April 5, 2006

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau





Half a pound
For
Half a dollar
At the drug store
Simply holler
Burma Shave
1930


"The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow."
Gracie Allen




Bugs and Insects
  • The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
  • The largest insect egg belongs to the Malaysian jungle nymph, a sticklike insect, and measures about 1.3 centimeters long - larger than a peanut! (Some insects, mainly mantises and cockroaches, lay egg cases that are larger, but they contain about 200 individual eggs.)
  • The tsetse fly kills another 66,000 people annually.
  • The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.
  • The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.



    • Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
    Bernard Baruch


    OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
    John Adams
    In politics the middle way is none at all.
    John Adams

    Which word that begins with the letter I, and by adding the letter A, becomes another word that is pronounced the same?




  • Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
  • Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you will have their shoes.
  • When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.
  • If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.
  • Warning: Do not drink the battery acid. It doesn't taste good and will hurt you. Also do not bite the tyres, especially while the bike is moving.




    • The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

    I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war.