Dr Wingnut

Month: June 2001

  • Pop quiz

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    First quiz. See how you do on this one:Name the five wealthiest people in the world.Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest.Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for Best Actor and Actress.Name the last…

  • National Poetry Month

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    This poem is composed entirely of actual quotes from our president, George W. Bush. The quotes have been arranged for aesthetic purposes by Washington Post writer Richard Thompson. Too good not to share, especially during National Poetry Month…Make the Pie HigherI think we all agree, the past is over.This is still a dangerous world.It’s a…

  • Bear

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    Hello Folks:We thought when we moved to Wolfeboro we would be out of the country and in a more populated area. Now the rest of the story—- Dot was on the phone with our Kezar Falls daughter, and I was watching TV on our porch. You know sometimes you can sense a person looking at…

  • Martha's Way vs. My Way

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    Martha's way:Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice cream drips.My way:Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone, for pete's sake, you are probably laying on the couch with your feet up eating it anyway. You know we don't have anything better to do.Martha's…

  • Bill Gates speaks to Kids…

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    To anyone with kids, of any age, here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teaching has created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them…

  • Did I get this Straight?

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    Let's see if I understand how America works lately.If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her lap while driving she blames the restaurant.If your teen-age son kills himself, you blame the rock 'n' roll music or musician he liked.If you smoke three packs a day for 40 years…

  • Get a life

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    It’s a great honor for me to be the third member of my family to receive an honorary doctorate from this great university.  It’s an honor to follow my great-uncle Jim, who was a gifted physician, and my Uncle Jack, who is a remarkable businessman.  Both of them could have told you something important about…