February 16, 2006

"Fish and visitors smell in three days."

Benjamin Franklin

Pity all the mighty Caesars.
They pulled each whisker
Out with tweezers.
Burma Shave


Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

GEOGRAPHY
part 2 of 19

Alaska and California, with 8 each, are the US states with the most national park sites.

All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.

As of Dec. 31, 2000, the number of climbers summiting Mt. Everest reached 1314, and the number of deaths on the mountain reached 167.

At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

Maimonides

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Benjamin Rush, Pennsylvania

A grandfather clock chimes the appropriate number of times to indicate the hour, as well as chiming once at each quarter hour. If you were in another room and heard the clock chime just once, what would be the longest period of time you would have to wait in order to be certain of the correct time?

"I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field."

Yogi Berra

It is a well-known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.



All men are equal before fish.