NOT PUTTING ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE PURSE BASKET

photo by Mauro Cateb

Some babe returned to a department store her purchased, unused purse -- but forgot she had "began to stock it with belongings . . . "   Oh, you know, stuff like jewels, rings, watches.  Central Pennsylvania is trying to find the precious things' owner.    story         

Principle in the type:  "The best things in life are free.  The second best are very expensive."    Coco Chanel   

PLAINTALK

photo by Gigi Ibrahim

Attention:  Will the line for those exasperated by politically correct mumbo-jumbo please form down the middle! 
This morning's newspaper headline, "Alleged 'unstable' man ends hijacking" made me crazy!   Let's go ahead and call folk who play around with blowing up planes--for real or pretend--unstable, okay??   Own it, people!
 

Principle in the type:  "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.  Aloud."    Coco Chanel

TAN COCO

photo by Allison Marchant

Simon Doonan and others who know about such trivia, reminds that in "the 1920's, trendsetter Chanel went on a boat trip and forgot to bring her sunbonnet.  Coco got baked.  She returned to shore looking daringly dusky."  This is not an April Fools' scam.  It's true.  All because of Coco, the tan-look "sparked a trend which has been seen as a status symbol."   (story link)

What if she'd jumped off a bridge?  Would we? 

 Principles in the type:  "It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”     Oscar Wilde

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