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A few strange facts and tales compiled in the "Eiples Beleive it or not - Encyclopedia of the Bizzarre" whixh I bought recently, enjoy:
- In 1991, sidewalk vendors in Mexico City began selling oxygen ata cost of 5,000 Pesos to help counteract the smog.
- A small channel steamer, carrying 74 passengers and crew, split in half on a voyage from England to France on November 18th, 1905-- But 26 men managed to cling to the ships mast which broke away from the vessel and became wedged upright in a reef. The next day, rescuers found 20 dead men with their fingers frozen to the mast, But their tightly packed bodies had enabled 6 men to survive.
- After becoming blind and deaf in a truck accident, Edwin Robinson, of Falmouth, Maine, regained his sight and hearing after being struck by lightning.
- Aimé Grosjean, aged 72, of Regendorf, Switzerland, was blown off a 17th floor balcony by a gust of wind, but landed on a lower floor, unharmed.
- Parachutist Michael Loeb got tangled during a jump and spent twenty minutes dangling one thousand feet above the ground from a plane traveling one hundred and fifty miles per hour.
- A human skeleton, still visable on a wall in Partrishow, Wales, was painted centuries ago in blood.
- The Kingswald family, Austria 1928: A viper bit the grandfather and the fang remained in his boot after he died. His son and grandson wore the boots and were poisened also. 3 generations of one family dead in a month.
- Judge James Barlow and Judge John Benavides - total strangers - were each married in San Antonio, Texas, on December 22nd,1951. Both honeymooned in Monterrey, Mexico, and the wife of each man gave birth to a daughter on the same day - January 11th, 1953 - and in the same hospital. Both men became district judges in San Antonio and both had courtrooms on the second floor of the Bexar County courthouse.
- A needle embedded in the knee of Mrs. Helen Jensen, of Seattle, Washington, when she was a small child was removed from her baby thirty years later.
- Paul Hubert, of Bordeaux, France, was convicted in 1863 of murdering himself! He served 21 years of solitary confinement before it was discovered that his supposed victim was none other than himself.
- Over a century ago, twelve sycamore trees were planted beside the Grace Episcopal Church in Plymouth, North Carolina. Each tree was named after one of Jesus' apostles. The tree called Judas was hit by lightening and destroyed.
- The Peace Poplar planted in Jena, Germany in 1815, to celebrate the end of the Napoleonic War with France, topples suddenly, 99 years later, on August 1st, 1914 - the day World War I started.
- 'Lightening strikes twice': In 1991, lightening destroyed a house in Maleville, France, for the third time.
- During the Vietnam War, American troops threw slinkies over tree to use as antennas for their radios.
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When you take a long time, you're slow.
When your boss takes a long time,
he's thorough.
When you don't do it, you're lazy. .
When your boss doesn't do it, he's too
busy.
When you make a mistake, you're an idiot. .
When your boss makes a mistake,
he's only human.
When doing something without being told, you're overstepping your authority..
When your boss does the same thing, that's initiative.
When you take a stand, you're being bull-headed..
When your boss does it,
he's being firm.
When you overlooked a rule of etiquette, you're being rude. .
When your boss
skips a few rules, he's being original.
When you please your boss, you're apple polishing..
When your boss pleases
his boss, he's being co-operative.
When you're out of the office, you're wandering around..
When your boss is
out of the office, he's on business.
When you're on a day off sick, you're always sick..
When your boss is a day
off sick, he must be very ill.
When you apply for leave, you must be going for an interview. .
When your boss
applies for leave, it's because he's overworked.
