_____Why won't Johnny pay attention in history class? Maybe because Johnny can't smell the war. The Brits have invented a solution: history books with smells of muck heaps, rotting heads on poles and plague-ridden streets - all meant to bring the past truly alive for children.
_____The scratch-and-sniff "Smelly Old History" series promises to waft kiddies back to a past when 16th-century lovers exchanged apples they had kept in their armpits, publishers Oxford University Press said.
_____"Of all the senses of the past, we often forget the importance of smell. It's the best, it's the worst, but it's the hardest sense to include in a history lesson," author Mary Dobson said. The first books will be out in March.
CoffeyMate got a pleasant surprise...A restitution check from the Clerk of Superior Court. Remember? It was 2 yrs. ago her car was broken into. It was a year ago she was indicted just hours after she had left on a trip she'd been planning for 7 yrs., and did not make it to court. But her name was in the pot and is now repaid for the damage. HOWEVER...she tells us that if she ever runs into them, she is gonna repay *them* for the inconvience.
Robin told us of the new Employee Handbook her boss distributed. It had the usual rules, regulations, policies, etc. It also had new ones. One of them being..."No giving nicknames". (Hey, Bucket Ass. How about giving Knot Head a hand?)
OzarkLad had the plane to himself when he was the only passenger on a shuttle flight. The stewardess told him he could sit where he wanted. He wanted to sit in the cockpit. Can you believe they wouldn't let him? No matter how much he tried to convince them, rules are rules. (Page 42 of the Employee Handbook says...)
Josh was rummaging through his kitchen looking for something to snack on and found some old donuts that were nearly petrified. They weren't spoiled or anything, just hard and dry. So he gave them to his dog to clean it's teeth, like that dog biscuit commercial he saw on TV. Now he is a bit concerned that his pooch may get cavities, he doesn't know any *Doggie Dentists*.
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FIND THE ODD MAN OUT IN THESE ANAGRAMS-----
Sewnars noup qretues, dan t'ond fretgo ot pit royu satweirs.
Your President,
Kaye Coffey