just ignore and let this one die

Gratuitous vanity shot and a follow up another thread where this hair was talked about.

Hey folks!

Great Pic Weston, I do love that hat!

It's A-Level results day here, My sister just found out hers.....she's going to Uni!! I'm gonna miss her like crazy! She's worked so hard for it and I couldn't be prouder She's gonna make an awesome Solicitor lol.
My brother finds out his results this afternoon....fingers crossed.

PT Barnum never really said that. It was attributed to him by a competitor trying to tarnish his image.

Somebody ungrammatical, no doubt.

Pep (Originally it was "his" I believe, since women had no money - and you will say that they were never fools, I suppose. )

PS To which I would respond: "How much do you girls spend on shoes?" )

No kidding? Thanks for setting that straight. Of course it's true even if PT never said it.

When Barnum's biographer tried to track down when Barnum had uttered this phrase, all of Barnum's friends and acquaintances told him it was out of character. Barnum's credo was more along the lines of "there's a customer born every minute" — he wanted to find ways to draw new customers in all the time because competition was fierce and people could become bored easily.

While some sources claim the quote is most likely from famous con-man Joseph ("Paper Collar Joe" Bessimer,[1] it was actually uttered by David Hannum, spoken in reference to Barnum's part in the Cardiff Giant hoax. Hannum, who was exhibiting the "original" giant and had unsuccessfully sued Barnum for exhibiting a copy and claiming it was the original, was referring to the crowds continuing to pay to see Barnum's exhibit even after both it and the original had been proven to be fakes.

In turn, Barnum's fellow circus owner and arch-rival Adam Forepaugh attributed the quote to Barnum in a newspaper interview in an attempt to discredit him. However, Barnum never denied making the quote. It is said that he thanked Forepaugh for the free publicity he had given him.

Yet another source credits late 1860s Chicago "bounty broker, saloon and gambling-house keeper, eminent politician, and dispenser of cheating privileges..." Michael Cassius McDonald as the originator of the aphorism. According to the book Gem of the Prairie: Chicago Underworld (1940) by Herbert Asbury, when McDonald was equipping his gambling house known as The Store (at Clark and Monroe Streets in Chicago) his partner Harry Lawrence expressed concern over the large number of roulette wheels and faro tables being installed and their ability to get enough players to play the games. McDonald then allegedly said, "Don't worry about that, there's a sucker born every minute."

The earliest known appearance of the phrase in print is in Opie Read's 1898 novel A Yankee from the West.[2]

In the John Dos Passos novel The 42nd Parallel, the quotation is attributed to Mark Twain.

Bruv passed his first year....only just though. He hadn't really bothered working, so failed one of the subjects(he was gonna drop it anyway). He passed with good enough grades to return next year, but bad enough that they might give him a kick up the bum for next year lol.
So that means come september, the whole family is gonna be in some form of education lol.

Vanity Pic time. Awhile back, Lil turned me on to this costume, Amelia the Pilot. I was having a damned hard time find boots for it, so I finally had some custom made. Thanks go to Pixieplumb Flanagan of Baby Monkey, who did these in a day!





The Airplane is Cubey Terra's Stearman PT-17.

http://www.just-whatever.com/2007/05/22/itit-apples-latest/

(better late than never)

This is so YOU!
So many great pictures from everyone lately - and your blog is fun, Brenda. This thread keeps me busy.

Vanity Pic time. Awhile back, Lil turned me on to this costume, Amelia the Pilot. I was having a damned hard time find boots for it, so I finally had some custom made. Thanks go to Pixieplumb Flanagan of Baby Monkey, who did these in a day!

http://www.sluniverse.com/snapzilla_snapshots/Brenda_Connolly_Amelia_396185.jpeg



The Airplane is Cubey Terra's Stearman PT-17.

Big congratulations to your clever sister and fingers crossed for your brother. I actually earned 2 or 3 O-Levels the first year I was in the UK. I had already graduated from U.S. high school and was about to get married and enter the work force so it didn't really mean much to me. I imagine waiting for A-level results is quite nerve wracking.

Ummm, so where is your blog, Brenda? Do you have a link?

Oh! And my dad's home from the hospital, resting comfortably.

I'd fly with you any day.

The boots look fabulous with the outfit.

I notice that I haven't posted a picture or the like since 8/11/09.