So this old man is walking down the street in Brooklyn.
He sees a young boy sitting on the street in front of a candy shop, shoving sweets in his mouth as fast as possible.
The man walks up to the boy and says "You know son, it’s really not healthy to eat all that candy."
The kid looks up at him and says, "You know my grandfather lived to be 97 years old."
The man replies "Oh and did he eat a lot of candy?" The kid looks at him and says "No, but he minded his own fucking business."
Adolphe SaxDied 7 Feb 1894 at age 79 (born 6 Nov 1814).Antoine-Joseph Sax, who took the name Adolphe, was a Belgian-French musical instrument designer from age 15, and inventor of the saxophone (mid 1840's, patented 1846), saxtromba, and sax horn (mid to late 1830's). Sax created the distinctive saxophone sound by combining the clarinet's single reed and mouthpiece with a widened oboe's conical bore. His first saxophones were of wood. Although he soon switched to brass, they remain classified as a woodwind instrument. Sax patented many new instruments, but although they were adopted by French army bands, he had no factory production and made little profit, yet he spent ten years in court protecting his patents. In the last years of his life, Sax was living in poverty.« |
