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This is an actual obituary for a Navy veteran, Robert W. Snyder, Jr., who left this earth in June. I didn't know him either, but after reading his obit, I wish I had.

FOX25, myfoxboston - A youth soccer coach is off the job after sending home a shocking letter to his team of 6 and 7-year-old girls. The letter didn't go over so well with parents and the Scituate soccer board and the coach has since resigned. This is Michael Kinahan's letter:

Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood laments the loss of old-fashioned humour in today's society - insisting he should be able to tell harmless jokes about nationality without fear of people branding him a "racist". The Dirty Harry star, 79, is adamant that modern culture has become humourless, and accuses younger generations of spending too much time trying to avoid being offensive. He says, "People have lost their sense of humour. In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth or you will be insulted as a racist. "I...

While Americans choose their next president, let us consider a question more amenable to science: Which candidate's supporters have a better sense of humor? We began by asking nearly 300 people in Boston to rate the following three attempts at humor: A) Jake is about to chip onto the green at his local golf course when a long funeral procession passes by. He stops in midswing, doffs his cap, closes his eyes and bows in prayer. His playing companion is deeply impressed. "That's the most thoughtful and touching thing I've ever seen," he says. Jake replies, "Yeah, well, we were...

So, a little old lady goes to the doctor's office and complains of excessive gas, but says, "they're silent, and they don't smell bad." Doctor gives her some pills and tells her to come back in three days. On the return visit the little old lady says, "Doc, I don't know what those pills were, but the gas problem is still there. It's still silent, but now it really smells bad." Doc say,"OK, now we've got your sense of smell fixed, let's get to work on your hearing problem." And that brings me to this USNWR story in the Whispers...

By Peter Graff Fri Apr 28, 8:25 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Mystery solved. It was the admiral. A secret code embedded in the text of a court ruling in the case of Dan Brown's bestseller "The Da Vinci Code" has been cracked, but far from revealing an ancient conspiracy it is simply an obscure reference to a Royal Navy admiral. British High Court Justice Peter Smith, who handed down a ruling that Brown had not plagiarized his book, had embedded his own secret message in his judgment by italicizing letters scattered throughout the 71-page document. In Brown's book, a...

I hope I was having a bad dream, but I thought I saw somewhere that George Bush said Bill Clinton was like a brother to him. I cannot find it on Drudge, or here. Did the world strip this from print?

...."The problem with the French," Bush confided to Blair, "is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." (snip)I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that Bush did tell that joke...(snip)Link to article here.

Pilot takes 'a personal interest' in flight safety United captain sets the rules in 3-minute speech to his passengers 07/28/2002 Associated Press CHICAGO - Passengers are usually just settling into their seats when United Airlines Capt. David Miller strides from the cockpit into the cabin. Most don't pay attention at first. But heads pop up when the pilot introduces himself on the public address system. "I have a personal interest in getting you where you are going," he says. "But you are intelligent folks. You know that this is not the same type of operation it was before Sept....