Wednesday, June 25, 2008

MESSAGE #449 - A GREAT STORY???

Is today’s story a great story?

There’s only one way to tell.

If you read it and like it so much that you re-tell it to someone else – it’s a great story.

From The Speaker’s Book of Quotations by Henry O. Dormann . . .

One of the favorite stories [the great writer] James Thurber told is of a conversation he had with a nurse while he was in a hospital.

“What seven letter word has three u’s in it?” he asked.

The nurse thought for a while and then replied, “I really don’t know, but it must be very unusual.”