"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. "
~Albert Einstein~ I love this quote and I believe it to be so accurate. An example is writing, if one has only knowledge of how to write a perfect piece, with appropriate punctuation and what not, it will be a boring read. If one has a great imagination to capture the reader, it will be entertaining and the reader won't notice a comma out of place. Imagination is limitless, we can go anywhere with it and never leave our desk. Have a good Sunday.--Keith
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Hemingway shocker: 'Death in the Afternoon' classic about hookers not bulls - Wikipedia
Death in the Afternoon, as every reader of good books knows, is a non-fiction book by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting. Or is it? Maybe there's more to this book than meets the eye. Could this famous work be about something a little more infamous! We searched the term "Death in the Afternoon" on the world's most powerful search engine Google, and were shocked at what popped up before our surprised eyes. There in black and white, on the very first link to Wikipedia, the description read: "Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish whores". Wow! Hemingway was actually writing about Spanish hookers, and not bulls? We clicked on the Wikipedia page in Google's cache (the search engine's last recorded version of the page), just to make sure our eyes weren't deceiving us. And sure enough there they were in all their glory - those Spanish ladies who practised the oldest profession in the world! But before you go check it out for yourself, forget it! Those Wiki editors have since corrected the embarrassing blooper. But not before we captured the evidence on computer screen. To prove we tell our visitors the truth, even if Wikipedia doesn't, we reproduce the two screen images above and below. It begs the question, how authoritative is Wikipedia and how much can you trust the information in it? Wikipedia boasts that it is a free and collaborative information resourse written and edited through the volunteer efforts of thousands of people. But it is also notoriously open to gross acts of vandalism. So it has ended up publishing some great big whoppers. And boy, this has got to be one of them. It just goes to show, you can't believe everything you read - even if it appears on the world's biggest online encyclopedia. Old Ernie must be turning in his grave! I found this article on http://thatsweird.net/facts16.shtml. I thought this was interesting and very true, we shouldn't believe everything we read. Have a good day--Keith "What you get free, costs too much." ~ J. Anouilh
I have experienced this before. It seems like some people are so eager to give, but then they hold it against you forever and expect something in return. Be careful what you ask for and be aware of something that seems free. Nothing in life is ever free. It may seem like it, but there is never a free deal. Have a good Sunday---Keith. I remember one afternoon when I was a teenager in East Texas, my dad made me help him rake up pine needles one afternoon in our front yard. It was very hot and humid as it always is in East Texas during the summer. I was complaining and bitching about how hot it was and that I had to be out there helping him. He told me how easy I had it compared to when he was growing up. He told me once when he was a kid that he got a job at a train yard . He said that his job was to shovel gravel out of a boxcar. He discovered the more he shoveled out gravel, the deeper he sunk into the boxcar until finally, he had shoveled out all of the gravel and was standing in the bottom of this huge boxcar and realized he couldn't get out. He said his brother threw down a rope and pulled him out over the top. My dad died last December. I never found out if that story was actually true.---Keith
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