Chuckle 942

Chuckle 942
(Phyllis H. of Carpinteria CA gets today's chuckle thanks!)

~Catholics in Las Vegas~ (2nd time around)
Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 differences.)

This may come as a surprise to those of you not living in Las Vegas, but there are more Catholic churches there than casinos. Not surprisingly, some worshippers at Sunday services will give casino chips rather than cash when the basket is passed.

Since they get chips from so many different casinos, the churches have devised a method to collect the offerings. The churches send all their collected chips to a nearby Franciscan Monastery for sorting and then the chips are taken to the casinos of origin and cashed in.

This is done by the chip monks.

Didn't see it comin' did ya?!?! ***

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Word of the Day for Friday February 3, 2006

disparate \DIS-puh-rit; dis-PAIR-it\, adjective:1. Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind.2. Composed of or including markedly dissimilar elements.

Science at its best isolates a common element underlying many seemingly disparate phenomena.-- John Horgan, The Undiscovered Mind

A Region Not Home," though it encompasses topics as seemingly disparate as Shakespeare, football, suicide, racism and Disneyland, actually has considerable thematic coherence.-- Phillip Lopate, "Dreaming of Elsewhere," New York Times, February 27, 2000

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary.-- T.S. Eliot, "The Metaphysical Poets"
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