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WITandWISDOM(tm) - January 7, 2004 ISSN 1538-8794 ~~~~~~~ THOUGHTS: A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be. - Tom Landry Source: Inspire, http://www.inspirelist.com/ NOTE: Thanks to John L. Hoh, Jr. the source for Monday's Thoughts is noted as follows: Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly. - Mary Smich By "Chicago Tribune" columnist Mary Smich in a column about if she was ever asked to speak at commencement what she would say. Baz Luhrman turned it into a hit (something about using sun screen) a few years ago. ~~~~~~~ SPECIAL THOUGHTS: One morning I was sitting in the lobby of a Winnipeg hotel waiting for a friend to come down from his room. As he left his key at the desk, the clerk said, "You are late to church this morning, aren't you?" My friend replied, "You didn't go to church either." "No," the man replied, "I never go to church any more. There are too many hypocrites there. So I just stay away." I thought my friend gave a very good answer: "But that's the reason I go to church. Where there are counterfeits, one usually finds the genuine." By Charles L. Paddock Source: Our Times, Copyright (c) February 1947, Pacific Press, http://www.signstimes.com Submitted by Dale Galusha ~~~~~~~ THIS & THAT: Strange Headlines & News Bloopers The Door is the Window to the Home. Air Force to Get New Uniforms: New Camouflage Really Stands Out We're offering the best hearing aid money can buy at unheard of low prices. Weather Conditions to Determine When Rain Will Stop. Man minus Ear Waives Hearing (Richard Lederer) Lawmakers Back Train Through Iowa (Richard Lederer) Source: Sermon Fodder, http://www.sermonfodder.com ~~~~~~~ KEEP SMILING: After nine police officers on a narcotics raid at an apartment building in Coventry, England, squeezed into an elevator made for eight, it stalled. The officers wound up being trapped for 45 minutes until resident Eddie Laidle heard their cries for help. "I told them I would get the police," he said, "and they shouted, 'We are the police -- get the fire brigade!' " Excerpted from the book "Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest" © 1996 by John J Kohut and Roland Sweet Source: Humor Digest ~~~~~~~ TRIVIA: Understand how the symptoms of a cold and a flu are different. http://www.aaaai.org/patients/topicofthemonth/1003/ So urce: The Pocket Newsletter, http://www.thepocket.com |