Nuggets, Jim
A Mensa card and a dime won't even buy a cup of coffee, but then I don't drink coffee anyway.
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A neighbor Farmer thought a Humberd was a Humberd, and even if he was a 12 year old kid, and if he was 4, 6 or 8 years younger then his brothers, so what, put him to work.
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A selective memory is a great thing. I can't tell you much about it, since I have one, I can't remember what it is.
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About the only thing I remember from High School, was helping Audrey when she was having trouble with her garter.
As I pointed out the sights, the rolling hill beauty of San Francisco, one man said through his tears, “Just think, these poor people have to live in these crowded conditions!”
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As we approached the Altar, the pastor yelled, “Hey you guys, quit hammering for a few minutes, doesn't hurt to use this stuff twice.” Wedding took 5 minutes, the Marriage lasted 55 years.
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At the movie theater in Manila in 1946, I thought some artist had painted a beautiful night scene on the ceiling. Then I noticed, the moon had moved!!
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Being married to an older woman does have certain advantages. Well, I did have to wait a year for my first Social Security check.
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Dozens of our Tidbits, Snippets, Gems, and Nuggets, tell, indicate, hint, express, insist, and broadcast my complete, intense, deep-felt love for my Sweetie, forever.
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During a lifeboat drill in the Merchant Marine, someone pushed the wrong button. I was swinging out over the ocean hanging on for dear life, until someone hit the right button.
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How can you be that dumb, and still eat so well?
For better or worse, most everybody agrees that in both its positive and its negative connotations, the word that describes me is accurate. My word? Curious!
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For many years, I never left my beautiful Bunkmate for even a moment, unless absolutely unavoidable.
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For some reason I was a very good Gunner, and Brother John was a very good Number One Man, for the 105mm howitzer, in the US Army..
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I was too dumb to know how smart I was.
For Sweetie's 50th birthday I gave her 50 tiny pieces of gold, and 50 small emeralds, in a glass vial, held by a chain.
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For Sweeties 70th birthday I had a necklace with 70 stones made especially for her.
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I am in such physical condition that I can touch my knees without even bending my elbows.
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I disliked Fall butcher day until in early Spring when the smell of frying ham wafted its way to the field where I was plowing with the team of horses.
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I built a Weather Station outside my window. I used a little rope to tie a stone to a tree limb, and here are the rules.
If the rock is wet, it's raining.
If the rock is white, it's snowing.
If I can see the rock, it's daytime.
If I can't see the rock, it's night time.
If the rock is moving, the wind's blowing.
If the rock is under water, it's been raining a lot.
If the rock and the tree are missing, we've had a tornado.
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I could have spent my life with her in a phone booth, that's all the space I needed - the closer to my Sweetie, the better.
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I could hear sirens as I arrived home, but Sweetie said, “Don't get excited when the Fire truck gets here, the fire is out now!”
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I had heard enough to pique my curiosity, and my ever flourishing curiosity rules the day.
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I hate CHANGE, the only thing to CHANGE is hate itself. No one can hate IMPROVEMENT.
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I know for a fact that if the marriage is good, there is nothing better. And I have been told if the marriage is bad there is nothing worse.
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I looked in the mirror the lady had just purchased, and said, “Wow, what a wonderful picture, who painted it, Michelangelo?”
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I received B12 shots and gained 5 pounds a week. Threw the medicine away, I haven't been the same (shape) since
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I taught classes on two computers used to put the men on the moon. Since everyone got to the moon and back, I did my job perfectly.
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I remember “selling” raspberries, “10¢ a box, two for a quarter.” At least I tried!
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I taught classes on two computers used to put the men on the moon. Since everyone got to the moon and back, I did my job perfectly.
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I was in a carpool with three Psychiatrists (RAND employed many of them, what a carpool!), who laughed and said, I violated all the rules they were taught in School.
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I told my Doctor, “How do I know if I am feeling as I should. I've never been this age before”
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I was Jury Foreman when we found the Colombian drug dealer, Guilty. We the Federal Jury, were happy our names were not revealed.
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I went to college (3 or 4 months) with bomber pilots, tail gunners, tank drivers, prisoners of war, etc., military veterans from WW II, attending college under the GI Bill.
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I won my Sweetie! No Diploma or Peace Treaty would ever be worth as much as that Marriage License!
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I would have helped Sweetie hold down her windblown skirt, but I was busy leading the applause, and she was laughing too hard to do it herself.
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If I did a job twice, I wanted it to be because I did it wrong the first time, not just because it was Tuesday again.
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If I type a few paragraphs and no one reads them, have I really written anything?
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If I could get a job working with IBM equipment, I would be in an office environment, but would not need to strain my eyes, as in so many office jobs.
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If I did a job twice, I wanted it to be because I did it wrong the first time, not just because it was Tuesday again.
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If I type a few paragraphs and no one reads them, have I really written anything?
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In 1951 I was a secret spy for the FBI, looking for members of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg spy ring.
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In Las Vegas I loved the material used to make the waitress's uniforms. It shrank so nicely.
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In the winter-time, one thing dumber than getting on an airplane in Los Angeles wearing an overcoat, is getting off an airplane in Minneapolis without one.
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Ladies in fast-food restaurants told me how nice it was that I was taking such good care of Sweetie. That made me proud, I tried, I'm glad it was obvious to others.
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My boss was leaving for vacation, I said, “I hope you enjoy your vacation as much as we will.”
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My brain was not cluttered with the things they teach in college, so it was available to accept and process new ideas about computers.
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My Brother Johnny and I were together in the Army for several months, he in the upper bunk, me in the lower, or vice versa
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My job in early computers (1950s), required a lot of curiosity, and a wide range of knowledge
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My tennis partner's T shirt had a printed message. She asked, “Do you like my message?” I said, “No, but I love the message board!”
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Not Love at First Sight, it was LOVE AT FIRST GLIMPSE, by the time my Sweetie had partially opened the door, on our blind date, Nov. 3, 1950.
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On a business trip to the cyclotron at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, a Guide said, “You could be sterilized.” One of the men with me, the father of seven, said, “I should have come here years ago.”
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On my first Merchant Marine ship, when the very drunk steward returned and found no salad, he chased me with a butcher knife. I had never seen a salad, had no idea what it was, or how to make 50 of them.
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One time I gambled and doubled my money. The problem was, I only bet a nickel.
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Pat gave me the phone number of her beautiful friend. For over 55 years that “phone” rang and rang and rang, and Sweetie “answered” each and every time.
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Senator Paul J. Fanin AZ, asked me to present my idea of a needed IRS law, to his staff, and staff members of other Senators, in his office in the U. S. Senate Office Building. Was I ever proud!!
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Since my mother was named Anna Marie, the Great-Granddaughter was named Joanna Marie
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Some people will be driving at 50 mph, on a street with a posted limit of 30 mph, and regardless of how much I blow the horn, they won't move over and let me pass. (One of my printed Letters in the LA Times.)
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The advantage of not graduating from high school or college, includes the right not to care who wins a ball game.
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The elderly man's shoes were from "NIKE." I said, "If they knew you were going to walk this slowly, I'll bet they would never have sold you those shoes."
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The old fable that “The way to a man's heart is through his stomach,” sure didn't apply to me. The way to my heart was my Sweetie's beauty, her character, her figure, and especially her hugs and kisses.
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The music store manager could not imagine the beautiful music, from such an instrument. Well, it was my baritone horn, but it was not me playing.
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The Principal fumed when I said, “Your school is boring, the Library is interesting.”
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The soft drink and beer sellers would holler at me at the popcorn machine, “More salt, more salt.” Some nights, people's mouths would pucker with each bite of popcorn.
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When I squeeze my Sweetie I always hear bells and chimes.
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There's good news - there's a lady in the hot tub without her bra. And there's bad news - I need one as much as she does!
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They asked me what I was going to buy with my prize of $25, won in a tennis match. After looking at the prices in the Country Club shop, I said, “I think I'll put a down payment on a pair of socks.”
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They were intended to be presents for Sweetie's Christmas and for her birthday. I didn't want her to see them, so I smuggled them past the Customs officer in Miami.
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To be happy each time I met my beloved Sweetie was the easiest thing I ever did.
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Were the job layoff's coincidence or contagious, maybe I was a “Typhoid Mary.” I often wondered.
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When I visited the Senate Building subway, I would make sure I got to sit next to Senator Taft, Senator Bricker, Senator Knowland, and others
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When the nurse was finished punching holes in me, and filling me with awful tasting stuff, I said, “If this is the most fun you can be, no wonder you're never asked for a second date.”
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Who said I'm not amazing, so modest too.
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You must demand some reasonable association between effort and excitement.
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You should see the enchanting, delectable, heavenly view I saw at most every meal!
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Your spirit of adventure will be modified by your gumption for walking.
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