HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF JANUARY 29 - FEBRUARY 4:

SUN JAN 29:Carnation Day
    Thomas Paine Day
MON JAN 30:Franklin D. Roosevelt Day
    Australia Day
    Cavadee (Mauritius)
    Birthday of Tzar Boris III (Bulgaria)
    Day of Three Archbishops (Greece)
TUE JAN 31:Nauru Independence Day
    Up-Helly-Aa (UK)
WED FEB 1: National Freedom Day
    Vinegrowers Day
    St. Bridget (UK)
    Federal Territory Day (Malaysia)
THR FEB 2: Groundhog Day
    Candlemas
    Aztec New Year
    Forty Shilling Day (UK)
    Blessing of the Candle of the Happy Woman (Hungary)
    Scottish Quarter Day
FRI FEB 3: Bean-Throwing Festival (Japan)
    Four Chaplains Memorial Day
    Blessing the Throats (UK, yet again)
    Bulgaria Independence Day
    St. Blas and Gergely Napja (Hungary)
    Heroes Day (Mozambique)
SAT FEB 4: Sri Lanka Prajathantrika Samajauadi Janarajaya Day
    Bean-Throwing Night (Japan)

FEBRUARY IS:Black History Month
     National Children's Dental Health Month
     Potato Lovers Month
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
 Who is the famous clarinetist who performs with the New Orleans Funeral
and Jazz Band?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
 What are durian, cherimoya and mangosteen?
 ANS: Exotic Fruits.
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 Speaking of fruits, the marajahy, a Brazillian Fruit, looks like grapes
and is very savory-but its skin is so poisonous that the lips blister on
contact.

 European aristocrats slept in the 9th century at an angle of 45 degrees
with their head and shoulders extending beyond the edge of the bed.

This week's obscure word:SESQUIPEDALIAN
Characterized by using long words.

Are you one of those people that seems that everything bad happens to you?
If so, this week's attached letter is for you.  It is the complete list of
Murphy's Laws.  MOORE'S LAW: The best e-mail messages come when you have no
time to read them.

 For many of you, term paper time is coming up.  Here is a little list
of reminders to keep you from slipping up.
 

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HOW TO WRITE GOOD
by Sally Bulford
(reprinted without permission from somewhere)

1.  Avoid alliteration.  Always.
2.  Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3.  Avoid cliches like the plague.  (They're old hat.)
4.  Employ the vernacular.
5.  Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6.  Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7.  It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8.  Contractions aren't necessary.
9.  Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations.  As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate
    quotations.  Tell me what you know."
12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's
    highly superfluous.
14. Be more or less specific.
15. Understatement is always best.
16. One-word sentences?  Eliminate.
17. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
18. The passive voice is to be avoided.
19. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
20. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
21. Who needs rhetorical questions?
22. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

I hope these proved helpful.  If anybody has any ideas on what the next top ten
idea should be, please let me know.

      Do widzenia,
      Brent