Volume 22 No. 43
November 13, 2015
a sense of values
During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a pop quiz.  I breezed through the questions until I read the last one.  "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?"
 
Surely this was some kind of joke.  I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name?
 
I handed in the paper, leaving the last question blank.  Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade.
 
"Absolutely," the professor said.  "In your careers you will meet many people.  All are significant.  They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello."
 
I've never forgotten that lesson.  I also learned her name was Dorothy.
 
~Joann Jones, Guideposts

"reach out and touch (somebody's hand)"
(Excerpt)

Reach out and touch
Somebody's hand
Make this world a better place
If you can
Reach out and touch
Somebody's hand
Make this world a better place
very punny
Note from editor:  These are bad enough to be funny.  We hope you get a good laugh out of them -- we sure did.

1.  Two vultures board an airplane, each carrying two dead raccoons.  The flight attendant looks at them and says, "I'm sorry gentlemen, only one carrion per passenger."

2.  Did you hear that NASA recently put a bunch of Holsteins into low earth orbit?  They called it "the herd shot round the world."

3.  Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina.  One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor.  The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much.  The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.

4.  Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank--proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it, too.

Can you stand one more?

5.  Two friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened a florist shop to raise the funds.  Since everyone liked to buy flowers from men of God, the rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair.  He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not.  He begged the friars to close, but they ignored him.  So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close.  Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop.  Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.

Source:  TIPS for Extraordinary Living!, Written & Published by Philip E. Humbert, PhD 




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"Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." 
-Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi


"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Chinese proverb

"If you want more, you have to require more from yourself." -Dr. Phil

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."  -Josh Billings

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt 

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
  -Lloyd Alexander

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."  -Alexandre Dumas

"The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity." -Thomas J. 'Tom' Peters

"Better keep yourself clean and bright.  You are the window through which you must see the world." -George Bernard Shaw

"This is the first test of a gentleman:  his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." -William Lyon Phelps

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.  The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward.  When we are listened to, it creates us, make us unfold and expand." -Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." -Theodore Newton Vail  

"Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality." -Henri-Frederic Amiel 

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things." -Ernest Dimnet