Odds & Ends

Commenting on a parade of New York’s municipal workers, Will Rogers remarked: “And did you notice that the street sweepers followed right behind the politicians?”

DISCUSSION: An argument where you just keep talking and you don’t throw anything

At least the groom at a “shotgun wedding” never wonders “why he ever married” his wife.

Don’t condemn old things, just because they’re old. Firemen’s poles were first used in 1878, and no one yet has found a better way for firemen to get downstairs in a hurry.

If you treat people right they will treat you right – ninety percent of the time.


Did you know that the John Hancock Building (building in forefront of picture above) at 495 feet was the second tallest structure when it opened on September 29, 1949?
It has an eight thousand watt light at the top with a beacon that signals the weather forecast.
Steady blue - clear view
Flashing blue - clouds due
Steady red - rain ahead
Flashing Red - snow instead

If it’s flashing red in the summer, it means the Red Sox game has been postponed.