“If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.”
Dame Anita Roddick, DBE
Hang On Snoopy!
Early in Snoopy’s career, the beloved Peanuts character trained to become a champion arm-wrestler. How did his career go?
Monstra Mihi Pecuniam
The Institute for the Works of Religion is the name of the Vatican Bank and it is the world’s only bank that allows the use of Latin to perform transactions at automated teller machines.
E. B. White
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
The Lord Works in Mysterious Ways
What is The Institute for the Works of Religion and why is it unique?
Flying Without Wyngz . . .
“Wyngz” is the term permitted by the USDA’s Food and Safety Inspection Service to indicate a food product that is in ‘the shape of a wing or a bite-sized appetizer type product’ but contains no wing meat. To use the term the food must actually be white meat chicken (with or without skin) and a there must also be a conspicuous, prominent and legible description (for example ‘contains no wing meat’) wherever the term appears, with an asterisk (*) to link to the description.
John Adams
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
Winging It . .
What does the term “wyngz” mean and what is it used for?
It’s Off to Work We Go!
Some of the other dwarfs names reportedly considered by Disney for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs we know today were Hickey, Sniffy, Stuffy, Burpy, Tubby, Shorty and Dizzy, Chesty, Wheezy, and Awful.
. . and in answer to the bonus question, Dopey’s the only one without a beard!
Robert Frost
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”