December 6, 2006


It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett



A scratchy chin
Like bright
Pink socks
Puts any romance
On the rocks
Burma Shave
1940


Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
-- Brendan Gill





THE REVOLUTION
  • July 20, 1781 - Slaves in Williamsburg, Virginia, rebel and burn several buildings.
  • August 1, 1781 - After several months of chasing Gen. Greene's army without much success, Gen. Cornwallis and his 10,000 tired soldiers arrive to seek rest at the small port of Yorktown, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay. He then establishes a base to communicate by sea with Gen. Clinton's forces in New York.
  • August 14, 1781 - Gen. Washington abruptly changes plans and abandons the attack on New York in favor of Yorktown after receiving a letter from French Admiral Count de Grasse indicating his entire 29-ship French fleet with 3000 soldiers is now heading for the Chesapeake Bay near Cornwallis. Gen. Washington then coordinates with Gen. Rochambeau to rush their best troops south to Virginia to destroy the British position in Yorktown.
  • August 30, 1781 - Count de Grasse's French fleet arrives off Yorktown, Virginia. De Grasse then lands troops near Yorktown, linking with Lafayette's American troops to cut Cornwallis off from any retreat by land.
    • THE HISTORY PLACE


    Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
    Abraham Lincoln



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Harry S Truman He was the first president to travel underwater in a modern submarine.
    Harry S Truman 1945-1952



    If you divide thirty by a half and then add ten, what would your answer be?



  • Most people aren't as deep as my toilet bowl.
  • Real men know the value of duct tape.
  • Real men wear pink. Why? Because their wives make them.
  • Despite the proportional number of eyes and ears to mouths, people will talk twice as much as they pay attention.
  • Some people are like slinkies: not really good for anything... but you can't help laughing when you push them down the stairs.



    • A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have
    1735


    Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
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