprisingly, track athletes are most likely to break records late in the day, when their body temperatures are at their highest.
| Sports Facts |
| Hating Success
John McEnroe: "Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people."
| Philosophy |
| Lot's Attempt at Bribery
Genesis 19:6-8
6-7 Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him, and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
8 Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as ...
| Bible |
| Tossed Off
Q: If a blonde and a brunette are tossed off a building, who hits the ground first?
A: The brunette. The blonde has to stop to ask for directions.
| Humor |
| Change is Good
Did you know that until 1937, the referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in a basketball game? Good thing they changed that rule!
| Sports Facts |
| The Conscience
Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the ...
| Philosophy |
| Sodomites True Colors
Genesis 19:4-5
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
5 And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that ...
| Bible |
| Favorite Fruit (bonus joke 3 of 3)
Girl: What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit?
Boy: I have no idea.
Girl: A necktarine!
| Humor |
| Extra Sock (bonus joke 2 of 3)
Boy: Why did the monster’s mother knit him three socks?
Girl: I have no idea.
Boy: She heard he grew another foot!
| Humor |
| Riding in Elevators (bonus joke 1 of 3)
Girl: Why do ghosts like to ride in elevators?
Boy: Why?
Girl: It raises their spirits.
| Humor |