Today's fun stuff

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there." - George Burns

"At 50, a person is really very young, but he will not find it until later." - Mark Twain (Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews)

The Oscar statue is made of gold-plated Britannium, an alloy which is 93% tin. No wonder it's called tinsel town! Read more!

What's it all about then?

This morning, I'm rustling through last week's newspapers to cut out any interesting articles (does anyone else do that anymore?) and I come across a movie schedule featuring "Alfie". To refresh your memory, it's about a wastrel womaniser Alfie, played by Michael Caine.

Final words of "Alfie": You know what? When I look back on my little life and the birds I've known, and think of all the things they've done for me and the little I've done for them, you'd think I've had the best of it along the line. But what have I got out of it? I've got a bob or two, some decent clothes, a car, I've got me health back and I ain't attached. But I ain't got me peace of mind - and if you ain't got that, you ain't got nothing. I dunno. It seems to me if they ain't got you one way they've got you another. So what's the answer? That's what I keep asking myself - what's it all about? Know what I mean?

Profound words, right?

And then when I turn the newspaper page, there's this Garfield strip:








Coincidence? :-)

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