Potent Quotables
If you don’t have a downtown, you really don’t have anything. It’s hard to build a community around parking lots & subdivisions. – Ed McMahon
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Don’t you mean Wow (Words of Wisdom) Wednesday? : )
I’m not sure what I mean anymore… I was originally going to go with Potent Quoteables since I like Jeopardy. Ed McMahon new that everyone would open an envelope and think they won money, so he had a real insight.
I like potent quotables too.
Whoda’ thunk Ed McMahon was so insightful?