June 13, 2006


"I have been laid up with intentional flu."

Samuel Goldwyn

Every second
Without fail
Some store
Rings up
Another sale
Burma Shave 1934


Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Russell Baker

PLANTS
Part 4 of 12

Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking.

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.

Banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum.

Bananas are actually herbs. Bananas die after fruiting, like all herbs do.

Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Robert E Lee

Only one color, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
What is it.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.


Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.