A bright young Scottish lad named Shamus
had the opportunity to go to university in London. So he packed
his bags and said good-bye to his mother and left the highlands
for the big city.
After the first week his mother called to see how her boy
was holding up.
"I love it here Mother," Shamus told her, "but
these English students are the oddest people ever! Why the
boy who lives in the dormitory room next to me bangs his head
against the wall until midnight every night. And the boy in
the room above me stomps around until midnight every night.
And the boy right below me blasts his stereo until midnight
every night."
"Why don't you complain to the Dean of students?"
asks his mother.
"Well, it doesn't bother me much," answers Shamus.
"I'm usually up until that time quietly practicing my
bagpipes anyway."
A Conversation...
So,
apparently there's no Nobel Prize for math because Nobel's
daughter ran off with a mathematician and Nobel didn't want
him to have a chance to win it.
When
I told my roommate that, she sat there for a moment, then
asked:
"Who
the hell would run off with a mathematician?"
If you can't stand the
heat, get out of the kitchen.
----- Harry S. Truman
Odd Facts About August 16th:
1920 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland
Indians is hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the
New York Yankeesd and died early the next day. Chapman is the only
player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
1938 - RIP Blues Legend (& Great Grandfather of Rock and Roll)
Robert Johnson, who may have sold his soul to the devil.
1977 - RIP Elvis Presley
1987 - The harmonic
convergence was supposed to bring about peace on Earth.
2007 - RIP Jazz drummer Max Roach
Today's
Birthdays:
Madonna
(1958) Vanessa Carlton (1980) Gene Kelly (1912) Julie Newmar (1933)
Angela Bassett (1958) Kathie Lee Gifford (1953)
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