gossip footloose
marika
historical things that have occurred on 4July over the past couple
centuries. They start with 1776, and say, of course, that Thomas Jefferson
signed the Declaration of Independence on that day. Then they go on to add
that, also on the same
day (presumably as he was walking home from the big D of I post-party) , he
bought his first thermometer, and officially started the convention of daily
weather/temperature record keeping on that day (PS It was allegedly 76 deg F
and cloudy that day in Philadelphia... hard to believe it was only 76 in
July, but
I digress)..... I find this entire story to be historically suspect. Think
about it. Besides the fact that it was coincidentally and patriotically
exactly (only) 76 degrees on that very day, don't you think the most suspect
part of this story is that Ye Olde Philadelphia Hardware & Supply Store
would have been closed on July 4th? Nothing's open in center city
(especially in the Hysterical District) on a national hoilday! C'mon.....how
stupid and gullible do they think we are, anyway? Bought a thermoter on
July4?.....Likely story. PUH-LEEZE!!!!
mk5000
" There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain
resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really
terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."
Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and
misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
The... the other important joke, for me, is one that's usually attributed to
Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud's "Wit and Its
Relation to the Unconscious," and it goes like this - I'm paraphrasing - um,
"I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me
for a member." That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my
relationships with women. Alvy Singer: Annie Hall