July 4, 2006


"All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner."

Red Skelton

Half a buck
Half a pound
No substitute
Is ever found
For
Burma Shave 1935


Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.

Kelly Fordyce

ANIMALS
Part 5 of 32

All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

Harry Truman

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and ofanarchy.

Alexander Hamilton

It goes up, but at the same time goes down. Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It's present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you. What is it?

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.


The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.