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Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF OCTOBER 15 - 21
Happy Friday the 13th to you all.
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF OCTOBER 15 - 21:
SUN OCT 15:World Poetry Day
	   White Cane Safety Day
	   Evacuation Day (Tunesia)
MON OCT 16:Dictionary Day
	   World Food Day (Who needs a better reason to party?)
TUE OCT 17:Harvest Festival (Japan)
	   Dessalines Memorial Day (Haiti)
	   Mothers Day (Malawi)
WED OCT 18:Alaska Day
	   Sweetest Day
THR OCT 19:Bettora-Ichi or Sticky-Sticky Fair (Japan)
	   National Mammography Day
FRI OCT 20:Colchester Oyster Ceremony (UK)
	   1944 Revolution Day (Guatemala)
	   Kenyatta Day (Kenya)
SAT OCT 21:Somalia Independence Day
	   St. Ussula's Day
	   National Biomedical Research Day
THIS WEEK IS:National Bible Week
	     National Forest Products Week
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVA QUESTION:
	What name is shared by a citrus fruit and a citizen of an African
Capital?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
	Name the five singers or groups to have recorded ten or more number one
hits on the pop charts.
	ANS:The Beatles (20), Elvis (18), The Supremes (12), Michael Jackson
(11), and Madonna (10).
	WINNER: Eric Choate
	BEST ANSWER: Joseph Pandit (submitted by Sid Millson)
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Government records showed Lewis failed to register for the draft as
required by law when he turned 18 in November. The problem: Lewis
turned 18 in November 1932. The records showed his birthdate as Nov.
11, 1976, instead of 1914, which makes him 80. What's more, Lewis did
register for the draft in 1941. He served on a Navy anti-aircraft
cruiser during World War II and earned a Purple Heart. When Lewis got
the draft compliance notice, he broke the news to his wife, Janie. He
came into the den and said, `Well, I have to tell you goodbye,' she
said. ~Then we called our kids. We just cut up and acted silly about
it, really. He dashed off a copy of his birth certificate and
honorable discharge to the Selective Service and the agency removed
his name from its list a spokesman said.
Portsmouth, R.I.  Police charged Gregory Rosa, 25, with a string of
vending machine robberies in January when he (1) fled from police
inexplicably when they spotted him loitering around a vending machine
and (2) later tried to post his $400 bail in coins.
Karen Lee Joachimmi, 20, was arrested in Lake City, Florida for
robbery of a Howard Johnson's motel.  She was armed with only an
electric chain saw, which was not plugged in.
David Posman, 33, was arrested recently in Providence, R.I, after
allegedly knocking out an armored car driver and stealing the closest
four bags of money.  It turned out they contained $800 in PENNIES,
weighed 30 pounds each, and slowed him to a stagger during his
getaway so that police officers easily jumped him from behind.
The Belgium news agency Belga reported in November that a man
suspected of robbing a jewelry store in Liege said he couldn't have
done it *because he was busy breaking into a school at the same time.*
Police then arrested him for breaking into the school.
Drug-possession defendant Christopher so-and-so, on trial in March
in Pontiac, Michigan, said he had been searched without a warrant.
The prosecutor said the officer didn't need a warrant because a
"bulge" in Christopher's jacket could have been a gun.  Nonsense,
said Christopher, who happened to be wearing the same jacket that
day in court.  He handed it over so the judge could see it.  The
judge discovered a packet of cocaine in the pocket and laughed so
hard he required a five-minute recess to compose himself.
Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz gave himself five-inch-long
welts in March a couple af years ago when he tried to iron his polo shirt
while wearing it. "I've ironed that way five or six times," he said, "and
never had it happen."
A few years back, some poor fool decided to rob a bank on a Friday
afternoon.  Stupid fellow that one.  If he had looked across the street, he
would have realized that this bank was next to FBI headquarters, and it was
payday.  Virtually every person in the bank was an agent!  Needless to say,
this hapless fool got a quick lesson in law enforcement technique...
In College Park, GA, a suburb of Atlanta, an armed man entered a La
Quinta hotel lobby with the intention of robbing the place. He pulled out
his gun and demanded money from the hotel clerk. The funny thing is that
the robber never noticed that there was a FULLY-UNIFORMED police officer
standing less than 15 feet away in the lobby. Not only that, but the hotel
security camera filmed the entire episode, including the arrest. The local
television stations showed the tape on the evening news.
How about the bank robber in Champiagn IL. who robbed the bank one day
and return to the same bank the next day to deposit the money into his account
and even went to the same teller. Well the teller kept him busy while someone
called the police.
In August, 1994, Aaron Miller, 17, an Amish man, tried to outrun sheriff's
deputies for four miles in his buggy near Leon, N. Y.  The officers
followed patiently in their cruiser and ultimately charged Miller with
traffic violations. [Buffalo News, 8-9-94]
In a review of Diana Gazes's $29-a-ticket psychic spoon-bending seminar
in July, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Gazes told the 100
attendees that their powers of concentration would "cause an alteration
in the spin of the atoms" of the spoon.  To achieve that, the student
should grasp the spoon in both hands with thumbs underneath the smallest
part of the handle and "apply some downward strength."  (Not surprisingly,
the Chronicle reported, spoons handled in that manner bend fairly easily.)
As Gazes shouted "Bend!  Bend!" the attendees leaped to their feet, one
by one, waving spoons, shouting, "I did it!" [San Francisco Chronicle,
Jul94]
On December 8, the Rhode Island attorney general ended a 20-year legal
battle with old-tire collector Bill Davis by getting him to agree to clean
up gradually his Smithfield, R. I., mountain of tires, which he estimates
at 33 million and which the state says is a fire hazard.  Davis started
his collection as an investment against the return of a 1970s-style oil
embargo because the rubber in tires is a source of  petroleum. [Providence
Journal-Bulletin, 12-9-94]
This Week's Obscure Word: 	YURT
A circular domed tent of skins or felt stretched over a collapseable lattice
framework and used by the Kirghiz and other Mongol nomads of Siberia.
                     FIGURES FROM THE SIMPSON MURDER TRIAL:          
October 3, 1995
Days O.J. Simpson spent in jail     474
Days since jury selection began     372
Days jurors were sequestered        266
Prosecution witnesses                67  Defense witnesses                    53
Days of prosecution testimony        99  Days of defense testimony            54
Prosecution exhibits                488  Defense exhibits                    369
Motions filed                       433
Prosecution attorneys                 9  Defense attorneys                    11
Prosecution costs            $9 million  Defense costs       $4-7 million (est.)
Jurors' earnings   $5/day, $1,330 total
Transcript pages                 50,000
Media credentials                 1,000
Prosecution fines                  $850  Defense fines                    $3,000
Other fines                      $1,800
(Submitted by Jason Dodson)
							Slama sidhi barakas,
							Brent
P.S. Just like the cookie recipe, I ask that nobody send me the chain letter.