JACK'S WINNING WORDS 10/11/06
“The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.” (Rabelais) Have you checked your speedometer lately? Maybe it’s time for you to slow down and enjoy the scenery. ;-) Jack

NEWSNOTE....One of our innercity freeways is increasing the speed limit from 65 to 70 mph, because nobody was obeying the lower limit.

FROM B. G. IN F.H.
Remember "Life in the fast lane" by the Eagles? Life in the fast line, guaranteed to blow your mind...I think Don Henley sang that one when he was the band.
Have a good one. Fast, but not too fast to look around.
Peace-

EAGLES LYRICS "Life In The Fast Lane" He was a hard-headed man He was brutally handsome, and she was terminally pretty She held him up, and he held her for ransom in the heart of the cold, cold city He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude .... They went rushin' down that freeway, messed around and got lost They didn't care they were just dyin' to get off And it was life in the fast lane Life in the fast lane

FROM D. Z. IN W. B.: Sort of like-- "take time to smell the roses along the way." --Too many exhaust fumes in the fast lane.

FROM B. D., THE CORVETTE GUY: What scenery, at 120mph's you don't see anything but poles flying by !!!!!! Going on a four day Corvette road tour starting Friday. I bet if I keep it under 80mph I'll see a few things. This is a perfect winning word for me.

SOME STUFF ON RABELAIS...
The bus that runs late at night in Montpellier - his university town - is named "Le Rabelais" in his honour.
Rabelais is mentioned in the Meredith Willson musical The Music Man. In Act One the ladies of the town tell Professor Harold Hill that Marian the Librarian advocates "dirty books" (Chaucer, Rabelais, Balzac); in Act Two the ladies admit to Marian, "The Professor told us to read those books, and we simply adored them all!"
The title song on Donald Fagen's 2006 album Morph the Cat refers to the Cat as a "Rabelaisian puff of smoke".

FROM J. S., NEWLY RETIRED:....I'm getting both knees replaced on Friday. I definitely will not be in the fast lane for a while.