Timmersomethings Blog Of Random Stuff

Who says we weren't wild in the old days?!

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...

This is amazing. And even more amazing is that this hasn't been published long before now. CHURCHILL ON ISLAM Unbelievable, but the speech below was written in 1899! (check Wikipedia - The River War)I am sending the attached short speech from Winston Churchill, delivered by him in 1899 when he was a young soldier and journalist. It probably sets out the current views of many but expressed in the wonderful Churchillian turn of phrase and use of the English language, of which he was a past master. Sir Winston Churchill was, without doubt, one of the greatest men of the late 19th and 20th centuries. He was a brave young soldier, a brilliant journalist, an extraordinary politician and statesman, a great war leader and Prime Minister, to whom the Western world must be forever in his debt. He was a prophet in his own time; He died on 24 January 1965, at the grand old age of 90 and, after a lifetime of service to his country, was accorded a State funeral. HERE IS THE SPEECH: "How ...

How's This For Nostalgia? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike's! They all had curled hair and smiles! It took three minutes for the TV to warm up? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege and real fun, to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed... and they did it! When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the...