>Next time you think you're having a bad day recall that---- > >1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill >in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively >saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from >onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale. > >2. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter >in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of >needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an ax leaving her mentally >retarded. > >3. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world >flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu he came down eight hours >short of the 400 day record, his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had >left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off. > >4. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically >with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric >kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him >with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. >Till that moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman. > >5. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs >to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, >escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless >protesters to death. > >And the capper....... > >6. Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. >It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the >bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits. > >Here's hoping your day is better than any of these. > Tom Robison Ossian, Indiana tcrobi@adamswells.com Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child forever. [unknown]