8Aug11

Waiter—“Would you mind settling your bill, sir? We’re closing now.”
Irate Patron---“But, hang it all, I haven’t been served yet.”
“Well, in that case, there’ll only be the cover charge.”


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1919, Dino De Laurentiis is born.

1922, Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, part of the great exodus of Blacks from the southern to the northern US, leaves New Orleans to play jazz in Chicago with mentor King Oliver.

1925, An estimated 40,000 Ku Klux Klan members march through Washington, D.C. as part of the organization’s national congress.

1937, Dustin Hoffman is born.

1974, Nixon announces he will resign the Presidency.

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Monday, Monday!! The heat wave here in Texas is still over 100 degrees daily and it will be the same today they say.
For the lack of something to write about I think I will put some of Vernon Howard’s ideas on here starting with the one below. I really enjoyed his books because to me he tried to put complicated ideas into stories that I could remember. Of course everyone is so sophisticated nowadays these quaint ideas seem really old but I still enjoy them. I hope you do to.

You may have heard the story about the tourist visiting a beautiful tropical isle of the South Seas. As he strolled along the white sands he came across a native resting comfortably in the shade of a palm tree. Alongside him was his grass-skirted girl friend. The tourist asked the native:
“How come you don’t work?”
“Why?” replied the native.
“To earn some money.”
“Why?”
“So you can retire peacefully.”
“Peaceful already.”
That amusing story contains a curious truth, which is: comfort and peace of mind can be yours now.




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

Lincoln and a judge were having a friendly contest of wits on the
subject of horses, when Lincoln said:
"Well, look here, Judge! I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll make a
horse trade with you, only it must be upon these stipulations:
Neither party shall see the other's horse until it is produced
here in the courtyard of the hotel and both parties must trade
horses. If either party backs out of the agreement, he does so
under a forfeiture of twenty-five dollars."
It was agreed, and Lincoln and the judge each left to find
a horse for the joking trade, while a crowd collected to
watch the fun. When the judge reappeared there was a great
laugh at the incredibly skinny, dejected-looking animal, blind
in both eyes, that he led. But the uproar came when Lincoln strode
upon the scene eith a carpenter's saw-horse on his shoulder.
Relieving himself of his burden, Lincoln with a disgusted air
scrutinized the the judge's animal.
"Well, Judge," he said, "this is the first time I ever
got the worst of it in a horse trade."