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 July, 2004

Vol.5. NO.7...........................................................Pages14-15


 WEIRD NEWS

Funeral Services....

I thought you would want to know. It is with the saddest heart that we must pass on the following news. Please join us in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community.

The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin.

Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch.

The gravesite was piled high with flours.

Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never realized how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers.

He was not considered a very “smart” cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times, he still, as a crusty old man, was considered a roll model for millions.

Doughboy is survived by his wife, Play Dough, and their two children John Dough and Jane Dough (and they had one in the oven). He is survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart.

The funeral was held at 345 for about 20 minutes.  

 

Disappearing Lake

Residents of Wildwood, an affluent suburb of St. Louis, awakened one morning recently to find that their 23 acre Lake Chesterfield has disappeared. Evidently the lake had been shrinking over the past couple of days and then just completely disappeared into a sink hole overnight. All that was left was a large muddy area with a lot of rotting fish.

Local residents were left wondering if their property values went down the hole with the lake.   

 

Can’t Possibly
Be True

Until March, Mr. Dayn Riegel and his girlfriend kept 77 cats in their house in Lawrenceville, Ga., but a Humane Society spokesman said he saw no problem, in that all appeared to be in good health and well-fed, and Riegel’s home was clean (though filled with litter boxes). Riegel recorded each cat’s history on a computer database, provided one packaged meal and one special meal a day for each, and turned over 60 pounds of cat litter a week. (During a recent move from the home, Riegel gave away just a few of the cats.) [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2004Mar20]










Texas Farmer

A man owned a small farm in West Texas. The Wage and Hour Department of Texas claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent to interview him.

“I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,” demanded the agent.

“Well, there’s my hired hand who’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $800 a month plus free room and board. The cook has been here for 18 months and I pay her $500 a month plus free room and board. Then there’s the half-wit that works about 18 hours a day. I pay him $10 a week and buy him chewing tobacco,” replied the farmer.

“That’s the guy I want to talk to; the half-wit,” says the agent.

The farmer says, “That would be me.”





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BOOK REVIEWS

The Secret Achievement
by Orison Swett Marden

The Secret of Achievement is written by Orison Swett Marden, author of The Miracle of Right Thought, He Can Who Thinks He Can, Character: The Grandest Thing in the World, Peace, Power, and Plenty, and more.

Partial list of contents consists of: Moral Sunshine, “Blessed Be Drudgery,” Honesty–As Principle and As Policy, Habit: The Servant or The Master, Courage, Self-Control, & The School Life, Decide, Tenacity of Purpose, The Art of Keeping Well, and Purity is Power.

For more information or to order contact Sun Books at 505-471-5177 or e-mail at info@sunbooks.com. ISBN: 0-89540-337-4, $27.00, Paperback.

 

Roadside New Mexico
by David Pike

When you hit the road in New Mexico or your path leads you there, one book can help you decide when and where to pull over. David Pike’s Roadside New Mexico: A Guide to Historic Markers is a comprehensive travel companion that will lead you in the direction of enchantment.
New Mexico’s Historical Marker Program began in 1935 and never before have all three hundred and fifty markers been compiled in one volume. Pike introduces readers to the people, geological features, and historic events that make New Mexico such a diverse place.
Roadside New Mexico is divided regionally by the Colorado Plateau, the Santa Fe Trail, and Oil Country, to name a few. Each description gives the marker’s location, the text on the marker, historical reasoning, and the present-day condition of the site.
For more information contact Amanda Sutton, University of New Mexico Press Publicity, at (505) 277-0655 or by e-mail: asutton@unm.edu. ISBN: 0-8263-3 1 18-1, $23.95 paper, 8 maps, 416 pages, 66 halftones. Publication: August 2004.

 

The Biology of Transcendence
by Joseph Chilton Pearce

In The Biology of Transcendence Joseph Chilton Pearce examines the current biological understanding of our neural organization to address how we can transcend our current evolutionary capacities and limitations. This latest research identifies the four neural centers of our brain, and, through the new discipline of neurocardiology, indicates that a fifth such center is located in the heart. As Pearce shows us, it is the dynamic interaction of our head brain (intellect) and heart brain (intelligence) that allows transcendence from one evolutionary place to the next—we are, quite literally, made to transcend. Conversely, it is the breakdown of this interaction through the cultural dictates of society and religion surrounding us from the time we are children that keeps us where we are, mired in the current crises of violence among people and between people and the planet.

Park Street Press (division of Inner Traditions), Rochester, Vermont,
ISBN: 0-89281-990-1, www.InnerTraditions.com.


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Inside This Issue
 

Book Reviews .............. 15

El Camino Real
Scenic Byway
Awarded Grant.........4

Final Word on Nutrition
& Health ..................4

How To Stretch Your
Organic Food Dollar
 6

Just Ducky ...................13

Letters to the Editor.....  10

Local Students Research
Florida Wetlands
...... 9

Lesson to be Learned ... 13

Marriage ..................... 11

Movie Making in N&I... 11

North Central NM
Events
.................... 3

Organics Delivered to
Your Door ..........
.... 12

Scrambled Eggs .......... 4

SFCC Offers Digital
Filmmaking
Intensive
.................1

SOLARWALL Helps
Manage Heating
Costs ......................1

Summer Holdiays and
Your Child ........... 8

Texas Farmer............ 15

The Answer Is .......... 11

Thirsty Ear Festival
Is On Hiatus in 2004..................... 7

Truths ..................... 5

Vietnamese See Parallel
Between Vietnam
& Iraq ................. 6

Weird News ..............14

Where to find The
Sun-News ...........  2

Who Done It ........... 2

 

 

 

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