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From Our Outfit... September 2010 Notes
Our friend Lou Ann Hooser sent us an email that contained some of the sayings that came from Will Rogers during his lifetime. For those who aren’t familiar with William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers, he was an American cowboy, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor during the 1920s and 1930s. Part Indian, Will Rogers was born during the Old West on the Oklahoma Indian Territory. He wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns and made more than 70 movies. He poked fun at gangsters, prohibition, politicians, government programs, and a host of other controversial topics in a way that was readily appreciated by a national audience, with no one offended. Will Rogers even provided his own epitaph: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn’t like." He said, “I am so proud of that, I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.” Will Rogers, died in a 1935 plane crash with his best friend, Wylie Post. Among the many witticisms, Will Rogers said the following:
Would that we had someone today who could be as witty with the truth as Will Rogers. And would we weren’t so thin skinned that we could laugh at the truth rather than always be offended. Taking the advice of #12, I will shut up.
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