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The Associated Press reports that a team of firefighters in the small Arkansas town of De Queen recently responded to a call only to find it was their own station on fire.
The local fire department does not work on weekends, but is on call in case of emergencies.
When a call came in one Saturday that an electrical pole was on fire, the team made their way to the station to grab their gear. They never got any further after discovering that it was not an electrical pole on fire, but their own station.
Fortunately, the fire was put out without major damage to the station or firefighting equipment.
Okay, I know what everyone says, "16 isn't all it's cracked up to be." And that may be true, but I am still pretty much excited! I want to just have fun and do something. All my friends are already 16, so it's pretty much lame not going to any of the dances. But next year I can go, because I'm officially "legal" to date according to tomorrow!
Peace out my luva's!
The minute I laid my eyes on this comic strip I knew I was done for. I had never come across a cartoon strip that was quaint, amusing, witty, funny and hilarious without even trying. I am talking here about "Peanuts" a comic strip created by the late Charles M. Schulz who passed away on February 12, 2000. Mr. Schulz might have gone to the other side, but his creation lives on, enjoying a rerun in 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries today.
"Peanuts" is peopled by pre-adolescent children, who talk like adults, and yet childish in their ways. The main characters of this strip are: Charlie Brown, a worry-wart, wishy-washy sort, who has a lot of self-doubts, who cannot fly a kite properly, who loves to play baseball but whose team never wins a game, whose playmates call him occasionally a blockhead, as in "You Blockhead"; then there's Lucy Van Pelt, the bossy, crabby, loudmouthed one, a fussbudget, who picks on Charlie Brown every time she gets; there's Linus Van Pelt, Lucy's kid brother who is the intellectual, Scripture-quoting member of the gang, who suffers abuse from his sister Lucy; then there's Sally, Charlie Brown's kid sister who is uninhibited, precocious and has a crush on Linus whom she calls "My Sweet Baboo." Others in the gang are Marcie, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Franklin, Pigpen, Rerun, and of course we shouldn't forget Snoopy, Charlie Brown's pet beagle who has multiple personas like a World War I ace, a lawyer, a writer, a vulture, a scoutmaster, etc.
Once, there was a four-framer strip that caught my fancy. It was a scene showing Charlie Brown and Lucy conversing in an open field where Charlie plays his no-win baseball games. Lucy is asking Charlie a question: Can thinking bad thoughts cause it to rain? She explained: her brother Linus ate the last doughnut that morning and, "I yelled at him. And now it's clouding up. I was just wondering."
We might all wonder. Do bad thoughts cause the sky to cloud up and then to rain? What if bad thoughts truly caused it to rain? Think of the bad thoughts going on, swirling round about our heads, circling above and around in this planet. Let's begin in homes. Mama is sore at Dad because he won't give her shopping money. Dad is sore at Junior because the family car suffered a scratch on the side door paint when Jun drove the car to the party last night. Junior is sore at Sis because she squealed on him to Mom and Dad about his coming home in late in the morning.
We have examined only one home. Multiply this home with the hundreds of other homes in your locality, in your country, in the world. Imagine the bad thoughts spoken or thought about in different languages in homes and offices around the world, in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Malaysian, etc. The cloud formation over the earth would be very dark indeed. Heavy rains would pour down incessantly in torrents, flooding the earth to make Noah's flood look like a peaceful running stream. Were Hurricanes Katrina and Rita brought about by global bad thoughts? Well may we all wonder.
Just as Lucy was about to slip into depression, Charlie Brown, the Blockhead, answers Lucy's question with a reply that's as right as rain. He said, "If bad thoughts cause rain, we'd never see the sun shine." Forthwith, Lucy, in the last frame, hurries away from the pitcher's mound where Charlie Brown is standing, shouting gleefully, "Play ball."
I've been hooked on Charlie Brown and His Gang eversince when I care to remember.
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