Ahh. The old green army men. These bring back many memories. We had a large coffee can full of these guys. And many were the times my brother and I would divide them, set them up and play war. We used rubberbands to shoot them down, and whoever shot all of the other's...
I watched the movie White Nights many years ago, but there was a scene that had a great line that I never forgot. Apparently it was a common Russian phrase that went, "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us." What a great description of Communism. As a Nursing...
A story is told of a time many years ago in the Great Smoky Mountains when some pigs got loose and ran off into the wild. No one thought much about it until they multiplied, became wild, and destructive. The people in the area thought they could hunt them all down,...
This is a very famous optical illusion and it deals with perspective and perception. Do you see an old woman, or a young lady? They are both there. It depends on how you look at the picture. And once you can detect both, you can choose which one you see. In a world...
As a kid, I always wanted to be on stage. Somewhere. Anywhere. I imagined myself hearing the Director announce through his megaphone, “Lights! Camera! ACTION!” That last command set everything in motion. Without that command, and subsequent response to do something,...