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Back in the winter, our 19-year old yellow cat, who was blind and deaf, got out of the house without our knowing. We found him dead two days later and just two doors away where he had been hit by a car. It was obviously a quick death considering that his head was crushed. That's a blessing for him...no suffering. It's a small world. We recently got a long-haired calico cat, whom my wife named Gypsy Rose because of her long, fluffy tail which looked like a fan dancer's costume. The kitty is popular with the grandchildren, but she keeps her distance from them. For their sake we shortened her name to Gypsy. When one of the two-year olds had trouble with that, her name became Gypy (Gyppy).

Blonde adding a quart of oil to her car… Who says women don't know anything about automobiles? Maintaining a vehicle is a lot like like cooking.

No one believes seniors . . . everyone thinks they are senile. An elderly couple was celebrating their sixtieth anniversary. The couple had married as childhood sweethearts and had moved back to their old neighborhood after they retired. Holding hands, they walked back to their old school. It was not locked, so they entered, and found the old desk they'd shared, where Andy had carved "I love you, Sally." On their way back home, a bag of money fell out of an armored car, practically landing at their feet. Sally quickly picked it up and, not sure what to do with it, they took it home. There, she counted the money - fifty thousand dollars! Andy said, "We've got to give it back." Sally said, "Finders keepers." She put the money back in the bag and hid it in their attic. The next day, two police officers were canvassing the neighborhood looking for the money and knocked on their door. "Pardon me, did either of you find a bag that fell out of an armored car yesterday?" Sally said, "No." Andy said, "She's lying. She hid it up in the attic." Sally said, "Don't believe him, he's getting senile." The agents turned to Andy and began to question him. One said, "Tell us the story from the beginning." Andy said, "Well, when Sally and I were walking home from school yesterday ...." The first police officer turned to his partner and said, "Were outta here!"

We await a challenge from Aditus.

How many guys would like to do this?

Gallagher opened the morning newspaper and was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died. He quickly phoned his best friend, Finney. 'Did you see the paper?' asked Gallagher. 'They say I died!!' 'Yes, I saw it!' replied Finney. 'Where are ye callin' from?'

I failed to mention that correct guesses are also acceptable. It is Whitey Bulger. Assuming you followed the rules...Congratulations! Whitey Bulger is accused of playing a role in the killings of 19 people and is currently standing trial in Boston. The 83-year old Bulger was first arrested at age 14, about the time of the first picture below. See Wikipedia article. Then Now

Red A is absolutely correct. Googling a name (or checking wikipedia) to confirm that your guess is right is perfectly acceptable. Any use of Google Image or TinEye would be considered a gross infraction of the rules. Wrong guesses are always acceptable.

Doesn't anyone want to guess who this is? Unlike Ronald Reagan, he's a current news maker. That's a clue.

A tiny but dignified old lady was among a group looking at an art exhibition in a newly opened gallery recently. Suddenly one contemporary painting caught her eye. "What on earth," she inquired of the artist standing nearby, "is that?" He smiled condescendingly. "That, my dear lady, is supposed to be a mother and her child." "Well, then," snapped the little lady, "why isn't it?

Twits!

Nope. Not the Great Communicator. Our subject had a different way of communicating.

Who is this handsome young man?

Joann is keeping us waiting. Lazy crocodiles sleep all day.

In 1272, the Arabs invented the condom using a goat's lower intestine. In 1873, the British refined the idea by first taking the intestine out of the goat.

From the Balkans? Or more loosely than that?

Sounds strange to me. Makes the fractured landscape of legislation in the US seem less peculiar. Why permit same sex marriage and prohibit the largest churches from conducting the weddings? Any federal legislation in the US which forbade a few denominations the right to do something would start an uproar.

How many 21-year old Aussies ever heard of Jackie Mitchell? You are correct, Gabriel! Jackie Mitchell certainly didn't cry on April 2, 1931. That's the day she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Mitchell was born was born August 29, 1912 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. When she learned how to walk, her father took her to the baseball diamond and taught her the basics of the game. Her next door neighbor, Dazzy Vance, taught her to pitch and showed her his "drop ball", a type of breaking ball. Later, Vance would pitch in the major leagues and eventually be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. When Mitchell was 17, she played for a women's team in Chattanooga and attended a special baseball school in Atlanta, Georgia. There, she attracted the attention of Joe Engel, the president and owner of the Chattanooga Lookouts, who offered her a contract to play for the 1931 season. On March 28, Mitchell signed the contract and became an official member of the Lookouts, a Class AA minor league team. Just four days later, on April 2, 1931, The New York Yankees and the Chattanooga Lookouts played an exhibition game in Chattanooga. Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell's fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said: "I don't know what's going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day." Next up was the Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history. A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was "too strenuous." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's Gabriel's turn to challenge us.

I didn't understand... The Church of England and Church in Wales are banned from doing what? It sounds like those two churches are banned from offering same sex weddings while all other denominations are required to opt in to offering weddings. Is there an error in wording in the BBC article?

Welcome to the thread, John. Sorry, it's not Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias.

No, not Chicago...another city.

There is no Nobel Prize for athletes. Who is this?