As a follow up to yesterday's post Lou Ann directed me to this photo today. Evidently it was all over the front page of the local paper The Abilene Reporter. There was a craft show and this 6 year old had entered this model of a shooting outing he had made out of tongue depressors. What hope do these kids have?Now for a bit of a smile. I received this from my mate Keith down in Melbourne. There isn't much from Keith I can include on this blog page but this one is quite good!
"The three Goldberg brothers Norman, Hiram and Maxwell invented and developed the first automobile air conditioner. On July 14, 1946 the temperature in Detroit was 97 (37) degrees! The three brothers walked into old Henry Ford's office and sweet talked his secretary into telling him that three gentlemen were there with the most exciting invention in the automobile industry since the electric starter!
Henry was curious and invited them into his office. They refused and instead asked that he come out to the parking lot to their car.
They persuaded him to get into the car which was about 130 degrees (55), turned on the air-conditioner and cooled the car down immediately. The old man got very excited and and invited them back to his office where he offered them 3 million dollars for the patent.
The brothers refused saying they would settle for 2 million but they wanted recognition by having a label "The Goldberg Air-Conditioner" on the dashboard of each car it was installed in.
Now old man Ford was more than a little Anti-Semetic and there was no way he was going to put Goldberg's name on 2 million Ford vehicles.
They haggled back and forth for about 2 hours before they agreed on 4 million dollars and just their first names would be shown.
And so even today, all Ford airconditioners show on the controls the names 'Norm, Hi and Max'.
There, now you know it ...... See, you are never too old to learn."
Thanks Keith!
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