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Patron---“Do you serve fish here?”
Waiter---“Certainly, we cater to everyone.”


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1938, Air France offers a flight route between Marseille and Hong Kong. The voyage lasts 5 days.

1959, Rosanna Arquette is born.

1960, Antonio Banderas is born.

1953, In Canada, liberal Louis Stephen Saint-Laurent is re-elected for a second time as Prime Minister.

1980, Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx

1988, UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion


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Today is Wednesday~~Another hot day they say. Which brings this thought to mind. Man, in his anxiety to refute evidence that he is a monkey, manages to further to the belief that he is an ass.

Nothing going on today except that heat wave~~When summer is gone I will probably be wishing that it would come back haha. It always amazes me to wish for something that is gone but gripe and complain about it when it is handy and in the foremost part of the mind. I reckon that is a part of human nature. I don’t think I am alone in this observation. There is this book that I have been reading by Ed Morrow called “599 Things you should Never do.” Some of the things in this book are hiliarious. The first thing in this book is named ‘ Academia.’ With this quote by Paul Samuelson. Referring to a former Harvard treasurer. “Never consult the economics department….never consult the business school.”
First off I don’t know who Mr Samuelson is and what is the quote about?? When I was going through college in my younger years. Economics was not my choice of a subject matter to spend my money on but it was a required subject for my major so like all the rest of the courses which everyone called core courses, you know the course had to taken to get the degree in that field of endeavor. Courses that you didn’t pass that were required usually ended up with you sitting in the hot seat of a counselor who would try to get you to switch your major to something that you would be able to pass the core courses in and the major itself. I remember this one kid who was with me had switched his major twice and he was still there when I graduated with my bachelors degree~~he not like me working to make ends meet in college his parents were well off and he didn’t apply himself to the subject matter at hand. But of course I have wondered what ever happened to him. As with most of his kind when I was going through he probably ended up in the family business which he probably knew inside and out anyway so his future was secured for the rest of his life.
The only thing I personally get out of this quote that if you are a treasurer and you get into trouble don’t consult those departments. Any treasurer worth his salt is going to have his hands full just keeping his department in line much less worry about outside intelligence that may be able to help him if he needs it.
Anyway why the book?? A bunch of quotes that begin with Never! Anybody could do that~There are dictionaries on quotes which if it is worth it’s salt you can find in the index typically all the quotes in the book alphabetized so that you could see every quote in that book beginning with whatever letter you wish so that you can look up a quote you may have heard but don’t know who said it.
I will lay my choice of who the culprit was for this book at the doorstep of the publisher who was in search of something to make money with. And of course who should come along but me the sucker of the lifetime to give my hard earned cash for this pot boiler. He either saw the hook in the title to grab a certain psyche ~~I bought this book in haste apparently because after sitting down and going through it and seeing the contents my better judgment tells me that I should have never bought it. So I kick myself for that every time I see this book. There are some things in here that are fun to read though in spite of the bad choice to purchase it. For example” A quote by ‘American Adage” this writer just pulls any non verifiable quote out of nowhere “Never choose between two good things, take both.” That’s a great quote unless both things are terribly expensive then you can either choose one or none depending on what you have in mind. So with further ado I am going to lay this to rest. One day in the future I may return to this book and talk about some of the quotes in there.

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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States


The Northern armies had been inactive for some time, when a telegram
came to Lincoln from Cumberland Gap saying that firing had been
heard toward Knoxville, where General Burnside was in much peril.
Lincoln calmly remarked that he was glad of it. Some one expressing
surprise at his remark, Lincoln said:
"You see, it reminds me of Mistress Sallie Wared, a neighbor of mine,
who had a very large family. Occasionally one of her numerous progeny
would be heard crying in some ou-of-the-way place, upon which Mrs.
Ward would exclaim, "There's one of my children not dead yet.'"