Two elderly women were out driving in a large car, both could
barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising along
they came to an intersection. The stoplight was red but they
just went on through.
The woman in the passenger seat thought to herself, "I must
be losing my mind, I swear we just went through a red light."
After a few more minutes they came to another intersection
and the light was red again, and again they went right
through. This time the woman in the passenger seat was almost
sure that the light had been red, but was really concerned
that she was mistaken.
She was getting nervous and decided to pay very close
attention to the road and the next intersection to see what
was going on.
At the next intersection, sure enough, the light was
definitely red and they went right through. She turned to
the woman driving and said, "Mildred! Did you know we just
ran through three red lights in a row! You could have killed
us!"
Mildred turned to her and said, "Oh, am I driving?"
Why is the Academy Award called "Oscar?"
The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the
name stuck.
