Rowland Croucher
Very Important Facts (?) (to add to your store of worthless information :-)
This is very interesting! After reading it, you’ll go ‘duh, I didn’t know that.’ ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand And ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Of course, that’s assuming that you really know how to type and don’t hunt and peck!) No word in […]
Some of these are not facts :-)
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. Hirple ( to walk with a limping gait ) and curple ( part of a horse’s tack that goes under the tail ) ***** There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous […]
News from the Business World
with apologies to any investment bankers, stock brokers, or wheelers and dealers in our midst 🙂 1. The US has made a new weapon that destroys people but keeps the building standing. Its called the stock market. 2. Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wal-Mart Street. […]
Palindromes
The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’, and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). Yes, there are many more … mom, wow, Anna … Madam, I’m Adam. Able was I, ere I saw Elba. (attributed to Napoleon by somebody who didn’t realize he spoke French) A man, a […]
Hearing Voices: Abraham and Isaac
(Another brilliant/cynical contribution from my liberal Episcopalian friend. Have fun, as I do, arguing with him!). Hearing Voices Harry T. Cook 3/08/09 Genesis 22: 1-14 It goes by the name of “the near sacrifice of Isaac,” this familiar text from Genesis. I have heard a world-renown scholar of Judaica say what an unprintable name the […]
Darwin theory stands test of time
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-forum09darwinpnfeb09,0, 2858696.story By Robert McCarthy February 9, 2009 Feb. 12 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. This double-anniversary is the perfect opportunity to assess the impact of Darwin’s ideas on the modern world. Darwin’s theory is […]
Prayer Network Newsletter
NATIONAL PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER 9th March 2009 * HOPE COMES TO MYANMAR * ZIMBABWE’S ILLS INFECTING NEIGHBOURING ZAMBIA * SPEAKER PELOSI DEFENDS CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN NATIONAL’S CAPITOL * UK BISHOP SAYS HOSPITALS MUST REDISCOVER THEIR CHRISTIAN ROOTS ———————————————– HOPE COMES TO MYANMAR In a country ridden with political struggles, economic strife and natural disasters, it […]
The Dangers Of Heating Liquids In Microwave Ovens – More…
First – read this: http://jmm.org.au/articles/22334.htm Responses from various Facebook friends: * “This is indeed true, and my mother has burned her face in this way many years ago, when I was a baby and she heated something for me in the microwave oven.” * “I do not drink coffee but do brew tea every day, […]
Holiness Quotes
“The Glory of God is man fully alive, and the life of man consists in beholding God” – St. Irenaeus Esse Quam Videri – Latin for “To be, rather then appear.” “Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.” – St. Augustine […]
Evangelicals and the Environment
*Sightings* 3/2/09 — Martin E. Marty This one needs an introduction: Years ago at scholarly evangelical gatherings I would be introduced as “this year’s non-evangelical speaker“, to which I’d respond with a reminder, “I’m the only person in this room who even belongs to a church body named ‘Evangelical’.” Chuckles would follow, and then we […]
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