“Quixotry” (pronounced KWIK-suh-tree) (noun) A wild, visionary idea, unpredictable, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
In 1976, a horrifying discovery wThere’s an orchestra made up entirely of typewriters. Since 2004, the Boston Typewriter Orchestra has been playing concerts, making and performing music by only using vintage typewriters. The various sounds of clacking, sliding carriages, bells, and spinning rollers contribute to the orchestra’s unique sound, according to Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
I can still hear it now -- the clackety- clackety sounds of the typewriters at the newspaper office back in the 1980’s. My compugraph machine was very quiet, but I could hear the three others up in the front part of the office, typing at full speed in the morning before that dreaded deadline!! Those typewriters were definitely vintage. The teletype added its own special sound to the choir… Christy mentioned a while back how she “enjoyed it” when she was trying to type fast and the keys would jam together!
Those particular sounds of a busy office are in the past now… ### A jumper cable walks into a bar.
The bartender says, I’ll serve you, but don’t start anything. ### Thomas Jefferson was the first known American to record an ice cream recipe.
When he wasn’t busy writing the Declaration of Independence or acting as third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was otherwise occupied eating ice cream. After first being exposed to the treat in France (and apparently enjoying it), he helped popularize ice cream in America. Jefferson not only served the dessert at parties throughout his life, including during his eight years as president, but also was the first known American to write down a recipe for it. In addition to a simple list of ingredients (“2 bottles of good cream, 6 yolks of eggs, 1/2 lb. sugar”), he included such instructions as “put the cream on a fire in a casserole, first putting in a stick of Vanilla” and “open it to loosen with a spatula the ice from the inner sides of the Sabotiere.” (In historical cooking and baking, a sabotiere refers to a specialized metal or pewter pot that was used to make ice cream or sorbet.) According to those who’ve made it, Jefferson’s recipe is quite tasty — and incredibly rich. ### Did you know that ketchup was once sold as medicine? The condiment was prescribed and sold to people suffering from indigestion back in 1834.
Maybe that’s why I like ketchup in spicy chili!
### Some more humorous church bulletin bloopers:
•The third verse of Blessed Assurance will be sung without musical accomplishment.
•During the absence of our pastor, we enjoyed the rare privilege of hearing a good sermon when J. F. Stubbs supplied our pulpit. ### ‘Toto’ was paid a higher salary than most human cast members in ‘The Wizard of Oz.’
The Wizard of Oz featured more than 600 actors, some of whom were bigger stars than others. Near the top of that list was a cairn terrier appropriately named Terry. The pup who played Dorothy’s loyal companion Toto — and who, unlike the character she portrayed, was female in real life — received a weekly salary of $125 for her work on the perennial classic, which was more than many of her co-stars (including all the actors playing Munchkins, who were paid $50 a week). At about $2,885 in today’s money, the pup’s pay was also 10 times the minimum wage at the time.
Terry had already appeared in seven films: “Ready for Love, Bright Eyes, The Dark Angel, Fury, The Buccaneer, Barefoot Boy, and Stablemates, prior to 1939’s Oz, which helps explain her salary. ### There’s an underwater post office in the South Pacific: Situated off the coast of Hideaway Island Resort and Marine Sanctuary is the Vanuatu Post, the world’s only under- the-sea post office. Vacationers who want to send a waterproof postcard home can snorkel or scuba dive 10 feet below the ocean’s surface. A special flag is raised above the water to indicate when postal workers are in the water. (Reader’s Digest)