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| America's Team and Coach
Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry was the first coach to ever win 100 games with one team in one decade.
| Sports Facts |
| Romance Interruptus
A man and woman were having a quiet, romantic dinner in a fine restaurant. They were gazing lovingly at each other and holding hands.
Their waitress, taking another order at a table a few steps away, suddenly noticed the man slowly sliding down his chair ...
| Humor |
| Great Truth Indeed
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
| Philosophy |
| More Precious than Rubies
Proverbs 8:10-11
Choose my instruction instead of silver,
knowledge rather than choice gold,
for wisdom is more precious than rubies,
and nothing you desire can compare with her.
| Bible |
| Top 5 Most Dangerous Sports
5. Baseball - 763,00 reported injuries
4. Skateboarding - The whole point is to do dangerous stuff!
3. Cycling (most likely to get killed next to motorsports)
2. Basketball - 2,560,00 injuries reported in 2012
1. Football - King of head injuries with 274,455 ...
| Sports Facts |
| Yugoslav Proverb
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
| Philosophy |
| Bubba and Earl
Two rednecks, Bubba and Earl, were driving down the road drinking a couple of bottles of Bud.The passenger, Bubba, said "lookey thar up ahead, Earl, it's a poll-ice roadblock!! We're gonna get busted fer drinkin' these here beers!!" Don't worry, Bubba", Earl ...
| Humor |
| Abram and Sarai Travel to Egypt
Genesis 12: 10-13
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. When the Egyptians ...
| Bible |
| Hopscotching Togas
Hopscotch is believed to have started back in Roman times. Soldiers used to play it to keep fit, on courses which were as long as 100 feet.
| Sports Facts |
| The Public Never Forgets
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene McCarthy
| Philosophy |
| IRS Motto?
We've got what it takes...
to take what you've got!
| Humor |
| The Call of Abram
Genesis 12:1-3
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
“I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be ...
| Bible |
| The Last Spitball
Even though it was outlawed in 1920, the last legal spitball was thrown by New York Yankee Hall of Famer, Burleigh Grimes in 1934. At the time of the outlaw, anyone already using a spitball was allowed to continue. Burleigh Grimes continued for another fourteen ...
| Sports Facts |
| He Has Overcome the World
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
| Bible |
| Three Men On a Hill
There were three men on a hill with their watches.
The first man threw his watch down the hill and it broke.
The second man threw his watch down the hill and it broke.
The third man threw his watch down the hill, walked all the way to the bottom, ...
| Humor |
| A Good Teacher's Motto
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
| Philosophy |
| Tom, Dick, and Harry at a Hotel
Tom, Dick and Harry went to a party. After the party they returned to the hotel. The hotel was 600 stories high.
Unfortunately for them, the elevator was not working. They made a plan for the first 200 stories, Tom will crack jokes.
The second 200 ...
| Humor |
| God's Strength
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.
| Bible |
| Handicapped Children
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein
| Philosophy |
| Bossaball Anyone?
Bossaball, aka Trampoline Volleyball, is played mainly in clubs in Belgium but also in Brazil, Germany, Spain, and Kuwait among other places. It is played on a souped up bouncy castle using elements of soccer, gymnastics, and capoeira (Brazilian martial art). ...
| Sports Facts |
| The British Are Coming...Head On!
American racehorses run in the opposite direction to their British counterparts. Due largely to the fact Col. William Whitley had such an aversion to all things British during the American Revolution.
| Sports Facts |
| The Good Wife
My advice to you is to get married; if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
| Philosophy |
| You Might Be A Democrat If...
You actually expect to collect Social Security.
You know at least one Vegan.
You know that Jefferson really meant to say "Entitled to Happiness."
| Humor |
| Crown of Spendor
Proverbs 16:31
Gray hair is a crown of splendor;
it is attained in the way of righteousness.
| Bible |
| Man's Rights
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand
| Philosophy |