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The $100 bill

It's a slow day in the small town of Pumphandle and the streets are deserted.
Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit.

A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.

As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

(Stay with this.....and pay attention)

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Co-op.

The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit.

The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel Owner.

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The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.

No one produced anything.

No one earned anything.

However, the whole town now thinks that they are out of debt and there is a false atmosphere of optimism and glee.

And that, my friends, is how a "stimulus package" works!

Posted: 5:44:26 PM  

Starting today through December 13th we experience a sequence of earliest sunsets of the year from the northern hemisphere.

We all know that winter's low sun means late sunrises and early sunsets, adding up to short days and long nights.
On the contrary, the latest sunrises begin more than a week after the winter solstice on December 29 and continue through January 8.
By the 9th, sunrise and sunset times work together to rapidly lengthen the days and shorten the nights.

The reason they're out of sync with one another has to do with the tilt of the Earth's axis combined with its elliptical orbit.
If our planet orbited in a perfect circle, its orbital speed would be constant, but in an elliptical orbit, we're closer to the sun on one side of the ellipse that the other depending on the time of year.

And since speed varies with distance from the sun, Earth's velocity around its orbit is constantly changing. When closest at perihelion in early January, Earth moves faster than when farthest in early July at aphelion.

Posted: 9:15:52 AM  

Most of the water remained inside the building, but about 300 litres was estimated to have escaped and run into a nearby gutter that leads to the ocean before crews could contain the leaks, a company spokesman said today.

Posted: 9:07:57 AM  

No one has been allowed to see the holy object, described in scripture as being made from acacia wood, plated with gold and topped with two golden angels, except one solitary elderly monk, who must watch over the Ark for the remainder of his life, and is never allowed to leave the chapel grounds.

But now the chapel - which was designed by the Ethiopian leader Emperor Hailie Selassie - has had to be covered in a tarpaulin to stop rain getting in.

Posted: 9:02:53 AM  

Still no snow on Europe's Alps - 2006

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Posted: 8:54:23 AM