The 3 Keys...
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz
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WannaBee"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz
... that in addition to being Martin Luther King Day, today (18th Jan.) is also the birthday of the Polygraph? In 1951, the first lie detector test using a polygraph took place in the Netherlands. Trivia buffs: A polygraph measures and records blood pressure, pulse, respiration, breathing rhythms, body temperature and skin conductivity.... So...now you know...please don't ask again 
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a “bone-house” and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the “graveyard shift”) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be “saved by the bell” or was considered a “dead ringer.”
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a “wake.”
"Are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah? He used to live in whales for a while." Groucho Marx
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man “could bring home the bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat”.
Hi Wilson...
"I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do." Helen Keller
"The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something." Randy Pausch
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.”
