Q: Doctor, I’ve heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?
A: Your heart only good for so many beats, and that it… don’t waste on exercise. Everything wear out eventually.. Speeding up heart not make you live longer; it like saying you extend life of car by driving faster. Want to live longer? Take nap.
Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables? Continue reading “Sound advice from the Doctor”
Mario Lanza – Celeste Aida
I had to go to a meeting in a hotel downtown yesterday. I went to take the lift, and there was a sign saying:
Couldn’t find one anywhere, so I walked up 15 flights…
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Winston Churchill
Goodnight everyone. Sleep well.
Listening to Sarah Montegue interview Michael Howard this morning, I was surprised to learn that Howard is ‘one of Ken Clarke’s successors’, her words. Silly old me had him marked as a predecessor. It reminded me of the recent interview, also on BBC, when someone was told that X was the interviewee’s long dead descendent, the interviewer meant ancestor, of course. Does it really matter if BBC staff no longer use the correct words? After all, yer no wot dey mean, doncher.
I would, to a great extent, like to believe in an afterlife. The thought that politicians and bankers could simply go quietly in the night does not appeal to me.
Not long to go now. Expectation levels high at Royalist Towers.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel
Goodnight everyone, sleep well.
My thanks to Zen and Janus for prompting my memory, one of my all time favourites.
On and on – Stephen Bishop
Boadicea's Chariot 
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