July 6, 2006


"I have to say that, in a darkened room, a flaming toilet has a strange kind of beauty that can only be described as 'a strange kind of beauty.'"

Dave Barry

The happy golfer
Find with glee
The shave
That suits him
To a tee
Burma Shave 1935


It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with "gourmet" status.

Russell Baker

ANIMALS
Part 7 of 32

Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.

By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.

Camel milk does not curdle.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Winston Churchill

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS

The new Constitution has secured these [individual rights] in the Executive and Legislative departments; but not in the Judiciary. It should have established trials by the people themselves, that is to say, by jury.

Thomas Jefferson

What regularly changes shape, yet remains a sphere, is always there, but often not seen?

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.


The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

"In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you."