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A minister passing through his church In the middle of the day, Decided to pause by the altar And see who had come to pray. Just then the back door opened, A man came down the aisle, The minister frowned as he saw The man hadn't shaved in a while. His shirt was kinda shabby And his coat was worn and frayed, The man knelt, he bowed his head, Then rose and walked away. In the days that followed, Each noon time came this chap, Each time he knelt just for a moment, A lunch pail in his lap. Well, the minister's suspicions grew, With robbery a main fear, He decided to stop the man and ask him, 'What are you doing here?' The old man said, he worked down the road. Lunch was half an hour Lunchtime was his prayer time, For finding strength and power. 'I stay only moments, see, Because the factory is so far away; As I kneel here talking to the Lord, This is kinda what I say: 'I JUST CAME AGAIN TO TELL YOU, LORD, HOW HAPPY I'VE BEEN, SINCE WE FOUND EACH OTHER'S FRI...

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE QUOTE: "The power of imagination makes us infinite." HINT: Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. RANDOM TIDBITS A favorite cheerleading tune, the video for Toni Basil's number one hit song "Mickey" included real-life cheerleaders. Toni's uniform was real as well; the "LVH" patch stood for Las Vegas High, where she was on the squad in the early 1960s. Many of the stunts performed in the 2000 film Bring It On, including the fly-overs and the basket tosses with head-over-heels rotation, are illegal in competitions at the high school level because of safety concerns. The first organized chant that occurred during a football game at Princeton in the 1880s: Rah, Rah, Rah! Tiger, Tiger, Tiger! Sis, Sis, Sis! Boom, Boom, Boom! Aaaah! Princeton, Princeton, Princeton! The Washington Redskins cheerleaders are the oldest active cheerleading organ...

One of my favorite books of all time is Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Today we have quotations from that book. *---- Quotes For The Week ----* Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.'... I says, 'What's this call, this sperit?' An' I says, 'It's love. I love people so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes.-- Chapter 4 !!!! My FAVORITE!!!! The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.--Chapter 5 Tommy, don't you go fightin' 'em alone. They'll hunt you down like a coyote. Tommy, I got to thinkin' and dreamin' and wonderin'. They say there's a hun'erd thousand of us shoved out. If we was all mad the same way, Tommy-they wouldn't hunt nobody down.--Chapter 8 **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** Death is on...

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE QUOTE: "I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." HINT: (1877-1964), German born Swiss novelist and poet. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. RANDOM TIDBITS The title of the Paul Simon 1972 hit single "Mother and Child Reunion" was adopted from the name of a chicken-and-egg dish he spotted on the menu of Say Eng Look, a Chinese restaurant in the Chinatown section of New York City. In China, "pork" is synonymous with "meat." The Chinese do eat beef, but because cattle are more valued as work animals, most of their dishes are made with swine. Chop suey is strictly an American concoction. Chinese immigrants who worked on the railways would cook together whatever vegetables and meat they had available. The name comes from the Mandarin phrase "tsa sui," which means "mixed ...

The following number is the only one of its kind: 8,549,176,320. Can you figure out what is so special about it? Right click on your mouse for the answer.

"Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine." Sounds like Rush Limbaugh struck intellectual gold yet again.