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Tweets for Thursday 11 March, 70th day of the year, 295 days left for 2010

JOKE When I was born, the doctor said to my father, "I'm very sorry. We did everything we could. But he pulled through".

POEM O would your pity give my heart One corner of your breast, 'Twould learn of yours the winning art, And quickly steal the rest. (Otway)

FORTUNE COOKIE You will take a chance in something in the near future

WORD boll (noun) The seed-bearing pod of a plant, especially flax and cotton

FACT Forrest Mars got the idea for M&M's after he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell preventing them from melting

QUOTE You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. (Galileo Galilei)

TODAY Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader(1985)

BORN Harold Wilson British PM(1916)

DIED Alexander Fleming scientist(1955)

Tweets for Wednesday 10 March, 69th day of the year, 296 days left for 2010

JOKE I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.

POEM Hi! kids mimicking / Cormorants ... you are more like / Real cormorants than they! / (Haiku by Issa)

FORTUNE COOKIE Excuses are easy to manufacture, and hard to sell

WORD riprap (noun) 1: Foundation in soft ground or water made of loose chunks of stones 2: Material used for such a construction

FACT The Colosseum in Rome was capable of seating 50,000 spectators

QUOTE The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.(Robert Louis Stevenson)

TODAY Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call(1876)

BORN James Earl Ray assassin(1928)

DIED Ray Milland actor(1986)