Jack’s Winning Words 10/28/14
“I knocked and knocked---Sorry I missed you!  ..Opportunity”  (Sign on a door)  I saw this   in WUMO, a new comic strip in our newspaper.  There’s an intriguing web-site called, Opportunity Knocks.org.  Its goal is to match job-seekers and employers…sort of a business eHarmony.  Thomas Edison once said that many people miss opportunities, because they’re dressed in overalls.   Do you know what overalls are and what they represent?    ;-)  Jack 

FROM SBP IN FLORIDA:  Well, to me they represent several things. From when our society was more agrarian.....hard work from early morning until the last of the day's chores were tended to. And clean ones after church on Sunday. Dirty and worn ones meant a struggle for prosperity or a giving up . For kids a general work and freedom to play and explore. To me, they are symbols of a "time "pretty much taken over by "jeans". To me, "dress" clothes were for church and burials. Times have changed , and my recollections are from the "old school". Interesting question in today's WW. ====JACK:  Sometimes called, coveralls, because they were extra-large in order to be worn to cover the good clothing.  They could get dirty, and you'd just take them off without needing to change clothes.  A popular brand was made in Wisconsin...Oshkosh, B'Gosh.