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Sojourner Truth was one of the first blacks to test the streetcar antidiscrimination law in Washington, DC. Having failed to get a trolley to stop for her when she signaled, she shouted at the top of her voice, "I want to ride! I want to ride! I want to ride!" A large crowd gathered and the streetcar was unable to continue on its way. Sojourner Truth jumped aboard and was told by the angry conductor to go forward to where the horses were or he would put her out. Truth sat down quietly and informed the conductor that she was a passenger and would not be bullied: "As a citizen of the Empire State of New York, I know the law as well as you do." So saying, she rode the car to the end of the line and left it with the words, "Bless God! I have had a ride
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"Beer and wine met at Waterloo; wine, red with fury, boiling over with enthusiasm, mad with audacity, rose thrice against that hill on which stood a mass of immovable men --- the sons of beer.
----------------------------------------You have read history; beer gained the day" `Esquiros`    |
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joseph Lister was once summoned to attend a rich lord who had a fishbone stuck in his throat. Dexterously the great surgeon removed the bone. Overcome with gratitude, the patient asked Lister what was owed him. Lister replied with a smile, "My lord, suppose we settle for half of what you would be willing to give me if the bone were still lodged in your throat."
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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
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You're such a wonderful actor, Mr. Booth," gushed a female admirer one day, "but to be perfectly frank with you, I can't get over your nose."
"There's no wonder, madam," replied Booth. "The bridge is gone." |
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"As to the way of life of the English, they are somewhat impolite, for they belch at the table without shame. They consume great quantities of beer."
----------------------------------------Etienne Perlin, 1558 Nothings changed there then..... or is that just me?  |
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The first American citizen was assasinated today by the American government for being deemed a "terrorist" by the government without the benefit due process review by his fellow citizens. Today is the day all Americans should be scared, very scared. Just put a picture of Osama Bin Laden next to anyone and shoot them because the government says they are bad. Watch the sheep cheer. Time to start the revolution. - MJL
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James Cagney's wife often commented on her husband's memory. In one story she told, she and Cagney were getting into a car in New York City when he spotted a man across the street. Cagney pointed him out and said, "His name is Nathan Skidelsky. He sat next to me in school."
Mrs. Cagney was doubtful. Prodigious memory or not, she couldn't believe that her husband could identify someone he hadn't seen for decades. So she challenged him to prove that his claim was true. Cagney accepted the challenge, crossed the street, and talked with the man. "And you know what?" Mrs. Cagney said. "It was Nathan Skidelsky. The only problem was, he didn't remember who James Cagney was." |
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Lunching in a pub before a matinee performance, Lawson met fellow-actor Richard Burton and invited him to the show that afternoon. As Lawson was not due to appear at the beginning of the play, he sat with Burton to watch the opening scenes. Some twenty minutes into the performance, however, Burton was a little concerned to find Lawson still sitting beside him, having made no move to leave and prepare for his entrance. A few moments later, Lawson tapped Burton on the arm. "You'll like this bit," he whispered excitedly. "This is where I come on."
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Hawthorne's son, Julian, was also a writer and father and son were frequently mistaken for each other. "Oh, Mr Hawthorne, I've just read The Scarlet Letter, and I think it's a real masterpiece," gushed a lady to whom Julian Hawthorne had just been introduced. "Oh, that," said Julian, shrugging modestly, "that was written when I was only four years old."
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