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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml

This site is home for the online version of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress.  "This digitized selection, made up of about 4,700 items (equaling about 38,000 images), consists of correspondence, journals, scientific notebooks, and other documents that best represent Alexander Graham Bell's personal life and work with the telephone, the deaf, aeronautics, marine engineering, and other areas of scientific research."

A good starting point is the timeline of Bell's life and inventions.  This is divided into five ranges of years, so be sure to click on each of the ranges at the top and bottom.  Many of the timeline items have hot links to scanned images of actual documents from that era, including many in Bell's handwriting:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/belltime.html

This page has several diagrams drawn by Bell of his Telephone and the Multiple Telegraph:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/belltelph.html

http://www.up4sale.com

It's like eBay -- strangely enough it's even owned by eBay -- but totally free for buyers and sellers.  WebSkulker knows that if you want to buy something, use eBay because it has probably hundreds of times more items for sale than any other online auction.  But for the seller, the situation might be different.  Jr. Skulker Frank Telles collects Star Wars and other action figures and often sells them through online auctions.  He claims that the smaller auction sites can bring higher prices because your item isn't quite so lost in the sea of what everyone else is selling.  Up4Sale might be an excellent choice for the seller because it is smaller and has no commissions.

http://www.onlinemenus.com

http://www.menusonline.com

http://www.kerrymenu.com/usamap.htm

These sites have complete menus for many restaurants around the U.S.  Jr. Skulker Uncle Brucie suggested the first and WebSkulker dug the others out of his bookmarks.  The second one, MenusOnline seems to have the most comprehensive list of restaurants by far, at least for San Francisco where WebSkulker lives.  The KerryMenu site has a long list of restaurants for each city; the other two have search engines by location, cuisine, price, etc.

When you need to coordinate your skulking with other jr. skulkers, what could be better than a South Park's Cartman talking watch:
http://www.whatshotnow.com/?ProductKey=1497

And for telling time at home, how about these custom-made humorous clocks:  first, click here to see what the clocks look like:
http://www.humorousclocks.com/clocks.htm

Then choose the clock face from a list of hundreds.
http://www.humorousclocks.com/af.htm

Here are WebSkulker's favorites:

For programmers only:
http://www.humorousclocks.com/clockpages/bytetyme.htm

This is what WebSkulker's cat does when not writing the newsletter:
http://www.humorousclocks.com/clockpages/cattime.htm

What happens if your clock is infected with a virus:
http://www.humorousclocks.com/clockpages/computervirus.htm

It gets boring to write out all those numbers:
http://www.humorousclocks.com/clockpages/etc.htm

What telephone company employees do at work:
http://www.humorousclocks.com/clockpages/telephonework.htm

For relaxing after a week of heavy skulking:
http://www.humorousclocks.com/clockpages/weekend.htm

Submitted by Jr. Skulker Vince Morton

Next time you need just the right phrase to describe someone:

A few clowns short of a circus.

A few fries short of a happy meal.

The wheel's spinning, but the hamster's dead.

All foam, no beer.

The butter has slipped off his pancake.

The cheese slid off his cracker.

Body by Fisher, brains by Mattel.

Warning: Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear.

Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

He fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.

As smart as bait.

Doesn't have all his dogs on one leash.

Her sewing machine's out of thread.

One fruit loop shy of a full bowl.

Her antenna doesn't pick up all the channels.

His belt doesn't go through all the loops.

Proof that evolution CAN go in reverse.

Receiver is off the hook.

Not wired to code.

Skylight leaks a little.

Her slinky's kinked.

Too much yardage between the goal posts.

Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold them together.

A photographic memory, but the lens cover is on.

During evolution his ancestors were in the control group.

Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.

Is so dense, light bends around her.

If brains were taxed, he'd get a rebate.

Standing close to her, you can hear the ocean.

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