united campus ministry @ ecu

- took a quick tour of High Bridge near Wilmore, KY, and feasted on great food in Nonesuch, KY
- viewed four states from atop the Hancock building in downtown Chicago and ate some fantastic Chicago pizza
- visited my aunt, uncle, and my cousin and his family in Clinton, Iowa, and had an spectacular view of the mighty Mississippi
- had a tasty Indian taco at the Sorghum Festival in Wewoka
- watched the Cowboys stomp all over the Huskers in Stillwater
- spent a week living with a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem
- watched "To Kill a Mockingbird" as part of UCM's pre-Halloween party...

"By October, things had settled down again. I still looked for Boo every time I went by the Radley place. This night my mind was filled with Halloween - there was to be a pageant representing our county's agricultural products; I was to be a ham. Jem said he would escort me to the school auditorium. Thus began our longest journey together." - Scout

Happy Halloween!!!

Banned Book Week was two weeks ago... See what books have been challenged or banned over the years...

These are the ones I have read (and I own quit a few of them):

To Kill a Mockingbird
A Separate Peace
The Call of the Wild
The Lord of the Flies
1984
The Chocolate War
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In the Night Kitchen
The Pigman
Flowers for Algernon
Cujo
Carrie
The Dead Zone
Summer of My German Soldier
How to Eat Fried Worms
Bridge to Terabithia
The Outsiders
A Light in the Attic
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Little Black Sambo
Christine

Here now, more true tales of Induhviduals as reported
by vigilant DNRC members:


There was a question in our company newsletter asking
about whether they could water the flowers in the
bathrooms since they were looking wilted and sick. The
response was "The flowers are artificial."
[Editor’s note: Evidently some employee created a
restroom gas cloud powerful enough to wilt artificial
plants. You have to admire that on some level.]


==

Our health teacher told us that "1 out of 3 people who
start smoking will eventually die." The other two
apparently became immortal.


==

So a few friends and I were at a museum, and they had
this wall of analog clocks with a city name written
under each one, showing what time it was around the
world. We had about ten clocks in view, when my friend
looks at a clock, looks at his watch, looks at the clock
again, and says, “Well, this one’s pretty close, but
all the others are way off.”


==

One week, we had the Land O' Lakes brand on sale and a
customer came, and asked for one pound of store brand
cheese. Trying to be helpful, I told her that we had
the Land O' Lakes cheese on sale for cheaper. She asked
me what the difference was, and I told her that Land
O' Lakes was better. Her response: "I'll take a pound
of the [store] cheese."


==

We were interviewing a new recruit and the owner of
the company made this statement during the interview: "I
believe people are more fragile than eggs, and if it
were up to me, I would rather play with my eggs." It
took quite a bit of restraint not to burst out in
hysterical fits of laughter.

==

While working for a leather company, we were chatting
in the lab about food. One of the other lab
technicians pondered aloud, "I wonder why you never get the skin
on beef?"

==

Every time my husband gets a new temp assignment, he
gets a new security badge. The temp stands against the
wall and the camera – generally in a fixed position –
snaps the ID photo. My husband uses a wheelchair. So
his security picture features the blank wall above his
head.

==

On a canal boating holiday, the boat had a shower,
with a stirrup pump that pumped excess water through the
side of the hull.

A friend (an engineer) asked “Why didn't they put the
hole in the bottom of the boat?”

==

I went to a local pizza restaurant and asked about the
difference between a large and a medium pizza. The
Induhvidual told me the large pizza had 10 slices and
the medium had 8 slices. I told her to take one of the
large pizzas, cut it into 8 slices, and I would pay
for a medium. She just stared at me like I had asked
her a question about Euclidian Geometry.

==

I went into my local bookstore and explained I needed
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler for a politics essay, the
woman behind the desk said "Is it a new release?"

==

In the interview, which had been going very well up to
this point, the interviewer asked, "Why do you want to
leave your current job?" In my Induhvidual moment, I
responded "It's too much work." Needless to say I
didn't get any further consideration.

==

A few of us were talking about fighter planes and one
of my friends asked, "If a plane is going faster than
the speed of a bullet when it fires, does the bullet
come out the back of the plane?" We were all surprised
when he failed out of the engineering program the
following semester.

==

I was paying my cell phone bill with a debit card. The
Induhvidual behind the counter carefully checked my
signature with the one on the card. I guess that’s to
prevent people from stealing wallets and going around
paying the victim’s bills.