July 14, 2006


After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
P. J. O'Rourke






Ed's face
Is rough
And rugged
Ed's wife
Doesn't hug Ed
Burma Shave
1936


I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
James Boswell




ANIMALS

Part 15 of 32
  • It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
  • It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
  • Korea's poshintang - dog meat soup - is a popular item on summertime menus, despite outcry from other nations. The soup is believed to cure summer heat ailments, improve male virility, and improve women's complexions.
  • Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
  • Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.



  • Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
    Kin Hubbard



    OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
    JeffersonOf liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
    Thomas Jefferson



    What is the longest word in the dictionary?



    Be civil to all;
    serviceable to many;
    familiar with few;
    friend to one;
    enemy to none.



    There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.



    A great mind becomes a great fortune.