Jim's Mailings

Do You have a List?

Today's plain dealer has a column by Tom Feran, whom I admire, which supports the merits of keeping a list.
SEE: http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/tom_feran/index.ssf?/base/living/1115113128102151.xml

In this feature he reports that someone gave him a gift coupon for a local restaurant, but when he got there they discovered their was an expiration date, hence no dinner. That earned the restaurant a place on his list. He has more.
I have a book right here handy called "The Book of Lists 2' by Irving Wallace, David Wallechinsky and other, who also published "The People's Almanac" which is also handy.
But I digress, tonite, on Live on Five, this guy had ordered as suite of furniture, paid for it, from Kronheims. Then he learned they were going out of business, all SIX stores. No bankruptcy, just plain going out of business. And instead of putting them on his list, she tattled, telling Live on Five what poor business people they are! Well they already know that, why do you suppose they are going out of business. I keep a list too, and right at the top is Proctor and Gamble.
Now this is a long story, but one of my ancestors was a fighter in the Revolutionary War, when he returned his wife was gone and Thomas Proctor had a deed purporting to show that Proctor, not my ancestor owned the land called The Point, at the mouth of Pine Creek in Northern Pennsylvania. So my ancestor got before the Fair Play judges with his case, and won his suit against Proctor. Later Proctor teamed up with Gamble and became rich. Don't try to take them to court tho., just put them on your list.
Also the Israelies took Jerusalem from the Palestinians back in 1967, evicted most of them, now are doing business at the main corner of Jerusalem, and the Palestinians are left out. They go around blowing themselves up etc., when they could very easily put them on a list!
Remember how nice Al Gore was after GW, Jim Baker and the Supreme Court stole the election, even though Al got the most votes? I guess Al must have put them on his list, I sure would have.
And the Irish in Northern Ireland, remember back when the English created a disturbance around 1600, just before King James took over, and the Earl of Essex came over and since then Northern Ireland is not Ireland. They have fussed about it ever since, when they could have smiled, and put the English on their list, like my ancestor did after spending six months of the Revolutionary War in one of their nast y prison ships.
Then there's the black people, you get the idea, make a list!

posted by James E. Opfell @ 8:51 PM