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Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF APR 7 - 13
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HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF APRIL 7 - 13
SUN APR 7:World Health Day
	  Verrazano Day (New York)
	  Yugoslav Republic Day
	  Women's Day (Mozambique)
	  National No-Housework Day
MON APR 8:Sweet Potato Day
	  Buddha's Birthday or Hana Matsuri (Japan)
	  Sealing the Frost (Guatemala)
TUE APR 9:Appomattox Day
	  National Day (Bolivia)
	  Martyr's Day (Tunesia)
WED APR 10:Salvation Army's Founder's Day
THR APR 11:Barbershop Quartet day
FRI APR 12:Halifax Independence Day
	   Death Anniversary of FDR
	   National Redemption Day (Liberia)
	   Cosmonautics Day (USSR)
SAT APR 13:Chad Independence Day
	   Huguenot Day
	   Thomas Jefferson Day
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
	What country was the second in the world to adopt communism?
LAST WEEK"S TRIVIA:
	What house is the second-most-visited American home in the United
States-outdrawn only by the White House?
	ANSWER:	Graceland
	WINNERS:Andy Richter, Justin Scott, David Proctor, Cherie Sullivan and
Scott Faber
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Funny Quotes from Famous People:
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." --
David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to
pay his taxes.
"He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech." --
Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't
following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands.
"It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They
had their eyes closed.  They were seated at their desks with their heads in a
nodding position." -- John Hogan, Common-wealth Edison Supervisor of News
Information, responding to a charge by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission
inspector that two Dresden Nuclear Plant operators were sleeping on the job.
"I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes." --
President Richard Nixon
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the
country." -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
"Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something
else anyway." -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on
chlordane.
"Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be
discontinued...Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on
January 1, 1976." -- Letter from the Illinois Department of Public Aid.
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them
unsafe." -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia
"I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly
underpolluted." -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank,
explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.
"The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death
penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an
airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector." -- Knight-Ridder
News Service dispatch.
"After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the
school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele
to the post." -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington,
Rhode Island.
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American astronaut Shannon Lucid, the first woman to go into space five times,
has arrived at Russia's Mir space station to start a five-month stint working
on scientific experiments. "I think it'll be a great adventure," she said
before launch. Were the Russians looking forward to having a woman on the
station for so long? Last week, Gen. Yuri Glazkov, the deputy commander of the
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, said yes, it would indeed be nice to have
her there, "because we know that women love to clean." (AP)
Residents of the posh southern California town of San Marino are concerned
about crime. But city leaders don't want the security bars being installed on
some homes to impact property values. "They detract from the ambiance of the
neighborhood," sniffs the police chief. The mayor notes it's one thing for a
Spanish-style house, which typically has ironwork already, to have bars, but
another for a ranch-style house to have them. The City Council, therefore, has
passed the "bar and grille" ordinance, requiring homeowners to submit plans
for city approval before they can install security bars. Plans will be
reviewed by the Design Review Committee to ensure installations are safe --
and attractive. (Pasadena Star News)
Jailers in Britain are upset that prison uniform shirts are becomming a
fashion item. The striped shirts, which sell for as much as 50 pounds on the
black market, are valued for their unique style and rarity. "People who wear
it want others to think they have been inside." says one trader. "People pay
for the label. The prison crown is as valuable as Calvin Klein." (Reuter)
A Hungarian woman getting something to eat leaned into a sauerkraut barrel at
a relative's home near Ebes, outside Budapest, but was overcome by the
contents' fumes, passed out, and fell into the barrel and drowned in the 12
inches of cabbage juice inside. Meanwhile, a young Moslem girl died in France
from eating a liver- kebab, made from a sheep that was later found to have
anthrax. (AP, Reuter)
A 21-year-old man claiming to be armed with a bomb took a radio station
manager hostage in Wanganui, New Zealand, and demanded that the station play
"The Rainbow Connection", a song performed by the Muppets, for 12 hours to
"tell people how he felt." And in Australia, Parliament has agreed to
reschedule its popular daily Question Time television show, where Members are
allowed to question the Prime Minister and other cabinet members, so it
doesn't clash in the daytime schedule with another popular show -- Sesame
Street. (AP)
Obscure Word of the Week:	YOICKS
Used as a cry of encouragement to foxhounds.
Robert Shields, 77, of Dayton, Wash., is the author of perhaps the longest
personal diary in history. His recordings of his daily events -- all of them,
including his trips to the bathroom -- was started in 1972 and now stretches
to 37.5 million words. Since having a stroke in 1991, his output has slowed to
a mere 1 million words per year, but he still manages to transcribe his daily
jottings on a typewriter, a task that takes about four hours a day. July 25,
1993, 7 a.m.: "I cleaned out the tub and scraped my feet with my fingernails
to remove layers of dead skin." Jan. 27, 1994, 9:55 a.m.: "Jim Broatch of
Milford, Conn., called ... he is head of some sort of organization that deals
with compulsion and I admitted the diary was `an obsession of sorts.' He is
sending me free literature about the organization." Shields isn't recording
his life to aid future historians. Rather, "you might say I'm a nut," he says
simply. (AP)
Some say Britain has more security cameras per capita than any other country.
Now, an enterprising British company is buying up as many security camera
tapes it can find and marketing copies of excerpts. "Caught in the Act" shows
couples having sex in unlikely locations, people using department store
changing rooms, robberies, and drug dealers fighting each other. Parliament
is outraged, which has helped sales. "We sold 60,000 in the first morning"
after Parliament objected to the first tape, James Hunt, one of the video's
"researchers", said. "We've ordered another 125,000 copies." A sequel, "Really
Caught in the Act", prompted more complaints from Parliament, making Hunt
gleeful at the publicity. "We're hoping we can keep this [controversy] going,"
Hunt says. (Washington Post)
 "Oil Barge Breaks Off Texas" -- AP headline
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