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  My husband and his older brother liked to play darts.  One day they got into an argument over something about the game.  My husband was about 7 or 8 at the time.  He had quite a temper and as his brother turned to leave the room, he threw a dart at his brother’s backside.  Obviously he’d been on the losing end of the argument!  I don’t recall what his punishment was for that little trick, but the family laughed about it for years.  The Queen Mum lets loose a dart in 1937. During rehabilitation following her accident resulting in brain injury, one of my eldest daughter’s exercises was to toss darts at a dartboard.  Here, her therapist helps her stand up to reach for a dart. I took a picture of the result!  She’s right-handed, but that side of her body was not yet working properly, so she threw these darts left-handed.  Not too shabby! Arrows fly toward these targets. I tried my hand at archery for a while but I lacked the necessary ha...

  The ark took approximately 75 years to build and fill with animals and birds and was a’float for 110 days or 3 ½ months before the Great Flood receded and Noah found land again. There were some misunderstandings when Noah first began to build the ark. He had to change his plans a few times . “Bad news everyone!  The Ark didn’t turn out as I expected.” At last the ark was built, but along came the local HOA making noise.  Luckily, the rains came and Noah was able to move the ark in time to avoid paying a fine. When the ark was ready Noah began taking on animals in a certain order. Some were quick to get aboard, others, not so much. Others missed the boat altogethe r . “So, what part of RSVP didn’t you understand?” Eventually, a pair of unicorns did get on board, but Sylvia had been smitten with Terry and wasn’t exactly fond of Stan, so things didn’t look too promising for the future of unicorns. At last Noah had all the animals and birds onboard.  There were some p...