Winning Words 9/19/12
“Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.”  (Tina Fey)  I like the SNL actress, Tina Fey.  She’s funny.  She learned to appreciate humor from her father.  Together they watched The Honeymooners, The Marx Bros., Monty Python and Young Frankenstein.  My kind of stuff!  Today’s WWs show that she knows something about the reality of life.  “All work and no play…” as the saying goes.    ;-)  Jack

 FROM MICHIZONA RAY:  You know what they say,"There's some truth in humor." To admit, even in jest, that 90% of one's world is delusional, makes even more significant the need to seek the Truth. Otherwise, one must consider that one's "hard work" is all for the delusion. How useless is that? I suppose such awareness brings alive the saying, "The Truth hurts." ////FROM JACK:  During my first working experience after high school, a man in the office taught me this saying which has stuck with me. 
"Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!"  (Jane Taylor)////RAY:  I like what Jane Taylor wrote. Who is she, this wise one who writes so well and in rhyme?////JACK:  No wonder it rhymes.  Jane (1783-1824) was an English poet who also wrote the verse, "Twinkle, twinkle, little star."

 FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  Building confidence in someone is like trying to build the Eiffel Tower without the lean.  LOL  I like Tina too.  It's so important to be able to see the humor of this life.  It's easier to get down than up sometimes, but it's worth the effort.  Smile////FROM JACK:  Speaking of building the Eiffel Tower, my mother had a book, "The Specialist," which described how to build a privy.

 FROM PLAIN FOLKS CHESTER:  Sam Goldwyn said it best. "The harder I work, the luckier I get." ////FROM JACK:  He also made good movies with Louie.

 FROM SAINT JAMES:  I like today's WWs, especially the delusion part.  It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to believe, and also how people buy into the facades people put forth. ////FROM JACK:  False faces are worn on other days, besides Halloween.

 FROM SHARIN' SHARON:  Many times I lack confidence. My daughter thinks I am humble but I think I just lack confidence. Your WW today are causing me to ponder and maybe the reality of life that I hold is that, for me, there is that 90% pesky delusion and and what's more I'm very much aware of how much delusion is in me--it sort of hamstrings me. Actually, this WW is not funny except if things get turned up-side down and the 10% hard work confidence and the 90% delusional confidence actually results in success. Then I suppose it is pretty humorous. I hope to experience that some day.////FROM JACK:  I saw a cartoon recently.  A thin woman was looking into a mirror and saw a different image. 

  FROM CWR IN B'MORE:  .......I really like this one.////FROM JACK:  SNL audiences really liked the way Fey did her impression of Palin.