June 12, 2006


He [Bernard Shaw] hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

College boys!
Your courage muster
Shave off
That fuzzy
Cookie duster
Burma Shave 1934

Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids.

~Sam Levenson

PLANTS
Part 3 of 12

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the single-seeded fruit of the giant fan palm, or Lodoicea maldivica, can weigh 44 lbs. Commonly known as the double coconut or coco de mer, it is found wild only in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.

Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.

Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.

An average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Herbert Hoover

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Ulysses S. Grant

I can sizzle like bacon,
I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,
What am I?

"This is like deja vu all over again."


Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.