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Doesn’t know sh!# from Shinola

Meaning

Possessing poor judgment or knowledge.

Origin

Shinola was a brand of shoe polish previously manufactured in the USA. The alliteration and the fact that the two commodities in the phrase could possibly be confused is the derivation. The distinction is well made; only one of them would be good to apply to your shoes and only particularly dim people could be expected to muddle them up. Of course, outside America, most people don’t know Shinola from anything at all, as they’ve never heard of it. Even in America it would probably not be widely remembered but for this phrase.

Words seem so paltry in the face of all one could want to say.

But that being said… This is for all of you, you know who you are… For each of you that never gave up. For every lovely thing you said and wrote, for every good wish sent my way… Thank you.

Thank You Friend

I never came to you, my friend,
and went away without
some new enrichment of the heart;
More faith and less of doubt,
more courage in the days ahead.
And often in great need coming to you,
I went away comforted indeed.
How can I find the shining word,
the glowing phrase that tells all that
your love has meant to me,
all that your friendship spells?
There is no word, no phrase for
you on whom I so depend.
All I can say to you is this,
God bless you precious friend.

by Grace Noll Crowell

Well. That was suitably dramatic.

Now my dears… This is going to be a very hard promise for me. Although my singing has more or less been likened to yowling felines in much, much pain, I hereby promise that should I meet you in person, dear friend… I will get up on stage at any karaoke place of your choice and sing “You Are The Wind Beneath My Wings.” I, of course, will suffer much at having to do this (As I should for having left you for so long)... But not as much as the audience hearing it. Hmmm. Good times.

Hugs,
Winniewoo

But thankfully I finally did. It has become one of my new favorites.

I had heard someone complaining (And not in a constructive, what can we do about it way) and the person they were complaining to cocked their head and said, “Did you hear that?”

The complainer looked puzzled and shook their head.

The person they complained to then said, “I thought I just heard a Whaaaaaaambulance come in.”

For now it trumps my usual favorite of “Would you like some cheese with that whine?”

I understand people need to vent… But then they need to think of constructive ways to make the situation better.

I say…. Go ahead, be mad at something stupid. That’s only natural. But for goodness sakes… If you don’t want it to happen again, think about how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Just one of those things I always ponder on… and TRY to make sure I live by.

Alas, I am not always sucessful at it, but I DO try.

:0)

Jerome K. Jerome said: “I simply love work. I am fascinated by work. I can keep on looking at it for hours. The idea of completing it and thus parting with it breaks my heart. So, when I do feel the urge to work, I lie down, and let that urge pass.”

Adlai E Stevenson
During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai E Stevenson ‘Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!’ Stevenson called back ‘That’s not enough, madam, we need a majority!’

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.”

*Dennis Wholey (1937-)

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.”
- Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination.
-—Mahatma Gandhi

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pine

“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”- Pam Brown