Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway. - . . .
Elbert Hubbard
Smith Brothers Would look immense If they'd just Cough up 50 cents For half pound jar Burma Shave
1936
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.
Thomas E. Dewey
ANIMALS Part 23 of 32
The Chinese, during the reign of Kublai Khan, used lions on hunting expeditions. They trained the big cats to pursue and drag down massive animals - from wild bulls to bears - and to stay with the kill until the hunter arrived.
The elephant, as a symbol of the US Republican Party, was originated by cartoonist Thomas Nast and first presented in 1874.
The English Romantic poet Lord Byron was so devastated upon the death of his beloved Newfoundland, whose name was Boatswain, that he had inscribed upon the dog's gravestone the following: "Beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices."
The expression "three dog night" originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night - so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Larry Lorenzoni
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
His original name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He was named Hiram after his grandfather, and Ulysses after the hero in Greek mythology
