"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a helicopter, and you can land next to some": The wit and wisdom of David Lee Roth

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I recently ran into one of my 70-year-old mother’s best friends. When asked how she’s kept in such good shape over the years, she quickly denied ever having gone to the gym and then, to my disbelief, offered up a zinger from... Van Halen's Mr Entertainment himself, David Lee Roth. 

“I used to jog,” she said, “but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.”