 I was a child in the sixties. I grew up putting together models of the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft and watching all the grainy black and white video on the TV. I can remember watching the first Apollo landing and how exciting that was. The drama of Apollo 13 was a real nail biter. Perhaps because of this I have always had a place in my heart for the NASA missions. I confess I have lost a lot of interest over the years because it seemed we went from such great promise to simply plodding out to space to chase commercial interests and war. Still, I am delighted the recent Mars mission appears to be a success. The Mars Phoenix Lander is off to a successful start on a 90 day mission to explore the planet’s North Pole. I had hoped we would have humans walking on Mars in my lifetime, and that may still happen, but after all these years I have to wonder if we will ... since there probably isn’t much money to be made on Mars. |
 | Dick Martin, the comedian who along with Dan Rowan created the zany late-60s variety show Rowan and Martins Laugh-In, died Saturday, May 24, of respiratory complications. He was 86. The duo brought to the show the characters they had developed for their night-club comedy routines, with Martin playing a buffoon to Rowans annoyed straight man. Rowan died of cancer in 1987. |
Why I Fired My Secretary
Two weeks ago was my 44th birthday, and I wasn’t feeling too hot that morning. I went down to breakfast, knowing my wife would be pleasant and say “Happy Birthday” and probably have a present for me. She didn’t even say “Good Morning”, let alone any “Happy Birthday.”
I thought, “Well, that’s wives for you. The children will remember. The children came down to breakfast and didn’t say a word.
When I started to the office, I was feeling pretty low and despondent. As I walked into my office, my Secretary, Janet said, “Good Morning, Boss, Happy Birthday.” I felt a little better. Someone had remembered!
I worked until noon, then Janet knocked on my door and said, “You know it is such a beautiful day outside and it is your birthday, let’s go to lunch, just you and me.”
I said, “By George, that’s the greatest thing I’ve heard all day. Let’s go.”
We went to lunch. We didn’t go where we normally go. We went out into the country to a little private place. We had two martinis and enjoyed lunch tremendously.
On the way back to the office, she said, “You know, it is such a beautiful day, we don’t need to go back to the office, do we?”
I said, “No, I guess not.”
She said, “Let’s go to my apartment.”
After arriving at her apartment she said, “Boss, if you don’t mind, I think I’ll go into the bedroom and slip into something more comfortable.”
“Sure”, I excitedly replied.
She went into the bedroom and, in about six minutes, she came out carrying a big birthday cake, followed by my wife, children and dozens of our friends. They were all singing happy birthday...
and there I sat on the couch ... completely naked. |
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