Good Morning:
It's Saturday May 5, 2001!
BIRTHDAYS: Karl Marx, 1818;
Nelly Bly, 1867; Tyrone Power, 1914; Alice Faye, 1915; Pat Carroll, 1927;
Roger Rees, 1944.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1891 New York's
Carnegie Hall held its opening concert.
On this date in 1904 Cy Young pitched
baseball's first perfect game as the Boston Americans beat Philadelphia
3 - 0.
On this date in 1920 Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and later convicted and executed
for manslaughter committed during a robbery.
On this date in 1935 John Scopes,
a biology teacher, was arrested for teaching... well, you know.
On this date in 1945 Denmark was
liberated from Nazi occupation.
MEANINGLESS FACTS: A golf
ball can not weigh more than 1.62 ounces or be smaller than 1.68 inches
in diameter... Bowling pins are made out of maple... A bowling ball outweighs
a ping pong ball 2800 to 1.
TRIVIA: Which of the following
celebrities was NOT born in the city indicated?
A. Henny Youngman - Liverpool,
England.
B. Audrey Meadows - Wu Chang, China.
C. Sid Caesar - Mexico City, Mexico.
D. John Charles Daly - Johannesburg,
South Africa.
Henny
Youngman said, "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up -- they
have no holidays." On to the real stuff!
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From a friend: CHORES
Monday - Wash Day: Lord, help me
to wash away all my selfishness and vanity, so I may serve you with perfect
humility through the week ahead.
Tuesday - Ironing Day: Dear
Lord, help me to iron out all the wrinkles of prejudice I have collected
through the years so that I may see the beauty in others.
Wednesday - Mending Day:
O God, help me to mend my ways so I will not set bad example for others.
Thursday - Cleaning Day:
Lord Jesus, help me to dust out all the many faults I have been hiding
in the secret corners of my heart.
Friday - Shopping Day: O
God, give me the grace to shop wisely so I may purchase eternal happiness
for myself and all others in need of love.
Saturday - Cooking Day: Help
me, my Savior, to brew a big kettle of brotherly love and serve it with
clean, sweet bread of human kindness.
Sunday - The Lord's Day:
O God, I have prepared my house for you. Please come into my heart as my
honored guest so I may spend the day and the rest of my life in your presence.
-- Author Unknown
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Thanks to AB: THE PARACHUTE
Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy
graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane
was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted
into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist
Vietnamese prison.
He survived the ordeal and now
lectures on lessons learned from that experience.
One day, when Plumb and his wife
were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said,
"You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier
Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!"
"How in the world did you know
that?" asked Plumb. "I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb
gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said,
"I guess it worked!" Plumb assured him, "It sure did, If your chute hadn't
worked, I wouldn't be here today."
Plumb couldn't sleep that night,
thinking about that man. Plumb says, "I kept wondering what he might have
looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat, a bib in the back, and bell-bottom
trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said
"Good morning, How are you?" or anything because, you see, I was a fighter
pilot and he was just a sailor.
Plumb thought of the many hours
the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship,
carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding
in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn't know.
Now, Plumb asks his audience, "Who's
packing your parachute?" Everyone has someone who provides what they
need to make it through the day. Plumb also points out that he needed many
kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory
-- he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional
parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports
before reaching safety.
Sometimes in the daily challenges
that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say
hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful
that has happened to them, give a
compliment, or just do something
nice for no reason.
As you go through this week, this
month, this year, recognize people who pack your parachute. I am
sending you this as my way of thanking you for your part in packing my
parachute !!!
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Thanks to M/M Riverrats:
Paul Harvey Writes:
We tried so hard to make things
better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd
like better. I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes
and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.
I hope you learn humility by being
humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own
bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And I really hope nobody gives you
a brand new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one
time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep. I hope you
get a black eye fighting for something you believe in, I hope you have
to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all right if you
have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl
under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.
I hope you have to walk uphill
to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do
it safely. On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't
ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding
with someone as uncool as your Mom.
If you want a slingshot, I hope
your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. I hope you
learn to dig in the dirt and read books. When you learn to use computers,
I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.
I hope you get teased by your friends
when you have your first crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your
mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing
a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen
flagpole. I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like
it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is
not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit
on a porch with your Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle. May you feel
sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays. I hope your mother punishes
you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she
hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold
of your hand.
These things I wish for you - tough
times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only
way to appreciate life.
Written with a pen. Sealed with
a kiss. I'm here for you. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven
and wait for you. Send this to all of your friends. We secure our friends,
not by accepting favors, but by doing them.
When Paul Harvey asked this riddle,
80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University
seniors.
What is greater than God, More
evil than the devil, The poor have it, the rich need it, And if you eat
it, you'll die?
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ANSWER: C. Sid Ceasar was
born in far-off, exotic Yonkers, New York.
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