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1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it. 2. The “LAST” thing I want to do is hurt you. (But it's still on my  list ). 3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people “appear” bright until… you hear them speak! 4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.  5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. 6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. 7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. 8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is “research”. 9. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was “blaming” you. 10. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, Notify: ________', I put 'DOCTOR'. 11. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and “still” think they are “sexy”. 12. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive  twice . 13....

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. -Bear Bryant

He is engraved in stone in the National War Memorial in Washington, DC- back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it. For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history. Anyone born in 1913 to about 1950, is familiar with Kilroy. No one knew why he was so well known- but everybody seemed to get into it. So who was Kilroy?  In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy, offering a  prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article. Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax , Massachusetts , had evidence of his identity.  'Kilroy' was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy . His  j...

  The Yellow Concrete Road Made of Arrows   Every so often, usually in the vast deserts of the American Southwest, a hiker or a backpacker will run across something puzzling:   a ginormous concrete arrow, as much as seventy feet in length, just sitting in the middle of scrub-covered nowhere. .   What are these giant arrows? Some kind of surveying mark?  Landing beacons for flying saucers?  Earth's turn signals?   No, it's  "The Transcontinental Air Mail Route"      A 1920's map (above) shows the route of the airmail planes; the dots are intermediate stops along the course.   On August 20, 1920, the United States opened its first coast-to-coast airmail delivery route, just 60 years after the Pony Express closed up shop.   There were no good aviation charts in those days, so pilots had to eyeball their way across the country using landmarks.   This meant that flying in bad weather was difficult, and night flyin...

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For all the women who drive alone: I had a flat tire on I-75 yesterday; so, I pulled over, got out of  the car and opened my trunk. I  took out my cardboard men, unfolded them and stood them at the rear of my  car facing oncoming traffic. They look so lifelike you wouldn't believe it! Just as I had hoped, cars started slowing down looking at the  men which made it much safer for me to work on the side of the  road. People honked and waved, and it wasn't long before a police  car pulled up behind me. He wanted to know what the heck I was  doing, so I calmly explained that I was changing my flat. He told me he  could see that, but demanded to know what the heck my cardboard men were  doing standing at the rear of my car. I couldn't believe he didn't  know!                  So  I told him ...  "Well,  I explained to the angry Policeman ... They're...