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November 29 - December 5, 2012 Tidbits of Casper - For Advertising call 307-473-8661 • 161 South Fenway, Casper, WY Page 1

Published and Distributed Weekly by Alimon Publishing, LLC - www.tidbitswyoming.com - [email protected] - 307-473-8661

November 29 - December 5, 2012

Laugh-A-Bit with Tidbits

Issue #498

12/12/12

Q: What do you get from sitting on the ice too long?

A: Polaroids!

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• On Dec. 13, 1621, under the care of Robert Cushman, the first American furs to be exported from the continent leave for England aboard the Fortune. During the crossing, the Fortune was captured by

the French, and its valuable cargo of furs was taken. Cushman was detained on the Ile d'Dieu before being returned to England.

• On Dec. 14, 1799, George Washington, the first U.S. president, dies at age 67. Two days earlier, he rode out into a freezing sleet to survey business affairs on his estate. He returned home late for a dinner engagement and refused to take the time to change out of his wet clothes. The next day, Washington developed a severe respiratory infection and died the following day. His last words were "'Tis well."

• On Dec. 16, 1811, the greatest series of earthquakes in U.S. history begins in the Mississippi River Valley near New Madrid, Mo., when a quake of an estimated 8.6 magnitude slams the region. The earthquake raised and lowered parts of the Mississippi Valley by as much as 15 feet and changed the course of the Mississippi River.

• On Dec. 10, 1915, the one-millionth Ford car rolls off the assembly line at the River Rouge plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford sold more than 15 million Model Ts in all; they initially cost $850 (about $20,000 in today's dollars).

• On Dec. 11, 1946, the United Nations votes to establish the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to provide relief and support to children. Only two countries have failed to ratify the treaty -- Somalia and the United States.

• On Dec. 15, 1973, Sandy Hawley becomes the first jockey to win 500 races in a single year. Hawley achieved his historic win aboard Charlie Jr., in the third race at Maryland's Laurel Park race track.

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• The end of the year is a great time to pick up next year’s holiday decorations at a discount. Before you pack away your holiday lights, ornaments, cards, etc., do an inventory and see if you are able to find what you need to complete your look at a slashed price.

• Computer grocery lists can make not only shopping easier, but organization as well. Keep a file listing all the items you usually purchase from week to week. You even can create sections based on where certain items are located throughout the store. This will ensure that you don’t miss something, necessitating a return trip to the store. Stay organized to save money.

• “Keep a small package of antibacterial wipes in your car to clean your hands after pumping gas. Not only is there any potential gas to get off your hands, but those handles don’t get cleaned often, and are very dirty.” -- R.D. in South Carolina

• “If you have extra papers that are printed only on one side, save them. You can cut them in quarters and staple several sheets together to make scrap-paper pads to keep near the telephone or on the fridge. They are handy, and you’ll be reusing material, which is good for the environment.” -- U.L. in Missouri

• Putting up new calendars? Before you toss your old one, be sure to look through it for important anniversaries, and cut out and save any pictures or art that might be reusable for craft projects.

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about 10 laps, but those were just among the many footnotes drawing scant attention.

The first two caution flags were for debris. In fact, it wasn't until lap 153 that Nationwide Series champ Ricky Stenhouse Jr. actually hit a wall with enough impact to slow the entire field.

Then "poof" went the Chase. First, on lap 213, Johnson's crew failed him, leaving off a lugnut on the left-rear tire and earning a penalty. A few laps later, Johnson was back on pit road, but not to change tires. He coasted the famously reliable No. 48 down pit road because it was the way to the garage.

It didn't take "points as they run" to determine that Kes-elowski was the champion.

• • •Monte Dutton covers motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette.

E-mail Monte at [email protected].© 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

Perhaps it was unfair to expect NASCAR's Sprint Cup championship to be a spine-tingling affair. Perhaps the unprecedented, year-old battle between Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards raised expectations to an absurd level.

At Homestead-Miami Speedway, Jeff Gordon won the 87th race of his career, and his freshly minted archrival, Clint Bowyer, finished second. Somehow this competition was bereft of drama.

Alluding in part to beating Bowyer without, uh, wrecking him, Gordon said.

"I felt terrible about how I went about it and still regret the way I went about it, but, you know what? I can't take (Phoenix) back.

"What we can do is look forward and race guys as hard and clean as we possibly can, and this is a way to get some positive things going because this year has been real up and down."

Brad Keselowski's championship was no surprise. He entered the race with a 20-point edge and took no chances. Jimmie Johnson's crew botched his shot on pit road and, thanks to a mechanical failure, didn't even finish second in the points. Bowyer did.

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even smart, but he had sworn in the days leading up to the race that he would race to win, even allowing as how he was "afraid" to race differently.

"(Johnson) was going to win this race, and I know that," Keselowski said. "We were not as fast as we wanted to be ... but my guys never gave up. We kept working, and at the end we were even capable of getting back up there enough to where it wouldn't have mattered if he had won, which made me feel a lot better."

Keselowski, 29, of Rochester Hills, Mich., won the cham-pionship by 39 points in spite of finishing 15th in the most important race of his career to date.

Even the Dodge celebration was muted. Dodge hasn't won a title since 1975, and it was only the fifth ever. But Dodge is leaving the sport for now, so there is little prospect of an encore any time soon.

Owing to Joey Logano's Saturday misfortune, Keselowski started first but didn't stay there. His Dodge was five lengths in back of Marcos Ambrose's Ford by the back straight of the first lap. That edge was short-lived, too, and by lap 40, Kyle Busch was more than three seconds ahead of Carl Edwards, with Keselowski sixth and Johnson ninth.

The race meandered along during its first half, with Busch leading most of the time and the title contenders, Johnson and Keselowski, keeping wary tabs on each other. An imperfect pit stop put Keselowski behind his counterpart, but it was nothing about which to be overly concerned.

Trevor Bayne's Ford grazed the wall twice in a span of

Brad Keselowki, driver of the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge, celebrates with a burnout after winning the series championship at the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. (Getty Images for NASCAR photo)

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• It was British biologist and author Richard Dawkins who made the following sage observation: "When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong."

• If you're like 20 percent of American women, you think your feet are too big.

• Did you ever wonder why we say, "I smell a rat" when we sense that something is amiss? The phrase dates back to a time before effective means of pest control, when it was not uncommon for a home to be infested by rodents. If a rat died inside a wall, the residents wouldn't be aware of it until the smell of the decaying body became noticeable.

• If you'd like to have a festive New Year's Eve but don't want to deal with the crowds in New York City for the iconic ball drop, consider heading to Mount Olive, N.C. Every year the town hosts a celebration in which a 3-foot lighted pickle is dropped into a barrel at midnight.

• Ancient Romans believed that a sneeze was the body's way of expelling evil spirits that

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caused disease. Thus, if one tried to suppress a sneeze, it was regarded as an invitation to illness and death.

• The 14-foot model of the Starship Enterprise that was used during shooting of the original "Star Trek" series is now displayed in the Smithsonian.

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