Timmersomethings Blog Of Random Stuff

The language is a little r rated in spots but it is funny as all get out. Look out Johnny Knoxville and the rest of the Jackass crew. These guys might just be your replacements.

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE QUOTE: "We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself." HINT: (1924-2007), widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents. RANDOM TIDBITS Benjamin Franklin was the first head of the United States Post Office. The first macaroni factory in the United States was established in 1848. It was started by Antoine Zegera in Brooklyn, New York. The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. It was published in New Haven, Connecticut, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February, 1878. The A&P was the first chain store business to be established. It began in 1842. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was the first novel ever to be written on a typewriter. It was typed on a Remington in 1875 by Mark Twain himself. Twain did not want that fact known because he didn't want to write testimonials or answ...

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE QUOTE: "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." HINT: (1912-1989), American self-trained historian and author. RANDOM TIDBITS All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book Peter Pan were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London. Fagin, the villain in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, was also the name of Dickens' best friend, Bob Fagin. Robert Louis Stevenson said that he had envisioned the entire story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in a dream and recorded it the way he saw it. John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress, wrote most of his famous books while in jail. He was imprisoned for twelve years for preaching without a license. After completing his book on the French revolution, English historian Thomas Carlyle gave the manuscript to his friend John Stuart Mill to proofread. By mistake Mi...

I constantly collide into all the others, The only one of 16 without colors. Associated with English and banking and breaking, The answer is right there for the taking. ANSWER: The cue ball on a pool table.

*---- Quotes For The Week ----* There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.--Edith Wharton Each party [Democratic and Republican] has assumed the mantle of fiscal responsibility while accusing the other of reckless spending. Yet both parties have proposed irresponsibly high levels of military spending at the expense of programs that meet the needs of society's most vulnerable members.--Friends Committee on National Legislation newsletter, December 1999 The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.--Helen Keller **--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---** To hold a pen is to be at war. See at the bottom for the answer. *---- More Quotes for the Week ----* What we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.--Pericles To smile when confronted with the...

My next car… Old Bumper Cars What do you do with OLD Bumper Cars? Good shopping car for your area.. Wonder what kind of mileage they get? Who says there is nothing new under the sun. WHO KNEW? Yes, you read that right; these little beasties are street legal. They run on either Kawasaki or Honda motorcycle engines and co-opt vintage bumper car bodies into the most awesome form of mini-car we've seen in too long. There are seven of these little monsters floating around California , and they're all the creation of one man,Tom Wright, a builder in the outskirts of San Diego who figured the leftovers of the Long Beach Pike amusement park needed a more dignified end than the trash heap. They were originally powered by two cylinder Harley Davidson Motorcycle engines but they rattled like heck because of the two cylinder vibration and Tom replaces them with four cylinder Honda or Kawasaki 750's and a couple have been measured as capable of 160 MPH, which is terrifyingly fast in mac...

These are actual comments taken off the car videos of South Carolina Troopers: 1. "You know, stop lights don't come any redder than the one you just went through." 2. "Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch after you wear them a while." 3. "If you take your hands off the car, I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document." (My Favorite) 4. "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired." 5. "Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's the speed of the bullet that'll be chasing you." (LOVE IT) 6. "You don't know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?" 7. "Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I'm the shift supervisor?" 8. "Warning! You want a warning? O.K, I'm warning you not to do that again or I'l...