Fun Friday

Three men of faith were hiking together and were separated. They were able to make it back to camp together. Each one of them ran into a bear on their return trip to camp. Each told a story about their encounter with the bear. The Catholic priest said "I read to the bear from the Catechism and put a cross around his neck and he just quieted right down." The Protestant minister said: "I coaxed him down to the river, baptized him and left him calmly swimming away." Before the Jewish Rabbi could tell his story he was asked by his companions "How did you get all those bruises, cuts, and scratches." The Rabbi replied, "I really shouldn't have started with circumcision."

The above story was from The Edge Column in Today's Oregonian. It made me laugh and out of the laughter was a decision to make today on the blog Fun Friday. I searched the Internet for some fun and interesting facts and found the following web page which was a treasure of facts:

http://www.funfactz.com/

Here are some facts from their web page. My reaction to each fact are in parenthesis:

People spend two weeks of their lives at traffic lights (I run enough of them to reduce the time by a week.)

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the bible is the cat. (To hard to get a cat to do what you want it to.)

It is bad luck to leave the house through a different door than the one used to come into it. (I have to be more careful now. Leave through the garage, return through the garage.)

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (Well, now I am going to. Why didn't they tell us this in health class?)

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. (Takes me longer. Does that mean I am above average or below average?)

There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes. (I don't eat either the box or corn flakes so I'm good.)

Twenty-three percent of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts. (I've never photocopied my butt. Not going to try either.)

Forty percent of women have hurled footwear at a man. (I've never had a woman throw footwear at me. Had a few throw insults my way but never anything physical.)

In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph! (I always knew those North Easterners were a wild bunch.)

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight! (I'm heading right now to hang out at the produce section in the grocery store where I will spend the day smelling apples and bananas.Maybe I will meet a tomato there doing the same thing.)

Take your height and divide by eight. That's how tall your head is! (Mine is 8.875 inches. Those people are right, I am big headed.)

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off! (I would have fit in during that time.)

If you would like to provide us with more fun or interesting facts go ahead. If you want to tell us how big your head is please do. Have you ever copied your butt, thrown footwear at a man, left the house from a different door you came in from, or smelled produce to lose weight? Comments about anything and everything are always appreciated here.

WHO AM I?

I have the same name as a famous baseball player but he is male and dead and I am female and alive. I was born in 1960. I was a basketball and tennis player at the high school where I graduated as the class salutatorian. My Mom was a homemaker and my dad was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen. I am the youngest of four children. I graduated from college cum laude with a degree in communications. I followed in the footsteps my older sister. I went to a small college despite being offered a basketball scholarship to go to a big school. The big school was just to impersonal for me. I ended my basketball career at the small school's third all-time leading scorer and rebounder. I began my career as a sports anchor and reporter. I went on to a position as a sportscaster on the famous cable network sports channel. My catch phrase was "Go on with your bad self!". I became a news reporter for the sports channel's companion network. You woke up to me on one network channel and went to bed with me on a cable channel. I am most recently known for anchoring a series of emotional reports from the Gulf Coast during Katrina from my devastated hometown.
I've earned three Emmy Awards for sports casting and have hosted the Oscar pre-show. I have also driven the pace car at the Indianapolis 500. I disclosed on air that I had early stage breast cancer which I discovered while working on the farewell of a co-anchor who would later die of colon cancer. A mammogram didn't detect my cancer only a self-examination and ultra-sound did. I shaved my head during chemotherapy treatment. On ther air I wore a wig because I didn't want to distract viewers from the news. I quit wearing the wig after it was determined that I was now healthier than before the cancer. I followed my own advise, FROM THE HEART: SEVEN RULES TO LIVE BY. Who Am I?