Monday, December 01, 2008

Inauguration Planning

Planners gearing up for the crowds on inauguration day may want to recall a moment back in Kentucky around the beginning of 1964. Some guy I'd never seen before started up at Democratic party functions; people were spoiling him and being nice to him the way you do to the designated driver.

--Who's that guy?

--That guy? You don't know? Ah, well last year just before the March on Washington, it dawned on somebody that they needed serious sanitation. He is the guy who said, why yes, he could send a relief party up over the mountains with 100 porta potties. He's a hero.

Pocket Part to Previous Story:

Reporter to Lord Cardigan, in a British Army camp during the Crimean War:

--You must have a lot of problem with sanitation out here.

--Humph! Ha! Harrumph! Well, if you regard it as a problem, I guess so.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

back before we left washington for our 85 acre farm in N alabama a big freeze hit n alabama, creating havoc. i decided to drive down to the farm and check things out. just as i got in the door the phone rang. it was aunt sallee, then in her upper 80's, who lived on her farm eight miles away. she asked if everything was ok. "I dont know aunt sallee," i said, "i just walked in the door and i dont know if the pipes froze and i dont have a working toilet." she harrumped, and said, "you got 85 acres of toilet." she died some years ago at 104.