Chuckle 2553

Chuckle 2553
(Nicki H Florence OR gets today's chuckle thanks.)

~ Chutzpah~ (Also; Today in History, Word for the Day, Today’s Horoscope, and Maxine,

----- Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance; it's Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, "no other word and no other language" can do it justice. This example is better than 1,000 words. Read the story below the picture and then you will understand.

THE ESSENCE OF CHUTZPAH...

A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each. Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time, and as he passed the pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but never take a pretzel.

This went on for more than 3 years. The two of them never spoke. One day, as the young man passed the old lady's stand and left his quarter as usual, the pretzel lady spoke to him. Without blinking an eye she said:

"They're 35 cents now."

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Today in History Click
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/history

Word for the day Click
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/

For today's Horoscope click
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/8404539/

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(Maxine from my own collection.)

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(Old Cures sent in by Jack S of Santa Cruz CA)

Have you ever wondered why our great grandparents all had such fond memories of their youth?

Well.. I'm surprised they remembered anything at all !!!

Forget Tums & Tylenol.

Forget Aleve & Benedryl.

Look at the cool stuff they had back then;

A bottle of Bayer’s ‘Heroin’.

Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine.
It was also used to treat children suffering with a strong cough.



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