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A Chicago auction house has cancelled the sale of tools allegedly used to embalm Elvis Presley after a dispute between a retired embalmer and a Memphis funeral home.
The items, including the John Doe toe tag allegedly attached to Presley at the hospital, rubber gloves, forceps and other tools used to prepare the body, will be returned to Memphis Funeral Home, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announced on Friday. As part of the contract for the auction, the identity of the embalmer has not been disclosed. The items had been expected to fetch around $10,995.
My wife and I, both graduate students, recently celebrated the arrival of our first child. At my wife's insistence, we had paid our entire medical bill and were now worried about meeting other payments.
We were discussing our sad financial situation one evening when our son demanded a diaper change.
As my wife leaned over the baby's crib, I heard her mutter, "The only thing in the house that's paid for, and it leaks."
An Indian chief had three wives, each of whom was pregnant.
The first gave birth to a boy. The chief was so elated he built her a teepee made of deer hide.
A few days later, the second gave birth, also to a boy. The chief was very happy. He built her a teepee made of antelope hide.
The third wife gave birth a few days later, but the chief kept the details a secret. He built this one a two story teepee, made out of a hippopotamus hide. The chief then challenged the tribe to guess what had occurred.
Many tried, unsuccessfully. Finally, one young brave declared that the third wife had given birth to twin boys.
"Correct," said the chief. "How did you figure it out?"
The warrior answered, "It's elementary. The value of the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides."
... that today is Longest Word Day? The longest word (207,000 letters) was published in a science journal in 1981. The word - deoxyribonuclaecacid (DNA) -- has never been printed in full.