A new widow requested the epitaph "Rest in Peace" for her husband's tombstone. When she later found he had left his fortune to his mistress, she attempted to get the engraver to change the carving.
This was impossible; the words were chiseled and could not be changed.
"In that case," she said, "please add, 'Till We Meet Again.'"
found on http://www.reallyshortfunnyjokes.net/2008/12/ , posted on 27. Dec 2008
Death of panda Su LinIn 1938, the first panda to live in captivity outside China, died after a twig lodged in its throat. Keepers at Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, U.S. had added oak twigs to the panda's usual diet of bamboo, but the oak fodder proved to be too tough. Despite removal of the twig, use of an oxygen tent and efforts by artificial respiration, the panda died. Ruth Harkness, a remarkable young Manhattan socialite had captured Su Lin on an expedition in Tibet on 9 Nov 1936, and returned with the baby panda to New York on 18 Dec 1936. The zoo acquired Su Lin on 8 Feb 1837. Earlier in 1938, she brought back another baby panda, Mei-Mei, to be Su Lin's companion. A post-mortem revealed Su-Lin was a male, not a female as had been thought.«[Image: Ruth Harkness with Su Lin] |
