#7655~Good morning, all.

#7657~The expression "out of the mouths of babes" comes from the Bible, Psalms 8.2, which begins, "Out of the mouth of babes..."

#7658~A 9-foot Steinway concert grand piano weighs 990 lbs. A 5-foot, 1-inch baby grand weighs 540 lbs.

#7659~Dolly Parton played the snare drum in her high-school marching band.

#7660~The inspiration for the Paul Simon song, "Mother and Child Reunion" was a chicken-and-egg dish of that name on the menu of a restaurant in New York City's Chinatown.

#7661~Elvis Presley, performing with the Blue Moon Boys, was turned down after auditioning for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts TV show in 1955.

#7662~Gordon Sumner, the rock star and actor we know as Sting, got his stage name from the yellow-and-black jerseys he used to wear, which fellow musicians thought made him look like a bumble bee.

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Morning all... excellent progress here... very cool.

current 10k projection: 7/26/03 10:32 AM

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and I gotta go to work :)

7667 Me too..but I wanted to add something to the cause!
More tonight!

7668 kinda pointless

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how close will we get?

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we'll go down fighting...

7671~The letter "O" is the oldest letter of the alphabet.

7672~The Wrigley Company mailed Doublemint gum to everyone listed in U.S. phone books in 1914 in order to promote its chewing gum nationwide.

7673~The five most frequently consumed fruits in the United States are the banana, apple, watermelon, orange, and cantaloupe--in order of their greatest consumption, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

7674~Buddy Holly originally called "Peggy Sue," the rock 'n roll classic he recorded with the Crickets in 1957 "Cindy Lou." Holly renamed it at the urging of Crickets drummer Jerry Allison, whose girlfriend's name was Peggy Sue.

7675~The first clocks with hands--made in the fourteenth century--only had one pointer, to tel the hour. Minute and second hands were added in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

7676~Tick tock

7677 tick

7678 tock

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