Our objective is to let you know about great activities, free stuff, amazing new areas of interest and some plain old fun and enjoyment too. We value intelligence and will endeavor to find exceptional, high-powered enrichment to enhance your life and learning.

Aventis Biotech Challenge (science fair related)

Cedarena Outdoor Skating Rink (best to go when frozen over)

Encounters With Canada (great 1-wk trips to Ottawa-$390 inclusive)

Oak Ridges Trail Association (go winter hiking)

Omega Centre Bookstore (considered Canada’s largest centre for self-discovery, spiritual & emotional growth)

Ontario Curling Association (join?)

Ontario Genealogical Society (do your family tree with help from experts)

Posada Navidena (Mexican festival at Harbourfront)

Red Cross Summer Experience (contact them about volunteering)

Royal Astronomical Society (visit over the holidays)

ROM Friday nights FREE.

Salvador Dali Museum (check it out on the internet or visit while in Florida)

SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Tests) (arrange to write?)

Second City Comedy Club (tickets as interesting, different present?)

Society for Educational Visits & Exchanges in Canada

Spanish Centre (go for cultural events)

Speed Reading Centre (check it out, learn how to read faster with more comprehension)

Student Athlete Prospect Pool (good athletes should register)

Studio Audience Participation (go over the holidays)

Toronto Kite Fliers Club (get ready for the winds of Spring)

Toronto Swing Dance Society (winter exercise?)

Valens Conservation Area –Winter Camping spot

Willowdale Gem & Mineral Club (lots of rock)

York Academy of Martial Arts (winter exercise)

Young Peoples Press (write articles for the Toronto Star)

Youth Bowling (get winter active)

Zwiazkowiec Polish Weekly Newspaper (read or maybe try to write for them)

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Amanda DeF. Gr. is working with a couple of her friends at establishing a small business enterprise.

Nov. 12-She and her friends have been in put in touch with a woman who owns a hair salon. They visited and are learning all about hair care and will be helping her out in the shop over the next weeks. This is what is called a mentorship. We will be eager to see what develops.

Julie A., Gr. 9, is serious about activism. She doesn’t have a cause yet but would like to find a good one. Anybody involved in something special or would like to start something interesting?

Sabina C., Gr. 9, is interested in law and may be joining forces with Julie.

Julie, Sabina and Kaley K. , are now in touch with a female lawyer, Mrs. Catherine K., our Ali S.’s mother, and will be finding out about Law especially in the areas of immigration and refugees. This is another great mentorship opportunity. Good luck girls. Get involved.

Gailyn C., Gr. 9, won the Whitby Bantam Curling Championship with her team. Congratulation on beating out about 12 other teams.

Stephanie T., Gr. 11, is learning Japanese through a language course she is taking. Good ruck.

Stephanie T(2), Gr. 11, is going to submit a story to the Toronto Star Short Story contest. Deadline is end of December. See my bulletin board for details. Good luck. Want to get involved?

Allison M., Gr. 11, is making a change and going for the Gold Medal instead of the Silver Medal for the Duke of Edinburgh Awards. She expects this to take about 18 months. Good luck. You have our support.

Sabrina S., Gr. 12, has started the Abbey Awareness and Leadership Club this year. She could probably use some help in getting active in community affairs. One of the first things they are doing is getting volunteers to help at the Out of the Cold Program.

Emily Z., Gr. 11, went to the Nobel Prize Winners Lectures at the University of Toronto in the middle of November. A rare and valuable opportunity.

Jessica V., Gr. 11, got an Honourable Mention and Cristina C., OAC, placed third as individual winners in the Mary Ward Debates held near the end of November. They were both part of the overall Champion Senior Team at the tournament. Their teammates were Jennifer and Laura H., OAC students. Congratulations on an excellent showing for the first debate of the season.

Have a big Christmas with a Small family (nice ideas for fun and entertainment)

Christmas Projects, Gift Ideas, Decorating tips, Recipes and More (lots!!)

Christmas Recipes that are fun and easy

Christmas – Where did it come from? Where is it going?

(nice site. Not what you expect)

Meaning of Christmas (read this nice poem)

Santa Info Centre (fun. Learn all about the big guy)

Reindeer Quiz

Environmentally Friendly Christmas Carols to Sing

Elves (nice story to read)

Xmas trees (care and enjoyment of, facts, farms, care)

Holy days and Holidays (do you know the difference?)

World Database of Happiness (look for Readings)

Interview with God

Images/Photos/Drawings Search Engine (source of pictures on any topic)

World’s Largest Collection of Tongue Twisters (in many languages)

100 Best Employers in Canada and how they keep employees happy

Great Canadian Sports News Centre

News of the Weird (yes, truth is stranger than fiction. Note: 2 sites)

Happiness Centre (don’t worry, you can get happy. Lots of it.)

Health and Happiness (how to pamper yourself site)

The Rational Basis for Happiness (very nice site, enjoy)

Women’s TV Network (lots for girls and women)

Cable TV in the Classroom (see what is there to support what happens in the classroom)

Full Text Ebooks on many topics FREE on the Internet

World’s Most Haunted Places

Algebra Help (where technology meets mathematics, lessons)

Algebra Online (fun site for people at all levels)

Google Directory of Mathematics (links to everything to do with math)

Interactive Algebra (questions, answers, explanations)

Math Archives (math topics, software, teaching materials, contests)

Math on the Web (guides, journals, organizations, people, reference, more)

McTutor History of Mathematics (biographies, history, archive search)

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

SOS Math (trigonometry, calculus, equations, variables, algebra, tables, exams, help)

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Statistics Canada (support your studies with statistics for any subject)

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This is a good opportunity. Please take advantage of it.

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Help a friend or yourself. Hotline Phone number: 1-866-NEDIC-20

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Know What Is Important

As I was walking down life's highway many years ago

I came upon a sign that read Heavens Grocery Store.

When I got a little closer the doors swung open wide

And when I came to myself I was standing inside.

I saw a host of angels. They were standing everywhere

One handed me a basket and said "My child shop with care."

Everything a human needed was in that grocery store

And what you could not carry you could come back for more

First I got some Patience. Love was in that same row.

Further down was Understanding, you need that everywhere you go.

I got a box or two of Wisdom and Faith a bag or two.

And Charity of course I would need some of that too.

I couldn't miss the Holy Spirit, It was all over the place.

And then some Strength and Courage to help me run this race.

My basket was getting full but I remembered I needed Grace,

And then I chose Salvation for Salvation was for free

I tried to get enough of that to do for you and me.

Then I started to the counter to pay my grocery bill,

For I thought I had everything to do the Masters will.

As I went up the aisle I saw Prayer and put that in,

For I knew when I stepped outside I would run into sin.

Peace and Joy were plentiful, the last things on the shelf.

Song and Praise were hanging near so I just helped myself.

Then I said to the angel, "Now how much do I owe?"

He smiled and said, "Just take them everywhere you go."

Again I asked, "Really now, How much do I owe?"

"My child" he said, "God paid your bill a long long time ago."

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(email from a friend – Da Boz)

Maybe God wanted us to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one

so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

Maybe when the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.

Maybe the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

Maybe it is true that we don't know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we have been missing until it arrives.

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart; but if it does not, be content it grew in yours.

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real.

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Please send this message to those people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down, to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship.

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Jane Urquhart, wrote The Stone Carvers, described by the selection committee as ''an ambitious and beautifully written reconstruction of the history of Upper Canada.''

Richard B. Wright, wrote Clara Callan, described as ''a brilliant evocation of an era, wrought from the ordinary lives of two sisters brought up in a small town.''

Yann Martel of Montreal for Life of Pi,

Tessa McWatt of Toronto for Dragons Cry

Thomas Wharton of Edmonton for Salamander.

Mark Brownell for Monsieur d'Eon,

Clem Martini for A Three Martini Lunch,

Michael Redhill for Building Jerusalem,

Jason Sherman for An Acre of Time

Kent Stetson for The Harps of God.

Becoming Human by Jean Vanier

The Machineries of Joy by Ray Bradbury

In a Glass House by Nino Ricci

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso

The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde

Songs My Mother Taught Me by Audrey Thomas

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

20000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

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From: The Decorating Den, Jean Grier, Award Winning Canadian Interior Decorator

Here are some attractive, simple ways to put a little zip into your life:

1. Re-arrange what you already own. Move things from room to room or around a room.
2. Re-cycle. Get rid of things that make your room look old and tired. Get rid of the ugly and unnecessary.
3. Re-think. Come up with new angles. Move furniture into more interesting positions. Put things on the diagonal.
4. Re-light. If rooms seem drab and dull, check your lighting. Replace old shades, install wall fixtures, add more lamps, and use a floor lamp.

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(just some ideas – Da Boz)

Most people go out and buy, buy, buy manufactured decorations and gifts for Christmas. Here are some interesting and easy ways to be environmentally friendly by decorating naturally and through recycling:

1. Wrap kids’ presents in comics from the weekend newspapers.
2. With a glue gun, pine cones, pine boughs from a local woodlot you can make some really nice centrepieces as presents. (Use beeswax candles instead of the toxic regular ones)
3. Design creative gift coupons for friends and family. A set of 5 could include: 2 hours of free massages, doing the person’s chores for a week, running 3 errands (for an elderly person), personal pampering by setting up a "mood" night for the person, cook an exotic dinner for them, 5 hours of undivided, full-attention companionship, and more. Each person you know is unique and you should be able to come up some very personal ones that will be very meaningful to the person. Cheap, easy but brings people together.
4. If you have some small pieces of lumber and are handy with a scroll saw, cut out the person’s initials in a creative way and decorate them with paints, markers, sprays, etc. This is very personal and fun to do.
5. Instead of laying out a fortune on presents for each other, why not share a day together at a Food Bank and help the less fortunate.
6. You may want to start this earlier next year but grow some special perhaps exotic or unusual plants to give as presents.
7. How about a fruit basket of exotic fruits and vegetables that the person has never tried before. Research and then make up beautiful recipe cards with a simple recipe for each. Better yet, include a certificate that states you will come over to cook the dishes for them.
8. See these websites:

Natural Christmas Decorations

A Natural Christmas

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(by Da Boz)

I used to have what I thought was an accurate preconceived idea as to what engineering was all about. After seeing this group in action, I have discovered that I was limited in scope and very limited in knowledge of engineering. .

On Friday, Nov. 9^th, my son (12) - who has an interest in engineering - and I had a chance to sit in on a meeting of this very unusual model engineers club which has been in operation since the 1930’s.

The people there were mostly elderly (some very old), retired, male engineers with varied backgrounds who still have a lot of unbelievable energy and creativity.

During the evening, several of them presented their projects ranging from a hand-made two-stroke engine which was being experimented on to boost it from 3500 rpm to about 20 000 rpm to the curious details of drilling through brass and making one’s own drill bits for special jobs. What seemed at first to be simple and boring ended up each time to be very complex and fascinating and presented hidden clues and problems you would never guess were there and could only marvel at once presented.

There were only 3 older women (wives, most likely) present but there were 4 young people. Some of them were members. Despite what appeared to be an "old boys" club, there was a noticeable welcome and respect for the younger people visiting or in the group (one fourteen year old presented). I felt comfortable, and so did my son, despite the fact we knew nothing about most of what was going on. Everybody loved to share knowledge. You could just sense the excitement in the room.

Why am I presenting this to you? I thought you might like to go and be a guest visitor. See what engineering is really all about and what engineers do. They hold meetings on the second Friday of each month and would probably be most agreeable to having some more young blood in the audience. Many of you express an interest in engineering so here is a nice opportunity to learn more about it from the experienced experts who will welcome you openly.

FREE FOR VISITORS. MEMBERSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

or call: Teresa Spector-Peterson 416-698-8438 for an invitation

If you are considering a membership: $30/yr

Meeting Address: 1001 Queen St. W., Toronto. Time: 8pm-1030+pm

When: every second Friday of the month

Next meetings: Dec. 14, Jan 11, Feb 8, March 8, April 12, May 10, June 14.

These websites may appear to be rather odd but if you want to get into mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering, they are great starting points:

Metalworking and Modeling Clubs (no not that kind of modeling)

Canadian Steam and Railway Clubs in the World

Steam & Railroad Sites

RailsCanada Steam Locomotive Clubs

Train Net. Org International Railway Links (7,503 Links)

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1. Navigation - Make it clear and consistent from page to page.
2. State your Privacy Policy – what you do with people’s information.
3. Contact Information – let people contact you on every page. Keep it simple.
4. Logos & Graphics - Keep them a reasonable size and limited so your page loading time stays low.
5. Fonts – Stick to standards that are in all computers or in some cases they won’t register properly.
6. Keep people on your site – include interactive stuff, chat rooms, discussions to develop a sense of community.
7. Have a Newsletter – good way to get email addresses. Start an ezine.
8. Remember different browsers – Netscape and Explorer show your site differently. Design in a way that can be used by both.
9. Resolution – Standard is usually 800x600.
10. Index or Home Page – the first paragraph should answer the 5 W’s. Quickly tell people who you are and what you do.
11. Have a site with attitude and energy.

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(based on a conversation with my dentist – Da Boz)

I see a lot of women wearing the itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny lenses in eyeglasses and it bothers me. Let me explain.

As the fashionable lenses get smaller and narrower, the eye sees clearly in a smaller and smaller area directly in front. More peripheral vision is obviously blurry as lenses get smaller in front of the eye. To compensate for this, one must turn the head instead of the eyes in order to see clearly what is on the sides, above or below. With regular or large size glasses, there is less head turning because the eye can see more that is clear.

This may not seem to be too great a problem to worry about but think of this. When the eyes are fixed in a location for great lengths of time, e.g. watching TV, reading, staring at a computer screen, etc. the muscles get weaker and will actually shrink because they do not get regularly stretched to full capacity either sideways or up and down. The eyeball is pulled out of shape even more and you will need stronger or different strength lenses. In other words, the smaller the lens, the less exercise the muscles get to pull the eyes in different directions because the head is turned instead.

This will be a serious problem for many young people as their eyes get less and less exercise doing the above mentioned things.

There are solutions to the problem. Instead of treating the symptom, let’s deal with the cause of misshapen eyeballs. If you don’t wear glasses, learn to do these eye strengthening exercises to avoid wearing them. If you do wear glasses, do these exercises to at least keep your eyes at the present level.

Main Message

1. Try to wear glasses as little as possible. Force your eyes to work and exercise.
2. Learn more and follow the instructions from the following websites:

Vision Works, Natural Eye Care

Integrative Vision Care and Nutrition

Eye Exercises

Can Eye exercises improve vision?

Doctor Yourself Chinese Eye Exercises

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A new study from Nebraska show that women who drink 3-4 cups of coffee a day are more likely to experience bone loss. Osteoporosis can begin very early in life as coffee (highly acidic) is neutralized by the body’s use of calcium from bones. Researchers measured the bone density at the sine, hip and three other sites. Vitamin D is very important because the body needs it to absorb calcium.

Limit your coffee intake. "Everybody has to go along with the assumption that they could be sensitive to caffeine," says Linda Massey, professor of human nutrition at Washington State University.

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(article from "Agenda" – magazine for Catholic Teachers)

About a dozen American states are ready to pass legislation that would shut down vending machines during classes, strip them of sweet stuff and/or impose taxes on companies to pay for teacher salaries and breakfast programs.

Coca-Cola has started lobbying against this. (comment: Can anybody guess what their priorities are?)

Once little more than a novelty in schools, vending machines have been a growing source of extra money for school boards.

Newest statistics show that child obesity is growing and American teenagers are 3x more likely to be overweight as they were 20 years ago. Junk food is being blamed.

(Comment: check your eating habits. In general, if you want to be healthier make the following simple changes: drink more water, exercise regularly, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, avoid milk, sugar and processed foods. Simple, eh?)

Nobody wants to be robbed. There are a few things you might like to know about how to prevent it.

It is better to keep crooks out of your home than to have an alarm go off after they have broken in. Only a few minutes are required to violate your home.

Burglars and thieves know exactly where to go in your home to rip you off. Your bedrooms have most of the jewellery. Your family room has electronic equipment. But there are places you can hide stuff where it will be perfectly safe from theft. Don’t be a victim. Get creative.

The most common things that people are afraid of being stolen are: jewellery, stocks, bonds, CD’s, money, stamp & coin collections, paintings, antiques, keepsakes, computers, treasured books, firearms, etc.

When constructing or finding hiding places, remember that crooks don’t want to spend a lot of time looking for loot. They have limited resources and patience. DON’T PRESENT STUFF ON A PLATE FOR THEM.

Hide your valuables in plain sight – in wall spaces, false beams in ceilings or walls, behind baseboards, behind paneling, behind full-length mirrors on closet doors, secret spaces at the backs of drawers in furniture, under the bases of bookcases, behind unused light switches, seal valuables in plastic and put them under the soil of plants, bury treasures underground outside or inside.

Get Creative:

Pop cans in the fruit cellar can be made into coin collectors.

Use food containers with removable tops and/or bottoms for valuable papers.

Most jewellery is out in plain sight on a dresser or jewellery box. Put it in a shoebox in a closet.

Empty cereal boxes are just waiting for things to be stored in them.

A length of black pipe sealed on one end and with a screw lid on the other serves as a great safety deposit box tucked into a corner of the basement or cemented into the floor.

For a small amount of money, get a fireproof strong box for the most valuable stuff you own.

Carve out the insides of a book and stash stuff inside.

BY THE WAY, DON’T REVEAL YOUR HIDING PLACE TO ANYONE OUT OF YOUR OWN FAMILY!

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(from a discussion with an allergist - Da Boz)

This spot in your home is the one that produces the greatest amount of pollution while you are right there in it. There is chlorine and fluorine to start. There are also great gobs of soaps, regular and special shampoos, conditioners, detangling chemicals giving off fumes. This chemical soup is mixed in hot water, then vaporized and it is all contained in a very small space. Some people breathe this stuff deep into their lungs every day. Any wonder so many people have allergies?

Where is the spot? If you haven’t guessed, it’s your shower stall. Yes, it is the most polluted spot in your whole house.

What to do about the problem:

1. Have fewer showers! Most people don’t need a shower every day. Every other day or three is ok for countless people, even you, maybe. Having fewer showers also lets your skin produce essential oils that would ordinarily get washed off every day. Skin gets nicer, more flexible. You won’t have dry, flaky skin. Our society is obsessed with cleanliness to the detriment of our health and well being sometimes.
2. Have short showers. The shorter the better.
3. Have good ventilation to draw the fumes out.
4. Reduce the temperature of the water to just comfortable level. Less steam means less chemicals breathed into your lungs.
5. Reduce the use of chemicals and/or use them sparingly. Experiment to find out what the least amount of chemicals will do the job for you.

The Path Water Takes When It is Treated by a City Sewage System

Sources of Water and Ways to Treat Water

Waste Water Treatment Process

The Walkerton Inquiry (people died from contaminated water)

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From an article by Arnold Rincover, Toronto Star, Sept. 1991.

Stanford University assessed more than 4000 students. Most of the effects of working are negative, they concluded.

The more hours worked, the lower the grades, the less homework they did, the less attention they paid in class, and the less involved they were in school and extracurriculars. They also found: increased stress, depression, tension, fatigue, physical complaints, drug and alcohol use, delinquent behaviour and greater independence from parents.

The number of hours worked was the most important factor.

Fewer than 55 of Japanese students held jobs.

Working did not build self-esteem because most teen jobs are low paying, high turnover, little authority, and few opportunities for advancement, simple, repetitive and require no special training.

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(from an email I received recently – Da Boz)

If you take antibiotics (CIPRO (TM), Penicillin, etc.) without having any bacterial infection (Anthrax, flu, common cold, etc.), it will be much worse for you than good!

ANTIBIOTICS? Your body will actually build up a resistance to antibiotics to the extent that it *will not work* should you actually contract Anthrax and/or other possibly deadly infections.

VACCINES? Vaccines are costly and not widely available to the general public. Mostly available only to active duty military personnel, it is still undecided how effective they may be. Side effects have yet to be determined and are blamed for many mysterious Gulf War illnesses. There has been much debate in the medical community over these 'experimental' vaccines. Effectiveness in humans has yet to be proven.

What is the best way to protect yourself? Anthrax, smallpox, and other infectious diseases prey upon the weak. Children, elderly, and the sick are the hardest hit with these types of infections. Healthy adults with weakened immune systems are also easy targets for the bacteria. The key to defending against these predators is a healthy immune system.

Here is some interesting related information websites:

Maintaining a Healthy Immune System

If Antibiotics Fail Us, What Then? (This is not in support of products sold)

Protect Your Health (this is not in support of products sold)

Immune System Wellness Center (this is not in support of products sold)

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The championship is at Skydome on Dec. 1^st starting at 5pm. It is also live on TV.

One ticket holder will receive a $5000 tuition voucher as a prize.

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(Taken from an article by Larry Grenstein, Globe & Mail.)

Death is never funny but then again it can be. Here are some strange, dumb ways people have died. (Comment: Imagine having to give the eulogy at the funeral??)

A man out for a walk, stumbles, falls and bites his tongue. He dies later of gangrene.

In 1978 a Parisian grocer stabbed his wife to death with a wedge of Parmesan cheese.

In New Zealand, a man killed his wife by jabbing her repeatedly in the stomach with a frozen sausage.

A man was asphyxiated after his 280 pound wife sat on his chest during an argument.

A man caught his wife in bed with another man. He glued her hands to the other man’s penis. Doctors separated the two but the man died from toxic chemicals absorbed through his skin.

A woman tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a window. She landed on her husband at just that moment and killed him. She lived.

A despondent man took a gun to his head. The bullet went right through his head and bounced off a water heater and struck his female companion between the eyes and she died.

An Italian man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. He had second thoughts but fell off a nearby cliff while jumping around as he tried to douse the flames.

A British man tied one end of a rope to a tree and the other end to his neck. He got into his car and drove off.

A man fired his shotgun at a giant cactus and a large section fell off and crushed him.

A man demonstrating the safety of electrical currents was electrocuted when an experiment backfired. (Comment: I bet his audience was confused!)

A man was buried alive when he fell into a grave being dug for his brother.

A man on his new boat raised his hands skyward and yelled: "Here I am." At that moment a bolt of lightning killed him.

A man lost his arm when he stuck it into a lion’s cage to "test God’s will."

One night a man woke up and thought a prowler was at the end of the bed. Getting his gun he fired into the darkness and shot his foot.

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A man walks into his doctor’s office. He has a cucumber up his nose,
a carrot in his left ear and a banana in his right ear.
"What’s the matter with me?" he asked.
The doctor says, "You're not eating properly."

Have a restful Christmas vacation. See you next month.

Da Boz