January 3, 2006

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns





Cattle crossing
Means go slow
That old bull
Is some
Cow's beau
Burma-Shave


America is the best half-educated country in the world.
Nicholas Murray Butler



BANNANA FACTS
part 2 of 6
  • Bananas are America's #1 fruit.
  • Bananas are available all year-round. They are harvested every day of the year.
  • Bananas are great for athletic and fitness activity because they replenish necessary carbohydrates, glycogen and body fluids burned during exercise.
  • Bananas are not grown commercially in the continental United States. They are grown in Latin and South America from countries like Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, Panama and Guatemala.
  • Bananas are one of the few fruits that ripen best off the plant. If left on the plant, the fruit splits open and the pulp has a "cottony" texture and flavor. Even in tropical growing areas, bananas for domestic consumption are cut green and stored in moist shady places to ripen slowly.


    • Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
    John W. Gardner


    "Daddy, did your hair slip?" -- 3 year old son, to his bald but long bearded father



    OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
    Hamilton Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
    Alexander Hamilton


    What can you catch but not throw?


    A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.


    Dogsled-riding is a sport that is relaxing as well as fragrant.


    A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.