February 2026 Grab Bag o’ Humour
The first two hands of a clock are the minute hand and the hour hand because they are always present. Some clocks or watches only have these two hands. So they could be called the first and second hands. But what is the third hand of a clock or watch called? The second hand. This means that any of the three hands could be called the second hand!
To me this is first hand information, To you it is second hand information. For anyone you tell, it is third hand information.
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Have you seen the price of a one bedroom apartment in New York City? It’s about $5 000 a month on average for a NYC renter.
But capitalism has a way of subsidizing these apartments. All the renter has to do is show up at a game show or a talk show and cross their fingers for a giveaway. And you wondered why game and talk shows always seemed to be hosted in these big cities. Now you know why.
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You’ve heard the latest craze for kids all over? They laugh hysterically when the numbers 6, 7 come up and in that order. My sources tell me there is no real reason for the laughter. There is no real reason it is these two numbers being funny. It’s just a fact of life in today’s world.
Teaching kids to count must be hard, especially when you get to that 6, 7 trigger. But usually kids are taught to count that low of numbers when most of them aren’t socially aware. So they might not realize that saying 6,7 is supposed to trigger laughter. So maybe counting is safe.
And fortunately, 67 is a prime number so it doesn’t come up when kids are learning their multiplication tables.
Still, I would hate to be a Canadian middle grade history teacher. You see, Canada’s confederation came in 1867. So that number gets mentioned a lot.
So I’m glad I am not a middle grade history teacher. But let’s be truly honest. I’m glad I’m not teaching middle grade school at all. Thus, I don’t have to deal with those brats.
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