Hello, and happy Birthday of His Majesty Victor Emmanuel III !

THIS MONTH IS: International Drum Month
TUE NOV 15:St. Leopold's Day
FRI NOV 16:Mickey Mouse Birthday
    Saltanat Uman
    Foundation Day (Latvia)
SAT NOV 17:Discovery of Puerto Rico Day

President Clinton decreed this year to be the Year of Gospel Music.
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
 How many exclamation Points did author Tom Wolfe use in his blockbuster
bestseller "The Bonfire of the Vanities"?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
 How long was the train on pianist-showman Liberace's 175-pound
Norweigian blue shadow fox coat?
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TOP TEN REASONS THE NETWORK DOESN'T WORK:
10)It's hibernating for the winter.
9) Mr. Sullivan hijacked the network and wants more money in the physics budget!
8) Potholes on the information superhighway.
7) Try having hundreds of people connect into you every day and see how you feel
6) It's the new and improved Michaelangelo virus, October/November edition.
5) Nothing else at this school works, so why should this?
4) Dr. Butler, head of ISS, did not send the chain letter to 20 people.
3) It is working.  You just expect too much!
2) Someone tried to plug their Commedore64 into the network.
1) the VAX is on the clapper!
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 Soccer fans in the Bolivian village of Ixiamas were so excited with
their team's 3-1 victory against Uruguay in a World Cup quailifying game that
they didn't notice their homes were on fire.  By the time the fire was spotted,
it had spread to 40 homes.  The fire began when firecrackers thrown by fans
landed on the thatched roofs of homes.

 About 20 first-term House members were asked,"Do you approve of what
we're doing to stop what's going on in Freedonia?" or "Do you approve of what
were doing to stop ethnic cleansing in Freedonia?"  Replies included "take
action" and "it's a different situation than in the Middle East."  None of the
20 House members recognized the fictitious nation of Freedonia from the 1933
Marx Brothers film "Duck Soup."

 Outlaw Tiburcio Vazquez was the hands-down winner in a local conest to
name a new high school in Agua Dulce, Cal., winning out over the likes of
Magic Johnson and John Wayne.  Vazquez, whose reputation for cattle rustling
and stagecoach robbing earned him the title Scourge of California, was hanged
for murder in 1875.

 The cable telivision company that serves Charleston, SC, aimed a camera
fulltime at an aquarium to occupy a vacant channel while awaiting the start-up
of the Science-fiction channel.  When the Science-Fiction channel replaced the
"fish channel," complaints were so numerous that the cable company was forced
to find another channel for the aquarium, which ran 14 hours a day.

This week's obscure word: SWEDENBORGIAN
Of or relating to the religious teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg.

 "The right to be heard does not always include the right to be taken
seriously"
      -Hubert Humphrey

Correction: Last week one of the sentences near the end left out a key word.
It should have read: Experts revealed shortly after his death Mao Tse-Tung
expressed a desire to be cremated.

      Until next week,
      Brent

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