Awww I know but I'm so Thankful that I got to know him and call him my friend. We will have to go to Mings on a future trip!
Remember when I got that long ass fortune and Dennis was like WTF!lol Between The Sheets didn't work for that one.
I will make sure you me and Kiteh get a Pumkin Spice Latte for my November trip maybe we will party with her then too!
Mark Twain and Dennis together would be fun! I think it would be very interesting to have a machine were you could contact anyone from the past, but you only get to ask one question. For example: Jack the Ripper - who are you? Dennis - what would have been your focus as a state legislator? Jesus Christ - how accurately are your teachings portrayed today?
Today, I'd love to have lunch with my father. We were/are so alike in so many ways. I miss being able to ask his advice.
Thanks, Randy! I'd also like to ask our president "Do you have any idea what the hell are you doing?"
Strange thing about my father. He wasn't too smart when I was younger, especially in my teens. He must've taken some classes, or something, because the older I got, the smarter he got!
I teach history, so I have bajillion of questions I'd love to ask people from the past. I could spend hours talking to Elizabeth I, or Abraham Lincoln, for example. Winston Churchill, too!
My paternal grand father was not highly educated, but was highly respected as a man to go to fir advice or answers to problems. The really cool things, was he was a very quiet man with a wonderful gift for listening. "Usually people can work out their own problems, they just need somebody to listen and be supportive. I seldom give any advice a person hasn't thought of themselves."
I still wish I could have met Dennis. I’m sure we’d have gotten along great. I might have gotten a kick outta me.
You know I was really close to mine and I'm Thankful for all the sacrifices they made to give future generations better opportunities than they had. They were Sharecropers I am a Businesowner! Never forget who brought you to the table!
Dennis was COOL and always took time to meet and greet anyone that wanted to meet him. I am Blessed to have known him and truly miss him!
I didn't know Dennis well. Hr was always very gracious and we had a number of long conversations about politics, history, brothels, and particularly the history of brothels - a subject I had some research background in. Dennis always seemed to me a man who observed and filed away a lot of information, much of which he kept to himself. Certainly, he took care of business above all else and didn't spill everything he knew to an old history teacher. Very interesting man, and probably far more complex than most people realized.
Yeah, grandpa was a really smart guy, who understood people. He used to tell me: "If you're talking, you're not learning. If you really want to learn about things, you have to listen, which is far more important than yammering about what you already know." He had lots of sayings he used to try to make me more practical. "Anytime you speak, you're assuming you know something nobody else knows." "If you disagree with somebody and can't at least listen to each other, you're both wasting your h?breath." "Tell you what, boy - try wishing in one hand and crapping in the other. Let me know which hand fills up the quickest."
