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April, May and June 2008
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APRIL BIRTHDAYS
4/02 Tim Cannon
4/03 Rep. Renee Kosel
4/06 Rep. JoAnn Osmond
4/06 Rep. Ed Sullivan, Jr.
4/07 Mike Gillson Ameren
4/09 Rodney Eveans EVCO
National, Inc.
4/09 Gary Osborne William
M. BeDell ARC
4/11 Jay Rankin WRB
Refining LLC
4/14 Rep. Harry Osterman
4/15 Rep. Dennis Reboletti
4/15 Rep. Ronald Wait
4/19 Speaker Michael Madigan
4/10 John Wories ASF
– Keystone, Inc.
4/21 Dr. Fred Golden William M. BeDell ARC
4/22 Dave McKinney Shell Chemical LP
4/24 Rep. Maria Antonia Berrios
4/28 Rep. Annazette Collins
4/30 Rep. Al Riley
MAY BIRTHDAYS
5/03 Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
5/05 Marilyn Tischhauser Senator
Watson Staff
5/06 Lou Pattan Olin
Corporation
5/06 Sen. Louis Viverito
5/08 Rep. Roger Eddy
5/10 Rep. John Bradley
5/10 Sen. Kimberly Lightford
5/12 Rep. Jack McGuire
5/14 Ron Payton
5/14 Sen. Arthur Wilhelmi
5/15 Sen. Bill Brady
5/17 Cheryl Thorp Olin
Corporation
5/18 Rep. Richard Bradley
5/20 Rep. Angelo Saviano
5/22 Sen. Edward Maloney
5/23 Guy Lawrence U.
S. Steel /
5/23 Rep. Michael Smith
5/26 Sen. Dan Rutherford
5/28 Rob Bockstruck Smurfit
– Stone Container Corp.
5/28 Rep. Aaron Schock
JUNE BIRTHDAYS
6/01 Sen. Kirk Dillard
6/01 Sen. Mattie Hunter
6/02 Rep. Mary Kay O’Brien
6/04 Larry Siebenberger U. S. Steel /
6/06 Donna Bailey William
M. BeDell ARC
6/06 Larry Bomke
6/08 Julie McVey SIEA
6/11 Rep. Sandra Pihos
6/12 Rep. John D’Amico
6/15 Gary Ayres
6/16 Rep. Kurt Granberg
6/18 Rep. Gerald Mitchell
6/20 Rocky Eveans EVCO
National, Inc.
6/24 Pat Heitzig Cornerstone
Bank & Trust
6/24 Rep. Joseph Lyons
6/25 Sen. Michael Jacobs
6/29 Rep. Robert Molaro
6/29 Sen. Dave Syverson
6/30 Tom Walters Caterpillar,
Inc.
6/30 Rep. David Winters
WE HAD ALL BETTER WAKE UP AND START PAYING ATTENTION!
This morning, from
somewhere in
And if this action does not yield sufficient results, cab
drivers will be next, followed by Dell Computer customer services reps, Motel 6
managers, and liquor store cashiers.
Who knew it would come to this. It’s getting ugly.
“Be who you are and say what you feel…
Because those that matter . . .
don’t mind. . .
And those that mind. . .
don’t matter.”
Trivia
There are 2.5 twists per inch in a Twizzler.
Each year, about 46 million Cokes, five million pounds of French
fries and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World.
Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.
Sno-Caps candies were originally called Bob Whites.
The
Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.
Scientists say the higher your I.Q. is the more you dream.
A dolphin can swim as fast as 35 miles per hour.
Scrabble sets are found in one out of every three American
homes.
There is just one Q in a Scrabble game.
IDIOT SIGHTINGS:
I live in
a semi rural area. We recently had a new
neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal
of the DEER CROSSING sign on our road. The reason:
“Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don’t think this is a good place for them
to be crossing anymore.”
I was at
the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, “Has
anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?” To which I
replied, “If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?” He smiled knowingly and nodded, “That’s why
we ask.”
When I
arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up my car, I was told the keys had
been locked in it. I went to the service
department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver’s side
door. As I watched from the passenger side,
I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. “Hey,” I announced to the technician, “its
open!” His reply, “I know. I already got that side.”
Ford dealership in Canton, Mississippi
STAY ALERT! They walk among us and the scary part is that
they VOTE and REPRODUCE and our enemies
know it.
When to ditch those initials after your name.
If you have a degree such as an MBA
or Ph.D., there are definitely some places where you shouldn’t mention it.
According to Fortune Magazine, you should not mention
your degree on your business cards or your
E-mail signature.
It is generally
recommended that you keep your degree to yourself, unless you are in an
academic setting. In other words, don’t
list those letters after your name on your resume either. It seems that lots of potential hirers see
them as a sign of low self-esteem.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just
promised it would most likely be worth it.
WET PANTS
Come with me to a third grade
classroom . . . . There is a nine year old kid sitting at his desk and all of a
sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are
wet. He thinks his heart is going to
stop because he cannot possible imagine how this has happened. It’s never happened before, and he knows that
when the boys find out he will never here the end of it. When the girls find out, they’ll never speak
to him again as long as he lives.
He looks up and here comes the
teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.
As the teacher is walking toward
him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with
water. Susie trips in front of the
teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy’s lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but
all the while is saying to himself, “Thank You, Lord!”
Now all of a sudden, instead of
being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives
him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. They sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, ridicule that
should have been his has been transferred to someone else – Susie.
She tries to help, but they tell her
to get out. “You’ve done enough, you
klutz!”
Finally, at the end of the day, as
they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, “you
did that on purpose, didn’t you?’ Susie
whispers back, “I wet my pants once too.”
MAY GOD HELP US SEE THE
OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE ALWAYS AROUND US TO DO GOOD. . . Remember. . . Just going to church doesn’t make you a
Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
GRANDPARENT STORIES
My young grandson called the other
day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked
me how old I was, and I told him, “62.”
He was quiet for a moment, and then he asked “Did you start at 1?”
When my grandson asked me how old I
was, I teasingly replied, “I’m not sure.”
“Look in you underwear, Grandpa,” he advised. “Mine says I’m four to six.”
A nursery school teacher was
delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed
past. Sitting in the front seat of the
truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children
started discussing the dog’s duties.
“They use him to keep crowds back,” said one child. “No,” said another, “he’s just for good
luck.” A third child brought the
argument to a close “They use the dogs,” she said firmly, “to find the fire
hydrants.”
SIEA’S CAPITOL CHILI DAY – we
estimated we served over 300 bowls of chili to Legislators, Secretaries and
staff members. Big thank you to Senate
Republican Leader Frank Watson for allowing SIEA take over his office. On behalf of all of the SIEA members, we thank
you for your hospitality and generosity.
Thanks to the following sponsors who
made SIEA Capitol Chili Day a success.
Ameren
Beverly Farm Foundation
Cope Plastic
Cornerstone Bank
Dial Properties
Global Brass and Copper, Inc.
Olin Corporation
William M. BeDell – ARC
WRB Refining LLC