“Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.” (Alphonse Karr) I like to find new information…like things about Alphonse K He was a 19th century French novelist, educational reformer, satirist, floriculturist (he named the dahlia), fisherman and creator of the saying: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”…and d’ya know gangster Al Capone was also named, Alphonse? ;-) Jack
FROM ST PAUL IN ST PAUL: i don't imagine Al C. named too many flowers... but he did wear one in his lapel as i recall.====JACK: Maybe he didn't name flowers, but he did cause some of his enemies to "push up daisies/"
FROM WALMART REV: Learning something new ever morning, Jack!!====JACK: No day is wasted when you learn something new during that time.
FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY: Great words and true!!====JACK: Did you ever think that you'd be reading some "great and true" words from Alphonse Karr today? Have you ever heard of him?
FROM BLAZING OAKS: MERCY! Wonder what he did in his spare time??! :-) Talk about a
Renaissance man! This quote reminds me of the late Barbara Bush, saying, in Time magazine: "Be Yourself! Well, maybe someone a little nicer..." Ha! I remember A.Lincoln saying the true test of
Character is observing how someone treats the lesser, or little guy. (Paraphrased) Alphonse is pretty "spot on" in this observation! Heaven help us!!====JACK: Put on your sport's cap. Do you remember Alphonse and Gaston?====OAKS: Afraid not...it sound vaguely familiar....! ====JACK: It’s a baseball play when two players stand under a pop-up thinking that the other was going to catch it, and it drops between them. There was an old comic strip, Alphonse and Gaston, a couple of overly-polite Frenchmen who could never get anything done, because each was deferring to the other. “After you, Alphonse.” “No. after you, Gaston.”
FROM BB IN CHGO: I like the more things change…but I’ve never been certain of what it really means.====JACK: You are the person you were when you were a little girl, even though your appearance may have changed. Chicago is the same city as when my mother grew up there, buy, even though it's appearance is different, it's still Chicago.
Chicago, Chicago that toddling town
Chicago, Chicago I will show you around - I love it
Bet your bottom dollar you lose the blues in Chicago, Chicago
The town that Billy Sunday couldn't shut down
On State Street, that great street, I just want to say
They do things they don't do on Broadway
They have the time, the time of their life
I saw a man, he danced with his wife
In Chicago, Chicago my home town
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