Six Word Memoirs on Life Stories

canadafreeze says,

Very clever:-)

lovelylizard says,

Good one!

NumbrOneAunt says,

good one! i read that someone once accused lincoln of being two-faced. he replied, "if i had another, do you think i'd wear this one?"

BanjoDan says,

i will have to "borrow" this one, thanks!

Staraj says,

Feel free BJD, because I'm likely to "sample" one of yours. Hell, I probably already have. :-)

As for good 'ol Honest Abe . . . he surely had a healthy relationship with himself – possible depression notwithstanding – in that he so easily joked about his appearance. In one tale – apparently true – he recalled as a young man encountering a stranger on a sidewalk, who suddenly bellowed that he was going to shoot Lincoln, because he had long ago promised that if he ever saw a man who was uglier than himself, he would kill him on the spot. Lincoln said he studied the man carefully for a while, then thrust his hands into the air and said, "Mister, if I'm uglier than YOU are, fire away! Put me out of my misery." Gotta love Abe.