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	MENTAL ILLNESS MENTAL TELEPATHY -- MERCY -- MESSAGE MEXICO --- MIDDLE (IN THE) --- MIDDLE AGE MIDDLE EAST -- MIDWEST -- MILITARISM -- MILK . . . MENTAL ILLNESS see: "PSYCHIATRY" see: "THE MIND" for other related links see: "HEALTH" for other related links The Cardinal is at his wit's end, it is true that he had not far to go. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. Letter to John Murray [22 July 1820]. Any man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. --Samuel Goldwyn [Schmuel Gelbfisz] (1882—1974) American film producer. Quoted in Norman Zierold _Moguls_ [1969]. The [American Psychiatric] association specializes in turning ordinary human frailty into disease ... the association has been inventing mental illnesses for the last 50 years or so. --Irwin Savodnik "Psychiatry's sick compulsion: turning weaknesses into diseases", _L.A. Times_ [1 January 2006] - If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic. --Thomas Szasz (b. 1920) American psychiatrist. _The Second Sin_ [1973] The joke is this: If the patient arrives early for his appointment, he is anxious; if he arrives late, he is hostile; and if he is on time, he is compulsive. Mental illness über Alles. --Thomas Szasz (b. 1920) American psychiatrist. _Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences_ [1987] - The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind. --anon. MENTAL TELEPATHY . . . see: "THE MIND" for related links If we were all given, by magic, the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved. --Bertrand Russell (1872—1970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. _The Conquest of Happiness_ [1930] MERCY . . see: "PUNISHMENT" see: "KINDNESS" for other related links I shall temper so Justice with mercy. --John Milton (1608—1674) English poet. _Paradise Lost_, bk. 10, l. 77 [1667] Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. --Alexander Pope (1688—1744) English poet. "The Universal Prayer" Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy. --Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 1213—1292) Iranian poet. _Gulistan_ [1258] PORTIA: The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. [...] It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _The Merchant of Venice_, IV, i [1596—1598] MESSAGE . . see: "COMMUNICATION" for related links Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union. --Samuel Goldwyn [Schmuel Gelbfisz] (1882—1974) American film producer. On preachy films, in Arthur Marx, _Goldwyn: The Man behind the Myth_, ch. 15 [1976]. ----- herald (noun) ['he-rêld] Someone bearing important news, a harbinger; an officer whose job it is to make official announcements of state or at a tourney of arms. MEXICO . . see: "PLACES" for related links Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States. --Porfirio Díaz (1830—1915) Mexican soldier and president of Mexico [1877—1880 & 1884—1911]. Attributed in Hudson Strode _Timeless Mexico_ [1944]. I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than that waged by the United States on Mexico. I thought so at the time, when I was a youngster, only I had not moral courage enough to resign. --Ulysses S. Grant (1822—1885) American Unionist general and 18th President of the United States [1869-77]. (Grant participated in the Mexican War as an army supply officer several years after graduating from the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. - Q.) MIDDLE (IN THE) . . see: "INDIFFERENCE" for related links I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all. If we finally fail in this great and glorious contest, it will be by bewildering ourselves in groping for the middle way. --John Adams (1735—1826) First VP and second President of the United States. Letter to Gen. Horatio Gates [23 March 1776], quoted in _John Adams_ by David McCollough. We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. --Aneurin Bevan (1897—1960) British Labour politician. In _Observer_ [9 December 1953]. People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969), American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, American President [1953-61]. October 1963 comment quoted in William Safire _Safire's Political Dictionary_ [2008]. [Of Liberal leader Sir John Simon:] The Right Honourable gentleman has sat for so long on the fence that the iron has entered his soul. --David Lloyd George (1863—1945) Welsh-born British Prime Minister [1916—1922]. [June 1931] The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions. --Sydney J. Harris (1917—1986) American journalist. _For the Time Being_ [1972] Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong — but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong! Heaven save us from poltroons who fear to make a choice. --Robert Heinlein (1907—1988) American science-fiction writer. _Double Star_ [1956] Ain't nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. --Jim Hightower (b. 1943) American syndicated columnist and populist activist. Quoted in "N.Y. Times" [22 July 1984]. You will be safest in the middle. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.) Roman poet. _Metamorphoses_ [8 A.D.] There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. ... When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute. --Ayn Rand (1905—1982) Russian-born American writer. _Atlas Shrugged_ [1957] Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides. --Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925) British conservative stateswoman and Prime Minister [1979—1990]. Quoted in Kenneth Harris _Thatcher_ [1988]. MIDDLE AGE . . see: "AGE" for related links Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. --Franklin Pierce Adams (1881—1960) American columnist and member of the Algonquin Round Table. _Nods and Becks_ [1944] It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast — easy at the beginning, that is. But as the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all. --Alfred Adler (1870—1937) Austrian psychologist. Quoted in _New Yorker_ [19 February 1972]. Grow up as soon as you can. It pays. The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old, servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. --Hervey Allen (1889—1949) American novelist. _Anthony Adverse_ [1933] Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. --Thomas Arnold (1795—1842) English educator and father of Matthew Arnold. Attributed in Henry Southgate (ed.) _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_, p. 14 [1862, 3rd edition]. She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. --Anita Brookner (b. 1928) British novelist and art historian. _Hotel du Lac_ [1984] When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. --Lenore Coffee (1897—1984) American screenwriter. _Storyline; Recollections of a Hollywood Screenwriter_ [1973] - Anyone who says that life begins at forty is full of it. --attributed to Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) (1908—1989) American actress. & see: Life begins at 40 — but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. --attributed to both William Feather (1889—1981) American author, and Helen Rowland (1875—1950) American author. - I am forty years old now, and forty years, after all is a whole lifetime; after all, that is an extremely old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners; it is vulgar, immoral. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821—1881) Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer. _Notes from the Underground_ [1864] The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. ... You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. --T.S. Eliot (1888—1965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. "Time" [23 October 1950] There's no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty, and then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. --William Faulkner (1897—1962) American novelist. In James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green _William Faulkner of Oxford_ [1965]. Thirty — the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940) American novelist. _The Great Gatsby_, ch. 7 [1925] She might very well pass for forty-three In the dusk with a light behind her! --W. S. Gilbert (1836—1911) English writer of comic and satirical verse. "Trial By Jury" [1875 opera] Once a man's thirty, he's already old, He is indeed as good as dead. It's best to kill him right away. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Faust_ The Second Part, act II, "The Gothic Chamber" Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. --Bob [Leslie Townes] Hope (1903—2003) British-born American entertainer and actor. [15 February 1954] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. --Victor Hugo (1802—1885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist. Quoted in S. G. Lathrop _Fifty Years and Beyond: Or, Gathered Gems for the Aged_, p. 376 [1881]. I think middle age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which sets in at about fifty. --William Ralph Inge (1860—1954) English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [1911—1934]. In "Observer" [8 June 1930]. At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore. --Erica Jong (b. 1942) American novelist. _Fear of Fifty _ [1994] All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about, unnoticed and invisible. --Doris Lessing [née Tayler] (b. 1919) Iranian-born novelist. Quoted by Robert Andrews in _The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_ [1989]. At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive. --Robert Lowell (1917—1977) American poet. "Middle Age" [1964] Middle age: the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever. --attributed to Don Marquis (1878—1937) American poet and journalist. - A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. _Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956] The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. Attributed in Evan Esar _20,000 Quips & Quotes_ [1995]. - Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children & old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger- hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well. --John Mortimer (1923—2009) English barrister and author. _Murderers & Other Friends_ [1994] - Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. --Ogden Nash (1902—1971) American writer of humorous poetry. "Let's Not Climb the Washington Monument Tonight" [1949] Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendents Outnumber your friends. --Ogden Nash (1902—1971) American writer of humorous poetry. "Crossing The Border" - At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950) English novelist. Last words in his notebook [17 April 1949]. Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature — subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. [...] The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. --Sir William Osler (1849—1919) Canadian-born physician. Address at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. [22 February 1905]. Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one. --Laurence J. Peter (1919—1990) Canadian teacher and author. _Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time_ [1977] Every man over forty is a scoundrel. --George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish dramatist and critic. _Man and Superman_ "Maxims for Revolutionists" [1903, opened in 1905] In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves. And in the end, most of us reconcile ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense of partial failure, our less-than-ideal families — and even our politicians! --Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965) American Democratic politician. _Call to Greatness_ [1954] The middle years of marriage are the most crucial. In the early years, spouses want each other and in late years, they need each other. --Rebecca Tilly Quoted in "The Reader's Digest", Volume 135 [1989]. We have a saying in the movement that you can't trust anybody over 30. --Jack Weinberg (b. 1940) American political activist. Quoted in "S.F. Chronicle" [15 November 1964]. Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate— A thousand years of Middle Life. --Carolyn Wells (1862—1942) American writer. _My Boon_ Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. --Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Importance of Being Earnest_, act III [1895] Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. --Edward Young (1683—1765) English poet. "Love of Fame" Satire II, l. 281. [1727] MIDDLE EAST . . see: "TERORISM" see: "PLACES" for related links - All our defence requirements in the Middle East ... demand that an essential feature of our policy should be to retain the cooperation of the Arab States, and to ensure that the Arab world does not gravitate towards the Russians ... We cannot stress too strongly the importance of Middle East oil resources to us both in peace and war. --British chiefs of staff memorandum [10 July 1946]; in William Roger Louis and Robert W. Stookey (eds.) _The End of the Palestine Mandate_ [1986] pp.13-14. What above all distinguishes the Arabs from the peoples of the New World is that through the roughness of the former one can still see something of delicacy in their manners and customs: one feels that they were born in this East from which came all the arts, all the sciences, all the religions ... In a word, in the Americans, everything proclaims the savage who has not yet reached the level of civilization; in the Arab, everything shows the civilized man who has relapsed into savagery. --François-René de Chateaubriand (1768—1848) French writer and diplomat. _Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem_ (Route from Paris to Jerusalem) [1811] - Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introduction. It was going to be very simple — just one page, indeed just one line: "Nothing has changed." It took me two days covering the elections in Beirut to realize that I was dead wrong. No, something is going on in the Middle East today that is very new. Pull up a chair; this is going to be interesting. [...] for real politics to happen you need space. There are a million things to hate about President Bush's costly and wrenching wars. But the fact is, in ousting Saddam in Iraq in 2003 and mobilizing the U.N. to push Syria out of Lebanon in 2005, he opened space for real democratic politics that had not existed in Iraq or Lebanon for decades. "Bush had a simple idea, that the Arabs could be democratic, and at that particular moment simple ideas were what was needed, even if he was disingenuous," said Michael Young, the opinion editor of The Beirut Daily Star. "It was bolstered by the presence of a U.S. Army in the center of the Middle East. It created a sense that change was possible, that things did not always have to be as they were." [...] I don't know how all this shakes out; the forces against change in this region are very powerful — see Iran — and ruthless. But for the first time in a long time, the forces for decency, democracy and pluralism have a little wind at their backs. Good for them. --Thomas Friedman (b. 1953) American journalist. "Winds of Change?" in _New York Times_ [13 June 2009]. - It should by now be clear that we are facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of civilizations — the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judaeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both. It is crucially important that we on our side should not be pushed into an equally historic but also equally irrational reaction against that rival. --Bernard Lewis (b. 1916) British-born American professor and Middle-Eastern scholar. "The Roots of Muslim Rage" _Atlantic Monthly_ v. 266 [September 1990] p.60. - According to the 2000 U.S. census, there are about 1.2 million Americans of Arab descent — a population roughly equal to that of Czech-Americans. Partly because they are relatively few in number, Arabs haven't put much effort into advancing their rights in the U.S. for most of the past century. A surprisingly diverse group — more Christian than Muslim, and hailing from different races and nations — their interests as a people also seemed rarely to coincide. Like "Hispanic" or "Latino," the designation "Arab" is not a racial term, but a linguistic one. Arabs are those from more than two dozen Arabic-speaking countries that stretch from the Atlantic Coast of Africa across the Sahara to Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, whose racial make-up runs from black African to Semitic to Caucasian. Nor is "Arab" a religious group; most Arab-Americans worship in Catholic and Protestant churches. This is because since the 1950s, most Muslim Arabs who chose to leave home tended to emigrate to the oil-rich Islamic monarchies of the Persian Gulf, while Christian Arabs, who still are likely to be discriminated against in places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, usually journeyed west, to America. In recent years, that has started to change. Jobs aren't as plentiful in the Gulf kingdoms, and more Muslims are coming here. Even so, today only 24% of Arab-Americans are Muslims — the highest proportion of non-Christians the community has ever had. --Joel Millman in _The Wall Street Journal_ [14 November 2005]. - MIDWEST . . see: "PLACES" for related links That's my Middle West—not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940) American novelist. _The Great Gatsby_, ch. 9 [1925] - Almost on crossing the Ohio line it seemed to me that people were more open and more outgoing. The waitress in a roadside stand said good morning before I had a chance to, discussed breakfast as though she liked the idea, spoke with enthusiasm about the weather, sometimes even offered some information about herself without my delving. Strangers talked freely to one another without caution. --John Steinbeck (1902—1968) American novelist. _Travels With Charley_ [1962] Since I hadn't seen the Middle West for a long time many impressions crowded in on me as I drove through Ohio and Michigan and Illinois ... I had forgotten how rich and beautiful is the countryside — the deep topsoil, the wealth of great trees, the lake country of Michigan handsome as a well-made woman, and dressed and jeweled. It seemed to me that the earth was generous and outgoing here in the heartland, and perhaps the people took a cue from it. --John Steinbeck (1902—1968) American novelist. _Travels With Charley_ [1962] - MILITARISM . . see: "WAR & PEACE" for related links In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military- industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969), American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, American President [1953-61]. "Farewell Message" [17 January 1961]. We have no butter, But I ask you: Would you rather have Butter or guns? Shall we import Lard or steel? Let me tell you, Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. --Hermann Goering (1893—1946) German Nazi leader. Speech in Hamburg, Germany [1936]. - The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. In a letter to Chandler Price [28 February 1807]. For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. In his eighth annual message to Congress [8 November 1808]. We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. We can never be safe till this is done. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. In a letter to James Monroe [18 June 1813]. The [early] Greeks and Romans had no standing armies, yet they defended themselves. The Greeks, by their laws, and the Romans, by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible, and the same remedy will make us so. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. In a letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper [10 September 1814]. - We may not be in the slightest danger of invasion, but if in an armed world we disarm, we shall count less and less in the councils of nations. --Walter Lippmann (1889—1974) American journalist. "A Cure for Militarism" in the "Metropolitan" magazine [February 1915] A warlike spirit, which alone can create and civilize a state, is absolutely essential to national defense and to national perpetuity. --Douglas MacArthur (1880—1964) American general. In the _Infantry Journal_ [March 1927]. In this country of ours, the man who has not raised himself to be a soldier, and the woman who has not raised her boy to be a soldier for the right, neither one of them is entitled to citizenship in the Republic. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919) American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909]. In a speech at Camp Upton, Yaphank, New York, [18 November 1917]. A free people ought not only be armed, but disciplined. --George Washington (1732—1799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783] and first president of the United States [1789—1797]. In his first annual address to Congress [8 January 1790]. MILK . . . see: "COWS" see: "FOOD & DRINK" for other related links My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. --attributed to W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (1880—1946) American vaudeville star and film actor. Scotch whisky to a Scotchman is as innocent as milk is to the rest of the human race. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Quoted in Charles Neider (ed.) _The Autobiography of Mark Twain_ [1959]. CALVIN: Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!'? --Bill Waterson II (b. 1958) American cartoonist, creator of "Calvin and Hobbes." Quoted in "Vegetarian Times" [November 1993]. - Notes to British Milkmen: * Dear Milkman, I've just had a baby, please leave another one. * Please leave an extra pint of paralysed milk. * Cancel one pint after the day after today. * Please don't leave any more milk. All they do is drink it. * Milkman, please close the gate behind you because the birds keep pecking the tops off the milk. * Milkman, please could I have a loaf but not bread today. * Please cancel milk. I have nothing coming into the house but two sons on the dole. * Sorry not to have paid your bill before, but my wife had a baby and I've been carrying it around in my pocket for weeks. * Sorry about yesterday's note. I didn't mean one egg and a dozen pints, but the other way round. * When you leave my milk knock on my bedroom window and wake me because I want you to give me a hand to turn the mattress. * Please knock. My TV's broken down and I missed last night's Coronation Street. If you saw it, will you tell me what happened over a cup of tea. * My daughter says she wants a milkshake. Do you do it before you deliver or do I have to shake the bottle? * Please send me a form for cheap milk, for I have a baby two months old and did not know about it until a neighbour told me. * Please send me details about cheap milk as I am stagnant. Milk is needed for the baby. Father is unable to supply it. * From now on please leave two pints every other day and one pint on the days in between, except Wednesdays and Saturdays when I don't want any milk. * My back door is open. Please put milk in fridge, get money out of cup in drawer and leave change on kitchen table in pence, because we want to play bingo tonight. * Please leave no milk today. When I say today, I mean tomorrow, for I wrote this note yesterday. * When you leave the milk please put the coal on the boiler, let dog out and put newspaper inside the screen door. PS. Don't leave any milk. * No milk. Please do not leave milk at No. 14 either as he is dead until further notice. --source unknown end page \| MACARTHUR (DOUGLAS) - MALICE \| MAN - MARINES \| MARRIAGE \| MARTYRS - MAUGHAM (WILLIAM SOMERSET) \| McCARTHY - MEANNESS \| MEDIA (THE) \| MEDICINE - MEMORIAL DAY \| MEMORIES - MEMORY \| MEN - MEN v. WOMEN \| MENTAL ILLNESS - MILK \| MIND (THE) - MINDING OWN BUSINESS \| MINNESOTA - MISERY \| MISFORTUNE - MISSOURI \| MISTAKES \| MISTAKEN IDENTITY - MODESTY \| MONEY \| MONROE - MOON \| MORAL ASSASINATION - MORALITY \| MORNING - MOUNTAINS \| MOVIE DIALOGUE - MUSHROOMS \| MUSIC - MYTHOLOGY \| \| H \| I - J \| K - L \| M \| N - O \| P - Q \| \| Return Home \| The Credits \| The Cast \| Act 1 \| Act 2 \| Act 3 \| The Reviews \|