Category: Fettig, Art
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Say Something Good – Father’s Day
Father’s Day. Another old custom created by the greeting card industry. Just the same, it is nice to be remembered with a phone call or an e-mail and there isn’t a big investment involved. May God bless America and keep out troops from harm. – Art Fettig
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We just pigged out at our local KFC
We just pigged out at our local KFC and they had a special of $5.95 for the buffet. So is that what makes America great? Well, part of it. Just imagine, America is the place where an old guy on social security had a dream and turned it into a special tasting chicken and franchised…
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Make a Circle
One of my favorite illustrations for a speech was asking the audience to make a circle with their thumb and their index finger. Hold it right up there.
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Old Stuff
The other day I was looking for a couple of audio tapes I made several years ago where I talked about a couple of my inspirational books. In my search I discovered two big boxes filled with old stuff. There was a copy of my Award Winning Railroad Crossing Safety film strip with an audio…
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History Lesson – by Art Fettig
The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way the first railways were built in England, and the first US railroads were built by English expatriates.