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Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF OCT 22 - 28
For those of you not at DLU, it is our Fall Break, starting tommorrow.  Because
of that I am sending the mailing list today instead of Friday.
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF OCTOBER 22 - 28:
SUN OCT 22:Anniversary of the Installation of Pope John Paul II (Vatican City)
MON OCT 23:Chula Longkorn Day (Thailand)
TUE OCT 24:United Nations Day
	   Zambia Independence Day
	   Suez National Day (Egypt)
	   World Development Information Day
WED OCT 25:Hurricane Thanksgiving (Virgin Islands)
	   Retrocession Day (Taiwan)
THR OCT 26:St. Demeter
FRI OCT 27:Navy Day
	   Good Bears of the World Day
	   Anniversary of the Country's Name Change (Zaire, was Congo)
SAT OCT 28:Checkoslovakia Independence Day
	   Ochi Day (Greece, Cyprus)
THIS WEEK IS:Punky Week (UK)
	     National Consumers Week
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
	How many bathrooms are there in the White House?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA: 
	What name is shared by a citrus fruit and the citizens of an African
Capital?
	ANS:  Tangerine (Tangeirs is the summer capital of Morocco)
	WINNER: Eric Choate
	WORST ANSWER:  Pear-ay-guay   Yancey Sullivan
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Police in East Patchogue, N. Y., filed a false-report charge against
Nicholas Lalla, 32, in January after he had sworn out a complaint that
his estranged wife slapped him.  Lalla played for police an audiotape he
had made clandestinely in which slapping sounds are heard amidst his
yelling, "Don't hit me."  When police informed Mrs. Lalla of the
clandestine audiotape, she played for them a clandestine videotape she
had made of him making the audiotape:  He is shown yelling "Don't hit me"
outside her house after she has left to go back inside. [Marshfield (Mo.)
Mail-AP, 1-25-95]
In December in Stuart, Fla., Francis Reichert, 58, inadvertently
dislodged a cherry pit, one-half inch in diameter, from his nose during
a routine visit to his doctor.  Reichert said he stuffed cherry pits up
his nose to impress playmates when he was a kid, but had not done that
since he was 8.  Reichert's doctor said the pit may be the
longest-standing object ever discovered in someone's nose. [St. Petersburg
Times-AP, 12-15-94]
According to a November Wall Street Journal story, a traveler telephoned
the Hyatt Hotel in Dubai to ask that it send him luggage that he had
absent-mindedly left behind.  The luggage had already been searched for
identification by the hotel and was found to contain Hyatt towels, Hyatt
silverware, and the Hyatt clock and bathroom scale from the man's room.
[Wall Street Journal, 11-18-94]
According to Department of Justice figures, 30,000 inmate lawsuits were
filed last year (added to heavy backlogs--over 28,000 in New York alone)
against prison officials for "civil rights" violations, the vast majority
described by judges and court officials as frivolous.  Among the lawsuits
were those by prisoners complaining:  that the prison canteen supplied
"creamy" peanut butter when he bought "crunchy"; that guards wouldn't
refrigerate his ice cream snack so that he could eat it later ($1 million
lawsuit); that his toilet seat was too cold; that, as an inmate-paralegal
in the prison law library, he should make the same wage that lawyers make;
that prisons should offer salad bars ($129 million); that a limit on the
number of Kool-Aid refills is "cruel and unusual punishment"; and that
the scrambled eggs were cooked too hard.  In New York, 20% of the entire
budget of the Attorney General's office is spent on prisoner lawsuits.
[New York Times, 3-21-94; St. Petersburg Times-Newhouse, 7-15-94; Columbia
Daily Tribune-AP, 6-26-94; Boston Globe, Oct94]
Amil Dinsio, 58, filed a $15 million lawsuit in May against the United
Carolina Bank in Charlotte, N. C., from his federal prison cell in
Loretto, Pa., where he was serving four years for robbing the bank in 1992.
Sentencing guidelines call for consideration of the amount of money
involved in the robbery, and Dinsio accused the bank of fraudulently
inflating the amount, resulting in his spending an extra 16 months in
prison. [St. Petersburg Times-Reuters, 5-16-94]
In July, ex-student Jason Wilkins sued the University of Idaho for
$940,000 to pay for injuries he suffered when he fell through a
third-story dormitory window while mooning students.  Wilkins had climbed
onto a three-foot-high heater to reach the window but claimed the
University should have posted warnings. [San Luis Obispo
Telegram-Tribune-AP, Aug94; USA Today, 8-23-94]
In April, 1994, University of Toronto English professor Eleanor Cook was
awarded grants totaling around $85,000 (U.S.) to spend the next 2-1/2
years studying "the structure and function" of the riddle.  Said Cook, "I
want to think about long-term patterns in riddles... and the long-term
decisions in our lives." [Edmonton Journal-Toronto Star, 4-29-94]
In August, a San Francisco insecticide company sponsored a contest
demonstrate its pest control prowess and selected as its winner the home
of Rosemary Mitchell, in Tulsa, Okla., as a sufficient challenge.
Entomologist Austin Frishman, aka television's Dr. Cockroach, began work
on the home after estimating that 60,000 to 100,000 cockroaches lived
there.  Mitchell said, "I keep a pretty clean house," but admitted she
had to check the bed thoroughly every night and shake the shower curtains
off every morning.  Frishman said he has seen a lot worse and rated
Mitchell's house only a "3" on a scale of 1 to 5.  [Dallas Morning
News-AP, 8-20-94]
This Week's Obscure Word:  SALMAGUNDI
A salad plate of chopped meats, anchovies, eggs and vegtables arranged in rows
of contrast and dressed with salad dressing.
In November, 1994, New York City police arrested the city's most notorious
traffic scofflaw, Leroy Linen, 41, after he inadvertently gave them his
real name when he was stopped for having only a crudely hand-lettered
"license plate" on his car.  Linen's driver's license has been suspended
633 times since 1990; when police entered his name into their computer,
it took an hour and 45 minutes to print out all of his traffic violations.
Still at large in the city are 340 others whose licenses have been
suspended more than 100 times.  [New York Times, 11-14-94]
In February, 1994, artist Lars Kraemmer of Vancouver, British Columbia,
emerged from a seven-week stint living in a 5-foot by 5-foot box that had
been built using five of his paintings.  Kraemmer called his performance
"Retreat" and said he saw dazzling colors in the total darkness--an
inspiration that led him to develop a "new theory" of color during the
seven weeks.  "One thing it has done," said Kraemmer, "is put me at ease."
[Edmonton Journal, 2-11-94]
The New York Times reported in August on the increased pressure from
Muslim mullahs in Iran to outlaw the satellite TV dishes that bring in
Western programing, which is more popular among many people than the three
religious channels available locally.  Among the most popular shows is
"Baywatch," quite an alternative in Iran, where even a woman's ankle
cannot be exposed.  Said one businessman, "We are addicted to shows like
'Donahue.'  Today, Donahue had on a guy who has an open relationship with
his girlfriend....  We couldn't believe it.  We never hear or talk
about this kind of thing."  (Iran permitted "live" broadcasts of World
Cup soccer matches this year from the U.  S., but only after deleting
summer crowd scenes, which featured much female skin, and substituting
winter crowd scenes, in which spectators were bundled up.) [New York
Times, 8-21-94]
					Slama sidhi barakas,
					Brent