Monday, May 31, 2010
And the winners are...
The winner of the "Delicious Dessert" prize pack is... Lori T!!
The winner of the "Costco Sunny Day Snacks" giveaway is... Milagros G!!
Stay tuned for more exciting giveaways coming soon!! :-)
The winner of the "Costco Sunny Day Snacks" giveaway is... Milagros G!!
Stay tuned for more exciting giveaways coming soon!! :-)
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Josh Billings
In my quote widget today, I saw:
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." - Josh Billings
This impressed me enough to look him up on Wikipedia:
"Josh Billings was the pen name of humorist born Henry Wheeler Shaw (20 April 1818 – 14 October 1885). He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not fared so well with later generations."
He turns out to have been behind a very common saying:
"While the Squeaky Wheel analysis was used in different forms before Billings, his poem, "The Kicker" brought the idiom into common usage of American language. The term "kicker" at the time in the 1800s was another term for a complainer. The poem is:
I hate to be a kicker,
I always long for peace,
But the wheel that does the squeaking,
Is the one that gets the grease."
He has some other brilliant ones:
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it, and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
I have finally come to the conclusion that a good set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
There may come a time when the lion and the lamb will lie down together, but I am still betting on the lion.
And last but nt least, one that's particularly apropos for the Omni household:
"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them." lol
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." - Josh Billings
This impressed me enough to look him up on Wikipedia:
"Josh Billings was the pen name of humorist born Henry Wheeler Shaw (20 April 1818 – 14 October 1885). He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not fared so well with later generations."
He turns out to have been behind a very common saying:
"While the Squeaky Wheel analysis was used in different forms before Billings, his poem, "The Kicker" brought the idiom into common usage of American language. The term "kicker" at the time in the 1800s was another term for a complainer. The poem is:
I hate to be a kicker,
I always long for peace,
But the wheel that does the squeaking,
Is the one that gets the grease."
He has some other brilliant ones:
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it, and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
I have finally come to the conclusion that a good set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
There may come a time when the lion and the lamb will lie down together, but I am still betting on the lion.
And last but nt least, one that's particularly apropos for the Omni household:
"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them." lol
