Today’s ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music. ~ Bob Hope.ĭid you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn’t hear them. I don’t know what people have against government they haven’t done anything. Don’t laugh, if you had thought to of that, you’d not be here now. Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy. You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it. Be proud! You know what you are: you’re God’s frozen people. ~ Bob Hope.ĭon’t tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation. ~ Bob Hope.Ī bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minute bodies. When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness. They’re the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before. You know, marriage is making a big comeback. Why don’t they just print our money with a return address on it? ~ Bob Hope. Just what we needed.I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. A stove in the middle of the shabby room simple straightforward folk, less drunk than at Rue de Bièvre, and less dirty. What remains of the instruments of torture found in the cellars of the Petit-Châtelet have been housed here, along with some other restored objects.Ī modest bar counter, a long-haired patron who bizarrely manages never to be freshly shaven or downright bearded. Underneath the building, there are two floors of superimposed cellars: the deeper ones date from the Gallo-Roman period. At the time it was founded, the Trois-Mailletz was the meeting place of masons, who under the supervision of Jehan de Chelles, carved out of white stone the biblical characters destined to grace the north and south choirs of Notre-Dame. In 1292, Adam des Mailletz, inn-keeper, paid a tithe of 18 sous and 6 deniers.This we learn from the Tax Register of the period. “The ‘Oberge des Mailletz’ is by far the oldest tavern of which any record can found in the City archives. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Tales of the Wayside Inn" Shuddered and danced their dance of death, Their lines of stalls, their mows of hay, Its torch-race scattering smoke and gleeds
Gleamed red with fire-light through the leaves ("The Chamois")”Įchoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories This, I thought to myself, has been happening through the centuries under this same sky, in the warm air with a bite to it, the sap drink pungent as the sap running through the veins of these Greeks, witty and cynical as Aristophanes himself, in the shadow, unmoved, inviolate, of Athene's Parthenon. A man from one table would suddenly rise to his feet and stroll over to another, discussion would follow, argument at heat perhaps swiftly dissolving into laughter.
The gay intensity of talk - none of which I could understand, naturally - reminded me of left-bank Paris. I liked the chatter and the laughter from neighbouring tables. I enjoyed poking my finger in a pan and choosing my own piece of lamb.
“I left them to it, the pointing of fingers on maps, the tracing of mountain villages, the tracks and contours on maps of larger scale, and basked for the one evening allowed to me in the casual, happy atmosphere of the taverna where we dined.
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