After my friend and her family returned from San Francisco, her daughter realized she had forgotten to pack her Bart Simpson doll. My friend called the hotel. A few days later, the doll arrived in the mail. With it was a note:
"For the little girl who left her Bart in San Francisco."
In loving memory of Tom Hogg, 1943–2023
MoFunny for
Tuesday
October 12, 2027
Trivia question....
Why did Louisa May Alcott write her classic novel, Little Women?
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Consider these words of wisdom....
See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation. -- Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. -- Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye
I bet ya' didn't know....
The real name of director Stanley Kubrick was Terrence Nezman. His parents changed it on the second day after he was born.
Gabinius, Roman proconsul of Syria, for using Roman troops to restore King Ptolemy of Egypt to his throne, was paid a bribe of $12,000,000.
Things that make you go Hmmm....
Isn't it a little scary that a doctors work is called practice?
Jokes & stories....
The FBI and the DEA are joining efforts and will be assigning some of their agents to a quasi-FBI/DEA enforcement team specifically targeting the illegal allergy pills sales that occur on the black market.
The agents will be called "Pseudo Feds."
You pretend to work, and we'll pretend to pay you.
Three women were talking together, and the subject of birth control came up.
The first women said, "Because of my religion, I can't use birth control."
The second women said, "My husband and I use the rhythm method."
The third women said, "My husband and I use the bucket-and-saucer method."
She was asked how it worked.
She said, "I'm 5'11" and my husband is 5'2". When we have sex, he stands on the bucket. When his eyes get as big as saucers, I kick the bucket out from under him.
An Amish woman and her daughter were riding in an old buggy one cold, blustery January day.
The daughter said to the mother, "My hands are freezing cold."
The mother replied, "Put your hands between your legs. The body heat will warm them up."
So the daughter did, and her hands warmed up.
The next day, the daughter was riding with her boyfriend, and he said, "My hands are freezing cold."
The daughter replied, "Put them between my legs, they'll warm up."
The next day, the boyfriend was again driving in the buggy with the daughter.
He said, "My nose is freezing cold."
The daughter replied, "Put it between my legs. It will warm up."
He did, and his nose warmed up.
The next day, the boyfriend was once again driving with the daughter and he said, "My penis is frozen solid."
The next day, the daughter is driving in the buggy with her mother, and she says to her mother, "Have you ever heard of a penis?"
The slightly concerned mother says, "Sure, why do you ask?"
The daughter says, "Well, they make one hell of a mess when they defrost!"
You might be a redneck if…
There is a stuffed possum anywhere in your house.
It is not unusual for people to collect things, such as coins or stamps. However, it is a little odd to have a collection of body parts. For actress Drea de Matteo, who plays Adriana La Cerva on the television series The Sopranos, sentimentality leads to her desire to collect bits and pieces of those who mean the most to her.
She has just added to her bizarre collection by becoming the proud owner of her brother's teeth. "He sent me all his teeth in the mail. He had one side of his mouth replaced. I like to keep things. I'm sentimental."
However, De Matteo's strangest keepsakes rest in a jar on her bedside table - the testicles from her Great Dane. She remarked, "He's still alive. I show them to him every time he misbehaves. I think he knows they're his."
In 1492 Columbus didn't know where he was going, had a mutinous crew, and was entirely dependent on borrowed money.
Today he'd be a political candidate.
Trivia answer....
Why did Louisa May Alcott write her classic novel, Little Women?
Reportedly, Louisa May Alcott didn't want to write her classic novel, Little Women. She despised young girls and wrote the bestseller for the money.
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth and May were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher, Bronson Alcott and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May.
Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau and theatricals in the barn at Hillside (now Hawthorne’s "Wayside").
Like her character, Jo March in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, " and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences...."
For Louisa, writing was an early passion. She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends. Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens."
At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!"
Confronting a society that offered little opportunity to women seeking employment, Louisa determined "...I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world." Whether as a teacher, seamstress, governess, or household servant, for many years Louisa did any work she could find.
Louisa’s career as an author began with poetry and short stories that appeared in popular magazines. In 1854, when she was 22, her first book Flower Fables was published. A milestone along her literary path was Hospital Sketches (1863) based on the letters she had written home from her post as a nurse in Washington, DC as a nurse during the Civil War.
When Louisa was 35 years old, her publisher Thomas Niles in Boston asked her to write "a book for girls." Little Women was written at Orchard House from May to July 1868. The novel is based on Louisa and her sisters’ coming of age and is set in Civil War New England. Jo March was the first American juvenile heroine to act from her own individuality; a living, breathing person rather than the idealized stereotype then prevalent in children’s fiction.
In all, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories. She died on March 6, 1888, only two days after her father, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.