January 2, 2008


If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
Harry S. Truman



"I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies."
— Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)



I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F Kennedy



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1938

1938 and 1939
  • Germany takes over Austria
  • The Czech Crisis
  • Munich Agreement
  • Kristallnacht in Germany
  • Hughes sets new around the World record
  • Maiden flight of the DC-4
  • Boeing unveils its Stratoliner
    • HISTORY CENTRAL


    Only the educated are free.
    EpictetusV (c.55 - c.135)



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA

    Nine Presidents never attended college: Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, A. Johnson, Cleveland, and Truman.

    The college that has the most presidents as alumni (six in total) is Harvard: J. Adams, J. Q. Adams, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Kennedy, and G. W. Bush (business school).

    Yale is a close second, with five presidents as alumni: Taft, Ford (law school), G.H.W. Bush, Clinton (law school), and G. W. Bush.




    When they are caught, they are thrown away.
    When they escape, you itch all day.
    What are they?



  • I tried sniffing coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.
  • Booze may not be the answer, but it helps you forget the question.
  • If God had intended man to smoke, he would have set him on fire.
  • Drink wet cement - get stoned.
  • Acid: better living through chemistry.



    • Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.



    It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.



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