A 2ft-long alligator fell from the sky at Evansville, Indiana on May 21, 1911, landing on the front doorstep of Mrs. Hiram Winchell's home. When the animal tried to crawl inside, it was clubbed to death by Mrs. Winchell and neighbors armed with bed slats.

A deluge of dead birds tumbled from a clear sky on to the streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in November 1896. The only plausible explanation was that the birds, which included wild ducks, catbirds and woodpeckers, had been driven inland by a storm on the Florida coast and had been killed by a sudden temperature change over Baton Rouge.

Following weeks of drought, a storm broke one afternoon in August 1814 over Fremontiers, near Amiens in France. In the rain which accompanied the storm were dozens of tiny frogs which began to hop around on the ground. Live frogs also landed on Leicester, Massachusetts, in 1953, tumbling into gutters and on roofs.

On May 11, 1894, at the height of a hailstorm, a gopher turtle encased in ice fell on Bovina, eight miles east of Vicksburg, Mississippi. During the same storm, a small block of alabaster, also encased in ice, landed on Vicksburg itself.

A crop of peaches dropped on a building site at Shreveport, Louisiana on July 12, 1961. The workmen confirmed that the fruit was coming from the sky and not being thrown. Weathermen said that conditions that day were not conducive to the peaches having been carried by strong winds.

February is . . . . National Blah Buster Month
National Embroidery Month
Responsible Pet Owner Month

February 2 is.....Purification Day
February 3 is.....Cordova Ice Worm Day
February 4 is.....Create A Vacuum Day
February 6 is.....Lame Duck Day
February 11 is....White Tee-Shirt Day
February 16 is....Do A Grouch A Favor Day
February 17 is....Champion Crab Races Day
February 20 is....Hoodie Hoo Day
February 28 is....Public Sleeping Day

FORT LAUDERDALE - Although Mike Nahum's handsome features lost him a criminal case, he can rest easy in knowing he might be the only guy in the world with a court order declaring he is a "very attractive man." Because he is so cute, Judge Susan Lebow threw out a criminal charge against a man charged with selling drugs to Nahum during an undercover sting at a gay nightclub. She ruled the defendant, Julio Blanco, was encouraged by the cop to commit a crime in hopes he would get sex in return. Dismissing the case, Judge Lebow certified Nahum as cute. "I make that a finding. He's a very attractive man," she said. Lebow wasn't the only one who noticed Nahum's macho good looks. "Let's just say that all of the women in court that day were paying a lot of attention to him," attorney Kevin Kulik said.
"After he left the courtroom, they were all like, 'Wow.'"

Wallace Williams ran in the 1979 Pan-American Games marathon, but was so slow that by the time he reached the stadium it was locked and everyone had left.

To fight the heat in the 1950 Tour de France, Abd-El Kader Zaag drank a bottle of wine and promptly fell off his bike.
After sleeping it off by the side of the road, he got back on and rode off - in the wrong direction.

Russian athlete Ivanon Vyacheslav was so excited to win a medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics that he threw the medal high into the air in jubilation. Unfortunately it landed in Lake Wendouree where, despite a frantic search, it remains to this day.

Preparing for a bout at the 1992 New York Golden Gloves Championships, boxer Daniel Caruso psyched himself up by pounding his gloves into his face. In doing so, he broke his nose and was declared unfit to box.

After beating 1,000 rivals in a 500-mile race, Percy the racing pigeon flopped down exhausted in his Sheffield loft and was promptly eaten by a cat.

Marlon Brando used to wander so much on his way to kindergarten that his older sister Jocelyn had to take him to school on a leash.

Clark Gable is listed on his birth certificate as a girl.

As a child, Ann-Margaret's family was so poor that they had to live in a funeral parlor. She slept next to a casket every night.

Dudley Moore was born with a club foot. As a result, his left leg is shorter than his right.

Demi Moore was born cross-eyed.

Rita Hayworth was born with one eye much bigger than the other. She camouflaged it with specially constructed eyelashes.

Jane Seymour was born with one green eye and one brown eye.

Hollywood tough guy Charles Bronson had a rather non-macho childhood. His family was so poor that he had to wear his sister's hand-me-down dresses to school.

The following is a sample list of "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eighth grade through college level.


The First World War, cause by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by a surf, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.

Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the Autumn, when the apples are falling off the trees.

On April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show.
The believed assassinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country. The Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility.
Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.

One of the causes of the Revolutionary Wars was the English put tacks in their tea.

Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miquel Cervantes.
He wrote "Donkey Hote". The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost." Then his wife died and he wrote "Paradise Regained."

A West Bend man is suing the cable company that he feels made him addicted to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy. Timothy Dumouchel is asking for $5,000 or three computers, and a lifetime supply of free Internet service from Charter Communications to settle a small claims suit. Dumouchel told Charter that he plans to sue because his cable connection remained intact four years after he tried to get it canceled. "I believe that the reason I smoke and drink every day and my wife is overweight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years," Dumouchel stated in a written complaint against the company.
He stated that he called Charter several times to get the service disconnected for good because he felt it was addictive, but they reportedly never did.

MADISON, Wis. - A researcher from the University of Wisconsin at Madison has created a new method to slice cheese - by using a laser. "At any other university, people would have just laughed. But this is Wisconsin. It's cheese. And this is no laughing matter," said Xiaochun Li, a mechanical engineering professor and laser expert. Li, along with engineering graduate student Hongseok Choi, has discovered that the same kind of laser used for eye surgery can be used to slice Wisconsin's famous food product. Li first tried to use a traditional commercial laser that uses heat to cut by melting or evaporating, but that fried the cheese. Trying again, he used a new class of laser, known as a cold laser, that cuts by blasting apart the molecular bonds that hold materials together.

[These are actual notes taken from patient charts.]

"The patient complains of a dry cough that hurts when he coughs and also when he takes deep breaths for 4 days."
"While in the ER, she was examined, X-rated, and sent home."
"Patient had waffles for breakfast, and anorexia for lunch."
"The patient states there is a burning pain in his penis which goes to his feet."
"Patient was alert and unresponsive."
"Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year."
"The patient has no past history of suicides."
"The patient left the hospital feeling much better except for her original complaints."
"Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital.
"The other foot has the missing toe."