"To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.'"
-- Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.'"
-- Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
Pookie..........That sounds like something George Carlin would say...42
August 20th
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
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August 21st
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry
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August 22nd
PLANTAGENET, Richard. Remember before God, Richard III, King of England, and those who fell at Bosworth Field, 22nd August 1485, having kept faith. Loyaulte me Lie.
The Richard III Society
(Obituary placed yearly in the following UK newspapers by the Richard III Society: the Daily Telegraph, Times, Guardian and Independent. Similar obituaries are placed yearly this day in American newspapers by the American branch of the Richard III Society, noteably the New York Times.)
More information on Bosworth Field here
(I've been to the site and it is impressive.)
More information on the Richard III Society here
4dk - It is amazing that after 519 years, the debate of Richard III 's character is still being debated. I don't think we've come very far in our evolution when we compare the current political campaigns to those of the Tudors.
August 23rd
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
-- Bernard Baruch
August 24th
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
-- Brendan Behan
August 25th
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
-- Leonard Bernstein
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August 26th
Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. This is because the primary function of the government is -- and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution -- 'to spew out paper'.
-- Dave Barry
August 27th
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
-- Jim Bishop
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
August 29th
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm
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August 30th
Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us.
-- Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]
August 31st
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
-- Charles Dickens
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