24.5.2009

Hole in One

    

    Hole in One

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    In July 1989 golfer Oliver Anthony, 61 of Memphis, Tennessee placed a golf ball in his pocket while playing a round. On the course a man approached him, brandishing a gun and demanding money. When A. refused the gunman started shooting. One shot hit the ball in his pocket leaving him with a bruised leg. The other shots missed and the gunman fled.

 

    Same Name, Different Brides

    At noon on Saturday, 11 Aug 1985, Karen Dawn Southwick, 22, married in a church at Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, England. She was given away by her father, Alfred. 3 hours later, Karen Dawn Southwick, 22 married in the same church and was given away by her father, Alfred. It was not bigamy, just 2 brides with the same full names whose fathers had the same names, who happened to marry on the same day in the same church (the grooms' names were unalike).

    The brides' families are not related and neither bride had met ntil the local vicar introduced them at a pre-wedding get-together for marrying couples. Noon-wedding Karen said: -I almost fell over. I didn't even know I had a namesake living just a few miles from me.

    I am writing the above item on my wife's computer because I have just come from taking mine to the small company I bought it from to have it repaired. Before they issued me a docket, they found my name on their computer and read out the wrong address. Another person by my name lives a mile away from me.

 

    Two up

    Barbara Mercier, who turned 50 late in 1991, was given a 1942 penny by her brother to mark the occasion. She placed the penny on top of the family video.

    The following day she took her young granddaughter, Cassie to the doctor's.

    In the waiting room she noticed the child playing with a 1942 penny and admonished her

for taking it from the video. C. insisted she had not, she had found the coin there in the waiting room.

    When they returned home, the other 1942 penny was still sitting on top of the video.

 

    Lifting the Roof

    Life magazine carried a story which told how all 15 people who were to attend choir practice in Beatrice, Nebraska, due to start at 7.15 pm on 1 March 1950, were late. Each had a different reason: a car would not start, a radio programme was not over, ironing wasn't finished, a conversation dragged on etc. the church was destroyed by an explosion at 7.25 pm. The chances of them all being late were later estimated at one in a million. The choir members did not attribute their lateness to probability but to a more obvious source.