HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF SEPTEMBER 10 - 16:
SUN SPT 10:Swap Ideas Day
    St. George Cay Day (Belize)
    Grandparents' Day
    Liberation Day (Bulgary)
MON SPT 11:Canadian Thanksgiving
    Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (UK)
    National Liberation Day (Chile)
    Ethiopian New Year and  Reunion of Eritrea with Ethiopia
    Anniversary of the Death of Quaid-e-Azam
    Barangay Day (Philippines)
TUE SPT 12:Defenders' Day
    Cape Verde Islands Independence Day
    Ethiopian Popular Revolution Commemoration Day
THR SPT 14:Elevation of the Cross
    Public Holiday (Bolivia)
    Battle of San Jacinto (Nicaragua)
FRI SPT 15:Respect for the Aged Day (Japan)
    Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua Independence
SAT SPT 16:Mexican Independence Day
    Papau New Guinea Independence Day
    National Play-Doh Day
    Cherokee Strip Day
THIS WEEK IS:National Hispanic Heritage Week
      National Rub a Bald Head Week

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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
 What did Bugs Bunny drink to become Invisible?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
 What are you afraid of if you have Pogonophobia?
 ANSWER:beards, or men wearing beards
 WINNER: Cherie Sullivan
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Top Ten Suggested Slogans for Marriott:
10)You thought our hotels were bad, wait till you see our cafeteria.
9) We will serve no rat before its time.
8) We have 2 inch long roaches GUARANTEED!!! (Matt Irwin)
7) Mariott Inc.:where leftovers are our specialty. (Joseph Pandit)
6) Marriott: you have no other choice
5) We don't warm the food and pass the savings along to you!
4) Just say no! (Yancey Sullivan)
3) Marriott: the way to test your faith daily.
2) Marriott: your $1000 weight loss program.
1) We're Marriawful!
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According to a 1975 poll conducted by the Madame Tussaud Waxworks in London,
history's most hated people, past and present, are, in order: Adolf Hitler, Idi
Amin, Count Dracula, Richard M. Nixon, and Jack the Ripper.

When the "Queen Elizabeth 2" sailed through the Panama Canal in 1975, the ship
was charged a passage fee of $42,000.

A 12-year war was touched off in Italy in 1325 when a regimant of Modina
soldiers invaded Bologna to steal a bucket.  During the initial attack, the
Modenese murdered several hundred Bolognese.  The Bolgnese finally
counterattacked and finally, in the war's pivotal battle, the modenese crushed
their enemies, enabling them to win the war and keep the bucket.

According to the Institute for Social Research at the Universary of
Michigan, the most boring jobs are, in order:
 4) Toll booth attendant
 3) Elevator Operator
 2) Forklift Truck Driver
 1) Assembly line worker

The worst vegtable to develop an affinity for: Consider the Ramp.It's Described
as a "Vile, wild leek" "an unpleasant-smelling vegtable," and "pungent and
scallion-like."  The noxious ramp is, perhaps, the least-liked vegtable in
America.  Even at a festival held in its honor in North Carolina, the rules
still specify that all ramps "be cooked downwind"

C. Flavius Fimbria, a Roman general, employed professional assasins to kill
A. Mucius Scaevola.  Scaevola survived his subsequent stabbing, so C. Flavius
Fimbria sued A. Mucius, claiming that Scaevola's resistance to the attack
caused the disgruntled general to waste his money.

The Stanley Cup, symbol of the best professional ice hockey team, cost Lord
Stanley only $48.67 back in 1893.

In June of 1927, doctors at Canada's Ontario Hospital removed 2,533 objects,
including nearly 1,000 bent pins from the stomach of a deranged 42-year-old
woman complaining of "slight abdominal pains."

Looking out their windows as the jetliners in which they were traveling
prepared to touch down, a great many business travelers to Los Angeles nearly
had a cow on April 1, 1984.  Practical jokers had erected a sign proclaiming
"Welcome to Chicago" in the path of oncoming planes.

In November of 1962, someone at Mission Control forgot to add a hyphen when
they transmitted instructions to a U.S. Venus Probe Rocket.  Without the
hyphen, the rocket could not figure out what to do, so it self-destructed.

as a bonus to go along with today's mailing list, I am also sending Wacky Ways
to Order a Pizza.  Enjoy

      Slama Sidhi Barakas,
      Brent