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After fifty years of wondering why he didn't look like his younger sister or brother, the man finally got up the nerve to ask his mother if he was adopted.
"Yes, you were, son," his mother said as she started to cry softly. "But it didn't work out and they brought you back."
Did you know… The Goldberg Brothers - The Inventors of the Automobile Air Conditioner. Here's a little fact for automotive buffs or just to dazzle your friends. The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Max, invented and developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17, 1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees. The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office and sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that four gentlemen were there with the most exciting innovation in the auto industry since the electric starter. Henry was curious and invited them into his office. They refused and instead asked that he come out to the parking lot to their car. They persuaded him to get into the car, which was about 130 degrees, turned on the air conditioner, and cooled the car off immediately. The old man got very excited and invited them back to the office, where he offered them $3 million for the patent. The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million, but they wanted the recognition by having a label, 'The Goldberg Air-Conditioner,' on the dashboard of each car in which it was installed. Now old man Ford was more than just a little anti-Semitic, and there was no way he was going to put the Goldberg's name on two million Fords. They haggled back and forth for about two hours and finally agreed on $4 million and that just their first names would be shown.
And so to this day, all Ford air conditioners show: Lo, Norm, Hi, and Max -- on the controls. Control yourself!!!
Aggie knows.
am sure he knows a couple old codger sailors
and yes when it got cold they had a problem with those balls
learn something everyday or at least try to
Iron cannon ball were mounted on brass monkey(name for cannon ball holder) on English ships. Iron and brass expands differently in cold weather causing cannon balls to fall off brass holder.
Does anyone out there know where the following saying originated?
It is cold enough to free the balls off a brass monkey !
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