There's No Business Except Slow Business

*** I wouldn't say I owe a lot of people, but CID on my phone stands for "Creditor I.D."

*** Did folks in Roman times say, "You're XLV??--you don't look a day over XXX!!"

*** I had a rash of women in my early days---each one left me with a rash.

*** I remember having a real vindictive math teacher, especially when he taught multiplication---he always turned the tables on us.

*** Well, tomorrow marks 40 years the last time the Beatles performed together. Maybe they needed to get a new agent!

*** Word is , that at the last moment, ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich has qualified for an Oscar in the Best Male Performer category for his heart-rending, ' Hey, me, the son of immigrants---immigrants who came to this great country to find a better life for their children--- people who believed the dream, dreamt the dream and dreamed the belief--- I've done nothing wrong---the fix is in---they're out to get me...me, a man who inspires children with long, hard to pronounce names with the idea that they too, can rise to the office I've so faithflly served' soliloquy.

*** By the way, I understand that in the Porn Film Industry, "Best Performer" has a whole different meaning. As does "Best Supporting Actor"---last year claimed by a Ms.Cherry Hills, who served as the fulcrum for an unusually acrobatic three-way.

*** President Obama tore the CEO's who used bailout money to buy personal luxuries a new one, which they were secretly grateful for, as one commented, "Hey we are full of shit!"

*** I can't understand why that film "Valkyrie" tanked--I mean , it ain't everyday you see Tom Cruise trying to kill Hitler! I mean Star Power alone!!