*Fun with puns*
What do you call a chicken staring at lettuce?
Chicken sees a salad.
Why was the little ant so confused?
All her uncles were ants.
Why do museums display mummies in glass coffins?
So that remains to be seen.
I am reading a book titled, “Anti-Gravity and the Laws of Physics” and I
can’t put it down.
*Smile*
Two cows were talking in the field. One says, “Have you heard about mad cow
disease? “Yeah,” the other cow says, “Makes me glad I’m a penguin.”
*Did you know*
USCF (also known as US Chess) How It All Began
In 1939, the US Chess Federation was created in Illinois through the merger
of the American Chess Federation and National Chess Federation. The
American Chess Federation had held an annual open championship since 1900;
that tournament, after the merger, became the US Open. The combined
membership at the time was 1,000. Membership experienced a consistent,
modest growth until 1958, when Bobby Fischer won the US Championship at the
age of 14. This began the “Fischer era”, during which the USCF membership
grew to 60,000 in 1974.
The USCF has continued to grow substantially, largely because of the
explosive growth of scholastic chess, the increasing membership numbers of
school aged children in the USCF. The onset of scholastic chess in the
United States began in the early 1970s due to the “Fischer Boom”, the
phenomenon of markedly increased interest in chess in the US due to the
ascendency of eventual world champion Bobby Fischer. The current membership
of US Chess is 101,000.
