Remember, once you get over the hill, you'll begin to pick up speed.
I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
If it weren't for STRESS I'd have no energy at all.
Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some, like me, just don't have any film.
I always know God won't give me more than I can handle but there are times I wish He didn't trust me quite so much.
Never be too open minded, your brains could fall out.
Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
Some days are a total waste of makeup.
Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
Learn from the mistakes of others. Trust me .... you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
I've tried!!
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
In the song Yankee Doodle Dandy, the phrase “stuck a feather in his cap and called it Macaroni” does not refer to pasta. The term Macaroni, was used in reference to an Italian person that dressed real fancy. That same style of “Dressing like a Dandy” was copied by the English prior to the American Revolution, so when an American Colonist “stuck a feather in his cap” it was done as a pun or satire, making him look like a country bumpkin, which is how the English thought of most colonists.
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The Origin of 13 to a Bakers Dozen?
In the 15th century, rolls, buns and cakes were cooked in three rows of four and sold in batches of a dozen.
The goods were fashioned by hand and bakers found they could make them smaller without the customer noticing it.
Enough people discovered the difference in size, so London passed laws which standardized the weight of baked goods.
Stiff fines and jail sentences were imposed if the total weight was off, so bakers often took the precaution of throwing in an extra roll or cake to make absolutely sure they made the required weight.
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U S Legacies Magazine January 2005
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