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WITandWISDOM(tm) - June 5, 1998 THOUGHTS: Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure for himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. - Peter Latham (Reader's Digest, August 1993) SPECIAL THOUGHTS: THINGS TO DO FOR OR WITH YOUR SWEETHEART: Part 1 of 2 Watch the sunset together. Listen to classical music and cuddle in the dark. Whisper to each other. Cook for each other. Hold hands. Find a nice secluded place to lie and watch the stars. Write poetry for each other. Hugs are the universal medicine. Give random gifts of flowers/candy/poetry etc. Look into each other's eyes. Put love notes in their pockets when they aren't looking. Sing to each other. Read to each other. Go hiking and camp out together in the woods or on a mountain. Go to dinner and do the dinner for two deal. Dance together. (Shared by Just 4 Laughs! Http://www.GeoCities.com/Hollywood/Set/6993) THIS & THAT: Ever get to the end of "one of those weeks" and feel like this? Missing a few dots from your dominoes. Half a bubble off plumb. The cheese has slid off your cracker. If I had another brain, it would be lonely. No grain in the silo. Bailer done run out of twine. Slinky's kinked. Porch light on, nobody home. A lap behind the field. A prime candidate for natural deselection. Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming. (Shared by Ernest Dobkins) ~~~~~~~~~~~~ A man was driving along in his beat up old dodge, when suddenly it broke down. He was parked on the side of the road trying fix it, when a Jaguar pulled up in front of him and offered to help. After a few minutes the two men obviously weren't going to get the old car going again, so the Jaguar driver offered to tow the Dodge to the nearest garage. A few minutes later the two had hitched up the old Dodge to the Jaguar, and they agreed that if the Jaguar driver was going too fast, the man should blow his horn and flash his lights to get him to slow down. With that the two men got into their cars and the Jaguar driver started to pull away with the Dodge behind it. At the first traffic light, a Ferrari pulled up beside the Jaguar and started to rev his engine. As soon as the light turned green the Ferrari and the Jaguar hit their accelerators and took off. Before long the cars were racing at over 120 mph. As the cars speed along, they passed through a police speed trap. The officer couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the three cars go by, and he decided that he couldn't catch them all by himself, so he decided to radio for help: "You won't believe what I just saw! I saw a Ferrari and a Jaguar doing 120 mph side by side, and a beat up old Dodge behind them flashing his lights and blowing his horn trying to get by!" (Shared by Joe Bradley via Bill's Punch Line tcmrtalk@airmail.net) TRIVIA: Wells Fargo and MasterCard announced in January that they have installed an automatic teller machine at McMurdo Station in Antarctica (whose winter population is 200). . . . And in November, army engineers in India installed a pay phone atop the Siachen Glacier, on the Pakistan border and home to a recurring Indian-Pakistani battlefield, where the temperature hovers around minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit with winds around 70 mph. - Chuck Shepherd, Universal Press Syndicate |