January 15, 2006

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

~Gail Sheehy

Many a forest
Used to stand
Where a
Lighted match
Got out of hand
Burma-Shave


You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart

Russell Baker

CHOCOLATE
part 3 of 10

Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.

Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.

Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

CONTINUED TOMORROW


Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Aristotle

"If I was a raccoon I would eat the farmer's corpse." -- A kindergartener, writing a story about what we would do if he were a raccoon

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Robert E Lee

I can run constantly without ever getting tired.
When I run, I frustrate people and drive them crazy,
Yet I don't even have to move to irritate you.
What am I?

In medical school he worried about passing as a surgeon, but he made the cut.


Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.