May 30, 2023
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birthdays/events
does your workplace participate in "summer fridays"?
word of the day
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game: quiz
game: feud
funny replys to 'later gator'
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do you prefer affordability or brand loyalty?
formula for the perfect vacation
what little thing do you do to irritate spouse, friends,
co-workers?
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game: 5 year old trivia
most you've ever eaten at one sitting. what was it?
goodbye/fun facts....National Paperclip Day...this humble little
invention..has been around for a little under two centuries now.
The first patent for the paperclip (a ‘bent wire paper clip’)
was awarded to Samuel B. Fay in 1867, in the U.S. The original
intent was to use it to attach tickets to fabric. However, its use
for holding paper together quickly became apparent. though a
norweigan man Johan Vaaler’s paperclip design, it was (and still
is) erroneously believed in his home country of Norway that he was
the inventor of the paperclip. Therefore, in 1940, during the
German occupation of Norway, students of Oslo University began to
wear the paperclip as a non-violent symbol of resistance...Released
in 2004, an American documentary traces the story of the inception
of the Paper Clips Project, which began as a project at Whitwell
Middle School, Tennessee...so next time you see a plain old paper
clip...you'll view it very differently.