"I was walking down 126th Street on my way to work. Met a fella. He said, "I hate this Moms. I really hate this, but gimmie some money. I ain't got no family, no kids, no wife. My mother and father are dead. I ain't got nowhere to eat. I ain't got nowhere to sleep. Gimmie some money Moms. I ain't got nothing, but this gun." Jackie 'Moms' Mabley, born March 19, 1894.

-- paul (primrose@centex.net), March 18, 2002