The Book

About the Book

“It’s in the book. —Jim Nelson Did you know? Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. "When possums are playing’possium, they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror. "In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television’s channel 1 to mobile services, two-way radios in taxicabs, etc. They never did assign any other channels. That’s why our TV’s today start with channel 2. "Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt. "The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when horses pulled the fire engines. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight stairways. "The only two days of the year that do not have any professional sports games, MLB, NBA, NHL, or the NFL are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work. —Thomas Edison

About the Author

I have been married four times. At present, I’m a widower but still looking. (I’m not dead yet). I have worked as an electrical controls engineer for over thirty years. For over twenty, I have been gathering bits of information that had a special interest to me and hope to other people too; a lot of the information is from my own experience and things that I have seen. I hope you will enjoy this book and maybe learn something. I challenge anyone, regardless of their IQ or general knowledge, to read this book and not learn something. Maybe a couple of things. You have your best-sellers, great novels, nightstand books, and even coffee-table books. I consider this as more of a bathroom book. This book is dedicated to all the women in my life that I have loved. A couple of special ones and they know who they are and that I still love them. A special thanks to Crystal Fenwick, who helped me put the final touches together to finally get this done. To Flo, “You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.” —Jim Nelson