January 17, 2006

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

William Butler Yates

If daisies
Are your
Favorite flower
Keep pushin' up those
Miles-per-hour
Burma-Shave


People don't go there anymore. It's too crowded.

Yogi Berra

CHOCOLATE
part 5 of 10

Chocolate was introduced into the United States in 1765 when cocoa beans were brought from the West Indies to Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Cocoa butter is the natural fat of the cocoa bean. It has a delicate chocolate aroma, but is very bitter tasting. It is used to give body, smoothness, and flavor to eating chocolate.

Cole Porter got a kick from fudge. He had nine pounds of it shipped to him each month from his hometown.

Columbus brought cacao (chocolate) beans back to Spain on his fourth voyage in 1502.

CONTINUED TOMORROW


How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Edith Wharton

"Mommy, you said it would be a shot; instead it was a needle!" -- Boy, overheard at the hospital

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Ulysses S. Grant

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50."
The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less.
In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.


Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.