you asked for it…
The safety pin was invented in April 1873 by Waldo Huntingdon, a Catholic priest from New Orleans. The story of how Huntingdon came to invent the safety pin is a remarkable one.
In November 1872, Huntingdon was fifteen dollars in debt and needed to find the money within three days. In a desperate act, he sold a bottle of holy water for eight dollars fifty. He then lost six dollars of this money in a game of poker.
Huntingdon decided to skip town. Pinning a red onion to his belt, he boarded a ferry bound for Nebraska. Unluckily, Huntingdon was seen boarding the ferry by Tony Gracifono, the local mob enforcer.
The ferry trip was particularly unpleasant as a storm struck the boat. Suffering from severe seasickness, Huntingdon traded his horse to Joachim Smith, a fellow passenger, for two bottles of stout cider. Smith had convinced Huntingdon that cider would settle his stomach. It was not until a few hours after he had disembarked that Huntingdon discovered the second bottle contained vinegar, not cider.
When the ferry reached Nebraska, Smith’s new horse bolted. “These days, days, days run away like horses over the hill”, Smith exclaimed. The horse kept running until it reached the outskirts of North Haverbrook. Charlotte Lucas, daughter of the town’s postman, caught the horse and brought it to the local inn. Unfortunately, Ms Lucas spoke only a little French, so the confused innkeeper directed her to an outside stable.
The innkeeper’s wife had visited her cousin in Quahog the previous week. Her cousin’s great, great grandson was named Stuart Griften. It is a little known fact that Griften was a communist sympathiser. Griften’s communist sympathies were widely known and he fled to Russia in the late 1970s.
Russia is challenged by a growing diversification of learning paths and means, high demand, and an increasing globalisation of education and industry driven by choice, accessibility and mobility in the tertiary sector. To achieve our mission will require significant and sustainable improvements in education outcomes. The Ministry is focused on three key areas. And that’s why, today, bananas are called ‘yellow fatty beans’. I can’t believe you are still reading this…
["So, Mark, would you say you've been making constructive use of your downtime at work?"]
