There’s an old Harry Truman joke. (What other kind would there be!?) The press had followed Pres. Truman to his home in Independence, Missouri, where he was holding court in his rose garden. He was telling the mob of reporters the secret to growing his prize roses: plenty of manure! They couldn’t get enough of Truman’s down-home outspokenness; they were encouraging him, and this inspired him further, and so it went. Listening nervously, a young press aide to the president sidled up to the first lady, Bess Truman, and suggested, “Mrs. Truman, don’t you think it would sound better for the newspapers if we encouraged the president to use the word ‘compost’ instead of ‘manure’?” Bess looked at the young man and replied, “Do you know how long it took me to get him to say ‘manure’?” Of course, everyone here has heard that one.
Warning: Manure Subject Matter
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162 responses to “Warning: Manure Subject Matter”
I’ve trained some great young people. I also trained some that I had to report “They don’t know anything. They don’t want to know anything. I don’t think that they want to be here.”
eMb: What do you mean “us”? [I’m not yet there.] BTW, my MBH, although holding a kitchen knife when I told her, did not threaten any damage.
My sister responded “Thanks a lot.” to the mentioned fact.
A HS classmate of the female persuasion, responding to the same message, told me “Good grief! Go back to bed!”
Sometimes it’s fun being younger than many acquaintances.
Ah…emb..don’t sell yourself short…pearls of wisdom. I believe in them…
Debbie:
Butterflies are forever only in the Hereafter, if it so pleases Elohim*. If it is as I envision it, we will also be able to visit T. rex*, Morganucodon*, the Pennsylvanian coal forests, and even 221-B. Baker St. Wife has probably already roamed 19th century Wessex*.
Peace, emb
* in my post, above, = 4 new words in my dictionary. Just mine, or the Villages?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/221B_Baker_Street
Peace, emb
emb…the circle of life…
Steve…my favorite Christian singer is Fernando Ortego…. this song was playrf as I walked down the aisle to meet my only, future husband…half way down the aisle…it’s a two way street.
I have his “Breaking of the Dawn” CD…excellent…especially…I’ll wake ya’ll up to it in the morning
say good night Debbe……………
rats…played..played…edit delayed
Lousy weather at the Decorah eagle webcam. emb
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles
The 6pm (eastern time) eruption of OF was preceded by a smaller geyser to the left. Camera operator followed the one on the left before refocusing on OF. Turned on OF feed while battling my mom’s old laptop. What a mess. Took me several hours to get the machine to a point where I could get into the boot screen and initiate a restore to factory settings. There wasn’t anything on the machine I didn’t have elsewhere, so the heck with it. Back to ground zero. 🙂
Mindy: Sorry my OF alert messed you up. emb
Debbe:
Here is a Fernando song that I did a few years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DYVlIB6Z8g
I also sang I Will Sing of My Redeemer several times. I put my first attempt on You Tube and have 17K views. I sang it much better later on.
Another favorite Ortega tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM3W-AbfWkw
test. emb
My church choir is working on an SATB version of this hymn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uc1smOOs7A
Good morning Villagers…..
Steve, I’ve listened to your singing links before and the one I couldn’t bring up..will go back to it later, but the second link worked. You have a God given voice…and you use it to sing praises. God bless you.
I for got to post the one link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSl5WLnWtk0, and I don’t know if it’s from yesterday or this morning..let’s see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSl5WLnWtk0
emb – No, I had just gone back through posts to find the link again. And eruptions were great. Opened the feed on my computer during one of the many reboots on the other laptop. Found myself thinking OF hurried up its eruption because another was stealing it’s thunder. 🙂 I was actually a bit surprised to watch two so close together erupt back to back. Nifty.
Steve…don’t know why it posted the same link twice. But Ortega’s “Lord of Eternity” is my favorite of his…it’s has if the words were from me to Him.
Wow, what a way to start a day….
Ya’ll have a blessed day.
Gal…have you heard anything from Jackie on Facebook? I miss her postings….and GR’s too.
Just where is that Ghost?
Indy Mindy…you sound like my son….everybody brings their “toys” over to him to fix. I told him he should start charging them. Me, I have to holler “Ian” come fix this computer 🙂
=^..^=
and Sandcastler’s been MIA too
Today is first day at my old store. Have been informed they have lost key to storage unit, have very little product, and already had one call off. This is going to be interesting.
today’s grin:
http://cheezburger.com/8480547328
And so has Loon, but I’m not worried yet. Those two are probably off on some Indiana Jones level of epic adventure.
Debbe The laptop is now mine. Was just trying get to make it usable again.
Debbe:
I thought that I clicked “copy” on the other link (Give Me Jesus) and I guess I didn’t. So it pasted the link from my previous post. Operator Error.
If you scroll through my you tube videos, you will see one from a 1975 Homestead High School basketball game. That was my senior year. Homestead won the Class 4A state title this year, but frankly the community is so different these days, I could’t cheer for them. There were a lot of snobs in HS when I attended, but now it is just out of hand.
Thank you, Debbe! That did my heart good to hear.
emb, when you said that about pearls, had no one ever “oinked” in response? Shame on them! One of my favorite things to say in times of adversity is about pearls: “Before there can be a pearl, there has to be grit in the oyster.”
Your first day at the store is certainly starting with a bang, Mindy. For me, call offs always felt like the worst, especially with a small staff. For any other type of problem, I knew I could always, with persistence, beat its furry little head down. But with a short staff… I used to tell my booksellers that I was the bones of the store, in that I held everything up and together; but they were the muscle, and without the muscle to make the store really work, we had nothing.
In today’s real-time strip, Jimmy, Arlo has me wondering if he has his own local fan club, kind of like the guy with the hedge pruners who is always around when Janis is on her walk.