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Saturday Night TV was not complete without watching "Dragnet" (shown on KMID-TV as "Badge 714").
#1 ‘Football is only a game. Spiritual things are Eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas' -Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.
#2.'The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas
#3.'When you win, nothing hurts.' - Joe Namath/ Alabama/ NY Jets
#4..'Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas
#5.'A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.' - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
#6..'I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.' - Bob Devaney / Nebraska
#7. 'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.' - Paul Dietzel / LSU
#8. 'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.'- Bear Bryant / Alabama
#9. 'I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.' - Bear Bryant / Alabama
#10. 'There's one sure way to stop us from scoring---give us the ball near the goal line.' - Matty Bell / SMU
#11. 'Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.' - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
#12. 'I never graduated from Iowa , but I was there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.' - Alex Karras / Iowa / Detroit Lions
#13. 'My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.' -Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee
#14. 'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
#15. 'Always remember...Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.' - Shug Jordan / Auburn
#16. 'They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.' - Darrell Royal / Texas
#17 'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
#18.. 'They whipped us like a tied up goat.' - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
#19. "I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good"Walt Garrison/Oklahoma State /Dallas Cowboys
#20. 'Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.' - Bobby Bowden / Florida State
#21. 'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
#22. After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team: 'All those who need showers, take them.' - John McKay / USC
#23. 'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.' -Murray Warmath / Minnesota
#24. 'The only qualifications for a lineman is to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
#25. 'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.' - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
#26. 'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
#27. 'We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches....' - Darrell Royal / Texas
#28. 'We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking..' - Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School
#29. 'Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.' - Darrell Royal / University of Texas
#30. 'I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
#31. 'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' - John Heisman (re: Heisman Trophy)
#32DALLAS FANS HAVE NO IDEA THAT 50% OF THE TEAMS LOSE EVERY WEEK - CLH
$100 - Most counterfeited money denomination in the world. Keeps the world moving.
Ten Thousand Dollars
$10,000 - Enough for a great vacation or to
buy a used car. Approximately one year of
work for the average human on earth.
One Million Dollars
$1,000,000 - Not as big of a pile as you
thought, huh? Still this is 92 years of work
for the average human on earth.
One Hundred Million Dollars
$100,000,000 - Plenty to go around for
everyone. Fits nicely on a standard
sized pallet.
One Billion Dollars
$1,000,000,000 - You will need some help
when robbing the bank. Now we are getting
serious!
One Trillion Dollars
$1,000,000,000,000
When the U.S government speaks about a $1.7 trillion deficit - this is the volumes of cash the U.S. Government borrowed in 2010 to run itself. Keep in mind it is double stacked pallets of $100 million dollars, each full of $100 dollar bills. You are going to need a lot of trucks like the one shown to freight this around.
If you spent $1 million a day since Jesus was born, you would have not spent $1 trillion by now..but only ~$700 billion - same amount the banks got during bailout.
One Trillion Dollars
Comparison of $1,000,000,000,000 dollars to a standard-sized American Football field and European Football field. Say hello to the Boeing 747-400 transcontinental airliner that's hiding on the right. This was until recently the biggest passenger plane in the world.
15 Trillion Dollars
$15,000,000,000,000 - US national debt (credit bill) has just topped the 15 trillion 2 months before Christmas 2011.Statue of Liberty seems rather worried as United States national debt passes 20% of the entire world's combined GDP (Gross Domestic Product). In 2011 the National Debt will exceed 100% of GDP, and venture into the 100%+ debt-to-GDP ratio that the European PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain) have (bankrupting nations).
$114.5 Trillion Dollars
$114,500,000,000,000.
(U.S. unfunded liabilities)
To the right you can see the pillar of cold hard $100 bills that dwarfs the WTC & Empire State Building - both at one point world's tallest buildings. If you look carefully you can see the Statue of Liberty.The 114.5 Trillion dollar super-skyscraper is the amount of money the U.S. Government knows it does not have to fully fund the Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare Prescription Drug Program, Social Security, Military and civil servant pensions. It is the money USA knows it will not have to pay all its bills.If you live in USA this is also your personal credit card bill; you are responsible along with everyone else to pay this back. The citizens of USA created the U.S. Government to serve them, this is what the U.S. Government has done while serving The People.The unfunded liability is calculated on current tax and funding inputs, and future demographic shifts in US Population.
Note: On the above $114.5T image the size of the base of the money pile is half a trillion, not$1T as on 15T image. The height is double. This was done to reflect the base of Empire State and WTC more closely.
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For Trivia Buffs
(from Linda Sides, 1-30-2011)
IN George Washington's days, there were no cameras. One's image was either sculpted or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed him standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both legs and both arms. Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people were to be painted, but by how many limbs were to be painted. Arms and legs are 'limbs,' therefore painting them would cost the buyer more, Hence the expression, 'Okay, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg.' (Artists know hands and arms are more difficult to paint)
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AS incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only twice a year (May and October) Women kept their hair covered, while men shaved their heads (because of lice and bugs) and wore wigs. Wealthy men could afford good wigs made from wool. They couldn't wash the wigs, so to clean them they would carve out a loaf of bread, put the wig in the shell, and bake it for 30 minutes. The heat would make the wig big and fluffy, hence the term 'big wig.'Today we often use the term'here comes the Big Wig' because someone appears to be or is powerful and wealthy.
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IN the late 1700's, many houses consisted of a large room with only one chair. Commonly, a long wide board folded down from the wall, and was used for dining. The 'head of the household' always sat in the chair while everyone else ate sitting on the floor. Occasionally a guest, who was usually a man, would be invited to sit in this chair during a meal. To sit in the chair meant you were important and in charge. They called the one sitting in the chair the 'chair man.'Today in business, we use the expression or title 'Chairman'or 'Chairman of the Board.'
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PERSONAL hygiene left much room for improvement. As a result, many women and men had developed acne scars by adulthood. The women would spread bee's wax over their facial skin to smooth out their complexions. When they were speaking to each other, if a woman began to stare at another woman's face she was told,'mind your own bee's wax.'Should the woman smile, the wax would crack, hence the term 'crack a smile'. In addition, when they sat too close to the fire, the wax would melt . . . Hence, the expression'losing face.'
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LADIES wore corsets, which would lace up in the front. A proper and dignified woman, as in 'straight laced',wore a tightly tied straight-laced corset.
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COMMON entertainment included playing cards. However, there was a tax levied when purchasing playing cards but only applicable to the 'Ace of Spades.' To avoid paying the tax, people would purchase 51 cards instead. Yet, since most games required 52 cards, these people were thought to be stupid or dumb because they weren't'playing with a full deck.'
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EARLY politicians required feedback from the public to determine what the people considered important. Since there were no telephones, TV's or radios, the politicians sent their assistants to local taverns, pubs, and bars. They were told to'go sip some ale' and listen to people's conversations and political concerns. Many assistants were dispatched at different times.'You go sip here' and 'You go sip there.' The two words 'go sip' were eventually combined when referring to the local opinion and, thus we have the term 'gossip.'
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ATlocal taverns, pubs, and bars, people drank from pint and quart-sized containers. A bar maid's job was to keep an eye on the customers and keep the drinks coming. She had to pay close attention and remember who was drinking in 'pints' and who was drinking in 'quarts,' hence the term 'minding your'P's and Q's '
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INthe heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons. Those cannons fired round iron cannon balls. It was necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon. However, how to prevent them from rolling about the deck. The best storage method devised was a square-based pyramid with one ball on top, resting on four resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem...how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding or rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate called a'Monkey'with 16 round indentations.
However, if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to make'Brass Monkeys.'Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled.
Consequently, when the temperature dropped too low, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannonballs would come right off the monkey. Thus, it was quite literally, 'Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.' (All this time, you thought that was an improper expression, didn't you?)
In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common. It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas of course. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.
Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM! Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening.
After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the instruction ' Stow high in transit ' on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.
Thus evolved the term ' S.H.I.T ' , (Stow High In Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.
There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London.
It used to have gallows adjacent. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial, of course) to be hung.
The horse drawn dray, carting the prisoner was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''.
If he said YES it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD.
If he declined, that prisoner was ON THE WAGON.
So there you go.
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor". But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot. They "Didn’t have a pot to Piss in" and were the lowest of the low. And that's the truth.
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