Top Items About Excuses
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Monosyllables | Leonhard Euler was once invited by Frederick the Great to join his Academy in Berlin. Euler accepted and promptly left... | Anonymous | 448 | |
| Anecdotes | Ronald Reagan: Hollywood President | Secretary of State James Baker once gave Ronald Reagan a briefing book to study before the next day`s World Economic... | Anonymous | 91 | |
| Anecdotes | Greatest Living Actor | While testifying in a trial one day, George Arliss described himself as "the world`s greatest living actor." Some time... | Anonymous | 81 | |
| Anecdotes | Soulful Explanation | Erasmus was once reproached for having failed to observe the Lenten fast. His reply? "I have a Catholic soul, but a... | Anonymous | 79 | |
| Images | Brain of a woman | ... | root | 77 | |
| Anecdotes | Caspar Weinblooper | While attending a briefing on NATO nuclear planning in Luxembourg in March 1985, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger... | Anonymous | 69 | |
| Images | Skipping work | "I will not be able to make it to the office... there are 20 inches of snow outside. I am attaching a photograph to prove it." | root | 60 | |
| Anecdotes | Round Table | For years, George Burns ate lunch every day at a corner table in the Men`s Grill (at the Hillcrest Country Club in West... | Anonymous | 56 | |
| Anecdotes | Dorothy Parker: Leaden Excuse | The New Yorker was launched (in 1925) by Harold Ross on a shoestring budget. Indeed, so uncertain were the... | Anonymous | 56 | |
| Jokes | Mitt Romney, typical politician? | Jay Leno, August 8, 2007: "Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was asked to explain why none of his five sons are in the... | root | 51 |
