I like the one about Calvin Coolidge and short sentences. Here’s one version:
President Calvin Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal” because of his extraordinarily laconic speech. A famous anecdote tells of a dinner party during which the person sitting adjacent to the Coolidge said: “Mr. President I’ve made a large bet that I would be able to make you say more than two words.” Coolidge considered this proposition carefully and then replied slowly and emphatically, “You lose.”
mattro65 over 4 years ago
Maybe the Cliff Notes were no longer good enough so you end up being the first one to go over that precipice along with her old tastes.
B UTTONS over 4 years ago
The defendant got what he bargained. The Judge’s ruling was short sentences:
Defendant is GUILTY.
Defendant is sentenced for LIFE.
sandpiper over 4 years ago
Can’t have everything
uniquename over 4 years ago
Sounds like she used strong punctuation.
The Reader Premium Member over 4 years ago
I don’t know, ‘Fifty years.’ …that sentence was pretty short!
walstib Premium Member over 4 years ago
Suck sinked.
sandflea over 4 years ago
She did give you a short sentence. You were hoping for the abridged version.
JudyAz over 4 years ago
I like the one about Calvin Coolidge and short sentences. Here’s one version:
President Calvin Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal” because of his extraordinarily laconic speech. A famous anecdote tells of a dinner party during which the person sitting adjacent to the Coolidge said: “Mr. President I’ve made a large bet that I would be able to make you say more than two words.” Coolidge considered this proposition carefully and then replied slowly and emphatically, “You lose.”
paranormal over 4 years ago
And he didn’t even get RECESS!
the lost wizard over 4 years ago
Maybe it’ll work out better in Readers Digest.
The Orange Mailman over 4 years ago
She also travels in to work each day from the suburbs, but she didn’t commute the sentence.