12sep06

Bravery never goes out of fashion!!!

Robert Louis Stevenson, while in San Francisco was explaining to a friend at a restaurant a peculiarity of the local waiters which was that under no circustances would they admit that they did not have anything that might be called for on the bill-of-fare.
"They will take your order for a slice of the moon'" said he, "and go away as if they meant to fetch it, and then come back and say that they are just out of it."
To prove it he called the waiter and said: "A double order of broiled behemoth."
"Yes, sir," said the waiter, "will you have it rare or well done?"
"Well done," said Stevenson.
Pretty soon the waiter returned, "I am very sorry, but we are just out of behemoth."
"What, no more behemoth?" asked the novelist in a feigned astonment.
The waiter lowered his voice, "We have some more, sir," he whispered confidentially, "but the truth is, I would not bring it to you as it was not quite fresh."


Quote for the day:

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic, and the pustules of pellagra swelled on their side. The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.---John Steinbeck