Thought for the day...

You are welcome Ward. btw, are you going to the GTG neat Altoona in June?

 

If it requires a person or object to make you happy, you don’t know what happiness is. But, if you can stand alone in the midst of any hard situation, doing a required or routine task with love and peace in your heart, you know something about happiness.

You can get a good look at a T-Bone steak, by sticking your head up a cows backside, but if I were you, I'd take the butchers word for it.

If you are satisfied just to get by, step aside for a man who isn't.

 

Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.

You cannot become a saint by comparing yourself with a sinner.

Blessed are they who attend strictly to their own business.

Only those willing to go too far will ever find out how far they can go.

 

BY A 15 yr. Old SCHOOL KID IN ARIZONA
New Pledge of Allegiance.


Since the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord's Prayer are not allowed in most public schools
anymore because the word 'God' is mentioned and a kid in Arizona wrote this new school prayer.

Now I sit me down in school where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God finds mention of Him very odd.
If scripture now the class recites, it violates the Bill of Rights.

And anytime my head I bow becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange or green, that's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise. Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate, God's name is prohibited by the state.
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks, and pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.

They've outlawed guns, but first the Bible. To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen, and the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong, we're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls, study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed, no word of God must reach this crowd.
It's scary here I must confess, when chaos reigns the school's a mess.

So, Lord, this silent plea I make: Should I be shot; My soul please take! Amen

 

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
~~James D. Miles

Don't pretend to be what you don't intend to be.

One proof of your love for God is your love for your neighbor.

Etiquette is a little better than what is absolutely necessary.

 

Let your testimony be written in large enough letters that the world can always read it.

"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and Hell where they already have it." -Ronald Reagan

'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.' - Ronald Reagan

 

There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London , which used to have a gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners were taken to the gallows, (after a fair trial of course) to be hung. The horse drawn dray, carting the prisoner, was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''. If he said YES, it was referred to as “ONE FOR THE ROAD” If he declined, that prisoner was “ON THE WAGON”

 

The next time you are washing your hands and complain, because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500's: Most people got married in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers, to hide the body odor.

Hence the custom today, of carrying a bouquet when getting married.



Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

 

Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."


There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom, where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top, afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

 

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt Poor." The wealthy had slate floors, that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh, until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.


In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle, that always hung over the fire. Every day, they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight, then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: ''Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old''.

 

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon, to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "Bring home the Bacon." They would cut off a little, to share with guests and would all sit around talking and ''Chew the fat''.


Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning & death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.


Bread was divided, according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or ''The Upper Crust''.