Month: September 2006

  • Scene From an Italian Restaurant …

    A wealthy man is having an affair with an Italian woman and has continued the affair for a few years.One night, over dinner at the mistress’s favorite Italian restaurant, she confides in him that she’s pregnant.Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he offers to pay her a large sum of money if…

  • Security

    Security is mostly superstition.  It does not exist in nature.  Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.  The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Helen Keller

  • New Airport Security Procedures

    Kind of puts the fun back into flying doesn’t it.via email from Duane McDowell, Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:56:41 -0700

  • Self-reliance

    I alone can do it.  But I can’t do it alone.Anonymous

  • For Those Who Take Life Too Seriously

    Save the whales.  Collect the whole setA day without sunshine is like, night.On the other hand, you have different fingers.I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.I feel like I’m diagonally parked in a…

  • Happiness

    But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?Albert Camus

  • The Italian Golfer

    An 80-year old Italian man goes to the doctor for a check-up.  The doctor is amazed at what good shape the guy is in and asks, “How do you stay in such great physical condition?”“I’m Italian and a golfer,” says the old guy, “and that’s why I’m in such good shape.  I’m up well before…