Mickey Z

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Sunday, December 25, 2005

I come to tease Santa...but praise my Almanac

Santa = Laughs
George Carlin sez:
“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”

(Or is that bad boys?)

Dick Gregory sez:
“I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would ever come into my neighborhood after dark.”

(The Year of the Bad Santa: http://tinyurl.com/aa5oc)

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Just the facts, M’am...

From the time I was about 9 or 10, my parents would buy me The World Almanac and Book of Facts each year for Xmas. This year is no different.

I can lose myself for hours...thumbing through the pages in search of facts, facts, facts. For example:

+In 1945, 35.5% of Americans belonged to a union. Today, that number is 12.5%.

+A baby mackerel is called a spike, a blinker, or a tinker.

+The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou.

+The top six recipients of U.S. Defense contracts in 2004 were Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Halliburton. No shocks there, but here’s a surprise: FedEx Corp. received almost one billion dollars in defense contracts in 2004.

Boycott FedEx?