reykr (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} reykr) wrote,@ 2008-01-05 13:06:00 |
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ALL IS VANITY
I've always regarded vanity license plates as just foolishness. However, it might have been a good idea for someone who had one that read, either,
WAR SUX
or
WORE SUX
It would have to be somebody who drives a car more than I do. I have a big, heavy 1989 Chevy Caprice wagon, whose massiveness I like for safety, but I save gas by doing very little driving. (There's no particular reason to go anywhere other than where I happen to be.)
In 1995, when I last visited Texas, I visited the house where President Lyndon Johnson lived, as a boy. His mother had a reproduction of a famous picture, titled, "All is vanity," on the wall, above her dresser. "All is Vanity," is a quotation from the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes.
This link is about the painter of that picture. It has also been reproduced as a wall mural. That mural was on the wall, over the bar of the "O.P." on College Hill in Cedar Falls, in 1973 or 1974.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Al
One time in 1973, the year Johnson died, I'd driven to Madison, Wisconsin and had stayed overnight in the old "railroad hotel," whose name I've forgotten. The next morning, after eating breakfast in the hotel's cafe, I picked up a copy of the "State Journal," when I noticed the headline, a quote attributed to Johnson, in reference to the Viet Nam war.
It read, "Johnson: 'The kids were right. I blew it.'"
I've always regarded vanity license plates as just foolishness. However, it might have been a good idea for someone who had one that read, either,
WAR SUX
or
WORE SUX
It would have to be somebody who drives a car more than I do. I have a big, heavy 1989 Chevy Caprice wagon, whose massiveness I like for safety, but I save gas by doing very little driving. (There's no particular reason to go anywhere other than where I happen to be.)
In 1995, when I last visited Texas, I visited the house where President Lyndon Johnson lived, as a boy. His mother had a reproduction of a famous picture, titled, "All is vanity," on the wall, above her dresser. "All is Vanity," is a quotation from the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes.
This link is about the painter of that picture. It has also been reproduced as a wall mural. That mural was on the wall, over the bar of the "O.P." on College Hill in Cedar Falls, in 1973 or 1974.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Al
One time in 1973, the year Johnson died, I'd driven to Madison, Wisconsin and had stayed overnight in the old "railroad hotel," whose name I've forgotten. The next morning, after eating breakfast in the hotel's cafe, I picked up a copy of the "State Journal," when I noticed the headline, a quote attributed to Johnson, in reference to the Viet Nam war.
It read, "Johnson: 'The kids were right. I blew it.'"
