14Aug08
A New Yorker was traveling west in a Pullman when a group of chamber of commerce boosters from Kansas City, Mo., boarded the train and began to praise their city to the New Yorker, telling him of its beautiful boulevards, larger industrial establishments, and its wonderful possibilities. Finally the New Yorker became tired and said the only thing that would improve their city would be to make a seaport.
The enthusiastic Kansas Citians laughed at him and asked how they could make it a seaport, being so far from the ocean.
The New Yorker replied that it would be a very easy task.
"The only thing that you will have to do," he said, "is to lay a two-inch pipe from your city to the Gulf of Mexico. Then if you fellows can suck as hard as you can blow you will have it a seaport inside half an hour."
It was Mark Twain who wrote that while everyone talks about the weather, no one ever does anything about it
A New Yorker was traveling west in a Pullman when a group of chamber of commerce boosters from Kansas City, Mo., boarded the train and began to praise their city to the New Yorker, telling him of its beautiful boulevards, larger industrial establishments, and its wonderful possibilities. Finally the New Yorker became tired and said the only thing that would improve their city would be to make a seaport.
The enthusiastic Kansas Citians laughed at him and asked how they could make it a seaport, being so far from the ocean.
The New Yorker replied that it would be a very easy task.
"The only thing that you will have to do," he said, "is to lay a two-inch pipe from your city to the Gulf of Mexico. Then if you fellows can suck as hard as you can blow you will have it a seaport inside half an hour."
It was Mark Twain who wrote that while everyone talks about the weather, no one ever does anything about it
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