Day: August 10, 2014

* As a museum tour guide I took a group of elementary children through the museum and they came upon the skeleton of a dinosaur. The guide explained how big the dinosaur was and how it ate and lived and then said the dinosaur way “extinct.”  “That means it died a many, many years ago.”  A little girl  looked up at me with big eyes and asked, “Were you sad when it happened?”

The judge had gotten involved with the testimony dealing with a cantankerous Kentucky Colonel. Unable to get straight answers from the man the judge said: “They call you a Colonel, what regiment were you in?” The man drawled, “Wall, you see the Colonel in front of my name is like the honorable in front of your name, it don’t mean nothin’.”

@ Supreme court justice Frankfruter was asked by one his friends to officiate at their daughters wedding. He declined saying that he was not authorized to perform weddings. The host incredulously asked, “A Supreme court justice and you can’t perform a wedding. Why is that?”  He answered , “I guess they do not consider that a federal offense.”