I share with you a quick observation. James Boswell wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson. Johnson, of course a brilliant man, gave us the first dictionary. In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell repeated one of Dr. Johnson’s famous quotes: people who write lapidary inscriptions are not under oath. Well, most of you, I am sure, certainly those who went to Stetson, know what a lapidary inscription is. But some of us may not know.
A lapidary inscription is no more and no less than a tombstone epitaph. So, Dr. Johnson was telling us that people who inscribe tombstone epitaphs are not under oath. Well, let me suggest to you that people who introduce speakers or people like myself at functions such as this are, likewise, not under oath.