July 26, 2006


"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."
Matt Groening






His tenor voice
She thought divine
Till
whiskers
Scratched
Sweet Adeline
Burma Shave
1936


Eggheads, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
Adlai E. Stevenson




ANIMALS
Part 27 of 32
  • The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
  • The only dog to ever appear in a Shakespearean play was Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
  • The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
  • The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.



    • Kids can do anything, get anywhere, understand anything provided they've got sufficient curiosity, and the motives.
    Diana Wynne Jones



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Grover Cleveland "Death and Destruction" was the name that Grover Cleveland gave to his favorite hunting rifle.
    Grover Cleveland 1885-1889, 1893-1897



    There were five men going to church and it started to rain. The four that ran got wet and the one that stood still stayed dry.

    Why did one stay dry?



  • Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
  • Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity
  • "It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory."
  • "My girlfriend told me I should be more affectionate. So I got two girlfriends."
  • To err is human; to moo, bovine.



    • To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
    Amos Bronson Alcott



    “When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance”