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James Bartley was one of those guys who used to stand at the very front of a small boat and blast a harpoon into a whale. Things went quite wrong for him when a wounded whale turned around, upset his boat, causing him to fall into the water, then swallowed him. After awhile, his fellow whale-catchers killed the whale and started cutting it up. Inside they found James, still alive but badly surprised

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

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In 1955 at the famous road race of Le Mans, a driver lost control of his car, which after careening off a wall, broke up and showered the crowd with parts, killing 77 people

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

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The IRS came and took away the car from in front of a man's house because he had not paid all his taxes. But the car belonged to his neighbor. The innocent neighbor had to pay the towing company $78 to get his own car back. The IRS did not reimburse him.

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

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"It takes a lot of brains to enjoy satire, humor and wit - but none to be offended by them." -- Johnny Hart ("BC", cartoonist, 2000)
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it and the frog generally dies as a result." -- E. B. White

12,772~Cloudy and cool here this morning...

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"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, then let it, and if you have to wait for what you really want, take the time because nobody said that life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it." ~ Unknown author

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Sunny and very hot in London this afternoon - they say we could hit 100 fahrenheit for the first time in England.

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Erotically yours... Gus

12,774~Wow for you! That is some kind of record--and very warm! The day my son was born, it was 117 where we were in southern California. I thought I would die!

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"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, then let it, and if you have to wait for what you really want, take the time because nobody said that life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it." ~ Unknown author

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Kind of rainy and cool here. I think we're suppose to see showers almost all day .

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Erotically yours... Gus

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At one time during the late 1930s, MGM considered casting Fields for the role of the Wizard in their Wizard of Oz. The role later went to Frank Morgan.

Would that make him a Wiz that Wasn't?

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Other Oz casting that wasn't:

Gale Sondergaard as the Wicked Witch (Margaret Hamilton got the role)
Shirley Temple as Dorothy (she couldn't sing as well as Judy, but Judy had to wear a binding on her chest to keep her breasts hidden).

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Several actresses were considered for the Glenda role, including:

Fanny Brice, Constance Collier, Gracie Fields, Una Merkel, Edna May Oliver, Helen Troy, Cora Witherspoon.

Billie Burke got the part.