A4 - THE PERKINS JOURNAL, Thursday, December 5, 2013
Opinions
Perkins Finest
My wife and I want to pay tribute to the Pefldns Police Depart-
ment for their work in a recent theft case from our business. On
Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013, they were called by us when we notice
our cargo trailer was missing. This trailer was used whenever
we are doing a trade show. It housed ALL of our displays and
accessories for the show.
The Police were called around mid-aftemoon. They came
quickly and took the report. Because of their professionalism
and Iraining the officer guided us through the process, asked all
the right questions. He left us with the feeling that they were on
the case. The officer then released a broadcast about the theft and
within 36 hours the trailer was recovered by the Oklahoma City
Police Department and an individual arrested.
I realize that sometime we get annoyed when we are stopped by
or receive a citation from an officer. But one must remember that
these men and women are highly wained and are motivated by their
desire to help. They have a tough, thankless job but continue day
after day providing services and protection to each of us.
To the Perkins Police Department and all law enforcement
agencies my wife and I say "Thank you."
Steven and Gwen Harris
Perkins
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35% of people axe born without wisdom teeth. As humans
continue to evolve, scientists say fewer and fewer people will
be born with wisdom teeth.
The cotton candy machine was invented by a dentist. Did
this dentist have an ulterior motive? Cotton candy is pure sugar,
sure-fire teeth rotter.
In 1879, a Belgian village attempted to train a fleet of 39 official
mail cats to deliver letters. It didn't work_
Michael Jackson didn't invent the moonwalE It's existed since
the 1930, called the buzz.
Baby carrots were first sold in markets 25 years ago. When a
California farmer realized he was discarding 400 tons of carrots
daily because they were too bent to be sold, he gave his harvest
a makeover, shaving them down for snackers.
The creators of You Tube were originally trying to create a
dating site called Tune In To Hookup.
Until Pope Gregory IX took over in 1227, babies were some-
times baptized in beer.
In Iceland, it's hard to come up with a creative name for
a newborn. A government committee prevents parents from
giving babies names it considers too weird.
In 20 11, Angelina Jolie bought Brad Pitt a California waterfall
for his birthday.
Swiss designers are working on a milk carton that changes
colors as its contents near expiration.
The earliest hockey games used frozen cow dung for pucks.
The fastest non-manure slapshot zoomed at 110.3 mph.
That's fast, but not as fast as the lightening bolt that struck
Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell in the 9th inning in
1919. Caldwell dusted it off, and retired the last batter for a
2-1 win.
Another Cleveland Indian, Joe Sewell, used one bat his entire
14-year career.
Tug-of-war was once an Olympic event. So was pigeon
shooting and painting.
Thanks to a sophisticated visual system, honeybees can tell
the difference between a Monet and a Picasso.
In 2008, Carl Mosca Dionislo stnmg together 18,500 latex con-
doms and used them to bungee jump from a 100 foot tower.
A 2009 study found that when men interact with an attractive
women, they become "cognitively impaired."
Further studies found that the mere thought of talking to a pretty
girl increases a man's likelihood of saying something really,
really stupid.
The average British man will drive an extra 276 miles because
he's too stubborn to ask for directions. Maybe that's why some
men fail to get their wives pregnant. Their swimming little
semen fellows are too proud to ask for directions to the wive's
correct address.
In Nevada, "none of the above," is an option on ballots.
In the past 20 years, Sweden's Donald Duck Party has tal-
lied enough write-in votes to be the country's 9th most popular
political organization. Meanwhile, the country's Left Party has
campaigned to make men sit when they pee (the campaign isn't
going very well.)
Why are U.S. elections on Tuesy The day was ideal because
it let people get to church on Sunckiy, ride to the county seat on
Monday, and vote before Wednesday, also known as Market
day.
In 2006, a Wisconsin man legally changed his name to Andy
Caiffith, hoping it would get him elected as county sheriff. Instead,
he was sued by Andy Griffith.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty forbids any nation from frying
to own the moon.
There are no rules forbidding a country from building a golf
course on the moon.
NASA's Alan Shepard is the only person to have golfed there.
He whacked two balls with a six iron. He said, 'q'hey went for
miles and miles." He also threw a javelin.
In 2008, the U.K.'s Susie Hewer knitted a five foot two inches
long scarf while running in a marathon race.
Juggling while jogging is also a marathon phenomenon. It's
called joggling.
The New York Times illuslrator Chfistoph Niemann doodled 46
sketches in color while running the New York City Marathon.
When James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, was a
child, he stuttered so badly that he refused to talk for almost
eight years.
Vice President Joe Biden also stuttered. One nun in junior high
called him Master B-B-B-Biden. Classmates in Latin class called
him Joe Impedimenta.
Marilyn Monroe's trademark breathy voice came from a tech-
nique for controlling her stutter.
Kleenex was originally marketed not as a disposable hankie,
but as a cold cream remover.
The first modem mascara was a mixture of Vaseline and coal
dust createdby achemist named T.L. Williams in 1913.He narned
his company Maybeline after his sister Mabel.
Women with higher-pitched voices tend to be more fertile.
Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift
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When dragonflies mate, their tails form a heart.
No one has ever messed with Bhutan's independence. The
counlry has never been conquered or govemed by an outside
power.
Bhutan's government uses Gross National Happiness (GNH)
as a way to measure quafity of life. It's Slogan? "Gross National
Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product."
German chocolate cake isn't German. It's named for Sam
German, an American Baker.
Your human honey may; but real honey never, ever goes
bad.
Left-handed people see better underwater than righties.
Although southpaws make up only 10% of the population,
20%of all schizophrenics are left-handed.
Gamblers are more likely to fell like they' re winning if their
slot machine makes noise after a win.
Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an armored
limo. It originally belonged to Chicago's favorite mobster, A1
Capone.
In 1856, the entire city of Chicago was raised with hydraulic
jacks to build new sewers. It was a success! After all that hard
work, the city burned down in 1871.
Number of horses in Mongolia- 3,000,000. Number of people
in Mongolia-2,750,000.
Ketchup moves out'of the bottle at .02 mph.
Percent of people who are drank fight now-.07.
Hello wasn't common greeting until the invention of the
telephone. Thomas Edison convinced printers of the first phone
books to make it the sanctioned greeting. Alexander Graham
Bell disagreed. He pushed for "Ahoy."
After patenting the telephone, Bell and his company were sued i
600 times. They succsfully defended themselves each time.
President William Howard Taft tried to replace Theodore ",
Roosevelt's teddy bear with a plush toy opossum The slogan.,
read,"Nomore teddy bear, we will fondle with glee. Billy Possum "'
of future, our mascot shall be." It didn't take off.
Teddy Roosevelt was famously given his own floor at a Wash-
ington hospital. Not because he was president, but because he
snored so loudly.
A baby can cost parents 750 hours of sleep in its first year.
Laughter is contagious. People are more likely to laugh at a show
if it has a laugh trace This is good. Studies show that laughter
increases the level of salivary immunoglobulin: an anti-body that
fights respiratory infections.
In the 1960s, the CIA launched Project Acoustic, a furtive
attempt to equip cats with recording equipment to spy on Soviet
embassies. After the agency spent some $20 million on the proj-
ect, the prototype feline was hit by a taxicab.
A three-mile pipeline delivers beer to all the bars in Germany's
Veltim Arena, a soccer stadium.
Penguins have a 6-7 vertical leap; from the water, of course.
Cats can leap 4-5 times their height.
Footballer Barry Sanders, 5 ft 8 inches tall, had a vertical leap
of 42-44 inches.
Will scientists of the future tap into cats and penguins genes
to increase the vertical leaps of all people? Dream on, it'll never
happen!
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