Bargain Basement

"The New York Stock Exchange is now a 99-Cent Store!" ---David Letterman on The Late Show; March 10, 2009

Quantities of Food

Q: "Where do mathematicians like to eat?"

A: "On multiplication tables!" ----anonymous children's joke

EEEWWW!!!!!

Q: What has 2 tongues, 24 eyes, and smells bad?
A: A pair of old tennis shoes! ---Anonymous kids' joke

Car Troubles

Q: What happens to old car mufflers?
A: They become "exhausted"!!! ---Anonymous children's pun

Change of Fortune

"Don't forget---the stockholder of yesterday is the stowaway* of today." ---Groucho Marx in Monkey Business

*Stowaway, as in someone who sneaks aboard a ship without paying fare. (The first part of the movie, the Marx Brothers' characters were stowaways.)

Thoughts on Time

(on entering a new year)
From everlasting to everlasting
You are God.
For a thousand years in Your eyes
Are as a day just passed
Or as a watch served in the night.
The days which we are given--
In them is seventy years;
Or if there is strength,
Eighty years.
Teach us our days thus to reckon
So that we may obtain a heart of wisdom.---Moses, from Psalm 90
(translated by C. Marie Byars)

Psalm 130

Man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, he thus flourishes:
The wind blows over it and it is not,
And its own place remembers it no more.
But from everlasting to everlasting
Yahweh's love is with those who revere Him
---David; Psalm 130:15