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Strange but True

Contributed by Bob Powers, Marietta, OH

A first grade teacher collected well-known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest. Their insight may surprise you...

Better to be safe than.....Punch a 5th grader.
Strike While the.....Bug is close.
It's always darkest before.....Daylight Savings time.
Never underestimate the power of.....Termites.
You can lead a horse to water but.....how?
Don't bite the hand that.....looks dirty.
No news is.....impossible.
A miss is as good as a .....Mr.
You can't teach an old dog new.....math.
If you lie down with dogs, you'll.....stink in the morning.
Love all, trust.....me. The pen is mightier than the .....pigs.
An idle mind is.....The best way to relax.
Where there's smoke there's.....Pollution.
Happy the bride who.....gets all the presents.
A penny saved is.....not much. Two's company, three's.....the Musketeers.
Don't put off till tomorrow what.....you put on to go to bed.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and.....you have to blow your nose.
None are so blind as.....Helen Keller.
Children should be seen and not.....spanked or grounded.
If at first you don't succeed.....get new batteries.
You get out of something what you.....see pictured on the box.


An Anagram, as you know, is a word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. Witness the following (someone out there has way too much time on their hands):

DormitoryA space holderDirty Room
EvangelistA space holderEvil's Agent
DesperationA space holderA Rope Ends It
The Morse Code A space holderHere Come Dots
Slot MachinesA space holderCash Lost in 'em
AnimosityA space holderIs No Amity
Mother-in-lawA space holderWoman Hitler
Snooze AlarmsA space holderAlas! No More Z's
Alec GuinnessA space holderGenuine Class
SemolinaA space holderIs No Meal
The Public Art GalleriesA space holderLarge Picture Halls, I Bet
A Decimal PointA space holder I'm a Dot in Place
The EarthquakesA space holder That Queer Shake
Eleven plus twoA space holderTwelve plus one
ContradictionA space holderAccord not in it

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And check this out:
"To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

And the Anagram: "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."

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And for the grand finale:
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." --Neil Armstrong

The Anagram: "A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!"

Contributed by Terry Terrian, Santa Rosa, CA

Anitoch CA. - Police have arrested a fugitive who accidentally shot off his testicles during a failed burglary.

Richard "Greg" Oliver, 29, was arrested Monday in Modesto after leading police on a high speed chase on fog-covered Highway 99. Police caught him after he crashed his car.

Authorities had been searching for Oliver since Dec. 23, when he fled from police who were trying to arrest him for an alleged burglary attempt. Oliver apparently had a shotgun stuffed in his pants that went off as he climbed a fence.

Neighbors reported hearing someone say,"Oh God.Oh God no,"police said. -- Press Democrat news services, Sept., 1996 (Santa Rosa Ca.)

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Melvyn Nurse, 35, a clergyman, used a .357 calibre Magnum revolver loaded with one blank round to dramitise his sermon before a packed congregation at Livingway Christian Fellowship Church International in Jacksonville, Florida, on 26 September. He illustrated each of the seven deadly sins by playing Russian Roulette, spinning the chamber and holding the gun to his head. After one spin, the gun fired and the cardboard wadding in the blank pierced his temple, inflicting fatal brain damage.

He fell out of sight and the congregation of 250, including his wife Debra and their four daughters, waited, thinking Mr. Nurse would resume his sermon. He was eventually rushed to University Medical Centre, where he died five days later.

Blanks contain a hard cardboard like materiel (wadding) that shoots several feet from the barrel when fired. It seemed that Nurse didn't realise they could cause injury. -- AP, Reuters 2 Oct.

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A young Saudi man, camping with two friends on top of a mountain, was killed instantly when he took a call from a friend on a cell phone during a storm and the phone was struck by lightning. -- Johannesburg Citizen, 4 Sept.1998
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Pascal Gbah, 49, a colonel and electronics engineer in the Ivory Coast army, was fatally wounded by gunfire on 24 August as he tested a "magic" belt supposedly with powers to protect him from bullets. He died on the spot near the western town of Albosso after being hit by a bullet fired from his own service pistol by a 20 year-old son of the magic belts maker. Gbah's cousin Andre Gondo, who made the belt, insisted that it's protective powers were real, provided one abstained from sex while wearing it. Gbah is survived by his wife and six children. An army spokesman said Gondo had been arrested and his son was on the run. -- Reuters, 26 aug 1998

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