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In the 1948 presidential contest between Harry Truman and Thomas E. Dewey, the latter looked like a winner. On election night, Dewey asked his wife, "How will it be to sleep with the president of the United States?" She replied, "A high honor, and quite frankly, darling, I'm looking forward to it."
Next morning, at breakfast, after Dewey's defeat, Mrs. Dewey said, "Tell me, Tom, am I going to Washington or is Harry coming here?" |
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While dying of cerebral meningitis in a Parisian hotel room, Oscar Wilde was offered a glass of champagne. His final toast? "I am dying as I have lived, beyond my means
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William Randolph Hearst offered columnist Arthur Brisbane a six-month vacation on full pay as a reward for his dedicated and successful work. When Brisbane refused, Hearst asked him why. The journalist advanced two reasons: "The first is that if I quit writing for six months it might damage the circulation of your newspapers." He paused for a moment; then said: "The second reason is that it might not."
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Turner: Control the Hole
"Everything is a hole," Ike Turner once declared. "When you're born, two holes - there's a hole at the head of your penis, and you come out of a hole. So you come out, and everything is about holes. When you eat? Hole. When you breathe, it's a hole. When you see, it's a hole. When you hear, it's a hole. And when you die, where you goin'? Right back in the hole. If you get too much money you gonna be in a hole. If you don't get enough, you're definitely gonna be in a hole. "So to me, the best thing to do is stop tryin' to stay outta the hole: Get in the hole and find out what's happenin' with the hole and try to control the hole. And then you can have the hole, because you understand the hole." |
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In 1930, [the Futurist poet Filippo] Marinetti wrote a manifesto on Futurist cuisine, demanding a new form of nutrition for the new Italian man. Eventually, he wrote, this diet might consist entirely of pills, thus minimizing the distraction from the pursuit of military glory; for now, it could take the form of a chicken stuffed with ball bearings, meant not to be eaten but to flavor the meat with the fortifying taste of steel..."
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In the period that Einstein was active as a professor, one of his students
came to him and said: "The questions of this year's exam are the same as last years!" "True," Einstein said, "but this year all answers are different." |
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hmmm JP, the same anecdote as contributed earlier and we're only in post 76
---------------------------------------- hope this is an original addition: Einstein's profession: In response to a fellow train passenger, October 31, 1930, who asked him his occupation, he answered that he was an artist's model, reflecting Einstein's feeling that he was constantly posing for sculptures and paintings (Einstein Archive 21-006)
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Could be in another thread , like the boring one
  Jack Warner, the movie producer and co-founder of Warner Brothers, was in the habit of taking an afternoon nap in his office at Warner Brothers, and it was an unwritten rule of the studios that he should not be disturbed. On one occasion, however, Bette Davis burst into the office while Warner was asleep and began ranting about a script that did not meet her approval. Without opening his eyes, Warner reached for the phone and called his secretary. "Come in and wake me up," he said. "I'm having a nightmare." Miss Davis could not help laughing, and the crisis over the script was resolved in a few minutes.  |
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William Thomson Kelvin worked out an improved method for measuring the depth of the sea, using piano wire and a narrow-bore glass tube, stoppered at the upper end. While experimenting with this invention, he was interrupted one day by his colleague James Prescott Joule. Looking with astonishment at the lengths of piano wire, Joule asked him what he was doing, "Sounding," said Kelvin. "What note?" asked Joule. "The deep C," returned Kelvin.
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Can't resist being pedantic. Kelvin is his title, not his surname. His name is William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin - or Lord Kelvin.
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