Quotes<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 A mule dressed in a tuxedo is still a mule. – Anon<\/p>\n
\u2022 If you see a man holding a clipboard and looking official, the chances are good that he is supposed to be doing something menial. – Wayne C. Fields, Jr.<\/p>\n
Optical Illusion<\/b><\/p>\n
When architect Sir Christopher Wren designed the interior of Windsor Town Hall near London in 1689, he built a ceiling supported by pillars. After city fathers had inspected the finished building, they decided the ceiling would not stay up and ordered Wren to put in some more pillars.<\/p>\n
England\u2019s greatest architect didn\u2019t think the ceiling needed any more support, so he pulled a fast one. He added four pillars that did not do anything — they don\u2019t even reach the ceiling. The optical illusion fooled the municipal authorities, and today the four sham pillars amuse many a tourist.<\/p>\n
Nino Lo Bello, European Detours (Hammond)<\/p>\n
Phoney<\/b><\/p>\n
During one of his political campaigns, a delegation called on Theodore Roosevelt at his home in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The President met them with his coat off and his sleeves rolled up.<\/p>\n
\u201cAh, gentlemen,\u201d he said, \u201ccome down to the barn and we will talk while I do some work.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the barn, Roosevelt picked up a pitchfork and looked around for the hay. Then he called out, \u201cJohn, where\u2019s all the hay?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSorry, sir,\u201d John called down from the hayloft. \u201cI ain\u2019t had time to toss it back down again after you pitched it up while the Iowa folks were here.\u201d <\/p>\n
Bits & Pieces, November 12, 1992, Page 19\u201320<\/p>\n
Memorial Fund<\/b><\/p>\n
In 1884 a young man died, and after the funeral his grieving parents decided to establish a memorial to him. With that in mind they met with Charles Eliot, president of Harvard University. Eliot received the unpretentious couple into his office and asked what he could do. After they expressed their desire to fund a memorial, Eliot impatiently said, \u201cPerhaps you have in mind a scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were thinking of something more substantial than that\u2026 perhaps a building,\u201d the woman replied. <\/p>\n
In a patronizing tone, Eliot brushed aside the idea as being too expensive and the couple departed. The next year, Eliot learned that this plain pair had gone elsewhere and established a $26 million memorial named Leland Stanford Junior University, better known today as Stanford!<\/p>\n
Today in the Word, June 11, 1992<\/p>\n
Zoo Keeper<\/b><\/p>\n
The visitor to the zoo noticed one of the keepers sobbing quietly in a corner and on inquiry was told that the elephant had died. <\/p>\n
\u201cFond of him, was he?\u201d the visitor asked. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not that,\u201d came the reply. \u201cHe\u2019s the chap who has to dig the grave.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Old Truck<\/b><\/p>\n
A Texas rancher driving through Vermont had to stop to let a farmer\u2019s cows cross the road. As the farmer passed in front of the Cadillac convertible, the rancher called out to him, \u201cHow much land you got, partner?\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWal,\u201d the farmer said, \u201cmy land runs all the way down there to them alders along the brook. On the meadow side, over there, it goes clean up to those larches on the hill.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cYou know,\u201d said the rancher, \u201cI got a spread in Texas and I can get in my pickup and drive all day without reaching any of my boundary lines.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThat so?\u201d said the farmer. \u201cI had a truck like that once.\u201d<\/p>\n
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