Hi there again!
I know my last blog post about the Constitution was a bit of a civics lesson; I make no apologies for it, but I also realize that I'm a financial planner and not a political science professor. I did get a couple of complaints about that last blog, but I also got many, many more notes of support. That doesn't necessarily mean I was right...maybe it just means that those who disagreed with me didn't want to engage. No worries. My opinions are worth no more or less than the next person's.
Nevertheless, I will continue to respectfully share my opinions on lots of things, and I hope others do as well. We all will be in a very bad place if we think that we can't learn from the opinions of others. I hope we will always live in a country where we have honest discussions about the issues facing us. Fingers crossed!
I promised in the last blog that my next one would be more on the fun side. Hopefully you'll find something interesting or funny in the list below. If not, then maybe you need to lighten up!
- If you start with a penny and you double it every day, it would take you 27 days to become a millionaire.
- In an average year, more people die from falling coconuts than from shark attacks.
“The opposite of despair is not hope. It’s struggle.”-Warsaw ghetto uprising leader Mordechai Anielewicz
- Two thirds of all of the people on earth have never seen snow.
- In 2011, Forbes estimated the net worth of Scrooge McDuck at $44.1 billion.
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” -George Orwell
- Giraffes can clean their own ears with their tongues.
- Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a bet with his publisher than he could write a book only using 50 different words.
“Bad times traditionally produce good books.”-Salman Rushdie
- A "jiffy" is 1/100th of a second.
- You are far less likely to win the lottery than you are likely to die on the drive to buy lottery tickets.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”-Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The game Twister, released in 1966, was initially criticized as "Sex in a Box"
- The only countries not to have formally adopted the metric system are Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States
“Equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: We all have it, or none of us has it.”-Maya Angelou
- There are more life forms on one person's skin than there are humans on the earth.
- There are approximately 200 frozen corpses on Mount Everest; climbers use them as points of guidance.
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose” -Bill Gates
- You are 1% shorter at night than you are first thing in the morning.
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”-Aldous Huxley
- Chickens have better eyesight than humans.
- If you are one-in-a-million, there are still about 7,150 people just like you.
“Of all forms of injustice, none is more flagrant than that of the hypocrite who, at the very moment when he is most false, makes it his business to appear virtuous.”-Cicero
- The shortest place name in the world is simply "A", but interestingly there is both an A, Sweden and an A, Norway.
“You don’t luck into integrity. You work at it.”-Betty White
I hope you can remember at least one item from this list and repeat it at your next dinner party. You will be perceived to be an interesting person, and then perhaps you can exchange opinions on weightier matters! Good luck!