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March 27, 2008
Nothing but the Truth
David Casstevens of the Dallas Morning News tells a story about Frank Szymanski, a Notre Dame center in the 1940s, who had been called as a witness in a civil suit at South Bend.
"Are you on the Notre Dame football team this year?"the judge asked.
"Yes, Your Honor."
"What position?"
"Center, Your Honor."
"How good a center?"
Szymanski squirmed in his seat, but said firmly: "Sir, I'm the best center Notre Dame has ever had."
Coach Frank Leahy, who was in the courtroom, was surprised. Szymanski always had been modest and unassuming.
So when the proceedings were over, he took Szymanski aside and asked why he had made such a statement.
Szymanski blushed. "I hated to do it, Coach," he said. "But, after all, I was under oath."
By David Casstevens from Condensed Chicken Soup for the Soul
Copyright 1996 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Patty Hansen
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RUMINATIONS
*I am the most anti-social person I know. But of course, I don't know anyone because I'm so anti-social." - Derek Neitzel
*Maybe tomorrow is actually the last day of the first part of my life. -
Michael McCuiston
*Graduation is a funny thing. It probably helps that I went to clown college, though. - Justin E. Kerner
*I bet that guy who learned everything he needed to know in kindergarten
feels pretty dumb paying his student loan every month." - Pat Perez
*I wonder if NASA thought the moon might be made of cheese before they sent up the Apollo 11 crew. Because if it was, it would have been really bad if the astronauts were lactose intolerant." - Paul Paternoster
*If you stacked all the US currency together, you could probably reach the moon, but I bet the Apollo program was still more economical."
- Larry Baum
*The first thing I do after opening a bar of Ivory soap is to scrape off the .0056 part that's impure. I mean, who wants to wash themselves with that stuff? - Paul Paternoster
*Scientists say there are over 3,000 spiders for every human being on
earth. Does anybody want mine? I certainly don't." - Chuck Bonner
*I read once that Shakespeare had a vocabulary of 17,000 words. That's
pretty impressive, but I bet he used some of them twice." - Jeff Alexander
KEEP SMILING:( at my age?)
A father said to his son, "When Abe Lincoln was your age, he was studying books by the light of the fireplace."
The son replied, "When Lincoln was your age, he was President."
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<3 GrandMom Love ~ Thanks to Andy
Good Story | By Omie | 02:57 PM