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Red Skelton's tips on marriage Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, have a little beverage,  good food and companionship.  She goes on Tuesdays, I go on Fridays. We also sleep in separate beds.  Hers is in California and mine is in Texas. I take my wife everywhere.....but she keeps finding her way back. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary?  "Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said.  So I suggested the kitchen. We always hold hands.  If I let go, she shops. She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker.  She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!"  So I bought her an electric chair. My wife told me the car wasn't running well because there was water in the carburetor.  I asked where the car was; she told me "In the lake." She got a mud pack and looked great for two days.  Then the mud fell off. She ran after the garbage truck,...

 Here is another before and after - Mother Theresa. .

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Another before and after? Click here for Dolly Parton . Click here for a great picture of Bill Gates in 1994 showing CD storage .

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Vietnam  1966   Richard, (my husband), never really talked a lot about his time in Viet Nam other than he had been shot by a sniper. However, he had a rather grainy, 8 x 10 black and white photo he had taken at a USO show of Ann Margret with Bob Hope in the background that was one of his treasures. A few years ago, Ann Margret was doing a book signing at a local bookstore. Richard wanted to see if he could get her to sign the treasured photo so he arrived at the bookstore at 12 o'clock for the 7:30 signing. When I got there after work, the line went all the way around the bookstore, circled the parking lot and disappeared behind a parking garage. Before her appearance, bookstore employees announced that she would sign only her book and no memorabilia would be permitted. Richard was disappointed, but wanted to show her the photo and let her know how much those shows meant to lonely GI's so far from home. Ann Margret came out looking as beautiful as ever and, as second in...

One day, when a seamstress was sewing while sitting close to a river, her thimble fell into the river. When she cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, "My dear child, why are you crying?" The seamstress replied that her thimble had fallen into the water and that she needed it to help her husband in making a living for their family. The Lord dipped His hand into the water and pulled up a golden thimble set with pearls. "Is this your thimble?" the Lord asked The seamstress replied, "No." The Lord again dipped into the river. He held out a silver thimble ringed with sapphires.  "Is this your thimble?" the Lord asked. Again, the seamstress replied, "No." The Lord reached down again and came up with a leather thimble. "Is this your thimble?" the Lord asked.  The seamstress replied, "Yes." The Lord was pleased with the woman's honesty and gave her all three thimbles to keep, and the seams...

With the advent of World War II many of the actors went to fight. They gave up their wealth, position and fame to become service men & women, many as simple 'enlisted men'.       This page lists but a few, but from this group of only 18 men came over 70 medals in honour of their valour, spanning from Bronze Stars, Silver Stars, Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Hearts and one Congressional Medal of Honour.     So while the 'Entertainers of 21st Century' have been in the news media lately, for all the wrong reasons;  I would like to remind you of what the entertainers of 1943 were doing, (70+ years ago). Most of these brave men have since passed on.    'Real Hollywood Heroes'   Alec Guinness (Star Wars) operated a British Royal Navy landing craft on D-Day.   James Doohan ('Scotty' on Star Trek) landed in Normandy with the U.S. Army on D-Day.   Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was an R.A.F. pilo...

  Helen Keller Meeting Charlie Chaplin   Very Young Lucy Lucille Ball around 1930   Phoebe Mozee (aka: Annie Oakley).  Famed for her marksmanship by 12 years old, she once shot the ashes off of Kaiser Wihelm II's cigarette at his invitation. When she out shot famed exhibition marksman Frank Butler, he fell in love with her and they married. They remained married the rest of their lives     Bea Arthur (née Bernice Frankel) (1922-2009) SSgt. USMC 1943-45 WW II. Enlisted and assigned as typist at Marine HQ in Wash. DC, then air stations in VA and NC.  Best remembered for her title role in the TV series Maude and as Dorothy in "Golden Girls".   Billie Holiday at two years old, in 1917.   Mae Questel ca. 1930s, the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, Minnie Mouse, Felix the Cat (for three shorts by the Van Beuren Studios), Little Lulu, Little Audrey and Casper, the Friendly Ghost.