Jack’s Winning Words 7/12/18
“Happiness starts with a smile.”  (Sent by Carol Stanonik)  When you’re on a bus or subway laughter isn’t what you expect.  A Belgian ad agency, working for Coca-Cola, hired an actor to start laughing on a crowded train, with today’s quote as the tagline.  The result showed how happiness can be contagious.  Even a simple smile at someone will often result with one in return.  This world, at times, can be unkind.  Let’s help to make it a happier place.    ;-)  Jack    Coca-Cola: Happiness starts with a smile - YouTube

FROM ST PAUL IN ST PAUL:  and a friendly "hello" can often end up with some kind of brief but meaningful conversation too...===JACK:  A friendly hello is for strangers and casual friends.  The hearty HI and and BIG laughs are for close friends and family (in my experience).===SP:  but do you think carefully about those choices when you meet people or are  your responses more spontaneous and off the cuff?===JACK:  You probably dated many girls including Margaret.  Was the  attraction spontaneous, or off the cuff, or did you think carefully about your decision that she was "the one?"

FROM WALMART REV:  0;-))

FROM HONEST JOHN:  We are up here in Stratford....yesterday we saw The Music Man....the anthem of Positive Thinking....it was enjoyable.....===JACK:  That's one of my all-time favorite shows.  Harold Hill had the right idea...if you think it and believe it, you can.  That's something like preaching on a Sunday...or writing Winning Words.  I even made it a point to visit Mason City, Iowa.
===HJ:  We went there, too.    I love the show.   This was the best presentation of it that I have ever seen===JACK:  I liked how 76 Trombones and Goodnight My Someone were the same tune played at different tempos.  Beautiful music.

FROM KF:  Good one! But my favorite Coke commercial is still "I'd like to teach the world to sing", flash-mob style, followed by "Just Wave Hello" : )))===JACK:   That's my BEST, too.  but messages need to change in order to keep relevant...just like with preaching...and parenting.  The Santa Claus that most folks relate to is an image created by Coca Cola.  They hire creative ad people.

FROM JACK TO CAROL:  Do people laugh during quilting, or do they just quietly sew?===QC:  Quilters mostly laugh when they are sewing…unless we make a mistake and have to rip out what we’ve just done.  Most of us have can even laugh about the ripping out.  There are times that we share tears as sad things do happen in our lives, but we know we have a wonderful caring and loving support group in our fellow quilters.  Laughter does dominate though!  Do pastors find things to laugh about in congregational work?  I can only begin to imagine that!===JACK:  Pastors usually are good at adapting to situations.  With other pastors, they generally talk shop, keep checking their iPhones (in case there's an urgent message), and there's a good bit of laughter, because church and church people can be funny as well as holy.  If I would happen to drop in on your group, I'd try to blend into the situation, except for the sewing.  I think that I might be able to do ripping.

FROM TAMPA SHIRL:  A smile makes everyone happy especially the smiler 😊😊😊===JACK:
 There are smiles that make us happy  There are smiles that make us blue
There are smiles that steal away the tear drops  As the sum beam steal away the dew
There are smiles that have a tender meaning  That the eyes of love alone will see
And the smiles that filled my heart with sunshine  Are the smiles that you gave to me.
===SHIRL:  I love that song! Thx!

FROM BLAZING OAKS:  THAT is hilarious!! I'll bet all the WW readers today are laughing our loud! :-) Smiling  is contagious! I hope we all "catch it" and pass it on!===JACK:  How about the laugh of the Great Gildersleeve?  For real laughs listen to Carol Burnett "Bloopers."

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  That’s a very “smiley” Commerical.  Too bad I like Pepsi better.  That will almost make me switch.  Smiling is very contagious but laughter is down right an epidemic! ===JACK:  When Pepsi Cola first came out, Coca Cola came in 6 ounce bottles.  Pepsi came in 12 ounce bottles, twice as much as Coke.  Pepsi's radio ad was a musical jingle..."Pepsi Cola hits the spot.  Twelve full ounces, that's alot.  Twice as much for a nickel, too.  Pepsi Cola is the drink for you."

Retro Pepsi Radio Commercials - YouTube

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