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WITandWISDOM(tm) - August 7, 2002 ISSN 1538-8794 ~~~~~~~ THOUGHTS: Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived. - Martin Luther King Jr. Submitted by Alice Bryan ~~~~~~~ SPECIAL THOUGHTS: During the American Revolution a group of exhausted soldiers were struggling to repair a wall of stone and dirt to protect them from enemy bullets. One soldier was shouting instructions, but made no move to help the others. An officer in plain clothing happened to ride by, and asked the man why he wasn't helping. "Sir," he retorted, "I am a corporal!" The officer apologized, got down from his horse, and helped the soldiers himself. When the work was done, he turned to the corporal. "Mr. Corporal," he said, "next time you have a job like this and not enough men to do it, go to your commander in chief, and I will come and help you again." The corporal hadn't recognized General George Washington. Source: Nascent Dew Drops, http://nascentdewdrops.com/ ~~~~~~~ THIS & THAT: How to speak as a native from the southern United States (We love you and hope you can understand us. :o) Part 1 of 4 [August 7, 14, 21, 28] Aig - what a hen lays Aints - He's got aints in his paints Paints - what cha put on your laigs of a mornin Arn - Ma's tard of arnin Bag - He bagged her to marry him Bobbed - A bobbed wire fence Bresh - He had a bresh with the law, and the law won. Bub - the light bub burned out Cheer - what you set in Crick - a small stream Clum - he sure clum that tree fastern any 'coon Chiny - country over in Asia Chuch duds - Sunday go-to-meetin clothes Core - He got hisself a new Ford core Cyow - Animal on Farm Deppity - He helps out the shurf Dribbed - He dribbed milk on his shirt Dainz - Satidy night social Ellum - A graceful tree Fanger - what you put your rang on To be continued . . . Source: Colorado Comments, http://coloradocomments.com/ ~~~~~~~ KEEP SMILING: A pastor received the following note from a member that had been encouraged by the preaching: "You can't imagine what your preaching meant to me. It was like water for somebody who's drowning!" Submitted by Walt Groff ~~~~~~~ TRIVIA: The Internet Archive According to the founder of the Internet Archive, the average life span of a Web page is 100 days. But not here. The archive's Wayback Machine let you surf through Web history from pages dating to the frontier days of 1996. Forget irritating "File not found" messages. The Wayback Machine has archived over 10 billion Web pages that otherwise would have been lost. Http://www.archive.org Source PCWorld, August 2002, http://www.pcworld.com |