satire?

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

~Sir Winston Churchill

My kind of Mystic

A great name for a new country song:

"If I'd Shot You Sooner, I'd Be Out of Jail by Now."

~Author Unknown

An Irish Prayer

May those who love us love us,
and those who do not love us,
may God turn their hearts,
and if He cannot turn their hearts
may He turn their ankles
that we may know them by their limping.

facts about mountain men

FACTS

1. Most mountain men did not travel alone because they had families that traveled with them.

2. 84% of the mountain men were married.

3. Most mountain men had an average of four kids which often traveled with them.

4. 64% of the mountain men that were married had married Native American women.

5. Most mountain men hunted for fifteen years, then became ranchers or farmers.

6. The men didn't travel alone on foot, but by horses, mules, and canoes.

7. Most mountain men died of old age at the age of sixty-four. They lived longer then most Americans at the time.

my prayer

"Lord, protect me from the consequences of my petitions."

~jpr

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

Plato: For the greater good.

Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed
the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-
nature.

Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.

Epicurus: For fun.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.