24.5.2009

Wordsmith

    Wordsmith

http://www.netsaga.is/media/files/BlackmagicTheProphecy.mp3

    William Caxton who introduced printing to Britain had an assistant, Wynkyn de Worde.

 

    The Final Act

    Canadian actor Charles Coghlan became ill and died in Galveston, Texas during a tour of the American state in 1899. He was buried in a lead coffin which was sealed inside a vault. In Sept 1900 less than a year after his burial a hurricane hit Galveston, flooding the cemetery and breaking open the vault. His coffin floated away into the Gulf of Mexico, then drifted along the Florida coastline and onto the Atlantic, where the Gulf Stream took over and carried it north.

    One day in 1908 some fishermen on Prince Edward Island, Canada saw a long, weather-beaten box floating ashore-Coghlan's coffin. The actor's body had floated more than 5600 km-to his home. His fellow islanders reburied him in the graveyard of the church where he had been baptized.

 

    Flight Staff

    The Daily Telegraph reported on 3 June 1982 that a farmer in Lincolnshire had on his staff 2 people named Crow, 4 called Robbins, one Sparrow, a Gosling and a Dickie Bird.

 

    Hot Goods

    Apart from the incredible coincidence in the following tale, I also like it because it's a story with a moral.

    Peter a young retail store assistant was told by his boss to go to the store's car park and collect a heater from his car, a white Mazda. The heater, said the boss handing Peter the car keys was sitting in its box on the driver's seat.

    Peter went to the parking lot found the car as described and the heater in its bow on the driver's seat. The only odd thing was that the door was not locked. He removed the heater then made a point of locking the door.

    He returned to his boss who took one look and said the heater was not his, his had been unpacked. This one although the same brand was new and in a box that had not been opened. So far, an amazing coincidence 2 cars in the same parking lot on the same level same make model and colour, both with a heater of the same brand sitting in a box on the driver's seats. Peter went back to the p. lot where he found all the doors of the car from which he had taken the box locked. By then a bit worried he approached a store security officer and explained what had happened. Security relieved him of the problem.

    Then came the twist. -The owner of the second car, said Peter, also worked in the store and he was charged with stealing the heater. He'd been stealing from the store for quite some time and this is how he got caught for it.

 

    Fancy That!

    A 'pleasure palace' in Melbourne is in Horne Street, Elsternwick.

 

    Laughter the Best Medicine

    A medical partnership: Payne and Kilmore.