Know & Tell
(60%)--estimated percentage of international aid promised to last year's tsunami victims that was never delivered, according to Action-Aid International.
(8 Days)--prison sentence given to Aage Bjerre, a pizzeria owner in Denmark who refused to pay fines after banning French and German people from his restaurant to demonstrate his support for the war in Iraq.
("Pull A Jesus")--slang term used to undergo a resurrection, especially as applied to electronic devices. Province- East Coast college campuses. Usage- "Unless my digital camera decides to pull a Jesus, I nedd to make a trip to Best Buy."
(100)--number of participants in a Scottish triathlon who took out 1,000,000 insurance policies against monster bites before diving into Loch Ness for the swimming event.
($31,000)--amount by which congressional salaries have increased since 1996-the last time the federal minimum wage was raised (congressmen currently make $165,200).
($10,000)--annual salary of an American working a 40-hour week at minimum wage ($5.15 an hour).
(September 1992)--month Karl Rove was fired from President George H. W. Bush's re-election campaign under suspicion of leaking to Robert Novak, the same colunmnist who blew CIA operative Valerie Plame's cover in July 2003.
(300,000)--number of Beijing residents whose homes have been destroyed by the government in order to make room for the 2008 Olympics.
(www.aliensandchildren.org)--a collection of crayon drawings by Ariel and William Strother, two children who claim they were abducted by UFOs. They were able to defeat the aliens' telepathic control and avoided being experimented on by wearing a "thought-screen helmet."
(32%)--perecntage of major studies in influential medical journals later found to be inaccurate, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
("It's obvious that elements of the comit's orbit, and correspondingly the ephemeris, will change after the expolsion, which interferes with my astrology work and distorts my horoscope."--Russian astrologer Marina Bai who is suing NASA for $300 million, claiming that the collision of the Deep Impact probe with the Tempel 1 comet ruined her business.
(60%)--estimated percentage of international aid promised to last year's tsunami victims that was never delivered, according to Action-Aid International.
(8 Days)--prison sentence given to Aage Bjerre, a pizzeria owner in Denmark who refused to pay fines after banning French and German people from his restaurant to demonstrate his support for the war in Iraq.
("Pull A Jesus")--slang term used to undergo a resurrection, especially as applied to electronic devices. Province- East Coast college campuses. Usage- "Unless my digital camera decides to pull a Jesus, I nedd to make a trip to Best Buy."
(100)--number of participants in a Scottish triathlon who took out 1,000,000 insurance policies against monster bites before diving into Loch Ness for the swimming event.
($31,000)--amount by which congressional salaries have increased since 1996-the last time the federal minimum wage was raised (congressmen currently make $165,200).
($10,000)--annual salary of an American working a 40-hour week at minimum wage ($5.15 an hour).
(September 1992)--month Karl Rove was fired from President George H. W. Bush's re-election campaign under suspicion of leaking to Robert Novak, the same colunmnist who blew CIA operative Valerie Plame's cover in July 2003.
(300,000)--number of Beijing residents whose homes have been destroyed by the government in order to make room for the 2008 Olympics.
(www.aliensandchildren.org)--a collection of crayon drawings by Ariel and William Strother, two children who claim they were abducted by UFOs. They were able to defeat the aliens' telepathic control and avoided being experimented on by wearing a "thought-screen helmet."
(32%)--perecntage of major studies in influential medical journals later found to be inaccurate, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
("It's obvious that elements of the comit's orbit, and correspondingly the ephemeris, will change after the expolsion, which interferes with my astrology work and distorts my horoscope."--Russian astrologer Marina Bai who is suing NASA for $300 million, claiming that the collision of the Deep Impact probe with the Tempel 1 comet ruined her business.
thanks again hun