Stories: Old West & Beyond 02/13/24
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” —Leonardo da Vinci
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Good Morning. It’s Tuesday, Feb 13, 2024. Today is World Radio Day. It’s also National Tortellini Day. Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day.
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STORY MENU
Payback ... Blood Feud ... Dark & stormy night ... Journey of lost luggage ... Matchstick magic ... Lost pet posters ... Van life ... Hide your wallets and purses.
WILD WEST
When Scott Cooley learned his adoptive father had been gunned down in cold blood, the former Texas Ranger began making plans to eliminate those involved one by one. “The Avenging Ranger.”
More about the blood feud called the Mason County War or the Hoodoo War.
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FIVE STORIES FROM HERE & THERE
1. LITERARY FAILS
Participants in the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest are challenged to write the most outrageous opening sentence to the worst novel never written. The competition is named after Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with “It was a dark and stormy night.”
2. TRAVEL
What happens when you lose your luggage during air travel? Your loss ends up being the airline’s gain, along with others. Read about the journey of lost luggage. (Long read but informative).
3. ART
Eight years and 700,000 matchsticks later, Frenchman Richard Plaud fails in his quests for a Guinness World Record.
4. POSTERS
If you’ve ever created a poster seeking help to find a missing pet, punk rocker Don Bolles might have it in his one-of-a-kind collection of lost pet posters.
5. LIFESTYLE
Researchers say more Americans may be living in their cars than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, and North Dakota combined. Here’s a view of so-called van life from the driver’s seat.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A London restaurant called Hide is achieving a level of notoriety for its pricey breakfast menu, which offers scrambled eggs and toast for $73.
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RANDOM FACTS
Of all the words you can misspell, February is one of the most misspelled words in English. Even the White House has misprinted the word February before in a press release.
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REFLECTION
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” —Ben Franklin
