July 3, 2007


A picture is worth a thousand words.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Big blue tube
It's a honey
Best squeeze play
For love
Or money
Burma Shave 1951



An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham

Gregory VII
c.1020 - 10850
Pope

Gregory, known as Hildebrand before he became pope, was the most eminent medieval pope. He asserted his supremacy with the demand that the pope had the right to depose an emperor if the monarch was immoral. He excommunicated the emperor Henry IV forcing him to travel to Canossa in Italy to plead for absolution. HyperHistory On Line


He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
Franklin D. Roosevelt was a fifth cousin once removed of his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and a seventh cousin once removed of Winston Churchill.

Franklin D Roosevelt 1933-1945

Two bankrobbers rob the local bank. They then hop in their car and scurry off to their hideout 20 miles away. When they get there they realize that one of their tires had been completely flat the whole time.
How did they get to their hideout without noticing?

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it/


Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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