"Tell me something good!"

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:20 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, this might have been a late accidental pickup, but one of my
> college/grad-school advisors--who's a Brooklyn/CCNY-educated Jew, now
> in his late 70s--used to start research group meetings with, "Nu? Tell
> me something good."

Well, Judaeism's not exactly irrelevant to Texas. The first department
store in Texas, Joseph Weisman and Co., was opened in Marshall in
1878. And everyone is familiar with Neiman-Marcus of Dallas. So...

Youneverknow!
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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