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Go Down To Business
Let's get down to business. The
word business is based on the word busy. The sense
of being busy in a commercial way, being in a state
of business, didn't surface until the 18th century.
At that time a typical business was located on the
street level of a two-story house. The owners lived
on the upper floor of the house and would 'go down
to business' when going to work.
But why do we always go downtown when going to the
business district regardless of the direction we
travel? Just about every city in the world grew
from a harbor or a trading place by a river, lake
or sea. As this center of trade and growth was always
at water level, it was invariably the lowest, the
'downest', part of the surrounding landscape.
A busybody is someone who doesn't mind their own
business. It's enough to get you down.
By Joel Miller |
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"We've all
got a ticket to the future, but the seats aren't numbered and
they keep moving the stage."
- Dartwill Aquila |
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What word does the
following group of five words have in common?
1. banana 2. beach 3. black 4. broom 5. butter |
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"Luck is what
happens when preparation meets opportunity."
- Darrell Royal |
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| Hesiod, who lived in Greece
2800 years ago, told his brother Perseus, ’Half
is more than the whole’. He was advising his brother
to settle for half without litigation because it would
be more that winning the whole after the lawyers had taken
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Julius Caesar could hardly
have known about Caesar Salad which contains mustard and
Worcestershire sauce. Caesar Cardini created the salad
in the 1920s in his restaurant, Caesar's Palace, in Tijuana,
Mexico. |
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"In the end,
we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence
of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr |
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| Blind date
- Although the practice of arranging a meeting between
two strangers started somewhat earlier, the word
itself didn't get into print before 1925. "Blind
dates would be more successful if one of the participants
were blind." -Anonymous |
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| Motels
- (Motor + Hotel) were designed to accommodate motorists
with parking space in front of the door to their
room. Motels couldn't count on many customers in
1925, but time was on their side. |
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