Well I don't know about you, but if I was asked who made the first solo flight around the world, the name Wiley Post would not spring to my lips. But Wiley, who sounds like one hell of a fellow - despite the handicap of a Chuck Jones-style name - did just that, among much else in the aviation field. And he died in a plane crash with the cornball humorist and man of many parts Will Rogers, who once observed that 'We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can' - and did his best to live up to it.
He also said 'An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out' - so apologies if the whole world bar me already knew all about Wiley Post.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Excellent middle name also - Hardeman
ReplyDeleteRogers was the one who first said, "All I know is what I read in the papers." That would make him a dangerously ignorant man today. "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice Doggie' until you can find a rock" is as valid and today as it was then. "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else" will never cease to be true as well.
ReplyDeleteWill ye post another wily post, Bryan, on Wiley Post?
ReplyDelete(Written only because I can't believe no one else has said it and can't stand to watch it go to the bottom unappreciated.)
Nige's subject, Ronin. If you see the Verdana font, you see me.
ReplyDeleteI know, Ronin, I should have called it Wiley Post Post... And Bryan, we wouldn't get this confusion if you gave me that fine blackletter font - it's exciting, it's contemporary, it's now...
ReplyDeleteI know, Ronin, I should have called it Wiley Post Post... And Bryan, we wouldn't get this confusion if you gave me that fine blackletter font - it's exciting, it's contemporary, it's now...
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