... compile a list of lists, the 50 Best Lists of All Time.(1) Among the top ten are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, The Bill of Rights, the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. But the consensus pick for the number one list ever was the Ten Commandments. Good choice? Most ... Laurie, via Internet, "The Ten Commandments, Part I," http://www.harvest.org/tools/ffl/comand1.html 3. Robert Goldberg and Gerald Jay Goldberg, Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon, (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995) 4. Albert Curry ...
... dulcet tones purrs into the receiver, "Good morning, I am a computer." In this chapter we honor a man, not a Rube Goldberg crafted machine. Time magazine recently presented a resume on a sampling of commencement speeches given to our graduating seniors. A theme common ... as numbers whose names were not important. Sometimes we treat Dad as if he were a machine; a machine we crank and dollar bills fall into our hands with the ease of a bank money machine user; a machine that helps keep the machine we drive in ...
... . Sometimes we use the word saint in a pejorative sense: “Well, I didn't know that YOU were such a saint!" Or, “Nobody said Bill Clinton was a saint." Sometimes we might use the word saint as a compliment: “Old George was a such a saintly man." But generally, ... day surround the throne of God. We are those who have been washed in the blood of the Lamb. 1. M. Hirsh Goldberg, THE BLUNDER BOOK (New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1984). 2. These two illustrations are taken from a sermon by Wayne Brouwer. 3 ...
... of circumstances. Have you ever driven all night in a snowstorm just to get home for Thanksgiving? Is your credit card bill at the end of the month the best reflection of your spontaneous nature? Have you ever given in to the overwhelming ... (appealing to grades from 1-8), and cross-over (both boys and girls). The voices of the characters are familiar ones (Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Asner, James Coburn, Meg Ryan, Martin Sheen, et al.). The story line of this show contends that Mother Earth has given The ...
There are two groups in our culture self confident enough to make jokes about themselves--- lawyers and rednecks. The following story came from a self-identified redneck. He says that a fellow redneck over in the Ozark Mountains died. His redneck widow went to the local newspaper to have an obituary notice printed. The editor explained that it would cost 50 cents per word. She thought a moment and then said, "Print this—‘Billy Bob died.’" "Wait a minute," said the editor. "We have a seven word minimum." " ...
