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With today being the 20th anniversary of U2’s greatest album, The Joshua Tree, I thought I would search the web just to see what was out there.

I ran across a fantastic post about someone writing about their first U2 concert.  He wanted to attend the concert because he was a recent college grad that majored in Bible and was mesmerized by the biblical imagery of U2’s lyrics.  He goes on to say it was the first time he went to church in a stadium.   You can read his post here.

The concert he speaks of was held in the L.A.’s Memorial Coliseum back on Nov 18, 1987.  I thought it was neat that the Olympic torch was burning at the beginning of the concert.

“Nincompoop” has been voted the UK’s favourite sounding word.The term, probably derived in around 1676 from the Latin definition of someone not of a sound mind “non compos mentis”, came top of a poll to find Britain’s favourite words.

“Nincompoop”, which is now used to describe a silly or foolish person, polled 13 per cent of the votes to scoop the title.

More than 2,000 members of the British public were asked to pick their favourite word from the 16,500 entries in the Cambridge Dictionary.

“Love” came in second, followed by “mum” in third place and “discombobulated” – which means being thrown into a state of confusion – was fourth.

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