This blog deals with the day-to-day life, interests and rants of a married suburban Chicago baby-boomer, i.e. one of my general height, weight and build.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Great cigar-related quotes
I subscribe to Cigar Aficionado magazine and received the February issue today. Along with the magazine, they sent along a wall calendar which contains some interesting cigar-related quotes (my personal favorite is the George Burns quote):
- “If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.” – Mark Twain
- “A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- “Burn them … one by one… slowly.” – Ambassador John Humes (ordering his deputy chief to destroy Havana cigars received as a gift).
- “The cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.” – Aldous Huxley
- “My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.” – Winston Churchill
- “By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.” – John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
- “Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman -- or a bad woman -- it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” – George Burns
- “Tell him I’m out. And to convince him, smoke one of my cigars when you open the door.” – Winston Churchill (telling his valet how to get rid of a visitor).
- “A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.” – Rudyard Kipling
Monday, December 1, 2008
Interesting wedding video
No, it’s not that kind of a wedding video!
I’m not sure if this is a joke, prank or an accident. Watch as the best man attempts to present the wedding ring!
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
‘Turkeys Away’
One of the funniest sitcom episodes ever. This is the classic WKRP In Cincinnati episode from October 30, 1978. Station manager Arthur Carlson dreams up a “brilliant'” Thanksgiving promotion for his station. The promotion involves flying a helicopter over the Pinedale Shopping Mall -- and then releasing twenty live turkeys into the air.
Only one problem…turkeys can’t fly!
