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You know you're going to have a long day when you're a mile from work and 
a headache begins. It didn't stop. Enjoy.                           -dave

P.S. It's getting worse, this had better go out soon. The script file ate 
the title/subject line...so I put it back (it really was "No Title" before).
Goodnight, and pass the hard alcohol. Don't forget some aspirin. <clunk>




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Some of the following news items are strange-but-true, and some are just
strange. Which are fact, and which are fiction?

HITTING STRIDE
The novelist James Michener wrote his 800-page bestseller Hawaii without
benefit of a plot outline and in a single continuous draft without
corrections over a seven-week period on a manual typewriter. The rough draft
was never revised by the author before submission, and the copy editor
confessed he could find no reason to make a single change in the manuscript.
The typesetter's galleys were accepted without corrections, and the first
edition of the finished work contains no typographical errors.

INVESTIGATE BEFORE YOU INVEST
The result of a door-to-door survey.ot five thousand typical Americans was
reported by Collier's in May 1949. Asked what was bought and sold on the New
York Stock Exchange. 64 percent replied, "Livestock "

TRAFFIC
In 1895 there were only two cars in the whole state of Ohio. They collided.

DEAD DUCKS
Dr. Ernest J. Fox, a veterinarian, of Georgetown, South Carolina, and his
friend, Marshall Trueluck, went duck shooting at Annandale Plantation in 
1976.
Two single birds, coming from opposite directions, whistled in to look at
the decoys.
They cracked head-on with great force. Both splashed into the water, stone
dead.

HARE TRIGGER
Near Louisville, Kentucky, a rabbit reached out of a hunter's game bag,
pulled the trigger of his gun, and shot him in the foot.

LIEBESTODT
Married: Moses Alexander, aged 93, to Mrs. Frances Tompkins, aged 105, in
Bata, N.Y., on June 11, 1831. They were both taken out of bed dead the
following morning.

WALKING IRON MINE COLLAPSES
Tobata, Japan-A bet made several years ago finally caught up with 51-year-
old Otoichi Kawakami last night.
Mr. Kawakami had convulsions and fainted in downtown Tobata. He was rushed
to a hospital where surgeons removed from his stomach 13 safety razors
complete with blades, 21 nails, a fountain pen, a pencil, 56 toothbrushes,
20 chopsticks, a piece of wire netting, and part of the ribs of an umbrella.
He said he had swallowed the assortment on a bet several years ago.

YOU ONLY GO AROUND ONCE
Le Havre, France-Ulysse, a wily Belgian sheepdog belonging to a family here,
strayed onto a transatlantic ship headed for Halifax in 1903. When he
arrived there, he was identified by the nametag on his collar; but while
arrangements were being made to ship him home, he escaped from custody.
He was successfully apprehended, albeit briefly in each case, in Toronto and
Whitehorse in 1904, Nome in 1905, Vladivostok in 1908, Kabul in 19t2,
Karachi and Berlin in 1913, and finally again in Le Havre in 1915, where his
arrival was greeted with great celebration. He has not left home since.

A DIFFICULT PATIENT
Ibsen himself spent the last six years of his life unable to write, staring
out of his window in Christiania.
One day when a nurse announced that he was feeling better, the old
curmudgeon found the ultimate putdown. "On the contrary!" he said, and died.


MRS. CZERMAK'S DESCENT
Prague-Vera Czermak jumped out of her third-story window when she learned
her husband had betrayed her.
Mrs. Czermak is recovering in the hospital after landing on her husband, who
was killed, the newspaper Vecerny Pravda reported today.

GREEK DRAMA
An Athenian took a taxi to his lady-love's house, letting himself in with a
key she had given him.
After a while they were surprised in flagrante by the taxi driver, who had
let himself in with his own key. It was his house. The lady was his wife.

WHALE OF A TALE
St. John's, Newfoundland-While being rendered for spermacetti at an oil-
processing plant here, a 1 4-ton gray whale dramatically exploded, spraying
large chunks of blubber throughout the factory and forcing it to close for
two months. While the mess was being cleaned up, three unexploded German
torpedoes were found partly digested in what was left of the whale's stomach
.

HARASSMENT
A conservatively dressed man who boarded the Seventh Avenue Subway at Times
Square station was the victim of a strange assault, reported in March 1969.
He was followed by a weird youth with frizzy hair who suddenly stuck his
foot in the door, preventing the train from departing. Pointing his finger
at the gentleman, he screamed over and over, 'Give me back my yo-yo!"
The gentleman maintained a dignified silence.
Finally another passenger, announcing that he had to get to work, pushed the
deranged youth's foot away, the doors closed, and the train pulled out of
the station.
Just below Thirty-Fourth Street, the gentleman reached into his coat pocket
and, smiling enigmatically, began to spin a large, red yo-yo.