Did You Know – August 2009

The Duck-billed Platypus is the only furred creature that is venomous?

“Esposa” in spanish means both “wife” and “ handcuffs” ?

Aborigine mothers of Northwestern Australia carry their children horizontally across their backs?

Several public schools in Northern Ontario, are railroad cars which spend 5 days every 5 weeks in each area?

Guy Mitchell of Buckingham, Iowa, passed his morse code test for federal communication radio operators license at the age of 4?

Weaving among the Hopi indians of America was an activity strictly reserved to men?

An office building in Turlock, CA, was designed to look like a giant bulldozer?

An alarm clock created in England in 1600, awakened its owner by firing a blank cartridge?

‘I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.’
- Abraham Lincoln

‘A wise man thinks all he says; a fool says all he thinks.’
- Teresa Gonzales

‘Remember: you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar…..of course how you spend your leisure time is your business.’
- Shirley Mooney

‘There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.’
- C.S. Lewis

‘The future frightens only those who prefer living in the past.’
- Becki Harvey

THESE ARE THE RULES!

Abram’s Advice: When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

ABBOTT’S ADMONITIONS:

1. If you have to ask, you’re not entitled to know.
2. If you don’t like the answer, you shouldn’t have asked the question.

BUCY’S LAW: Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

DIETER’S LAW: Food that tastes the best has the highest number of calories.

DURANT’S DISCOVERY: One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

ACHESON’S RULE OF THE BUREAUCRACY: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

BRODER’S LAW: Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

BUREAUCRATIC COVER-UP #1: You should have seen it when I got it!

CORNUELLE’S LAW: Authority tends to assign jobs to those least able to do them.

IMHOFF’S LAW: The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank–the really big chunks always rise to the top.

NORTH CAROLINA EQUINE PARADOX: Why are there so many more horses asses than there are horses?

KENT’S LAW: The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.

DAVE’S LAW OF ADVICE: Those with the best advice offer no advice.

HARDIN’S LAW: Every time you come up with a terrific idea, you find that someone else thought of it first.

MAN’S LAW: No matter what happens, there is always someone who knew it would.

MOSHER’S LAW: It’s always better to retire too soon than too late.

MALEK’S LAW: Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.

MOTHER SIGFOO’S OBSERVATION: A man should always be greater than some of his parts.