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Gasp! It snows during Midwest winter
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To the best of my knowledge: ** It snowed. It's the Midwest. It's Friday. We have moved on despite being trampled with Armageddon-like nonsense from television stations the last 24 hours. ** Mirrors don't lie. And thank goodness they don't laugh. ** If the sermon's going to be 20 minutes and you don't want me looking at the inside of my eyelids, then it had better make sense. ** Silence is the best answer to a stupid question. Why make it worse? ** It's a pretty boring sports winter if you spend two weeks making a fuss over Michael Jordan's 50th birthday. ** Miss Vickies sea salt and vinegar potato chips are the greatest chips on the planet. ** Never allow friends to bust out their wedding videos, especially if they got married when the macarena was popular. ** Social networking in my day was called playing outside, brought on by your mother telling you to get out of her house. ** One's level of maturity depends greatly on the company we keep. Look around; makes sense, doesn't it? ** I'm four boxes in and the Girl Scout "thin'' mints aren't working. ** No matter what color is on the outside, it's still chocolate on the inside of an M&M, right? And the colors are just for show? ** You don't join in if someone else is singing a song, especially if it's a guy. ** A restaurant that holds your evening reservation for 15 minutes on a Friday or Saturday is DOING YOU A FAVOR. Be there on time or don't make the reservation. ** Lance Armstrong is going as a seven-time Tour de France winner next Halloween (shared with me by a local coffee group/world-problem-solving organization). ** A night with the Quad City Mallards is a good time. Here's hoping the club can find solid footing and stay for a while. ** Everyone loves a good political joke until it gets elected (from the coffee group/world problem-solving organization) . ** I'd rather have a text telling me the voice mail someone left was worth listening to. ** All the meteor thing confirmed was that nothing is pretty about Russia. ** The rumor that the Pope is using retirement talk so he can negotiate a bigger and better contract is not true (told to me as I'm walking into church last Saturday). ** It is downright insane to rush the field or the floor after your team wins the game. Every college should be fined $100,000 each time it happens. Take a page from the Moline High School staff on how to handle basketball games before, during and after. ** There's someone out there stuck in traffic on their way to a gym to ride a stationary bike. ** Someone needs to make an app to remind you each time your wife gets a haircut. Columnist John Marx can be reached at (309) 757-8388 or jmarx@qconline.com. 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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