News of the philatelic world - more in the middle and end of
this page!
Read "Words to Live By" at the end of the page - way down to the bottom.
ALSO
On the Road" Educational Courses
The following two day courses are offered through the APS. They are held prior to a WSP
show or Summer Seminar.
• Washington-Franklin Series with Dennis Gilson, June 2-3, prior to NAPEX
• Expertizing First Day Covers and Earliest Documental Users with Ken Lawrence &
Allison Cusick, July 17-18, prior to Summer Seminar
• Collecting Revenues with Ron Lesher, July 14-15, prior to Minnesota Stamp Expo
• Computers and Collecting with Barb Boal, Aug. 10-11, prior to APS StampShow
• Philatelic Marketplace with Clark Frazier, Sept. 29-30, prior to SESCAL
• Pressing Issues with Wayne Youngblood, Dec. 1-2, prior to FLOREX.
ALSO:
VISIT: www.stamps.org
www.stampstore.org
www.stamplibrary.org
24/7 Access to APS & APRL
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POSTAGE RATE United Other
INCREASES on MAY 11, 2009 States Canada Mexico Countries
1st class letter to 1 oz. $0.44 $0.75 $0.79 $0.98
1st Class large envelope to 1 oz. $0.88 $1.03 $1.03 $1.24
1st class parcels to 1 oz. $1.22 $1.23 $1.23 $1.44
Additional ounces $0.17 Varies according to classification
Postcard $0.28 $.075 $.079 $0.98
Priority Mail (minimum) $4.95 $19.00 $19.00 $25.00
Parcel Post $4.90 Not Available
Signature Confirmation $2.35 Not Available
Registered Mail $10.60 $11.50 $11.50 $11.50
Flat-rate envelope or small box $4.95 $10.95 $10.95 $12.95
Flat-rate regular box $10.95 $25.95 $25.95 $41.95
Flat-rate large box $13.95 $32.95 $32.95 $53.95
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ANOTHER STAMP CLUB TO VISIT
Conejo Valley Philatelic Society
Since 1967
P. O. Box 1116
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
Meet the second Wednesday of each month
at King Of Glory Lutheran Church
2500 Borchard Road
Newbury Park, CA 91320
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HUMOR CORNER
LAUGHTER IS GOOD FOR YOU -- EVEN IF IT HAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH PHILATELY
YOU THINK ENGLISH IS EASY?????
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row .
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor
ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England
or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,
which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that
quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is
neither from Guinea nor is it a pig..
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural
of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese.
So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that
you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds
and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats
vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the
English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally
insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that
smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and
a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a
language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you
fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is
why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out,
they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?
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And now...something completely different!
You lovers of the English Language might enjoy this:
It is up to you whether to read it or not - but it is on the up and up.
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other
two-letter word, and that is 'UP'.
It's easy to understand UP meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list,
but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why
are the Officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write
UP a report?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the
silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the
house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP
trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To
be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: a drain must be opened UP because it is stopped
UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the UP the word
UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of
the page and can add UP to thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might
try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of
your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or
more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes
out we say it is clearing UP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it
doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but before you say, "Shut UP", I'll wrap it UP -- for
now my time is UP.
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The Darwin Awards - 2009
Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are
bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
Here is the glorious winner:
1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a
hold-up in Long Beach , California would-be robber James Elliot did
something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel
andtried the trigger again. This time it worked.
And now, the honorable mentions:
2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine
and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance
company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to
have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The
chef's claim was approved.
3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during
a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken
the space. Understandably, he shot her.
4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver
found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from
Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence,
the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a
free ride.. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling
the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre
fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.
5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head
wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the
injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he
could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.
6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter,
and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man
pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk
promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving
the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the
drawer.... $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a
crime committed?]
7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that
he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some
booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at
the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on
the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of
Plexiglas.. The whole event was caught on videotape.
8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man
grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the
woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within
minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and
drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to
stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her.
That's the lady I stole the purse from."
9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a
Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded
cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the
cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion
rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man,
frustrated, walked away. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]
10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked
on a Seattle Street , he got much more than he bargained for. Police
arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home
near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to
trying to
steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's
sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press
charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with friends and
family....unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant
relative or long lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope
they remain lost.
*** Remember.... They walk among us!!!***
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WEBSITE OF THE MONTH:
http://aps.informz.
net/z/cjUucD9taT02ODg0MTEmcD0xJnU9MTAwMzc3MzMzMiZ
saT0yNjE2OTY5/index.html
— illuminates the lives of people in the Post Office, the
messages carried by Royal Mail, the history we all share —
our history through the post.
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"APS Chapter or APS Affiliate?
What's the difference between an APS chapter and an APS affiliate?
A chapter is typically a local club that
meets on a regular basis.
An Affiliate is an organization with a regional, national, or international
scope that meets face-to-face on an infrequent basis, if at all. At this time
APS has 577 chapters and 199 Affiliates"
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ALSO REMEMBER:
HERE IS AN ORGANIZATION WORTHY OF OUR SUPPORT:
Friends of the WESTERN PHILATELIC LIBRARY,
P.O. Box 2219,
Sunnyvale, Ca 94087-2219
Stuart Leven, President
Membership fees as follows:
Participating: U.S. $10
Contributor: U.S. $20
Additional donations are gratefully accepted.
All contributions are tax deductible.
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Web Sites worthy of checking into:
www.stampshows.com
http://arthurj-w.tripod.com/i/xref/dxmnu-nf.htm#name
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Philatelic Education
November Philatelic History
History information is from Kenneth A. Wood's book Post Dates — A
Chronology of Intriguing Events in the Mails and Philately
1765
Nov. 1 — The British Parliament passed an act imposing various taxes on
the American colonies, including those in Canada and the West Indies. The
taxes were paid by means of
embossed revenue stamps.
1832
Nov. 30 — Stage contractors on the Philadelphia-Lancaster, PA route were
granted an allowance of $400 a year for carrying the mail, a distance of 30
miles, on the railroad
1845
Nov. — The St. Louis Bears postmasters' provisionals were issued at St.
Louis, MO. The name refers to the design which features the city's coat of
arms showing two bears. This was
about four months after the first postmaster's provisionals had been
released by New York City Postmaster Robert Morris.
1846
Nov. 25 — "Nov. 25" is the date postmarked on a cover bearing the only
known copy of the Alexandria, VA postmasters' provisional printed on blue
paper. The year is believed to be 1846. The letter it contained is a proposal
of marriage addressed to a Miss Jannett Brown. The letter and cover were
found by her daughter in 1907 among family correspondence. The cover is
the first single philatelic item to sell for $1 million on May 8, 1981.
1910
Nov. 3 — Mail had been scheduled to be flown from the German liner
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria at sea to New York but bad weather canceled the
attempt.
1912
Nov. 24 — Henry Crawford flew 47 postcards at an aviation meet at San
Francisco. He landed at the Presidio, near the Golden Gate.
Nov. 27 — The U.S. Post Office Department issued Parcel Post postage
due labels.
1916
Nov. 2 — A "dawn to dusk" air mail flight from Chicago to New York began.
The flight was sponsored by the New York Times, which had special
postcards prepared.
1928
Nov. 9 — A flight of Royal Air Force seaplanes carried mail when they
arrived in Manila on a good-will flight. Mail was also carried by these
aircraft when they left for Hong Kong,
Bangkok, and Singapore on Nov. 16.
1947
Nov. 15 — Brazil issued a triangular semi-postal postal tax stamp to mark
Aviation Week, Nov. 15-22, and it made it compulsory on all mail during
that week.
1962
Nov. 16 — The U.S. Post Office Department deliberately reprinted and
place on sale the Dag Hammerskjold commemorative stamp with the yellow
background color inverted. The U.S. postmaster general J. Edward Day,
decided that all collectors should be able to have a copy of the error and
reprinted a large quantity.
1986
Nov. 5 — Assistant Postmaster General Gordon C. Morison was appointed
to a new position, assistant postmaster general for philatelic affairs. The
appointment recognized the
growing importance of the stamp program.
Nov. 10 — A record price of $481,000 was paid for a single U.S. stamp,
when a copy of the 1861 1-cent blue Franklin with double Z grill was sold.
Contact Information available for the APS Staff
APS Webmaster - Doris Wilson Technical Contact - Brian Krasinski
© 1999, American Philatelic Society All Rights Reserved
Read our Terms of Use.
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The kneadable eraser
Have you acquired a cover that has a price written on it in pencil? Do you
have stamps where someone has written a catalog number or value on the
back? The best tool for eliminating these unwanted pencil markings is a
kneadable eraser, found in art supplies shops or online. These inexpensive
items (less than $2) can be kneaded and shaped into a point. Use the point
you have formed to gently rub the pencil markings. It will be gone in a flash
and won't leave any eraser crumbs.
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APS is now selling on ebay
Select items from in-kind donations are now being placed on eBay for
auction. Proceeds from the sale of in-kind donations assist youth,
educational and other programs. More information is available. Please
direct comments to Richard Nakles.
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A once perfectly good stamp....
Scott No. 8A, Type IIIa, Pos. 56R4 is May's expertizing item. This stamp
was in a 2009 auction, but when submitted to in February 2010 it had been
subjected to a harsh cleaning that drastically altered the color. Read more
http://www.stamps.org/newsletter/0510-apex.pdf about this submission
and see larger versions of the stamp...http://www.stamps.
org/newsletter/0510-APEX.gif
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Stamp collecting month cancel
Plan ahead for October Stamp Collecting Month http://www.stamps.
org/CAC/cac_scm.htm and order your cancel now. All you do is send the
required information to Tom Fortunato and he will take care of the rest.
Share an idea with fellow clubs or contribute an article or two about topics
pertaining to clubs. Your input is welcome. Please e-mail CAC chairman
Tom Fortunato stamptmf@frontiernet.net with your thoughts and
suggestions.
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Words to Live By
“Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country” - Ian Rush
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" - Samuel Goldwyn.
“What’s another word for thesaurus?” Stephen Wright
"Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me." - G.W.
Hegel (philosopher)
"If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving." - Henry Youngman.
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally." - WC Fields.
Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of
Santa?" - Bart Simpson
"Operator! Give me the number for 911!" - Homer Simpson
"Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer." - Will Rogers.
"If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?"
- Steven Wright
.
"You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label." - Mark Twain.
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I
looked into the soul of the boy next to me." – Woody Allen
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life. Unless I buy
something.” Jackie Mason
“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”—Steven Wright
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
~Anais Nin
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already
tomorrow in Australia."-- Charles M. Schulz
Only those who are willing to risk going too far will be able to find out how
far one can go." ~T. S. Elliott "
"There are two ways of spreading light---to be the candle, or to be the
mirror that reflects it." Edith Wharton
“I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do
something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do”. Helen Keller
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who
are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it”. Mark Twain
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this page!
Read "Words to Live By" at the end of the page - way down to the bottom.
ALSO
On the Road" Educational Courses
The following two day courses are offered through the APS. They are held prior to a WSP
show or Summer Seminar.
• Washington-Franklin Series with Dennis Gilson, June 2-3, prior to NAPEX
• Expertizing First Day Covers and Earliest Documental Users with Ken Lawrence &
Allison Cusick, July 17-18, prior to Summer Seminar
• Collecting Revenues with Ron Lesher, July 14-15, prior to Minnesota Stamp Expo
• Computers and Collecting with Barb Boal, Aug. 10-11, prior to APS StampShow
• Philatelic Marketplace with Clark Frazier, Sept. 29-30, prior to SESCAL
• Pressing Issues with Wayne Youngblood, Dec. 1-2, prior to FLOREX.
ALSO:
VISIT: www.stamps.org
www.stampstore.org
www.stamplibrary.org
24/7 Access to APS & APRL
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POSTAGE RATE United Other
INCREASES on MAY 11, 2009 States Canada Mexico Countries
1st class letter to 1 oz. $0.44 $0.75 $0.79 $0.98
1st Class large envelope to 1 oz. $0.88 $1.03 $1.03 $1.24
1st class parcels to 1 oz. $1.22 $1.23 $1.23 $1.44
Additional ounces $0.17 Varies according to classification
Postcard $0.28 $.075 $.079 $0.98
Priority Mail (minimum) $4.95 $19.00 $19.00 $25.00
Parcel Post $4.90 Not Available
Signature Confirmation $2.35 Not Available
Registered Mail $10.60 $11.50 $11.50 $11.50
Flat-rate envelope or small box $4.95 $10.95 $10.95 $12.95
Flat-rate regular box $10.95 $25.95 $25.95 $41.95
Flat-rate large box $13.95 $32.95 $32.95 $53.95
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ANOTHER STAMP CLUB TO VISIT
Conejo Valley Philatelic Society
Since 1967
P. O. Box 1116
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
Meet the second Wednesday of each month
at King Of Glory Lutheran Church
2500 Borchard Road
Newbury Park, CA 91320
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HUMOR CORNER
LAUGHTER IS GOOD FOR YOU -- EVEN IF IT HAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH PHILATELY
YOU THINK ENGLISH IS EASY?????
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row .
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor
ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England
or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,
which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that
quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is
neither from Guinea nor is it a pig..
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural
of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese.
So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that
you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds
and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats
vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the
English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally
insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that
smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and
a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a
language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you
fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is
why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out,
they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?
************************************************************************************
And now...something completely different!
You lovers of the English Language might enjoy this:
It is up to you whether to read it or not - but it is on the up and up.
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other
two-letter word, and that is 'UP'.
It's easy to understand UP meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list,
but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why
are the Officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write
UP a report?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the
silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the
house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP
trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To
be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: a drain must be opened UP because it is stopped
UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the UP the word
UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of
the page and can add UP to thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might
try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of
your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or
more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes
out we say it is clearing UP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it
doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but before you say, "Shut UP", I'll wrap it UP -- for
now my time is UP.
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The Darwin Awards - 2009
Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are
bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
Here is the glorious winner:
1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a
hold-up in Long Beach , California would-be robber James Elliot did
something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel
andtried the trigger again. This time it worked.
And now, the honorable mentions:
2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine
and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance
company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to
have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The
chef's claim was approved.
3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during
a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken
the space. Understandably, he shot her.
4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver
found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from
Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence,
the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a
free ride.. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling
the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre
fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.
5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head
wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the
injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he
could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.
6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter,
and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man
pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk
promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving
the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the
drawer.... $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a
crime committed?]
7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that
he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some
booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at
the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on
the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of
Plexiglas.. The whole event was caught on videotape.
8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man
grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the
woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within
minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and
drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to
stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her.
That's the lady I stole the purse from."
9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a
Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded
cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the
cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion
rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man,
frustrated, walked away. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]
10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked
on a Seattle Street , he got much more than he bargained for. Police
arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home
near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to
trying to
steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's
sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press
charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with friends and
family....unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant
relative or long lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope
they remain lost.
*** Remember.... They walk among us!!!***
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WEBSITE OF THE MONTH:
http://aps.informz.
net/z/cjUucD9taT02ODg0MTEmcD0xJnU9MTAwMzc3MzMzMiZ
saT0yNjE2OTY5/index.html
— illuminates the lives of people in the Post Office, the
messages carried by Royal Mail, the history we all share —
our history through the post.
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"APS Chapter or APS Affiliate?
What's the difference between an APS chapter and an APS affiliate?
A chapter is typically a local club that
meets on a regular basis.
An Affiliate is an organization with a regional, national, or international
scope that meets face-to-face on an infrequent basis, if at all. At this time
APS has 577 chapters and 199 Affiliates"
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ALSO REMEMBER:
HERE IS AN ORGANIZATION WORTHY OF OUR SUPPORT:
Friends of the WESTERN PHILATELIC LIBRARY,
P.O. Box 2219,
Sunnyvale, Ca 94087-2219
Stuart Leven, President
Membership fees as follows:
Participating: U.S. $10
Contributor: U.S. $20
Additional donations are gratefully accepted.
All contributions are tax deductible.
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Web Sites worthy of checking into:
www.stampshows.com
http://arthurj-w.tripod.com/i/xref/dxmnu-nf.htm#name
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Philatelic Education
November Philatelic History
History information is from Kenneth A. Wood's book Post Dates — A
Chronology of Intriguing Events in the Mails and Philately
1765
Nov. 1 — The British Parliament passed an act imposing various taxes on
the American colonies, including those in Canada and the West Indies. The
taxes were paid by means of
embossed revenue stamps.
1832
Nov. 30 — Stage contractors on the Philadelphia-Lancaster, PA route were
granted an allowance of $400 a year for carrying the mail, a distance of 30
miles, on the railroad
1845
Nov. — The St. Louis Bears postmasters' provisionals were issued at St.
Louis, MO. The name refers to the design which features the city's coat of
arms showing two bears. This was
about four months after the first postmaster's provisionals had been
released by New York City Postmaster Robert Morris.
1846
Nov. 25 — "Nov. 25" is the date postmarked on a cover bearing the only
known copy of the Alexandria, VA postmasters' provisional printed on blue
paper. The year is believed to be 1846. The letter it contained is a proposal
of marriage addressed to a Miss Jannett Brown. The letter and cover were
found by her daughter in 1907 among family correspondence. The cover is
the first single philatelic item to sell for $1 million on May 8, 1981.
1910
Nov. 3 — Mail had been scheduled to be flown from the German liner
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria at sea to New York but bad weather canceled the
attempt.
1912
Nov. 24 — Henry Crawford flew 47 postcards at an aviation meet at San
Francisco. He landed at the Presidio, near the Golden Gate.
Nov. 27 — The U.S. Post Office Department issued Parcel Post postage
due labels.
1916
Nov. 2 — A "dawn to dusk" air mail flight from Chicago to New York began.
The flight was sponsored by the New York Times, which had special
postcards prepared.
1928
Nov. 9 — A flight of Royal Air Force seaplanes carried mail when they
arrived in Manila on a good-will flight. Mail was also carried by these
aircraft when they left for Hong Kong,
Bangkok, and Singapore on Nov. 16.
1947
Nov. 15 — Brazil issued a triangular semi-postal postal tax stamp to mark
Aviation Week, Nov. 15-22, and it made it compulsory on all mail during
that week.
1962
Nov. 16 — The U.S. Post Office Department deliberately reprinted and
place on sale the Dag Hammerskjold commemorative stamp with the yellow
background color inverted. The U.S. postmaster general J. Edward Day,
decided that all collectors should be able to have a copy of the error and
reprinted a large quantity.
1986
Nov. 5 — Assistant Postmaster General Gordon C. Morison was appointed
to a new position, assistant postmaster general for philatelic affairs. The
appointment recognized the
growing importance of the stamp program.
Nov. 10 — A record price of $481,000 was paid for a single U.S. stamp,
when a copy of the 1861 1-cent blue Franklin with double Z grill was sold.
Contact Information available for the APS Staff
APS Webmaster - Doris Wilson Technical Contact - Brian Krasinski
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Read our Terms of Use.
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The kneadable eraser
Have you acquired a cover that has a price written on it in pencil? Do you
have stamps where someone has written a catalog number or value on the
back? The best tool for eliminating these unwanted pencil markings is a
kneadable eraser, found in art supplies shops or online. These inexpensive
items (less than $2) can be kneaded and shaped into a point. Use the point
you have formed to gently rub the pencil markings. It will be gone in a flash
and won't leave any eraser crumbs.
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APS is now selling on ebay
Select items from in-kind donations are now being placed on eBay for
auction. Proceeds from the sale of in-kind donations assist youth,
educational and other programs. More information is available. Please
direct comments to Richard Nakles.
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A once perfectly good stamp....
Scott No. 8A, Type IIIa, Pos. 56R4 is May's expertizing item. This stamp
was in a 2009 auction, but when submitted to in February 2010 it had been
subjected to a harsh cleaning that drastically altered the color. Read more
http://www.stamps.org/newsletter/0510-apex.pdf about this submission
and see larger versions of the stamp...http://www.stamps.
org/newsletter/0510-APEX.gif
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Stamp collecting month cancel
Plan ahead for October Stamp Collecting Month http://www.stamps.
org/CAC/cac_scm.htm and order your cancel now. All you do is send the
required information to Tom Fortunato and he will take care of the rest.
Share an idea with fellow clubs or contribute an article or two about topics
pertaining to clubs. Your input is welcome. Please e-mail CAC chairman
Tom Fortunato stamptmf@frontiernet.net with your thoughts and
suggestions.
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Words to Live By
“Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country” - Ian Rush
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" - Samuel Goldwyn.
“What’s another word for thesaurus?” Stephen Wright
"Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me." - G.W.
Hegel (philosopher)
"If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving." - Henry Youngman.
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally." - WC Fields.
Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of
Santa?" - Bart Simpson
"Operator! Give me the number for 911!" - Homer Simpson
"Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer." - Will Rogers.
"If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?"
- Steven Wright
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"You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label." - Mark Twain.
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I
looked into the soul of the boy next to me." – Woody Allen
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life. Unless I buy
something.” Jackie Mason
“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”—Steven Wright
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
~Anais Nin
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already
tomorrow in Australia."-- Charles M. Schulz
Only those who are willing to risk going too far will be able to find out how
far one can go." ~T. S. Elliott "
"There are two ways of spreading light---to be the candle, or to be the
mirror that reflects it." Edith Wharton
“I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do
something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do”. Helen Keller
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who
are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it”. Mark Twain
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