Saying for the day: We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ~Robert Wilensky, 1996

It is time for another list of true internet facts. Here are facts as true as you can get on the internet. You can astonish your friends with them. Of the fifteen “ facts” only one has been validated. But the other fourteen could be true because I made them up this morning and I make up good facts. Can you pick out the “ real fact”? Last week it was
3. More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!
Good luck with today’s.

1. A pound of bread weighs more than a pound of iron.

2. One pipe of sherry equals 132 gallons.

3. The average dog eats thirty pounds of grass a year .

4. In Australia there are more rabbits than mice.

5. The art of crocheting was developed by French Monks in the fifteenth century.

6. The first personal computer was the Tandy 100 made by Radio Shack. It ran rsdos.

7. More science fiction books are sold than romantic novels.

8. Parts of the Bible have been translated into Klingon.

9. All personal computers now come with a startup disk or directions to make one in case the hard drive fails.

10. The original CSI television program was based on New York police unit and not a Las Vegas one. Las Vegas just seemed a more attractive place to put it.

11. Baptizing people in the public fountain is against the law in Madison, Wisconsin.

12. A new computer game is written every fifteen minutes.

13. Plums have more vitamin C than oranges .

14. Ball point pens kill more people every year than lead pencils.

15. Australia is moving toward it’s nearest neighbor at the rate of fourty feet a year.

There you have it. Put your guess as to the “ true fact” in a comment.I will publish the "true fact" in tomorrow's blog.

News from Pigeon Falls-The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal . Buddy East feels a little better as another entry to the writer’s contest has come in. That still only makes four. He hopes that today or tomorrow they might get a few more. At least he says he hopes but then he is the Liar’s Club President.
Tommy UK and Mayor Trumble were seen arguing again. It has something to do with the White Rabbit. Tommy UK seems to argue with everybody about that rabbit. He seems to be one of the few who still believe it’s real. Mayor Trumble was heard to say “ But Tommy it is time for the truth”. Apparently her idea of truth and his aren’t the same.
A person who said he was from the FBI arrived on the milk train yesterday. He went straight to Eino’s office and demanded the passport that the fingerprint was on. Eino told him, honestly, that he didn’t have it and didn’t know where it was. He then went looking for Tommy UK who was nowhere to be found.
Tammy was questioned by the agent and she then asked him what right he had to come after Tommy’s passport. His answer was that it was part of an on going federal investigation and he couldn’t say more than that.
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Today's Link-Mary's Writing Nook
This was a wonderful day. In the morning I had French Toast made with my homemade banana bread. Then I got Betty's computer running but all of the data was lost. Her hard drive failed two of four tests. In the afternoon my son came. We were going to put a new hard drive in Betty's Computer but first we made restore discs. Then we decided to get a new computer instead. So I went with him out of the Fortress to Office Depot. We found a marvelous computer for $300. It had no monitor but we didn't need one. We had a USB internet lan so we didn't need that either. I am surprised at what you can get now for $300. The machine has two gigabytes of memory, a huge hard drive, Vista, a keyboard, a DVD drive and a mouse. We just finished setting it up and connecting her to the internet. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA

My sister Dawn