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Today's Quotations – FISH - ING

 

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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot

–  Steven Wright
 

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Fish and visitors smell in three days.

– Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736

 
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

– Chinese Proverb

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Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

–   Steven Wright

 

 
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

–   Doug Larson

 

 

Today's One Liner Wisdom



Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

 

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  Today's Word – ARCANE
   

 


ar·cane adjective. Known or understood by only a few: arcane economic theories. Synonym mysterious.

Then just as quickly, the two women resumed their arcane discussion.

Each was embossed with its own arcane symbol, many totally unfamiliar to him.

The Hofburg Treasures
Stephen Adams page 114 & 213

Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

  
 


Coffee
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 Coffee, (which makes the politician wise, and see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes).

Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock, 1714

 

 

Avicenna, the Arabian philosopher and physician, is accredited with first recording the use of coffee as a beverage. Somewhere about 1000 AD he called the brew 'bunc.' This word for coffee is still used in Ethiopia today. For centuries coffee was used chiefly as a medicine. It was not until the 16th century that it was drank socially in Arabia and Persia.

The earliest recorded coffee house was the'Kiva Han.' It opened in Constantinople in 1475. During the next century coffee houses were called: 'Mekteb-i-irfan' which means 'school of the cultured.'

The practice of drinking coffee with milk and sugar was started by the owner of Vienna's Domgasse. This coffee house was opened by Franz Georg Kolshitsky in 1683. This polish adventurer was also responsible for originating the style of coffee known as 'Viennese.' Viennese coffee is strained to produce a clear liquid without grounds.

In 1930 the Brazilian Institute of Coffee suggested that coffee beans be reduced to a soluble powder. The Nestle company of Vevey, Switzerland, took up the challenge. After eight years of research they produced the world's first instant coffee and called it Nescafe.

 Source: The New Shell Book of Firsts - Patrick 

 

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Today's SMILE

 

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

 
   

 

 

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Joseph Addison

 

A FEW SMILES   


Art

A  tiny but dignified old lady was among a group looking at an art exhibition in a newly opened gallery. Suddenly one contemporary painting caught her eye.


"What on earth," she inquired of the artist standing nearby, "is that?"


He smiled condescendingly. "That, my dear lady, is supposed to be a mother and her child."


"Well, then," snapped the little old lady, "why isn't it?"


Great Logic

Will you loan me $20.00 and only give me ten of it?

That way, you will owe me ten, and I'll owe you ten, and we'll be even!


Suspicious  Spouse

Sometimes partners are overly suspicious of their spouses. When Adam stayed out very late for a few nights, Eve became upset. "You're running around with other women," she charged.

"You're being unreasonable," Adam responded. "You're the only woman on earth."

The quarrel continued until Adam fell asleep, only to be awakened by someone poking him in the chest.

It was Eve.

"What do you think you're doing?" Adam demanded.

"Counting your ribs," said Eve. 


True Story 

From: bsellers@cneti.com (Billy & Sharon Sellers)

A true story as told by mom- Sharon Sellers:

  My son Derek came home from school one day and told me that this girl and boy in his class was going to french kiss.  He said do you know what french kissing is?  I said "yes, do you?" 

He said "Yeah, it's kissing in tongues?".


Doctor's Advice

The doctor recommended a running schedule of ten miles a week for a patient. After a week, the patient called, "Doc, I'm seventy miles away now. What should I do now?'


Think About It!

How come kids always complain when told what to do, but when given the
opportunity to make up their own mind, they complain?
-- Lulu from Melbourne, ?



"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence." --Henry Adams



Chicken Little only has to be right once.



The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. ---- William Ralph Inge



Ever notice how a 4 year olds voice is louder than 200 adult voices?



If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would have put them on my knees.



The age of some people is like the speedometer on a used car. You know it's set back, you just don't know how far.



You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted then used against you.




It' not hard to meet expenses — they're everywhere!

 


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