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Posted on 05/14/2007 6:00:23 PM PDT by laurenmarlowe
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Ahhhhh...
Izzat water I see in the background???
Ms.B
I know exactly what you mean! We just want them to be all right and happy and they must see the problem and fix it themselves. It’s tough on the ones who love them, though.
((((hugs))))
President U. S. Grant was arrested for speeding in his horse carriage.
J. Edgar Hoover refused to allow people to walk on his shadow.
France shipped Louisiana twenty-five prostitutes because women were in short supply in 1721.
H. L. Hunt won his first oil well in a game of five-card stud.
Kate Smith always ends her song God Bless America... with a Chant of lets go Flyers....
Yeah, it is...
*sigh*
Ms.B
A lake fed by mountain streams...
I hear J Edgar Hoover threw a diva fit he see a woman wearing better dress than he did
SO TRUE Tomkow as our resident Chicago resident could tell you that J Edgar Hoover has best dress and best hats for GUY in 1920s
We all know chicago has family connections
It’s LOVELY!
*Sigh*
You gonna take us there next year?
Ms.B
Yep...sure would be.
I have never been in a hot tub.
Just love ‘em and pray for them! That’s all you can do.
Close...those lakes are way too cold in May...
The REAL First President
George Washington was not the first President of the United States. The first President, John Hanson, was Maryland’s representative at the Continental Congress. On November 5, 1781, Hanson, who is considered a black man because of his Moorish background, was elected by the Constitutional Congress to the office of “President of the United States in Congress Assembled.” He served for one year and was followed by 6 other Presidents before Washington was elected.
Damn Those Damned Draft Dodgers!
President Grover Cleveland was a draft dodger. He hired someone to enter the service in his place. He was ridiculed by his political opponent, James Blaine, but it was soon discovered that Blaine had done the same thing himself!
Mr. President, Are You Aware
of How Fast You Were Going?
Ulysses S. Grant was convicted of exceeding the speed limit while riding with his horse in the streets of Washington, D.C. late one night. The accusing police officer was reluctant to issue the $20 fine when he realized that the offender was President Grant, but Grant insisted the he be fined.
And If You Think THAT’S Bad...
President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.
Weird Presidential Facts
President Garfield could write in Latin with one hand and in Greek with the other... simultaneously!
Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger, the hideaway bed, the calendar clock and the dumbwaiter.
Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence criticized the institution of slavery. This original draft was also written on hemp paper.
President James Buchanan was the only bachelor to occupy the Oval Office. His niece, Harriet Lane, played the role of First Lady.
President Washington was the wealthiest man in American at the time of his election as President, but he had to borrow money to attend his inauguration. His enormous wealth was attributed the vast property that he owned which produced almost no cash flow.
John Tyler, who was President from 1841 to 1845, joined the Confederacy twenty years later and became the only President named a sworn enemy of the United States.
President Andrew Jackson believed the world was flat and FDR was so superstitious, that he would never leave town on a Friday and never sit at a table with 13 people.
President Atchison?
A man named David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for one day and didn’t even know it. According to the law at the time, if neither the President nor the Vice President were in office, the President Pro Tem of the Senate (Atchinson) became President. On March 4, 1849, President Polk’s term had expired and President-elect Taylor could not yet be sworn in because it was a Sunday. Atchinson did not realize that he had been President for a day until several months later. The law that made Atchinson President for a day has since been changed.
The REAL First President
George Washington was not the first President of the United States. The first President, John Hanson, was Maryland’s representative at the Continental Congress. On November 5, 1781, Hanson, who is considered a black man because of his Moorish background, was elected by the Constitutional Congress to the office of “President of the United States in Congress Assembled.” He served for one year and was followed by 6 other Presidents before Washington was elected.
Damn Those Damned Draft Dodgers!
President Grover Cleveland was a draft dodger. He hired someone to enter the service in his place. He was ridiculed by his political opponent, James Blaine, but it was soon discovered that Blaine had done the same thing himself!
Mr. President, Are You Aware
of How Fast You Were Going?
Ulysses S. Grant was convicted of exceeding the speed limit while riding with his horse in the streets of Washington, D.C. late one night. The accusing police officer was reluctant to issue the $20 fine when he realized that the offender was President Grant, but Grant insisted the he be fined.
And If You Think THAT’S Bad...
President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.
Weird Presidential Facts
President Garfield could write in Latin with one hand and in Greek with the other... simultaneously!
Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger, the hideaway bed, the calendar clock and the dumbwaiter.
Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence criticized the institution of slavery. This original draft was also written on hemp paper.
President James Buchanan was the only bachelor to occupy the Oval Office. His niece, Harriet Lane, played the role of First Lady.
President Washington was the wealthiest man in American at the time of his election as President, but he had to borrow money to attend his inauguration. His enormous wealth was attributed the vast property that he owned which produced almost no cash flow.
John Tyler, who was President from 1841 to 1845, joined the Confederacy twenty years later and became the only President named a sworn enemy of the United States.
President Andrew Jackson believed the world was flat and FDR was so superstitious, that he would never leave town on a Friday and never sit at a table with 13 people.
President Atchison?
A man named David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for one day and didn’t even know it. According to the law at the time, if neither the President nor the Vice President were in office, the President Pro Tem of the Senate (Atchinson) became President. On March 4, 1849, President Polk’s term had expired and President-elect Taylor could not yet be sworn in because it was a Sunday. Atchinson did not realize that he had been President for a day until several months later. The law that made Atchinson President for a day has since been changed.
Never???
WEll, we gotta fix dat when you come up this summer!
Ms.B
LOL!!
BRR!!!
On second thought..
Ms.B
Mmmmmmm...that sounds like a plan, Sis!
It’s only 3 months till we invade your space! :D
....well, plus 3 days! LOL!
Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Drive on parkways and park on driveways? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
LOL!
BB!
LBH!
How are you tonite?
Ms.B
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