Thanksgiving Musings

One of the things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving is the advice, "Enough is enough."

This sage advice immediately needs to be applied to food. Andy Rooney reminds us that the two biggest sellers in any bookstore are cookbooks and diet books. One tells us how to prepare our food and the other tells us how not to eat any of it. These wouldn't be best-sellers if we lived by "enough is enough."

Orson Welles once said, "My doctor has advised me to give up intimate dinners for four, unless, of course, there are three other people eating with me."

Champion archer Rick McKinney confesses that he regularly eats chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. His basic four food groups are Big Macs, fries, shakes, and lemon tarts.

A scientist has computed that the average human being eats 16 times his/her weight every year, whereas a horse eats only 8 times its weight.

A child watched as his dad finished off seconds and then thirds at the Thanksgiving table. When the dad loosened his belt, the boy said, "Look Mom, Dad's moving his decimal point over two places!"

Editor Horace Greeley told of receiving a letter from a woman: "Our church is in dire financial straits. We've tried everything to keep it going - a strawberry festival, an oyster supper, a turkey dinner, and a box social. What would you suggest?" Greeley wrote back, "Try Christianity."

Well, enough of this is enough. Happy Thanksgiving. -DJ