Archive for January, 2004

Seasonal Difference between the USA and Canada

Thursday, January 22nd, 2004

60 above – Floridians wear coats, gloves, and wooly hats.

Canadian people sunbathe.

50 above – New Yorkers try to turn on the heat.

Canadian people plant gardens.

40 above – Italian cars won’t start.

Canadian people drive with the windows down.

32 above – Distilled water freezes.

Lake Ontario’s water gets thicker.

20 above – Californians shiver uncontrollably.

Canadian people have the last cookout before it gets cold.

15 above – New York landlords finally turn up the heat.

Canadian people throw on a sweatshirt.

0 degrees – Californians fly away to Mexico.

Canadian people lick the flagpole and throw on a light jacket over the sweatshirt.

20 below – People in Miami cease to exist.

Canadian people get out their winter coats.

40 below – Hollywood disintegrates.

Canada’s Girl Scouts begin selling cookies door to door.

50 below – Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.

Canadian people get frustrated when they can’t thaw the keg.

60 below – Microbial life survives on dairy products.

Canadian cows complain of farmers with cold hands.

460 below – ALL atomic motion stops.

Canadian people start saying. . .”Cold ’nuff for ya??”

500 below – Hell freezes over.

The Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series

Quote: Leonard Nimpy

Thursday, January 22nd, 2004

The miracle is this; the more we share, the more we have.

- Leonard Nimoy

Quote: Joel Arthur Barker

Wednesday, January 21st, 2004

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn’t go by yourself.”

- Joel Arthur Barker

Quote: General Douglas MacArthur

Tuesday, January 20th, 2004

“We are not retreating – we are advancing in another
Direction.”

General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

Quote: Ronald Reagan

Monday, January 19th, 2004

“Some people, even in my own country, look at the riot of
experiment that is the free market and see only waste. What of
all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly
the successful ones; often several times. And if you ask them
the secret of their success, they’ll tell you it’s all that
they learned in their struggles along the way; yes, it’s what
they learned from failing. Like an athlete in competition or
a scholar in pursuit of the truth, experience is the greatest
teacher. And that’s why it’s so hard for government planners,
no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions
of individuals working night and day to make their dreams come
true.”
–Ronald Reagan

Quote: Rich Cook

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

“Programming today is a race between software engineers
striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs,
and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots.
So far, the Universe is winning.”
-Rich Cook

Quote: C. S. Lewis

Saturday, January 17th, 2004

“When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I
shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I
learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead
of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not
love my earthly dearest at all. When first things are put first,
second things are not suppressed but increased.”
–C. S. Lewis

Quote: Frederick L. COllins

Friday, January 16th, 2004

There are two types of people–those who come into a room and say, ‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are.’

– Frederick L Collins

The Sibling

Thursday, January 15th, 2004

After 50 years of wondering why he didn’t look like his
younger sister or brother, the man finally got up the nerve
to ask his mother if he was adopted.

“Yes, you were son,” his mother said as she started to cry
softly. “but it didn’t work out and they brought you back.”

Quote: Doug MacLeod

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

“I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.”
– Doug MacLeod