According to Macy's parade site () the first year the balloons were used was 1927, not 1926 as shown in the introduction to this article.

said "If you send people to jail for being stupid, We Would Not Have ANY Politicians"   You say that like it was a bad thing.

When I said the new people wouldn't let her in and she kept doing it a few more years I meant that one year she went away in the spring, stayed away for about a week, and came back.  I went around to the other house and found that the people who had lived there were gone and that the people who moved in didn't want a c...more

Several months after moving into our house, in the late fall, a cat started showing up on our side porch as if she expected to be let in.  Eventually, I gave in and did so.  We already had other cats, so there was food available and she pretty much just fit in.  She stayed the winter.  In late spring she disappeared.  ...more

So... She's appears to be getting kids to eat vegetables.  And (read source) she's doing it within the limitations of the regular budget.  Seems they should be sending the other lunch ladies (and gentlemen) to learn from her instead.

He wasn't fined for paying with pennies, as the title of this article would lead one to believe.  He was fined for the way he delivered the pennies, in a crash, on her desk, and making a mess of the office.  But going to the question, while it's legal, it's rarely "appropriate."  Reading the original article, he appare...more

Yes.  I've been using fountain pens for about thirty years.

Yep, been there.  Best quotation I've evern seen on the subject:   When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. - Sacha Guitry

Another story... The clutch cable broke on the same car.  Drove it home.  Starting from a stop and shifting without a clutch is an adventure.  Got a new cable.  Couldn't find the retainer that goes at the end of the cable.  Fell off when the original cable broke, miles from home on a major highway.  Dealer didn't have ...more