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| Waiting List
If you signed up for the Green Bay Packers' ticket waiting list today, you'd have to wait ALMOST 1,000 YEARS TO GET YOUR TICKETS.
The Packs’ list has approximately 86,000 people on it. With under 100 people giving up their tickets per year, the math says ...
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| Inventions
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
-- Mark Kennedy
| Philosophy |
| Patriot Origins
Before Deflategate, when the AFL's Boston Patriots moved to Foxborough in 1971, team owner Billy Sullivan wanted a new name to go with the new location. He eventually came up with the Bay State Patriots, to honor the entire region. The name lasted a month, ...
| Sports Facts |
| Holy Water
Q: How do you make holy water?
A: Boil the hell out of it.
| Humor |
| A Godly Woman
Proverbs 31:25-26
She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future of the future. When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness.
| Bible |
| What is Technology?
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
-- Alan Kay
| Philosophy |
| WInning Streak
The Dallas Cowboys are the only NFL team to record 20 straight winning seasons (1966–85).
| Sports Facts |
| Banana Key
Q: What kind of key opens a banana?
A: A monkey.
| Humor |
| Filled with Laughter
Psalm 126:2-3
Then our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with joyful songs. Then the nations said, “The LORD has done spectacular things for them.” The LORD has done spectacular things for us. We are overjoyed.
| Bible |
| Honest Liar
A married man was having an affair with his secretary. One day, their passions overcame them in the office and they took off for her house. Exhausted from the afternoon's activities, they fell asleep and awoke at around 8 p.m. As the man threw on his clothes, ...
| Humor |
| AI
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
-- Stephen Hawking
| Philosophy |
| Lord's Comfort
Isaiah 49:13
Sing for joy, O heavens! Rejoice, O earth! Burst into song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on them in their suffering.
| Bible |
| Lucky Leather
According to the Internet, which is never wrong, a cow has only a 1 in 17,420,000 chance of becoming an NFL football that is used in the Super Bowl.
| Sports Facts |
| Keeping Cool
So a man dies, goes to Heaven, and sees St. Peter. There are many clocks surrounding him so the man asks, "What are these clocks for?" St. Peter replies, "These are lie clocks, they tick once for every lie you tell. Here we have Mother Teresa's clock. She ...
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| Toil
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
-- John Stuart Mill
| Philosophy |
| Preserved Spirit
Job 10:12
You have granted me life and favor, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
| Bible |
| September 17, 2004
On this day in 2005, connecting off Jake Peavy’s third inning slider at SBC Park, Barry Bonds hits his 700th career home run. The historic homer touches off a fireworks display and the unfurling of a gigantic light tower banner featuring Babe Ruth and Hank ...
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| Global Warming
China, Russia, and Poland venture to space. China says they'll go to Pluto because it's the farthest. Russia says they'll go to Jupiter because it's the biggest. Poland says they'll go to the Sun. Russia and China warn that they'll melt. They reply, "We'll ...
| Humor |
| Bad Craftsman
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
-- John Perry Barlow
| Philosophy |
| Do Not Be Afraid
John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
| Bible |
| Running Blind
On the day he broke O.J. Simpson’s record for most rushing yards in a single game, Walter Payton was battling the flu.
“I had hot and cold flashes on Wednesday and felt weak,” he said at the time. “I didn`t even think I was going to play. You put your faith ...
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| Monastery Madness
Every ten years, the monks in the monastery are allowed to break their vow of silence to speak two words. Ten years go by and it’s one monk’s first chance. He thinks for a second before saying, “Food bad.” Ten years later, he says, “Bed hard.” It’s the big ...
| Humor |
| Globalization
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
-- Jimmy Carter
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| Philosophy |
| Trust in God
Psalm 56:3-4
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
| Bible |
| September 15th, 1902
On this day in 1902, the famed trio of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance completes their first twin-killing in a 6-3 win over Cincinnati at Chicago's West Side Grounds. The Cubs' legendary douple-play combination will be immortalized by the 1910 baseball poem by Franklin ...
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