In Philadelphia some years back, there was a meat supplier whose delivery trucks proudly advertised, "You Can't Beat Sam's Meat!" ========================================================= More recently, a Wendy's restaurant sign invited passersby to "Ask us why we're smiling." Unable to resist, I was told that they had computed the possible permutations of burger preferences and found that "Wendy does it 256 different ways!" ========================================================= Raise your hands if you'd like your funeral to occur at the Stretch Funeral Home. Raise 'em now. Higher. Higher...
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In message <Etqzoq.ABL.0.qu...@torfree.net> am...@torfree.net (Karl Czarny) wrote:
> Kevin & Leslee Patriquin (patriquin.les...@ns.sympatico.ca) wrote: > : In a similar vein to Dunny, in the 1980's the shingle of a Halifax, Nova > : Scotia doctor's office read Dr. Doctor and Dr. Nurse. A nearby doctor's > : office was staffed by Drs. Pretty, Precious and Lovely. Dr. Nurse and > : Dr. Pretty still practice in Halifax (read: haven't bailed to the U.S. > : -- yet)
> On Rathburn Road in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, there is a > stake house called "Jack Astors" ... they actually have a donkey with > it's ass facing the sign and they deliberately blink out the "tor" :)
We have a local handyman in Leeds, UK, called Titus Aduxass - and that is his real name!
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not long ago I met a young man whose Itialian family had converted to Islam just prior to his birth, and the parents thought it fitting to give their new son a traditional name from the Koran, MOHAMED MONTANA has never lived it down...
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Postcards of the staion, with sign are popular with tourists.
> Hell, Michigan, USA...
So the story goes, down the road is the town of Heaven. Due to the prevailing winds, Heaven is frequently colder than Hell.
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In article <6l19g0$2e...@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, pier...@gone.enet.dec.com (dave pierson) wrote:
> > Hell, Norway... > Postcards of the staion, with sign are popular with tourists.
> > Hell, Michigan, USA... > So the story goes, down the road is the town of Heaven. > Due to the prevailing winds, Heaven is frequently colder than Hell.
Two supermarket chains in the Eastern USA, "STOP & SHOP" and "A & P" are planning a merger. The stores will be named "STOP & P".
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there's a neighbourhood in New York called "Hell's Kitchen" ... would love to live there, eh? -- |> "Soon comes the day all shall be free|>|<| Karl V. A. Czarny <|||| ||> Even you and even me. Soon comes the|>|<|----------------------<<||| |||> day all shall die. Surely you, but |>|<| am...@torfree.net <<<|| ||||> never I." -The Great Hunt |>|<|--------------------<<<<|
In article <szkra1jhx4k....@dillinger.io.com>, patr...@io.com (Patrick L. Humphrey) wrote:
>Back when the Colonel himself was still alive, KFC was actually decent...but >once he sold out to John Y. Brown Jr., it went straight to hell in the >proverbial handbasket -- thus, in the quarter-century or so since that >happened, I've almost always referred to it as Kentucky Fried Children...
Pepsico owns it now. When I'm feeling particualarly crass, I'll wander inside one and ask for a large Coke... :P
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dave pierson wrote: > Due to the prevailing winds, Heaven is frequently colder than Hell.
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that ... The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed ... [However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. From "Applied Optics" vol. 11, A14, 1972
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