The Ripley’s Believe It Or Not column tells of a woman in England who received a heart transplant in June of 2007. She decided to go and visit her old heart when it was placed on display in London. ...
Once a spider built a beautiful web in an old house. He kept it clean and shiny so that flies would patronize it. The minute he got a "customer" he would clean up on him so the other flies would not g...
Be grateful… … for automatic dishwashers. They make it possible to get out of the kitchen before the family comes in for their after-dinner snacks....
A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside. "That laundry is not very clean," she said. ...
Now White is White? A minister said that once he had a small white Highland terrier which he kept spotlessly clean by frequent washing, brushing, and powdering. One night a winter storm dropped a fres...
The Strangler Fig In Mexico and the tropical zones of South America a so-called "strangler" fig grows in abundance. The Spanish-speaking people refer to it as the "matapalo" which means "the tree kill...
According to the Reuters news service, a Kenyan villager was scrubbed clean by his neighbors because he had not bathed in 10 years His neighbors resorted to the action because his odor sicken those ar...
The late Erma Bombeck made these New Year's resolutions: 1. I'm going to clean this dump just as soon as the kids grow up. 2. I will go to no doctor whose office... ...
You got it from your father; it was all he had to give. So it's yours to use and cherish, for as long as you may live. If you lose the watch he gave you, it can always be replaced, But a black mark on...
England's Coventry Cathedral is one of the most impressive church buildings in the world. The old Cathedral was destroyed by Nazi bombs during World War II. After the war, Christian youth from Germany...
Did you hear about the farmer that had a brilliant dog? He had a neighbor that just absolutely was negative, no matter what.If it was raining, the farmer would say to his neighbor, "Boy, look at it ra...
Consumer Reports put out a little book entitled "How to Clean Practically Anything." It tells you, what solvent to use for a particular stain. Glycerin will remove the stain from a ball point pen. Boi...
You use your own saliva to clean your child's face. You have time to shave only one leg at a time. Your kid throws up and you catch it.... ...
Philadelphia's Highway Patrol officers hear all kinds of creative excuses that drivers give for speeding. Here are some of the officers' favorites. By the way, none of them worked. ...
In a recent edition of the Daily Hope with Rick Warren email newsletter, Jon Walker writes: “Jasmine is my beautiful and tenderhearted dog (cockapoo). She knows it is wrong to go near an old barn that...
"All groups of human beings have a tendency to be exclusive; they want to know who is inside and who is out. So they adopt identity markers—visible practices of dress, vocabulary or behavior that serv...
"I had been teaching my three-year-old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime she repeated it after me. One night she said she was ready to solo....
If you think issues of uncleanness are limited to the ancient world, consider this cover story headline last year from an issue of U.S. News World Report: "The Future of Water: Costly - Dirty - Sc...