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Wit and wisdom from Transporters of yesterday

Criticism, quotes and perfect hindsight from the pages of newsletters past:

1979:

Every young man should learn to take criticism; he’ll probably be a parent someday.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre; but they are more deadly in the long run. – Mark Twain

1980:

A tourist is a man who travels to see things differently and then complains that they aren’t the same.

1982:

A person must be big enough to admit his mistakes, strong enough to correct them, and smart enough to profit from them.

Between marbles, courtship and crabgrass, a man could spend half his life on his knees.

There’s no limit to the amount of good people can do if they don’t care who gets the credit.

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

Good morale is when your hands and feet keep working when your head says it can’t be done.

As a rule, those who complain about the way the ball bounces are usually the ones who dropped it.

Remember, there is a BIG difference between free speech and cheap talk.

1984:

I’m not confused, I'm just well mixed. - Robert Frost

If you have a job without limitations, you don't have a job. - Malcolm S. Forbes

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. – Vince Lombardi

Perhaps the most important thing that has come out of my life is the discovery that if you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it. The fatal thing is rejection. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt.\

1985:

The pastor of the locaI country church one day called the church handyman to inform him that a mule had died in front of the church. Trying to be a smarty, the handyman replied, "Well, it's the job of you ministers to look after the dead - why tell me?" Not to be outdone, the minister casually replied, "You're right, it is my job. But we always try to notify the next of kin."

The Typographical Error

The typographic error is a slippery thing and sly.
You can hunt till you are dizzy, but it somehow will get by.

Till the forms are off the presses, it is strange how still it keeps;
It shrinks down in a corner and it never stirs or peeps.

The typographic error is too small for human eyes,
Till the ink is on the paper, when it grows to mountain size,

The boss, he stares with horror, then grabs his hair and groans,
The copy reader drops his head upon his hands and moans.

The remainder of the issue may be clean as clean can be,
But that typographic error is the only thing you see.

 

 

 

 

Published 10-02-15