August 2, 2006


The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
Huey Long






All these years
Your skin
Has dried
Why not moisten
Up your hide
Burma Shave
1936


Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle




GEOGRAPHY

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  • As of Dec. 31, 2000, the number of climbers summiting Mt. Everest reached 1314, and the number of deaths on the mountain reached 167.
  • At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.
  • Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
  • Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
  • Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.
  • Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.



  • It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
    Tacitus



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Calvin Coolidge He once said, "Four-fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still."
    Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929



    Only two backbones, but a thousand ribs.
    What is it?



  • When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty
  • I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem.
  • Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
  • Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
  • A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.



  • Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
    Bill Vaughn



    Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.