Sunset in Indiana
It helps to have been raised in Indiana to understand this.
Action Figure Therapy for Marines
Action Figure Therapy for Marines
The Wrong Diner with Gunny
LCpl Schmuckatelli USMC
He really does exist!
My Dad Blocks Text Messaging on His Phone
AS OF TODAY OUR CELL PHONE HAS BEEN BLOCKED FOR TEXT MESSAGES.
I noticed on a couple of recent Verizon bills that I had been charged for a text message. I have never sent a text, nor do I even know how to retrieve one, and the same goes for Mom. Therefore, I do not want to receive charges for an unused tool.
You can call me at any time (preferably not after 11:00 pm until 6:00 am, eastern time), but in an emergency you can call any time. I recently was awakened at 1:33am by someone looking for someone named Tanya. I should have told them that Tanya was in my bed and don’t disturb us again, but at that hour I was not too quick on the trigger.
You can also e-mail us because I can access that either here at home or away, and even on my “I Pad”.
Or if you are not in a hurry you can send me a letter or post card.
All calls and messages are cheerfully received and replied to, unless we forget.
Incidentally, I think all the texts we have received were junk mail from advertisers.
Best to you all and love from both Mom and me.
John Wooden’s Creed for Life
Making the Most of Oneself
· Be true to yourself
· Make each day your masterpiece
· Help others
· Drink deeply from good books
· Make friendship a fine art
· Build shelter against a rainy day
· Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day
Happiness Comes From Making and Keeping Nine Promises
· Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness and prosperity as often as possible
· Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special that you value
· Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best in yourself and others
· Promise to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own
· Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind
· Promise to forget the mistakes of the past après on to greater achievements in the future
· Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile
· Promise to give so much time improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others
· Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit trouble to press on you
The English Plural according to…
We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and there would be those, Yet hat in the plural would never be hose, And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!
Let’s face it – English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren’t invented in England.
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
We find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don’t fing,
Grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham?
Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
What do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
Should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship…
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
While a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
In which your house can burn up as it burns down,
In which you fill in a form by filling it out,
And in which an alarm goes off by going on.
And in closing………..
If Father is Pop, how come Mother’s not Mop.??????
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