Reporter approaches group of attendees 

at the 'World Economic Forum' in Davos...

Reporter:  Excuse me, but could I get your opinion concerning the current grain shortages in the third world?
British Royal: "What's a 'shortage'?"

Saudi Oil Sheik: "What's 'grain'?"


German Banker: "What's an 'opinion'?"


American Media Mogul: "What's 'the third world'?"

Israeli Diplomat: "What's 'excuse me'?"

“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. " Joyce Cary--The Horse's Mouth

Partial list of the missing & forgotten:  

Computer backup flash drive, key to bike lock, combination to combination lock, every password to every online site that requires one, answer to security question to get into VISA account online, the covers for the CDs in car stereo, musical mnemonics, 

chords and lyrics to every song I didn't practice today, the name of the guy in the office next to mine, and the woman next to him...and so on down the hall, and the thing that I was thinking a minute ago about using to end this list. 

“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love. 
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”

Frank Zappa.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. Mark Twain. 

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky

Boys, look like you're having fun, but don't have any.  Lawrence Welk (To his band just before going on the air)

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

Nat King Cole

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Chet Atkins

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

Mick Jagger

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

Melvin Maddocks

Inadvertently left off list of "words I like" from last weeks post...

Conundrum, 

Ecdysiast, 

Corpulent, 

Capricious.