"One measly steak!"

"He would have killed you, or you would have killed him, over one measly steak!"

Ever seen "The Man who shot Liberty Valence"? Good movie, James Stewart, John Wayne, John Ford as director. So which one shot Liberty Valance you ask? Wayne or Stewart? Well, watch the movie...

Random Facts

I took these from "Encyclopedia Brown's 3rd book of Weird & Wonderful facts." by Donald J. Sobel.



Men who snore outnumber women 12 to 1.



Nearly twice as many men as women have to be rescued by lifeguards.



At the 1908 Olympics in London, England, U.S. track star Forrest Smithson won the 110-meter hurdles while carrying a Bible in his hand for inspiration.

The loudest snores in the animal kingdom are elephants, camels, sheep, cows, dogs, cats, gorillas, chimps, buffalo, and zebras.

Dead, 36 mosquitoes cover 1 square inch. Alive, 2 mosquitoes, free of enemies could produce enough offspring in 1 season to cover the earth with a layer of mosquitoes more than a foot deep.

Alphonso, King of Castile, hated the odor of garlic so much that in 1368 he passed a law to protect himself. No one who had eaten garlic could appear before him for at least a month.

In bygone days the feast at a Bedouin wedding was a marvel of stuffing. To start with, a fish was filled with eggs. The fish was then baked inside a chicken. The chicken became the stuffing of a whole sheep, which was roasted on a spit. The roasted sheep was sewn inside a camel, which was baked in a specially built oven. Gross.

Werner von Braun, the foremost German rocket scientist in WW II, failed both math and physics in high school.

The U.S. office of Education paid Boston University $219,592 to teach collage students how to watch TV.

First- born kids are usually the smartest, though they don't have as many friends as other kids. Last-born kids are commonly the most popular on the playground.




The Philadelphia Eagles gained less than 1 yard per rushing play for the entire 1940 season.



Albert Von Tilzer, who composed "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in 1908, had never seen a baseball game and couldn't have cared less.

The nation's longest-overdue book was borrowed in 1823 from the U. of Cincinnati Medical Library. A work on febrile diseases, it was returned on December 7, 1968 by the borrower's great-grandson. He was not asked to pay the $2,264 fine.

Finally...

With so many people about it can be hard to make sure everyone knows everything. I couldn't count how many times I've forgotten to tell somebody something. Now we have a massage board. We talked about getting one for years, but, well, you know us...

Me and My Babies

The other night by some freak of nature everyone in the family was somewhere else for dinner. At first Mom and Dad were contemplating between going out to eat and staying home, but I told them to go out to eat, I'd watch Fun 1 and Fun 2. Yes Ladies and Gentleman, there were 3 and only 3 people eating that night.

And what did we have to eat, you ask. Well, what can I cook?

Yes, I know that's pitiful...

The Secret to Life.

I really love Ben Franklin quotes. He was brilliant. He also had a knack for making fun of you without offending you. The man had a unique angle to the way he looked at life, a rare way but the correct one. This pretty much sums it up.

"Work as if you were to

live a hundred years.

Pray as if you were

to die tomorrow."

They're at it again!!!!!!!!!

The Kendrick Brothers (Flywheel, Facing the Giants) are working on their new movie "Fireproof" set to come out August 2008. They're blog is http://fireproofthemovie.blogspot.com/. I don't know about you. But I'm excited!!!!!!!!!!

Claims to Fame

Last Saturday night we meet Jeff Daniels (actor from Gettysburg, Fly Away Home, Because of Winn-Dixie etc.) He's not my favorite actor or anything, but I do like a few of his movies. He was here in town to do a show at the Center For The Arts, apparently he sings and plays the guitar. (As warning, his show wasn't family friendly.) So we went because Dad got free tickets and passes to meet him afterwards because Dad's a "friend" of the CFA. So we said greeted Mr. Daniels, I got his autograph, and that was it.

Big Deal.

Truly I feel no different since meeting a famous person. He of course , has forgotten all about meeting me by now, and by this time next year, I'll probably forget too. Maybe years from now when I get married and move out, I'll go through all my "junk" and find a tattered copy of a program with Jeff Daniel's signature scrawled on it and I'll remember. Or maybe I'll lose it and forget all together. So I said about 5 words to a celebrity. Big Deal!


I'm saying this because before the show I was excited, I was going to meet a movie star. After the advent I realised he was just a person, and not the greatest person either. Fame is temporary. Who 100 years ago will know who Jeff Daniels was?? If no one remembers him. What about me?What about when I've been dead for 50 years?? Will anyone remember me? It reminds me of a quote from Ben Franklin;

"If you would not be forgotten

as soon as you are dead

and rotten. Either write

something worth reading or

do things worth reading."

That's my new motto. I got to get going on that bestseller book:-)