LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

From Reader's Digest

Brenda P. Dixon

At the funeral of a man prominent in the community, I overheard some elderly women talking about the deceased. "It's really too bad about him," said one. "He had the same thing I've got, only mine's a lot worse."

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Larry King with Peter Occhiogrosso

In his book, TV and radio personality Larry King mentions interviewing the great Yiddish comedian Menasha Skulnik.

Menasha told me about a friend of his who always had on either a light-brown jacket and dark-brown pants, or a dark-brown jacket and light-brown pants. For the whole time he knew him, fifty years, he always noticed this. Finally, one day on a train he mentioned his observation to his friend and said, "Explain this to me. In fifty years I've never asked you why?"

"Menasha, I bought a brown suit," his friend said. The pants wore out first. So I bought a new pair of pants. Then the jacket wore out. I never caught up."