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| June 25th, 1988
On this day in 1988, Cal Ripken, going 2-for-4 in the Oriole 10-3 loss to Boston at Fenway Park, reaches a major milestone, playing in his 1,000th consecutive game. In 1995, the Baltimore infielder will break Lou Gehrig's record when he plays in his 2,131st ...
| Sports Facts |
| Progress
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
-- George Bernard Shaw
| Philosophy |
| Outer Piss
Q: Why did Captain Kirk piss off the roof of the Enterprise?
A: To boldly go where no man has gone before.
| Humor |
| Fulfilling Promises
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
| Bible |
| June 24th, 1970
On this day in 1970, in the last game ever played at Crosley Field, Lee May and Johnny Bench hit back-to-back home runs in the eighth to give the Reds a 5-4 win. After the game, home plate is presented to Mayor Eugene Ruehlman and is flown by helicopter to ...
| Sports Facts |
| Helping Others
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
-- W. H. Auden
| Philosophy |
| Comic Geek
Q: What's a comic geek's best pickup line?
A: You're hotter than an anime chick.
| Humor |
| Our Comforter
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which ...
| Bible |
| June 23rd, 1963
On this day in 1963, after taking Dallas Green deep, Jimmy Piersall runs around the bases in the correct order, but backward, to celebrate his 100th career home run. The Mets' outfielder, who thought of the stunt after being disappointed by the lack of attention ...
| Sports Facts |
| News
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
-- Jerry Seinfeld
| Philosophy |
| Slick Willie's Cards
Q: What is Bill Clinton's favorite card game?
A: Poker.
| Humor |
| Bearing With People
Colossians 3:12-13
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven ...
| Bible |
| June 22nd, 1977
On this day in 1977, in a 7-4 victory over the Orioles at Memorial Stadium, the Red Sox collect their 100th round-tripper of the season, the earliest the club has ever reached the milestone. Today's homers, hit by George Scott, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk (2) and ...
| Sports Facts |
| Glamour
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
-- Hedy Lamarr
| Philosophy |
| Blind as a Bat
Three vampire bats live in a cave surrounded by three castles. One night, the bats bet on who can drink the most blood.
The first bat comes home with blood dripping off his fangs. He says, "See that castle over there? I drank the blood of three people."
The ...
| Humor |
| Eden's End
Genesis 3:23-24
So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard ...
| Bible |
| June 21st. 1916
On this day in 1916, Red Sox right-hander Rube Foster tosses a 2-0 no-hitter against the Highlanders. The no-no is the first one ever thrown in Fenway Park, Boston's home since 1912.
| Sports Facts |
| Snoring
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess
| Philosophy |
| Cinderella's Camera
Q: What did Cinderella say when she left the photo store?
A: "Someday my prints will come."
| Humor |
| Curse of Knowledge
Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
| Bible |
| June 20th, 2001
On this day in 2001, by hitting his 38th homer of the season, Barry Bonds breaks the major league mark established by Reggie Jackson (1969) and Mark McGwire (1998) for home runs hit before the All-Star game. The Giants' left fielder still has 17 games to add ...
| Sports Facts |
| Clean Minds
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
-- Oliver Herford
| Philosophy |
| Divorce
Q: What comes with the new Divorced Barbie?
A: All of Ken's stuff.
| Humor |
| Adam's Curse
Genesis 3:17
To Adam God said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your ...
| Bible |
| June 19th, 1973
On this day in 1973, in different games, the Reds' Pete Rose and Dodger Willie Davis both collect their 2,000th career hit. The Cincinnati infielder, known as 'Charlie Hustle', reaches the milestone with a single against San Francisco in the Reds' 4-0 victory ...
| Sports Facts |