HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF NOVEMBER 6 - 12:
 

SUN NOV  6:Return Day
    Leonard's Ride (Germany)
    Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
MON NOV  7:National Notary Public Day
    Anniversary of the Bolshevic Republic (Russia)
TUE NOV  8:St. Michael
    Election Day
    St. Gabriel (Greece)
THR NOV 10:Marine Corps Birthday
    St. Martin's Festival (Germany)
FRI NOV 11:Veterans Day
    Birthday of His Majesty Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
    Angola Independence Day
    Vine Festival of St. Martin's Day (Austria)
    St. Mena's Day (Greece)
    St. Martin of Tours' (France)
    Poland Independence Day
SAT NOV 12:Sadie Hawkens Day
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day
    Birthday of Sun Yat-Sen (China)

On last week's trivia Question, It's amazing how Everyone who guessed knew the
same three but not the other two. The answer is somewhat suprising.
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
 How long was the train on pianist-showman Liberace's 175-pound
Norwegian blue shadow fox coat?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
 What are the five most frequently consumed fruits in the United States?
 ANS:According to the FDA: Banana, apple, watermelon, orange, and
cantaloupe.
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This week's create-our-own-top-ten-list topic is: The top ten reasons why the
computer network isn't working right.
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 "From Colonel and Mrs. George S. Patton III- Peace on Earth"
-message on his christmas card, beneath a picture of Viet Cong corpses,
 dismembered and piled neatly, 1968.

 "Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that his curveball has
straightened out"
      -Joe Garagiola

This week's obscure word:SNOLLYGOSTER
An unprincipled but shrewd person

The following passages, all real, are famous modifier mistakes:

 Two cars were reported stolen by the Groveton police yesterday.

 Some sources said shortly after his Moa Tse-tung had expressed a wish
that his body be cremated.

 Locked in a vault for 50 years, the owner of the jewels had decided to
sell them.

 Breaking into the window of the girls' dormitory, the dean of men
suprised 10 members of the football team.

 The patient was referred to a doctor with a severe emotional problem.

 Do not sit in chair without being fully assembled.

 Pele soaked an ankle which he injured in an ice bucket.

 The judge sentenced the killer to die in the electric chair for the
second time.

 Here are some suggestions on handling obscene phone calls from the
New England telephone company.

 The police said Barth's 1981 Toyota traveled for almost 1000 feet and
then hit a utility pole going about 45 miles per hour.

 Washed from a layer of mudstone estimated to be more than 3 million
years old, a young American paleo anthropologist has found several leg bones
and a skull fragment.

      See you next week,
      Brent

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