Morris Dean
[Anonymous selections from recent correspondence]
Best road. Transfăgărășan, Romania:
The Transfăgărășan or DN7C is the second-highest paved road in Romania. Built as a strategic military route, the 90 km of twists and turns run north to south across the tallest sections of the Southern Carpathians, between the highest peak in the country, Moldoveanu, and the second highest, Negoiu. The road connects the historic regions of Transylvania and Wallachia, and the cities of Sibiu and Piteşti.
What's colorful and smart? A brainbow!
Spain literally means “the land of rabbits.”
Be yourself, genuinely and proudly. – Trying to be anyone else is a waste of the person you are. Be yourself. Embrace that individual inside you that has ideas, strengths and beauty like no one else. Be the person you know yourself to be – the best version of you – on your terms. Above all, be true to YOU, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
These were floating theaters built on a barge that was pushed by a steamboat. These played small town along the Mississippi River. Unlike the boat shown in the movie "Showboat," these did not have an engine. They were gaudy and attention grabbing, which is why we say someone who is being the life of the party is "showboating."
Why don't oysters give to charity? Because they are shellfish!
St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig's Eye after a man named Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant, who set up the first business there.
A 6-year-old boy asked his mother if it was true that God made man from dust.
The mother said, "Yes, son, it's true. We are made from dust, and to dust we shall return."
"Well," said the boy, "I just looked under my bed and there's someone either coming or going."
Interesting, all those churches having the stop-praying-for-snow sign. I think it just makes someone feel better to say, "Dear God, stop the snowing!"
What's snow and why do people talk so much about it? [from a correspondent near the tropic zone]
More Albert Einstein:
- Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern.
- A mathematical equation stands forever.
- The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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| Clint Eastwood & Christina Sandera |
And it was nice to see Julie Andrews looking well.
Most depressing was a scene of Maureen O'Hara in a wheelchair, with a bad-looking red wig, not in person but a recording of her.
This was the first time that I can remember that I had not seen one movie that was up for best picture! My husband had seen American Sniper.
Clint Eastwood is sure looking old! But he had a beautiful young blonde on his arm!
Bed Hog
Limerick of the week:
One man's meter is another man's poison,
it's unwonted gait embrangles his reason,
stimulates mess that's rife with confusion,
motivates glints that are built on delusion,
and makes the man fancy the meter is treason.
| Copyright © 2015 by Morris Dean |
Thanks for the fish! A road better than the Stelvio Pass in Italy? What's a brainbow? What was Spain the land of? How do kids go outside and play today? How do you be yourself? How do you "showboat"? Why don't oysters give to charity? Who named St. Paul? Is someone coming, or going? What is snow? What stands forever? Who was that blonde? What's a bed hog? Poisoned meter?
ReplyDeleteThe Limerick of the Week as originally published (at midnight Eastern time):
ReplyDeleteOne man's meter is another man's poison,
it colors his brain and troubles his reason,
it stirs up mess and confusion,
it whips up dream and delusion,
it makes him fancy the meter is treason.
I just hope that Jihadi John is not [being himself] and will start being himself before we (the decent people of earth) have to turn him back into dust. Regarding Maureen O'Hara, better than in an obit. And the blonde, someone should tell her she'd look a lot younger with a man closer to her age and Clint Eastwood would look better with a woman his age.
ReplyDeletehaha..a few of these really made me chuckle! Thanks!
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