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"Friends are God's
way of taking care of us." These are clean jokes. However, They are, PG -
Not intended for younger readers - PG
I always know God won't give me more than I can
handle, but there are times I wish He didn't trust me quite so much.
God, grant me the Senility to
forget the people I never liked , The good fortune to run into the ones
I do, And the eyesight to tell the
difference.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER
13,2007
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: "If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with
a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out."-Arthur Koestler
ROBIN WILLIAMS PLAN 1. The
US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past
& present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini,
Tojo, Norieaga, Milosovitch and the rest of
those "good ole boys." We will never
"interfere" again.
2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the
world, starting with Germany, South
Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would
station our troops at
our borders. No sneaking through holes in the fence.
3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their
affairs together and leave. We'll give
them a free trip home. After
90 days the remainder will be gathered up
and deported
immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France would
welcome them.
4. All future visitors will be thoroughly
checked and limited to 90 days unless
given a special
permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in.
If you don't like it
there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would
never be available to
anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11
cashiers.
5. No "students" over age 21. The older
ones are the bombers. If they don't
attend classes, they
get a "D" and it's back home baby.
6. The
US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This
will include
developing non-polluting sources of energy but will require a
temporary
drilling of oil in the Alaska wilderness. The caribou will have to
cope for a
while.
7. Offer Saudi Arabia and
other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil.
If they
don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to
sell their
production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sights
would be
enough.)
8. If
there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we would
not "interfere."
They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement
or whatever
they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given
to
the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
9. Ship the UN Headquarters to an
isolated island someplace. We don't
need the
spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a
good
homeless shelter or lockup for illegal
aliens.
10.
All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can
call
us "Ugly Americans" any longer.
The
Language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it.....or LEAVE....
The
Statue of Liberty is no longer saying "Give me your poor, your tired,
your
huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, "You
want
a piece of me?" ~ norm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It would be nice to see our
people FED,GOOD SCHOOLS, CHEAP MEDICATIONS & new good paying jobs
on this side of the border.......Jim $$$$$
Sitting on a branch
overlooking the parking lot, the pigeons watched as a Jaguar pulled in below
them. "What do you think?" one bird said to the other. "Should we put a
deposit on that car?" ~~~~~~~~~~~ Dianne Feinstein ripped Arnold
Schwarzenegger for using assault weapons onscreen and she accused him of
setting a bad example. That's not fair. Is Arnold or is he not the first
German to play the good guy in a Hollywood movie since World War I?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A woman pulls up to a red light behind one other car. She
notices the driver of the car in front of her is talking on his cell phone
and appears to be shuffling through some papers on the seat beside
him.
The light turns green, but the man doesn't notice. The woman
waits, but the man still doesn't notice the light change. The woman
begins pounding on her steering wheel and yelling at the man to move. The
man doesn't move. The woman is going
ballistic inside her car, ranting and raving at the man, pounding on her
steering wheel and dash. The light turns yellow. The woman begins to blow
the car horn and scream curses at the
man. The man hearing the commotion, looks
up, sees the yellow light and accelerates through the intersection just as
the light turns red. The woman is beside
herself, screaming in frustration as she misses her chance to get through the
intersection. As she is still in mid-rant
she hears a tap on her window and looks up into the barrel of a gun held by a
very serious looking policeman.
The policeman tells her to shut off
her car while keeping both hands in
sight. She complies, speechless at what is
happening. After she shuts off the engine
the policeman orders her to exit her car with her hands up. She gets out of
the car and he orders her to turn and place her hands on her car. She turns,
places her hands on the car roof and quickly is cuffed and hustled into the
patrol car.
She is too bewildered by the chain of events to ask any
questions. She is driven to the police station
where she is fingerprinted, photographed, searched, booked and placed in a
cell. After a couple of hours a policeman
approaches the cell and opens the door for her. She is escorted back to the
booking desk where the original officer is waiting with her personal
effects. He hands her the bag containing her
things, and says, "I'm really sorry for this mistake. But you see, I pulled
up behind your car while you were blowing your horn and cussing a blue
streak at the car in front of you. Then I noticed the 'Choose Life' license
plate holder, the 'Follow Me to Sunday School' bumper sticker, and the
chrome plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk. So naturally I assumed you
had stolen the car." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Husband, upon meeting ex- after two
years of separation, "Listen honey, why don't we have a few drinks, dinner,
go to my apartment and really make love?"
"Over my dead
body!"
"You haven't changed a bit." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Taco Bell
will run a poll on the California governor's race by counting food orders.
Order a beef taco and it's a vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger, a chicken taco
and it's a vote for Gray Davis. Make a Run for the Border and it's Cruz
Bustamante. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ August is back to school month for many
students. Elementary kids are loaded with the three R’s. Readin’, ‘ritin’,
and Ritalin. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you think a fixed income is bad, just
wait til you get the repair bill! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harry, a TV repairman,
was called to fix a television set that had neither sound nor picture. Left
alone in the room, Harry spotted the cause immediately: the set was
unplugged. Harry faced a dilemma: one part of him said he shouldn't charge
the woman; the other insisted he be paid for his time. Finally, he presented
her with a minimum-charge service bill, which read: "Restored isolated
connecting cable to primary power source. $25." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On a tour
of Virginia Beach, the Pope took a couple of days off to visit the coast for
some sightseeing. He was cruising along the beach in the pope-mobile when
there was a frantic commotion just off shore. A helpless man, wearing a
Clemson jersey, was struggling frantically to free himself from the jaws of a
25-foot shark.
As the pope watched, horrified, a speedboat came racing up
with three men wearing Va Tech jerseys. One quickly fired a harpoon into
the sharks' side. The other two reached out and pulled the
bleeding semiconscious Clemson Tiger from the water. Then using long clubs,
the three beat the shark to death and hauled it, too, into the
boat.
Immediately the Pope shouted and summoned them to the beach. "I
give you my blessing for your brave actions," he told them. "I heard
that there were some bitter hatred between The Va. Tech Hokies and
The Clemson Tigers but now I have seen with my own eyes that this is
not true."
As the Pope drove off, the harpooner asked his buddies "Who
was that"?
"It was the Pope," one replied. "He is in direct contact with
God and has access to all of God's wisdom."
"Well," the harpooner
said, "he may have access to God's wisdom, but he doesn't know much about
shark fishing. Is the bait holding up O.K., or do we need to get another
one?" ~~~~~~~~~~~ Below is an article written by Rick Reilly for Sports
Illustrated. He details his experiences when given the opportunity to fly in
an F-14D Tomcat.
Now this message is for America's most famous
athletes: Someday you may be invited to fly in the back-seat of one of your
country's most powerful fighter jets. Many of you already have-- John
Elway, John Stockton, Tiger Woods to name a few. If you get this
opportunity, let me urge you, with the greatest sincerity:
Move to Guam.
Change your name. Fake your own death. Whatever you do, do not go. I know.
The U.S. Navy invited me to try it. I was thrilled. I was pumped. I
was toast!
I should've known when they told me my pilot would be Chip
(Biff) King of Fighter Squadron 213 at Naval Air Station Oceana in
Virginia Beach. Whatever you're thinking a Top Gun named Chip (Biff)
King looks like, triple it.
He's about six-foot, tan, ice-blue eyes,
wavy surfer hair, finger- crippling handshake-the kind of man who wrestles
dyspeptic alligators in his leisure time. If you see this man, run the other
way. Fast. Biff King was born to fly.
His father, Jack King, was for
years the voice of NASA missions. ("T-minus 15 seconds and counting...."
Remember?) Chip would charge neighborhood kids a quarter each to hear his
dad. Jack would wake up from naps surrounded by nine-year-olds waiting for
him to say, "We have a liftoff."
Biff was to fly me in an F-14D
Tomcat, a ridiculously powerful $60 million weapon with as much thrust as
weight. I was worried about getting airsick, so the night before the flight
I asked Biff if there was something I should eat the next morning.
"Bananas," he said. "For the potassium?" I asked. "No," Biff said,
"because they taste about the same coming up as they do going down."
The next morning, out on the tarmac, I had on my flight suit with my
name sewn over the left breast. (No call sign-like Crash or Sticky or
Leadfoot--but, still, very cool.) I carried my helmet in the crook of my
arm, as Biff had instructed. A fighter pilot named Psycho gave me a safety
briefing and then fastened me into my ejection seat, which, when employed,
would "egress" me out of the plane at such a velocity that I would be
immediately knocked unconscious.
Just as I was thinking about
aborting the flight, the canopy closed over me, and Biff gave the ground
crew a thumbs-up. In minutes we were firing nose up at 600 mph. We leveled
out and then canopy- rolled over another F-14. Those 20 minutes were the
rush of my life.
Unfortunately, the ride lasted 80.
It was
like being on the roller coaster at Six Flags Over Hell. Only without rails.
We did barrel rolls, sap rolls, loops, yanks and banks.
We dived,
rose and dived again, sometimes with a vertical velocity of 10,000 feet per
minute. We chased another F-14, and it chased us. We broke the speed of
sound. Sea was sky and sky was sea. Flying at 200 feet we did 90-degree
turns at 550 mph, creating a G force of 6.5, which is to say I felt as if
6.5 times my body weight was smashing against me.
And I egressed the
bananas. I egressed the pizza from the night before. And the lunch before
that. I egressed a box of Milk Duds from the sixth grade. I made Linda Blair
look polite. Because of the G's, I was egressing stuff that did not even
want to be egressed.
I went through not one airsick bag, but two.
Biff said I passed out. Twice. I was coated in sweat. At one point, as we
were coming in upside down in a banked curve on a mock bombing target and
the G's were flattening me like a tortilla and I was in and out of
consciousness, I realized I was the first person in history to throw
down.
I used to know cool. Cool was Elway throwing a touchdown pass, or
Norman making a five-iron bite. But now I really know cool. Cool is guys
like Biff, men with cast-iron stomachs and Freon nerves. I wouldn't go up
there again for Derek Jeter's black book, but I'm glad Biff does every day,
and for less money per year than a rookie reliever makes in a home stand.
A week later, when the spins finally stopped, Biff called. He said
he and the fighters had the perfect call sign for me. Said he'd send it
on a patch for my flight suit.
What is it? I asked.
"Two Bags."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GROANER Far away in the tropical waters of the
Caribbean, two prawns were swimming around in the sea. One was called Justin
and the other was called Christian. Life was good, except that the prawns
were constantly being chased and threatened by sharks. Finally one day,
Justin said to Christian, "I'm tired of being a prawn. I wish I was a shark,
then I wouldn't have to worry about being eaten."
Just then a
mysterious cod appeared and said, "Your wish is granted," and lo and behold,
Justin turned into a shark. Horrified, Christian swam off, afraid of being
eaten up by his old friend.
Time went by and Justin found himself bored
and lonely as a shark. All his old pals were afraid of him and swam away
whenever he came near. Then one day he was out swimming and saw the
mysterious cod.
"I want to be a prawn again," said Justin. "Please change
me back!" And lo and behold, the cod changed him back to a prawn. With tears
of joy in his little eyes, Justin swam to Christian's house and knocked on
the door. "It's me, Justin, your old friend! Come out and see me!"
he shouted.
"No," said Christian. "I'll not be tricked. You're a shark
and you will eat me!"
Justin cried back, "No, I'm not! That was the
old me. I've changed. I've found Cod, I'm a prawn again,
Christian!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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**** COUNTRY
CALENDAR ****
-13-
Jack Guthrie, singer/songwriter, cousin of Woody
Guthrie, born Olive, OK 1915.
Jimmie Rodgers recorded "Hobo Bill's Last Ride,"
1929.
Sonny Fisher, Rockabilly, born Tyler, TX
1931.
Buddy Killen, industry executive, born Florence, SC
1932.
Dick Flood, singer/songwriter, born Philadelphia, PA
1932.
Tracy Schwartz, of "The New Lost City Ramblers" born NYC
1938.
Ray Wylie Hubbard, singer/songwriter, born Soper, OK
1946.
Del Wood joined the Grand Ole Opry 1953.
Hank Snow topped the charts with "I Don't Hurt Anymore"
1954.
Ernest Tubb recorded "Home of the Blues," for Decca
1957.
Ferlin Husky's "Wings of a Dove" was the #1 country song
1960.
George Jones' single "Window Up Above," charted in
1960.
Ral Donner's single "Please Don't God" charted
1961.
Eddy Arnold's #1 single "Make The World Go Away" debuted
on the charts 1965.
Little Jimmy Dickens #1 country single "May The Bird Of
Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" debuted on Billboards Top 40 pop chart
1965.
Jerry Lee Lewis Jr. died 1973.
Alvin "Junior" Samples, age 57, died 1983. Member
of the Hee Haw cast.
Bill Doggett, age 80, died 1996.
Cecil Blackwood, age 66, " Blackwood Brothers," died in
Memphis in 2000.
Garth Brooks released "Scarecrow," 2001.
Hoyt Axton's "Gold" Collectables album was released
2001.
Ray Harris died 2003.
Nashville police arrested Wynonna Judd on a DUI charge
2003. Her blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal
limit
**** COUNTRY MUSIC NEWS ****
Celebration of Hank
Thompson's life planned A celebration of
Hank Thompson's life will be held on Nov. 14 st Billy Bob's Texas, 2520 Rodeo
Plaza, Ft Worth, Texas, beginning at 2 p.m. The country music singer died
Nov. 6 at 80.
His family requested that, in lieu of flowers, a donation in
Hank's name be made to The Heart of Texas Country Music Museum, 1701 Bridge St,
Brady, TX 76825. Alabama teams up with Cracker Barrel on live
disc
Monday, November 12, 2007 – Alabama, the most
successful group in the history of country music with 42 number 1 singles, will
release its final concert tour recordings through Cracker Barrel Old Country
Store. "Alabama: The Last Stand," a collection of previously unreleased
recordings made during Alabama's 2003 farewell tour, streets Nov. 13. The
disc will be available at all Cracker Barrel locations and online at
crackerbarrel.com. The 12-song release features several of Alabama's biggest
hits, including "The Closer You Get," "Old Flame," "Forty Hour Week," "Feels So
Right" and "The Fans."
"There
are magical moments on this CD because these songs come straight from my heart,"
said lead singer Randy Owen. "I remember seeing the lights on the crowd when we
did 'Feels So Right'. We started the song with a piano, and the crowd went wild
when we got to the melody. I feel like we owe it to our fans to share this music
with them."
Through
3 decades of recording and touring, Alabama sold more than 73 million records.
Shortly after signing their first record deal, Alabama charted its first number
1 single, beginning a string of 21 consecutive number 1 hits. The band received
five consecutive "Entertainer Of The Year" awards from the Academy of Country
Music. In 2005, Alabama was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame.
"Having
this CD at Cracker Barrel is a natural for us," said bassist Teddy Gentry. "I
remember eating breakfast at Cracker Barrel when Randy told us we were being
inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame. I am in Cracker Barrel just about
every day, and we're proud to have our CD at Cracker Barrel."
"The
Last Stand" is the fourth exclusive CD released by Cracker Barrel in 2007,
following Josh Turner's "Live At The Ryman," Merle Haggard's "Working Man's
Journey" and Lonestar's "My Christmas List."
"Cracker
Barrel has great food, and I've noticed how people are always checking out the
music in the store," said guitar and fiddle player Jeff Cook. "This is the first
new record from Alabama in three years and I think it will do very well."
"This
Alabama CD continues our tradition of offering unique country music to our
guests," said Simon Turner, Cracker Barrel's Chief Marketing Officer. "Millions
of people attended Alabama concerts during the band's three decades of touring.
These songs will bring back the memories of a night filled with great music and
entertainment."
Keith Urban And Carrie Underwood To
Co-Headline NASHVILLE, Tenn. Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood are set to
hit the road together next year. It'll be called "Love, Pain and the Whole Crazy
Carnival Ride Tour." Urban's releasing his "Greatest Hits: 18 Kids" CD on
November 20th. Underwood's new album "Carnival Ride" recently debuted at
Number-1. She's won the last two CMA Female Vocalist of the Year awards. Some of
the cities on the tour include New York; San Jose, California; Kansas City,
Missouri; and Denver.
Eagles Land On Top Country Music World The
Eagles new CD "Long Road out of Eden" is Number-1 on Billboard's country album
chart. It's also on top of the Billboard 200 all-genre chart. Kenny Chesney's
"Don't Blink" remains the top country song for a fifth straight week. Here's the
rest of the Top 5: Dierks Bentley's "Free and Easy " is Number-2. Carrie
Underwood's "So Small," is Number-3. Garth Brook's "More Than a Memory" is
Number-4 and Clay Walker's "Fall" is Number-5.
Tim Mcgraw And Rascal
Flatts Country Music World Tim McGraw is up for two People's Choice
Awards. McGraw is a contender for favorite male singer, along with John Mayer
and Justin Timberlake. Rascal Flatts is up for favorite group. Nominees in the
favorite country song category are "I Need You" by McGraw and Faith Hill, "Never
Wanted Nothing More" by Kenny Chesney and "Stand" by Rascal Flatts. The fan
voted awards show airs on CBS January 8th.
Garth Brooks
Concert NASHVILLE, Tenn. Garth Brooks is performing at the Sprint Center
in Kansas City, Missouri, tonight. He and his wife Trisha Yearwood wrap up the
series of concerts in KC on Wednesday. Brooks released his "The Ultimate Hits"
project last Tuesday. Yearwood's new CD, "Heaven, Heartache and the Power of
Love" comes out this Tuesday.
George Strait's New Tour NASHVILLE,
Tenn. George Strait is making plans to head out on tour early next year. The
nationwide tour starts January 10th in Austin, Texas. A total of 19 shows are on
the schedule so far. Little Big Town is going to be the opening act. Strait
added to his long list of accomplishments by winning CMA Album of the Year for
"It Just Comes Natural." Strait's been winning CMA Awards for more than 22 years
which he says is still "unbelievable." In addition to his own trophies, Strait's
hit song "Give It Away" won CMA Song of the Year honors for songwriters, Bill
Anderson, Buddy Cannon and Jamie Johnson. Strait was inducted into the Country
Music hall of Fame last year.
Sugarland On Tour NASHVILLE,
Tenn. Sugarland's "Change for Change" tour is in New York this Wednesday.
It's part of the CMT 2007 Tour, which includes Little Big Town and Jake Owen.
It's Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush's first headlining tour. Bush says
opening for Brooks and Dunn and Kenny Chesney taught them a lot about touring.
Nettles says a lot of people are commenting about their latest single "Stay."
She says its a song about loss and love. Sugarland is coming off their CMA Vocal
Duo of the Year win last week.
The Judds To Reunite NASHVILLE,
Tenn. Wynonna and Naomi Judd are reuniting for the 2008 Stagecoach Festival
in Indio, California on May 3rd and 4th. The concert will also feature Carrie
Underwood, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift. Other confirmed artists
include Gretchen Wilson, Dwight Yoakam, George Jones, Big and Rich, Dierks
Bentley, Trace Adkins and Shooter Jennings. Last year's event drew 25,000 fans
on the first day and 27,000 on its second day.
Taylor Swift To Perform At
Sound And Speed Concert NASHVILLE, tenn. Taylor Swift and Jason Michael
Carroll are the latest artists scheduled to play at the "Sound and Speed"
concert in Nashville on January 12th. Swift won the CMA Horizon Award last
Wednesday. Her latest single is "Our Song." Alan Jackson will headline the event
which brings together NASCAR drivers and country artists for autographs,
interview sessions and photographs.
New Music From Jerry
Douglas NASHVILLE, Tenn. Musician Jerry Douglas says he's got two albums
coming out next year, including one with Alison Krauss and Union Station.
Douglas says he'll start recording a new album with Krauss and her band in the
spring or early summer and that he'll release a solo album in April. He said he
will also tour to support his upcoming solo project. Douglas won his third CMA
trophy for Musician of the Year last Wednesday.
The Marshall Tucker Band
Project LOS ANGELES The Marshall Tucker Band's "Carolina Dreams Tour '77"
project comes out December 4th. It's a two CD-DVD set. The DVD is from the 1977
concert in Passaic, New Jersey's Capitol Theatre. Some of the band's hits
include "Fire On The Mountain," "Take The Highway" and "Can't You
See."
Great American Country Tv NASHVILLE, Tenn. Toby Keith is on
"GAC Nights" tonight. The country channel catches up with Keith at his "Big
Daddy Tour" stop in Hartford, Connecticut. Keith also talks about his upcoming
Christmas project, his early days in the oil fields and his support for the
military.
Country Music Television NASHVILLE, Tenn. CMT is
re-telecasting the 41st CMA Awards show on November 22nd. The show originally
aired on ABC. The three-hour event includes performances by Big and Rich, Brooks
and Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Eagles, Reba McEntire performing with LeAnn Rimes, Brad
Paisley and George Strait.
Today's Birthday Singer Barbara
Fairchild is 57.
**** Amy's Kitchen
****
SWEET POTATO
SOUFFLE 3 cups cooked whole sweet
potatoes 1 cups sugar 1/2 teaspoon
salt 2 eggs 1/3 stick margarine
1/2 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla
TOPPING: 1 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup
flour 1 cup chopped pecans 1/3 stick
margarine
DIRECTIONS: Peel potatoes, slice
and cook in water until tender. Beat with electric mixer until
smooth. Add margarine, sugar, salt, eggs, milk and vanilla. Mix
well (it looks thin). Pour into a greased casserole dish and
bake at 400 degrees for 35 minutes or until it looks firm. Mix
topping ingredients and cover top of potatoes. Bake 10 minutes
or until brown.
**** TODAY'S USELESS FACT
****
What is the world's fastest roller coaster?
If you like drag
racing or taking off in a jet fighter, you'll love the "Superman, the
Escape" roller coaster at Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. The first
roller coaster to break the 100 mph barrier, it is currently the world's
fastest roller coaster. This high-speed ride launches 15-passenger cars from
a standstill to 100 mph in 7 seconds with a force of 4.5 Gs as it heads
skyward.
At the top, which is 42 stories high, riders experience 6.5
seconds of weightlessness and free-fall backward for the return trip.
The fastest inverted roller coaster is the "Raptor" at the Cedar Point
amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. This gut-wrenching ride features a "cobra
roll" that flips passengers over, spirals them upside down into a ISO-degree
roll, and then repeats these twisting movements in the reverse order, all at
speeds of almost 60 mph. Cedar Point also has one of the fastest and
steepest stand-up roller coasters. Riders speed over part of a lagoon and,
among other thrills, experience four upside-down inversions at 60 mph
while standing up.
The Cedar Point amusement park has more roller
coasters than any other amusement park. The park's 12 roller coasters are in
"The Guinness Book of Records" and the park is known as the roller
coaster capital of the world.
Before the advent of the roller coaster,
people paid to drive their cars over an undulating track.
Many
weddings are performed on roller coasters, and one minister specializes in
such weddings.
Modern roller coasters take two to three years to design
and cost $8 million on up.
There is a market for used roller
coasters. It is cheaper to take one apart, move it, and reassemble it than
to build a new one.
The longest roller coaster in the United States is
the 1.4- mile "Beast" at Kings Island, Ohio.
The oldest operating
roller coaster in the United States is the "Zippin Pippin" at Libertyland
amusement park in Memphis, Tennessee. It was built in 1915.
The
origin of the roller coaster dates back to the 1700s when Russians created
"ice slides" at country fairs. The slide was a steep drop made entirely of
ice with a series of small bumps at the end. Riders sat on a straw patch on
top of a block of ice and hung on to a rope tied to the ice block.
A
French businessman who liked the idea decided to build an ice slide in
France. Unfortunately, the ice melted and he ended up with a "slush slide."
He then tried an all-weather version by using a waxed wooden slope and a
wooden sled with rollers on the bottom. Because it took skill to use these
sleds, there were many accidents. As a result, a crude track was built to
ensure that the rider would descend in a straight line.
The
beginnings of the American roller coaster come from the Mauch Chunk Railway,
originally devised as a transportation system for coal mines. The mine was
at the top of a mountain and the Mauch Chunk port was 18 miles away, all
downhill. The miners simply loaded the coal cars and then pushed them off the
top of the mountain. Gravity did the rest and the cars eventually ended up
at the port.
Used for coal mining during the day, the Mauch Chunk
Railway became a pleasure ride at night. People paid one dollar to ride a
car down the main track. This "ride" exceeded today's roller coasters,
being an 18-mile ride at a speed of 100 mph. The railway operated from 1870
until the 1930s with an exemplary safety record.
Roller-coaster
designs continued to evolve. Today's innovations include corkscrews,
loop-me-loops, suspended cars, inverted cars, and stand-up
coasters.
~source used: "Do Fish Drink Water?" by Bill
McLain
****A PARTING
THOUGHT **** Pity poor old George Washington. He couldn't blame his
troubles on the previous administration.
LAST CALL
Y'ALL The building-supply
warehouse in our town identified accounts by using the first three letters
of the customer's last name, the first three letters of his first name and a
single digit representing how many accounts he holds. One day when I went in
to buy some cement to fix a cracked tile, I joked with the cashier about my
husband's account name: BROKEN 2. "That's nothing," the clerk beside us
said. "Yesterday a man came in and said his charge was for MURDER
1." See y'all
tomorrow
HEY, DON'T BE A STRANGER NOW,YA
HEAR!
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