Where can i find free church bulletin covers?

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Aug 272010
 

Where can you find free church bulletin covers? No one really knows. That’s why this gets searched for an estimated 3,200 times a day on the major search engines. But, I did come across one article while reading up on the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I’ll paraphrase part of it here.

“There are a few online sources for free church bulletin covers. These sites require that the covers only be used for your church or mostly non-profit organization such as turkey shoots or golf fundraisers for rich republicans. Many of these sites also include instructions on how to utilize the bulletin covers. Most people use them for church.”

So the best site I’ve found for free church bulletin covers is here at ehow.com.

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Who invented Velcro?

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Aug 232010
 

velcro sheep herder

Who invented Velcro? Henri de Tolouse letrec. Not the crazy painter, but a simple goat herder from Switzerland (see picture of Henri above). Here’s how it happened. Back in 1948, he was walking in the woods near his Swiss mountain home when he noticed his fluffy soft pants were covered with burrs.

“Hmmmmm…” he said to himself. “I have an idea. I shall invent a fastener made out of burrs and soft pants.” He then took some Super Glue and glued these burrs to anything he wanted to fasten. Forks and spoons. Hats. Bologna Sandwiches, etc. Now before heading off to work in the fields, he could attach his hat, lunch and eating utensils to his trousers.

His good friend, another shepherd called George de Mestral, noticed this strange way of carrying stuff and inquired about this curious invention. Henri told George all about it and George, being the smarter guy, got out his microscope and noticed the clever way nature had designed the burrs. He decided to rip off mother nature (and his dumber friend) and came up with a cloth with soft loops and another strip of cloth with small hooks. He decided to call it “Super Hooky Loopy Stuff” and another, even more clever friend said you should call it Velour-crochet since that’s kind of what it was. George said, “That’s a mouth full so I’ll just call it Velcro for short.”

And there you have it. It was patented in 1955 and George made enough money to give away all his sheep and retire to Aruba where he still lives and enjoys scuba diving. He is 113 years old.

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Barry Bonds’ wife files for legal separation

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Aug 192010
 

Barry Asterisk BondsLOS ANGELES- Barry Bonds’ wife has filed for legal separation.

The former San Francisco Giants’ steroid abuser and Liz Watson were married in 1998 and together have two cockatoos, three hermit crabs, a tortoise and one hamster.

Watson cited irreconcilable differences in papers filed by her cousin Omar on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. She is seeking spousal support in the sum of four trillion dollars a week and joint legal and physical custody of their rare 130-year-old Tanzanian Leopard tortoise, Zippy.

Bonds, major league baseball’s asterisk leader, is awaiting trial after pleading not guilty to lying to a federal grand jury in December 2003 when he denied knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs. The trial has been delayed because of a dispute over whether or not he can wear the same jacket Michael Jackson wore to his last trial.

Bonds’ first marriage to Susann Margreth Branco ended in a highly publicized divorce in 1994. Bonds was successful in winning custody of his turtle in this divorce.

Barry and Sean Hannity contributed to this report.

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Poking a dead raccoon is not research

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Aug 132010
 

dead raccoonOkay, I’m just writing a quick blurb tonight to somewhat keep this blog current. I love the title of this one though. Some years ago it was one of the lines Bart Simpson was having to write on the blackboard. A lot of what he had to write had some small tie to a current event that was going on at the time but I don’t think this one had anything to do with anything- probably just the twisted sense of humor of one of the writers…

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How did Tina Fey get the scar on her face?

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Aug 022010
 

How did Tina get her scar?

Tina Fey image

Appearently, Tina addressed this in a 2001 NY Times article. “She started as a co-anchor for Weekend Update with a cast member, Jimmy Fallon, last year, wearing her navy suit and trademark glasses. Her other trademark is a scar that runs along the left side of her face, although she won’t discuss it. “It’s a childhood injury that was kind of grim,” she said. “And it kind of bums my parents out for me to talk about it.” And so it goes. Or does it?

Tina Fey

So what’s the real story? A reliable source told someone that before her days on SNL, she was making the rounds on the Women’s Professional Lawn Dart Circuit (WPLD). While she never achieved the world fame of the top-ranked Rob “The Falcon” Finkelstein, she was able to break into the top 10 in the New Jersey Lawn Dart Association (NJLDA) in the early 1990s. A tragic event unfolded just before the 1992 mid-Atlantic tournament when Tonya Harding’s boyfriend jumped her outside the White Castle on Burlington Avenue in eastern Connecticut. The scar resulted from the ensuing scuffle and Tina decided to give up on her dream of becoming the world’s top-ranked female lawn dart hurler. Soon after, she settled for a gig on a late-night low-budget cable show.

As an aside, until writing this fascinating story, I had no idea Tina Fey even had a scar. And I sure can’t see it in the picture above. Also, I just made up all of the paragraph above. I think she’s pretty awesome. PSS, have any of you four readers out there ever heard of a free Kim Possible sex comic? This site still gets a lot of hits for people searching for that. I really don’t know why, she’s a cartoon.

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Climate Change – We Barely Escaped Once Before

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Aug 012010
 

Many of us have heard about the “Mitochondrial Eve,” our earliest ancestor who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. A Stanford University study, reported on recently at CNN, has concluded that our species became precariously close to extinction about 60,000 years ago. Very interesting. Considering that we have almost 7,000,000,000 people on Earth now, that as recent as 60,000 BCE our species may have numbered at only 2,000 is remarkable.

In a nutshell, the report mentions that little is known about our ancestors between Eve’s time and the time we first started migrating out of Africa. And that this near-extinction was the result of climatological shifts and a series of severe droughts in eastern Africa between 135k and 90k years ago.

The researchers … concluded that humans separated into small populations before the Stone Age, when they came back together and began to increase in numbers and spread to other areas.

Spencer Wells of the National Geographic Society summarizes it nicely: “Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental conditions, coming back from the brink to reunite and populate the world. Truly an epic drama, written in our DNA.”

And Paleontologist Meave Leakey: “Who would have thought that as recently as 70,000 years ago, extremes of climate had reduced our population to such small numbers that we were on the very edge of extinction?”

Check out the CNN story in it’s entirety. Really a thought-provoking read.

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