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Thomas Edison: Cabbage RollsTo his great consternation, Thomas Edison often found visitors in his office helping themselves to his Havana cigars. As Edison could not be bothered locking them up, his secretary suggested that he have a friend in the cigar trade make some cigars out of cabbage leaves; these could then be substituted for the genuine Havanas. Edison agreed but forgot about the arrangement and remembered only after returning from a trip some time later. He called his secretary and asked why the bogus cigars had not arrived. The secretary replied that they had arrived and had been passed along to his manager. Edison then called the manager, who explained that, not knowing what they were, he had packed them in Edison's bag before his trip. "And do you know," Edison later recalled, "I smoked every one of those damned cigars myself!"
[Trivia: "An acquaintance," Ambrose Bierce once remarked, is "a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."]
Edison, Thomas Alva ["The Wizard of Menlo Park"] (1847-1931) American inventor [noted for his prolific output: some thirteen hundred inventions - among them the electric light bulb (1879), the gramophone, the motion picture camera, and the carbon transmitter which facilitated the use of Bell's telephone]
[Sources: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes]More Thomas Edison anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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