July 9, 2006


We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

--Ambrose Bierce

If substitution
He should try
Just look
that clerk
Right in the eye
And bellow
Burma Shave 1935


You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Albert Einstein

ANIMALS
Part 10 of 32

Domesticated turkeys (farm raised) cannot fly. Wild turkeys can fly for short distances at up to 55 miles per hour. Wild turkeys are also fast on the ground, running at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.

Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.

Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.

Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.

You can only be free if I am free.

Clarence Darrow

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

William Lloyd Garrson

Round I start, yet no shape have I.
Allow me to breathe, and my life will die.
The older I grow, the more sought after I become.
You will feel much better when I am done.
What am I?

Two robbers with clubs went golfing, but they didn't play the fairway.


The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.