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OBSCURE AND UNUSUAL WORDS
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1) ninnyhammer NIN-ee-ham-uhr (noun)
: a fool; blockhead.

Of uncertain origin. From ninny (perhaps shortening of
innocent) + hammer (possibly from hammerheaded)

"Margaret Lloyd made the sweetly ninnyhammer heroine
Josephine believable within the wild framework of the
plot, and swooped around the stage like a lark."
Craig Smith; Opera's Production of 'Pinafore' Full of
Heart; Santa Fe New Mexican; Nov 24, 2001.

2) shivaree shiv-uh-REE (noun)
: a noisy, mock serenade to a newly married couple,
involving the banging of kettles, pots and pans.

From French charivari (din, hullabaloo)

"Friends tried to subject them to a shivaree, but the
joke was on them. The bride and groom were nowhere to
be found."








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I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call center.
One day I got a call from an Individual who asked what
hours the call center was open.

I told him, "The number you dialed is open 24 hours a day,
7 days a week".

He responded, "Is that Eastern or Pacific time?"

Wanting to end the call quickly, I said, "Uh... Pacific."









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TRIVIA:

You're just as likely to die by falling out of bed then you
are to get struck by lightning; each is a 1 in 2,000,000
chance. You have a 1 in 3,000,000 chance of being killed by
a snake.

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The little-used adjective "tabescent" means to waste or wither
away.

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The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants, and is as
long as three Greyhound buses.


???

That's alot of Yoke

An ostrich egg can make eleven-and-a-half omelets.

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Marilyn Monroe

The last line ever spoken by Marilyn Monroe on the silver
screen was "How do you find your way back in the dark?"
The line is from the 1961 film The Misfits with Clark Gable.
She died in 1962.

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Book Matches

Joshua Pusey of Pennsylvania received a patent for his book
matches in 1892.

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"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
--Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Statesman/Author








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Most elementary school children will be able to tell you that
the first American flag was made by Betsy Ross. What they are
not taught was that she was also a social scientist who de-
veloped the techniques now used by Gallop and others. It
started when she asked a group of colonists what they thought
of the flag she had made. This was the origin of ...
the flag poll.








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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds.
Men and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies
into which they never enter and with their hand on the doorlatch
they die outside. GK Chesterton
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