Words of Wit

Posted on January 21, 2012 by tutor

SMART ASS:  


Two young businessmen in Florida were sitting down for a break in their soon-to-be new store in the shopping mall.  As yet, the store wasn’t ready, with only a few shelves and display racks set up.


One said to the other,  “I’ll bet that any minute now some old senior is going to walk by, put his face to the window, and ask what we’re selling.”


Sure enough, just a moment later, a curious senior gentleman walked up to the window, looked around intensely and rapped on the glass, then in a loud voice asked, “What are you sellin’ here?”


One of the men replied sarcastically, “We’re selling ass-holes.”


Without skipping a beat, the old timer said, “You must be doing well. Only two left.”


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3000 words

Posted on January 20, 2012 by tutor

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Unauthorized music

Posted on December 20, 2011 by tutor

Next thing we know it will be illeagle to play the Nation Anthem because it will offend a muslem…

Missouri State apologizes for playing ‘Dixie’ at site of lynching

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. • Missouri State University is
apologizing after its band performed “Dixie” at a site where three
black men were lynched in 1906.

Interim President Clif Smart tells the Springfield News-Leader
the Confederate anthem was an “unfortunate selection” and won’t be
played again at a public venue.

The school’s Pride Band played “Dixie” at the Nov. 18 dedication
of Park Central Square in Springfield, where the university is
located. A plaque identifies the square as the location where three
black men were lynched more than a century ago.

The local NAACP president says “Dixie” was an inappropriate
choice and sparked community complaints.

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Another Death

Posted on September 11, 2011 by tutor

 

Robertson had a bit part in Mr. Roberts (1950) in Boston. Robertson played a future President of the United States in PT 109 (chosen personally by John F. Kennedy to portray the then-Lt. Kennedy) and a presidential candidate in The Best Man (1964). Later came Charly (an adaptation of Flowers for Algernon for which he won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor).

Other films included Picnic (1955), Autumn Leaves (1956), Gidget (1959), Sunday in New York (1963), Devil’s Brigade (1968), Too Late the Hero (1970), J. W. Coop (1972), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Obsession (1976), Star 80 (1983) and Malone (1987). Late in his life Robertson’s career had a resurgence. He appeared as Uncle Ben Parker in the first movie adaptation of Spider-Man (2002), as well as in the sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). He commented on his website that “Since Spider-Man 1 and 2, I seem to have a whole new generation of fans. That in itself is a fine residual.”[7] He was also in the horror film Riding the Bullet (2004).

Robertson’s television appearances included The Twilight Zone episodes “A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” (1961) and “The Dummy” (1962) followed by guest starring roles in such series as the NBC medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour (1963) in the role of Jeff Dillon, “The Man Who Came Home Late”. In 1958, he portrayed Joe Clay in the very first broadcast of Playhouse 90′s Days of Wine and Roses, in what some critics cite as the superior version of this story about alcoholism. Other network appearances included The Greatest Show on Earth (1963) and ABC‘s Breaking Point (1964) and the ABC Stage 67 episode “The Trap of Gold” (1966).

He had a starring role in the live space opera Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers (1953–54), as well as recurring roles on Hallmark Hall of Fame (1952), Alcoa Theatre (1959), and Playhouse 90 (1958, 1960), The Outlaws (three episodes as Chad Burns), Batman as the villainous gunfighter Shame (1966, 1968), Falcon Crest (1983–84) as Dr. Michael Ranson, and The Lyon’s Den (2003). He had starring roles in episodes of both the 1960s and 1990s versions of The Outer Limits. He was awarded an Emmy for his leading role in an 1965 episode from Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre entitled “The Game”. His second appearance on Batman featured his wife, Dina Merrill.

In 1989, he narrated an AT&T promotional video documenting some of its technological improvements at the time. Incidentally, Robertson, who for ten years was a national TV spokesman for AT&T (which won him the Advertising Age award for best commercial), was to be the keynote speaker at an AT&T stockholders’ meeting during a strike by AT&T workers. Robertson refused to cross the picket line and did not speak at the meeting. In the same year he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.[8]

 

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Down low

Posted on August 12, 2011 by tutor

3.26

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Nothing else needed to say

Posted on August 12, 2011 by tutor

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Down low again

Posted on August 7, 2011 by tutor

3.33

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Down

Posted on July 28, 2011 by tutor

3.51

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Up again

Posted on July 11, 2011 by tutor

3.55

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Another Death

Posted on July 9, 2011 by tutor

Betty Ford – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford (April 8, 1918 – July 8, 2011[1][2]), better known as Betty Ford, was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 during the presidency of her husband Gerald Ford. As First Lady, she was active in social policy and shattered precedents as a politically active presidential wife.

Throughout her husband’s term in office, she maintained high approval ratings despite opposition from some conservative Republicans who objected to her more moderate and liberal positions on social issues. Ford was noted for raising breast cancer awareness following her 1974 mastectomy and was a passionate supporter of, and activist for, the Equal Rights Amendment. Pro-choice on abortion and a leader in the Women’s Movement, she gained fame as one of the most candid first ladies in history, commenting on every hot-button issue of the time, including feminism, equal pay, ERA, sex, drugs, abortion, and gun control. She also raised awareness of addiction when she announced her long-running battle with alcoholism in the 1970s.

Following her White House years, she continued to lobby for the ERA and remained active in the feminist movement. She is the founder, and served as the first chairwoman of the board of directors, of the Betty Ford Center for substance abuse and addiction and is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal (co-presentation with her husband, Gerald R. Ford, October 21, 1998) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (alone, presented 1991, by George H.W. Bush).

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