Sunny and chilly. Not much to this Winter. I heard that Canadians are upset.. they cannot skate outdoors ... there is no ice because of Global Warming. I remember, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, when I was a kid... we had lots of days below zero and lots of days to ice skate on Buttonwood Pond. Not any more, I've been told.
Ramblings:
Aspidistra, you know, the plant that always grows in bar rooms... it is virtually indestructible.. drunks throw up in its pots, sometimes pee in them, and nobody ever waters them. But they survive. Elaine has two big pots filled with the plant that she says is over one hundred years old.
One pot-worth was looking sickly, so yesterday we transplanted it to a bigger container, cut off the dead leaves and talked nicely to it. Hopefully, it will recover... its a tough old plant. Since this plant came to Elaine from her mother, she would like to pass it on the her daughter when she departs this globe.
If one travels on the Car-Train to Florida, one can look out the window as the train passes through northern Florida, and see lots of these plants growing wild. I've been told that they bloom every hundred years. Wow!
Current Business Practice
Columbia University researchers say that 81% of prostitutes have Facebook pages and one quarter of them get their clients that way.
It's the Real Thing
The Week Magazine sez: the secret Coca Cola recipe is a mixture of lemon, orange, nutmeg, and neroli oils.. blended with coriander and cinnamon.
Oscar Levant said:
"Under this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."
W. C. Fields said:
"I am free of prejudices. I hate everyone equally."
Political Outlook
From Espree Issue III:
A heckler once interrupted a political speech by Theodore Roosevelt by shouting, "I am a Democrat!"
Roosevelt paused, smiled, and said, "May I ask the gentleman why he is a democrat?"
A slightly inebriated voice replied, "My grandfather was a Democrat, my father was a Democrat, and I am a Democrat."
Roosevelt responded, "My friend, suppose your grandfather had been a jackass, and you father had been a jackass, what would you be?"
A Republican" was the instant reply.
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