02Aug09

Auctioneer---"What am I offered for this beautiful bust of Robert Burns?"
Man in Crown---"That ain't Burns...that's Shakespeare."
Auctioneer---"Well, folks, the joke's on me. That shows what I know about the Bible."

1922, Alexander Graham Bell, telephone inventor, dies.

1923, Presiden Harding dies. Calvin Coolidge takes office the next day.

1932, Peter O'Toole is born.

1990, Iraq invades Kuwait. The UN imposes sanctions on Bagdad.



Quote for the day:
A long-legged sheep in the Himalayas is able to run forty miles an hour. That's the kind of little lamb to follow Mary nowadays.