• Linda is at our daughter’s home in Portland, Oregon getting her daily radiation treatments. I’m home alone working on my novel and writing this kind of stuff.
• Tina cried when I left, and so did her sister Marge. I told them, “Don't cry for me Marge and Tina.”
• When Jeannie Anderson, Miss Philipines, was asked: Would you rather be more smart, or more beautiful?
“Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn... you can learn, um a lot of things... a lot of things from the experience... you can learn from a lot of things being smart.”
• “It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” - Muhammad Ali
• the longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
• a dorp is a small rural town or village
• Ilsa’s last name in Casablanca was Lund
• George Washington wore a size 13 shoe
• Doc Holliday operated a dental office and a saloon and gambling hall in Las Vegas, New Mexico before moving on to Tombstone.
• “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” – George W. Bush
• The winner of the 2013 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest consumed 69 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
• "You can expect Bobby to be Bobby. If Bobby ain't Bobby, Bobby just can't be Bobby." - Bobby Brown, singer
• the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics cost more than the last 13 Olympics combined
• Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard
• 27,000 trees are felled each day for toilet paper.
• the word karaoke means “empty orchestra” in Japanese
• “I feel my best when I’m happy.” – Winona Ryder
• one out of three families in New Mexico speak Spanish at home
• 40% of all bottled water sold in the world is tap water
• Do not return used condoms to the manufacturer through the mail. – Warning on Ansell Condoms package
• Snoop Dogg sold weed to Cameron Diaz in high school
• “I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it’s true lightness.” - Alicia Silverstone
• in Spanish, the word “esposa” means both “wife” and “handcuffs”
• two-thirds of the world's population has never seen snow
• if Walmart were a country it would be China’s sixth-largest export market
• for a million years, the human population of the Earth was less than 26,000
• 37% of the web is porn
• “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.” - Oscar Wilde
• 111,111 X 111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• The word pencil comes from a Latin word meaning “small penis.”
• “If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don't think that he would like it.” - Nurse Ratched
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
• Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon
• “Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference to the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.” - Ronald Reagan
