February 10, 2006

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was 'shut up'.
~Joe Namath






A nut at the wheel
A peach on his right
A curve in the road
Fruit salad that night
Burma Shave




At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled; in revolution he abdicated; in exile he remarried.
Winston Churchill




COFFEE
part 19 of 23
  • The first commercial espresso machine was manufactured in Italy in 1906.
  • The first Parisian cafe opened in 1689 to serve coffee.
  • The French philosopher, Voltaire, reportedly drank fifty cups of coffee a day.
  • The heavy tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773, which caused the "Boston Tea Party," resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. Drinking coffee was an expression of freedom.



    • Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
    Vernon Howard



    When I called home one day, my six year old son answered the phone. "Hello," he said, panting a little. I said, "Hi, Nick. Wow, you sound out of breath." He replied, "No, I have more."



    OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
    James Madison Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
    JamesMadison



    A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?



    Will Wendy's cartoonize Dave like KFC did with Colonel Sanders?



    In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.



    Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.