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I received a medical bill. I recognized the name of the medical establishment, and I recognized the charge. And that’s good for them, because if I just read what they were asking, I would have thought it was a scam:

I’m going to assume it’s just a poor choice of words, or someone wanting to type as few words as possible, or something benign rather than an actual scam.

I do hope no one takes their words literally and mails in their credit card instead of their credit card information.

I provided this image in case you were wondering how I felt about the game of Monopoly. The exception is the card game Monopoly Deal, as that is interesting whereas the board game version of Monopoly is not.

In our town, we have a number of first churches – First Baptist, First Presbyterian, First Methodist, etc.

I understand the history of how that happened. Across the US, it’s a fairly common occurence.

But is it right?

I mean according to the Bible. In theory, these churches should want to follow the Bible, right?

And what does the Bible say about being first? Are Christians supposed to want to be first?

How about naming your church the Last Baptist Church? Wouldn’t that be more Christian?

Or maybe your church doesn’t care about that. Maybe it just wants to follow secular marketing principals. In that case, in order to stand out from the crowd of all the other First Presbyterian Churches, use the name Best Presbyterian Church. Not only is it different from the usual names, it is also promotional. And it is alphabetically earlier than all those First churches.

There has been much hype over the celebration antics of one Cam Newton. I have found, though, that Cam is really a talented actor. Watch as he demonstrates his versatility by the following scenarios:

Drama

Romance

Action

Horror

Public Service Announcement

Any other ideas of what else Cam could be demonstrating?

This story depends on the reader knowing about whistle straws. I don’t know the correct term for them, but those are the corrugated drinking straws that make a whistling noise if you blow through them, or if you spin them through the air like a propeller.

Years ago, when our oldest kids were about 4 and 2 and playing nicely in the other room, I heard the 2-year-old start to complain. “Too loud. Too loud!”

So I went to investigate.

What I saw was the 4YO blowing into a whistle straw to make the loud whistling noise. And the other end of the whistle straw was stuck into the 2YO’s ear.

I could see (and hear) why he was complaining.

Fast forward several years. Those kids are older now and know better. But we have our youngest, who is now 4 and is generally loud.

He found a whistle straw and was blowing on it, annoying the rest of the family with the noise.

The other end of the whistle straw?

Stuck in his own ear.

Crazy kid.

I noticed an unusual ad on a website:

Why would you want to direct people to a page that doesn’t exist?

My guess is that some very popular site published a bad link. A bunch of people then tried to follow that link and got a 404 error. But the advertising algorithm saw a bunch of traffic for that page and, since it is probably programmed to push the more popular pages, thought it was popular enough that other people would want to see it.

I did not click on the link, but I bet enough people were curious enough to do so. And that only perpetuated the problem, because it continued the page’s popularity.

Here is how the ad appeared in mobile format:

Anyway, it provided me with a few minutes of entertainment.

With much ado made about a certain quarterback’s attainment of 200 career wins in the Super Bowl earlier this week, I thought I’d throw together a chart of career wins.

Quarterback career Wins by Year

This is based on the list of top 25 quarterbacks, ranked by most career wins.

I don’t know what one is supposed to learn from this, but here are some things I noticed.

• Both Brady and Manning would have been even farther ahead of everyone else if they didn’t each have one year out due to injury.
• Marino had the best start, but the second quarter of his career made up for that.
• Don’t know that anyone will catch Favre for longevity.
• Elway has the best finish, as far as slope of his chart line goes.
• As far as the slowest start goes, I’m not sure if that award goes to Steve Young or Len Dawson.

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