Will Rogers- where have you been all my life? (510 hits)
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Submitted by MyIdiom (View user info) at 2005-05-22 01:48:07 EDT
Recently I read a list of amusing quotes. One of them was the following:
"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." - Will Rogers
Will Rogers?? <Image of a cowboy from those old Westerns pops into my head>
So I googled him.
Turns out it is the cowboy. Apparently, he lived from 1879-1935... and damn did this guy live.
What did Will do that was so special? Well, since you didn't ask, I'll tell you.
1) Dropped out of school in the 10th grade to become a cowboy
2) Was in the Guinness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once (one around the horse's neck, one around it's legs, and one around the rider)
3) Used his talents with the lasso to travel all over the world with a Wild West show and a Circus
4) Decided to try Vaudeville shows, where his comedy bit (about politics, people, and life)
became famous
5) Moved to Hollywood and began acting in films... soon he was a huge national star
6) Wrote six books and 4,000 syndicated columns
7) Became a successful radio broadcaster and political commentator
8) Died in a plane crash in 1935
Will Rogers Is Underrated!!
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A few Will Rogers quotes:
"Lord, let me live until I die"
"For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity"
"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in"
"Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth"
"Even if you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there"
"It's easy being a humorist when you've got the government working for you"
"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need"
"The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter - he's just got to know"
"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds"
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Submitted by dwype (user info) at 2005-05-22 05:25:54 EDT (#)
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i think going out in a high impact collision is the way to go. no pain. no months dying in a hospital bed.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-05-22 05:13:20 EDT (#)
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Destroy Will Robinson
Submitted by tinactin (user info) at 2005-05-22 04:12:14 EDT (#)
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This wasnt very entertaining
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2005-05-22 02:14:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have been to his birthplace(small house), which is located aprox 45 miles N/E of Tulsa,
and just before the town of Nowata. Both in OK.
A great man.