July 7, 2007


I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken



The hobo
Lets his
Whiskers sprout
It's trains--not girls
That he takes out
Burma Shave
1951


A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
William J. Clinton




GUIDO AREZZO
c.995 - 1050
Italian Monk

Guido of Arezzo was a monk at the monastery of S.Croce di Fonte Averllana in Umbria, Italy. Guido invented a novel form of music notation. He replaced letters with notes, written on four lines on a sheet of music. He also introduced the syllables do, re, mi, fa, sol, la which are used today in Latin countries as the names of the notes from c to a. Before his time melodies were learned by heart, since symbols used to notate them were not precise, but served only as aids to memory.
HyperHistory On Line


The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russel



PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
John F Kennedy Kennedy was the only president to appoint his brother to a cabinet post.
John F Kennedy1960-1963



Two girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month, but they are not twins. How can this be possible?



Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.



Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.



Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
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