26Sep09

One of the guests turned to a man by his side to criticize the singing of the woman who was trying to entertain them.
"What a terrible voice! Do you know who she is?"
"Yes," was the answer. "She's my wife."
"Oh, I beg your pardon. Of course, it isn't her voice, really. It's the stuff she has to sing. I wonder who wrote that awful song?"
"I did," was the answer.

1917, Eighty-three-year-old painter Edgar Degas dies.

1923, The German mark becomes so inflated it is worth less than its paper. The German mark's value is 4 million marks to one US dollar. With France's economy also endangered by the inflation, both nations begin to compromise on ways to operated the idled German coal mines central to the war reparations issues.

1962, Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson to win heavy-weight boxing championship.

Quote for the day:
Some fellows believe in dreams until they marry one.