29Aug11

We have everything on the menu today sir, the waitress said.
So I see, the customer said, How about a clean one?


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1915, Ingrid Bergman is born

1949, Richard Gere is born

1958, Michael Jackson is born

1967, George Rockwell American nazi party leader, murdered

1975, Eamon de Valera Irish independence fighter, dies at 92

1982, Ingrid Bergman dies.

1983, Simon Oakland actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61

1985, Evelyn Ankers actress, dies at 67

1985, Patrick Barr actor, dies at 77

1987, Lee Marvin dies in Tucson, Ariz at 63

1990, Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq

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The Irene storm is still on the news even though it has more or less dissapated into Canada and the Atlantic as a tropical storm, but the news is all about the damage on the eastern seaboard the flooding and the electricity being off and people playing board games and listening to battery radios.
Which reminds me of a joke about a lady who phoned her TV serviceman and complained that something was wrong with her set. The serviceman asked her if there were any visible symptoms.
“The newscaster is on right now,” said the lady,” and he has a very long face.”
“Madam,” replied the serviceman, “if you had to report what’s happening these days you’d have a long face too.”
Of course nowadays they don’t have television repairmen as they used to in the old days. Now you send it off to a repair center or buy a new one. What a waste progress can bestow on all of us. Not to mention the loss of jobs that it entails.
According to the weather forecasters it is supposed to be another 100 plus degree day today~I am looking forward to Autumn in earnest.
Have a nice day and stay cool!!

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

From discussing the physical peculiarities of Douglas, who was a
very small man, a group of Lincoln's friends turned to the question
of how long a man's legs should be. Upon Lincoln's joining the group,
he was asked the question.
"Well," he said, "I should think a man's legs ought to be long enough
to reach from his body to the ground."