Monday, February 2, 2009
Last week, the Queen was touring a hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. They took her to one floor and as she shook hands with one of the patients, he sat up in his bed and said, "O MY Luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June."
"That's nice," said Her Majesty a bit nonplussed and moved on to the next bed. "FLOW gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes," the dour old Scotsman said emotionally as the queen took his hand. "Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream."
The Queen smiled politely and nodded and moved quickly on. At the third bed the man leaped to his feet atop the bed and began waving a bedpan dramatically over his head. "SCOTS, wha hae wi’ WALLACE bled, Scots, wham BRUCE has aften led," he shouted as orderlies dragged him down and began to tie him down with padded restraints. "Welcome to your gory bed, Or to Victorie!" he shouted after the retreating monarch.
"Is this the mental ward?" she asked the hospital administrator who was giving the tour.
"No," he shook his head. "It's the Burns Unit!"
Happy Birthday Robert Burns
I''m just sayin''
Tom King
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I grew up in the small Seventh-day Adventist college town of Keene, Texas where I graduated in 1976 with a degree in English-Communications. I married a Scots-Irish-Indian woman from Monroe, Louisiana and raised three children and some cats and dogs, birds and fish. I’ve taught school, taught swimming, canoeing and sailing, knot tying, camping and astronomy for kids. I’ve water skied on canoe paddles, assorted bits of lumber and my elbows. I have a couple of canoes and a catamaran, 3 guitars, two banjos, a dulcimer, a mandolin, a fiddle, 2 recorders, a penny whistle, fife, a bag of harmonicas, a bodhrain, pair of bones and a jaw harp or two – all of which I play badly. I’ve helped start up 6 nonprofit organizations in 25 years and raised millions of dollars none of which ever managed to stick to my bank account. I’ve won awards for documentary screen-writing, published poetry and short stories and a book on how to organize a charity golf tournament. I was appointed to a two year term on the Public Transportation Advisory Committee for the Great State of Texas by the Governor and I work as an advocate for seniors, people with disabilities and low income families. I’m a Reagan conservative, which puzzles my fellow advocates, who think I should spontaneously combust from the sheer incongruity. On the other hand, I’ve taught them to speak Republican which has improved their rate of success with the state legislature. I am currently building Virtual-Village.org an website designed to provide help and encouragement for people who work for and with small to mid-sized nonprofits and faith-based ministries seeking to address issues in their communities. My advocacy work includes children’s issues, expanding public transportation, creating barrier free housing and promoting community wide accessibility standards that allow transportation challenged Texans to fully participate in their communities. I have three grandchildren, a son and daughter-in-law, my beautiful daughter and her new husband and we used to live on beautiful Lake Palestine near Tyler, Texas, but God moved us to Washington State - apparently for our own good, though I'm not seeing it yet. My middle son, an amazing young man, passed away more than a year ago while finishing his senior year at UT Tyler. He was going to be a teacher. My book, "Going for the Green: An Insider's Guide to Making Money With Charity Golf" came out in September 2008 and has 4 1/2 stars on Amazon.com. I've written a couple of thousand paid articles for Internet publishers, written several million dollars worth of grants and have ghost-written 20 plus eBooks for increasingly cranky clients at increasingly cranky prices. In this economy, I'm lucky to be working at all.
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