Nice little tribute to a man who DID make a difference: Bob Hope
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>May 29, 1903 - July 27, 2003
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>ON TURNING 70 "You still chase women, but only downhill".
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>ON TURNING 80 "That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit
>needs pressing."
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>ON TURNING 90 "You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than
>the cake."
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>ON TURNING 100 " I don't feel old. In fact I don't feel anything until
>noon
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>ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING "I ruined my hands in the ring ...
>the referee kept stepping on them."
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>ON SAILORS "They spend the first six days of each week sowing their wild
>oats, then they go to church on Sunday and pray for crop failure."
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>ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR "Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's
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>at my home, 'Passover'."
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>ON GOLF "Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green
>fees
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>ON PRESIDENTS " I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only
>six
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>ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR HIS CAREER< /B> " When I was born, the doctor
>said to my mother, 'Congratulations.You have an
>eight-pound ham'."
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>ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL "I feel very humble, but I
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>I have the strength of character to fight it."
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>ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY "Four of us slept i n the one bed When it
>got cold, mother threw on another brother."
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>ON HIS SIX BROTHERS "That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the
>bathroom."
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>ON HIS EARLY FAILURES " I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't
>for the stuff the audience threw at me."
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>ON GOING TO HEAVEN "I've done benefits for ALL religions. I'd hate to
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>the hereafter on a technicality."
The first one I know for sure,the next is getting close.
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