From the book Bright Shinny Morning by James Frey.
Patience. Diligence. Hard work. The daily grind it can wear a person down, oh yes it can, that daily grind, its a day-after-day kind of thing and it just wears a person down. One expects there to be some kind of reward, or payoff, for all the effort, something that makes it all worth it, that puts a smile on the face, a spring in the step, a tingle on the spine, and a feeling of freedom and joy in the heart. Here is Fun Facts Los Angles.
The word T-shirt was coined in Los Angles by a Japanese man working in a clothing factory. He called the item a T-shirt because it resembled the letter T when he laid it out on a table, and he was in the process of learning the English alphabet.
If Los Angles County was a country it would have the fifteenth-largest economy in the world.
In 1918, a Chinese immigrant working in a Los Angles noodle factory invented the fortune cookie. He did so believing that a cookie with a positive message in it would raise the spirits of the city's poor.
In 1949, Frank Zamboni, who owned a local ice rink, invented the Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine. It is now used in 85 percent of the world's ice rinks.
There are three hundred wild buffalo, which are protected by law, that roam Los Angles County.
It is illegal in the City of Los Angles to hunt for moths beneath the arc of a streetlight.
It is illegal in the City of Los Angles to fly balloons more then five feet above the surface of the ground.
It is illegal in the City of Los Angles to sit on the surface of an outdoor table at a restaurant.
There are an average of twenty vehicular car chases in the Los Angles County every day.
There is a museum in Los Angles devoted to the banana. It has almost 20,000 banana-related items.
If all of the law enforcement officers in Los Angles County were consolidated into an army, it would be the fifth-largest army in the world.
There are more support groups in Los Angles for the victims of UFO abduction than in the rest of the country combined.
Almost half the dogs in Los Angles are American pit bull terriers, or pit bull mixes.
It is Illegal in Pasadena for a male boss to be alone in a room with a female secretary.
There are on average, sixty sightings of Sasquatch in Los Angles every year.
There are more swimming pools in Los Angles than any other city in the world.
On average, there are 333 days of sun every year in Los Angles.
2 comments:
They call Los Angeles the City of Angels. I didn't find it to be that exactly, but I'll allow as there are some nice folks there. 'Course, I can't say I seen London, and I never been to France, and I ain't never seen no queen in her damn dundies as the fella says. But I'll tell you what, after seeing Los Angeles and
thisahere story I'm about to unfold--wal, I guess I seen somethin' ever' bit as stupefyin' as ya'd see in any a those other places, and in English too, so I can die with a smile on my face without feelin' like the good Lord gypped me.
Sometimes there's a man, sometimes, there's a man. Well, I lost my train of thought here.
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