June 14, 2006


"The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants."
author unknown






That "pink toothbrush"
Is a curse
But that pink razor's
A darn sight worse
Use
Burma Shave
1934

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe




PLANTS
Part 5 of 12
  • Cranberries are one of just 3 major fruits native to North America. Blueberries and Concord grapes are the other two.
  • Dr. Joel Poinsett, the 1st US ambassador to Mexico, brought the poinsettia to US in 1828. The plant, called "flower of the blessed night" in Mexico was renamed in Poinsett's honor.
  • Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.
  • From 70 to 80 percent of all ripe olives are grown in California's approximately 35,000 acres. In the 1700s, Franciscan monks brought olives to Mexico and then into California by way of the missions. The first cuttings were planted in 1769 at the San Diego Mission. Commercial cultivation of California olives began in the late 1800s. Today, anywhere from 80,000 to 160,000 tons of olives are produced in California each year.
  • From the 1500's to the 1700's, tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat a variety of ailments including headaches, toothaches, arthritis and bad breath.



    • I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt


    OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
    Hamilton Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.
    Alexander Hamilton



    I am slim and tall,
    Many find me desirable and appealing.
    They touch me and I give a false good feeling.
    Once I shine in splendor,
    But only once and then no more.
    For many I am "to die for".
    What am I?



  • Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
  • Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
  • It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.
  • You can't have everything, where would you put it?
  • The things that come to those who wait are usually the things left by those who got there first.



    • Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.



    A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.