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The old saying says sometime things can be better late than never. For the Attleboro Public library in Massachusetts, almost 80 years might be a little too long. The library posted pictures on its social media site of a book that had just been returned. The due date stamped in the back was November 21,…

Speaking of Senior Moments: WHERE IS MY SUNDAY PAPER? The irate customer calling the newspaper office loudly demanded, wanting to know where her Sunday edition was. Ma'am, said the newspaper employee, today is Saturday. The Sunday paper is not delivered until tomorrow, on Sunday. There was quite a long…

Speaking of Senior Moments: WHERE Is My SUNDAY Paper? the irate customer calling the newspaper office loudly demanded, wanting to know where her Sunday edition was. Ma'am, said the newspaper employee, today is Saturday. The Sunday paper is not delivered until tomorrow, on Sunday. There was quite a long…

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. From the television show The Wonder Years A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. Edward de Bono Every man's memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley…

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

It was after 3 a.m. in the fancy restaurant, and all the guests but one had gone home. The last guest was sleeping at his table. The cleaning lady, irritated that she was delayed in doing her job, turned to the restaurant owner. "I've seen you shake the old fool and wake him up five times," she said.…

And The Sillliest Warning Of The Year Goes To... The contest, now in its tenth year, is conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, M-LAW, to reveal how lawsuits, and concern about lawsuits, have created a need for common sense warnings on products. Disclaimers... We saw this on website mlaw.org, a website…

A Sunday school teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible: Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters a month to learn the chapter. Little Rick was excited about the task, but he just couldn't remember the Psalm. After much practice, he could barely get past…

He wrote in advance the epitaph to be on his gravestone: “The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here … Yet the Work itself shall not be lost; for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and…