It’s seems to be an appropriate time for a few truths. We get so much BS from the Media and advertisers that many times we really aren’t sure what’s true and what’s not. Let me lay some truths on you today for a change. These are listed in no particular order.

• Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

• Silly Putty was the result of a failed attempt by General Electric to create a synthetic rubber for use in World War II.

• A bank in Vernal, Utah, was built from bricks delivered by the U.S. Postal Service in 1916. The builders discovered that it was cheaper to mail them then to ship them from Salt Lake City.

• Carl Hubbard is the only person inducted into three different sports halls of fame: baseball, college football, and Pro football.

• The final resting place of Dr. Eugene Shoemaker, a geologist, is the moon. He arranged to have his ashes placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft that was launched on January 6, 1998.

• The “Too T TrappeR” is a charcoal filter shaped like a seat cushion that’s designed to silence and deodorizing any unwanted fart’s. It comes in gray or black and makes a rather awkward Christmas gift.

• In days past, the term boner referred to a person who was a textile worker who inserted stays into women’s corsets and brassieres.

• The only marsupial that is native to North America is the Virginia opossum.

• Americans drink 50 times more soda now than they did a century ago.

• It takes about 2,893 licks to get to the center of a typical Tootsie Pop.

• The longest overdue book in the United States is 145 years (in Ohio). The longest in the world is 288 years (in Germany).

• Breast reduction is the fifth most popular plastic surgery procedure for men.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans.

It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

Lily Tomlin