Thought of the Day

[captaincranky]

I can see from your grammar, you're in the 52%!! (it's "are imbeciles!)

Luckily, I'm canadian and exempt from the statistic! WOO-HOO!!

The original question was "Why is George Bush ARE President"? So, I said, "because 52% of the American voters OUR morons".
So. you're either breaking my b***s, or we might discuss homonyms by PM. K?
Ya gotta admit, that was clever stuff, at least by American voter standards.

Who is George Diefenbaker? He certainly wasn't assassinated, or I would have heard of him.

At the end of "Karn Evil 9" (3rd impression), does Greg Lake say "Nuclear Dawn". or "New Clear Dawn"? No really, I'm asking you.

Be nice to people on your way up, because you may meet them on your way down.

Sometimes I have this nightmare, that I'm on that ladder of success with everyone else, and it's only one person wide. If you look down it's frightening, and if you look up, there's always somebody ahead of you.

 

[almcneil]

The original question was "Why is George Bush ARE President"? So, I said, "because 52% of the American voters OUR morons".
So. you're either breaking my b***s, or we might discuss homonyms by PM. K?
Ya gotta admit, that was clever stuff, at least by American voter standards..

I stand corrected! I didn't catch real mistake and that you were playing up on it. Your wit outsmarted me!!

Who is George Diefenbaker? He certainly wasn't assassinated, or I would have heard of him.

John George Diefenbaker was the canadian prime minister at the time of JFK. Their mutual disdain for each other was legendary! The only point they had in common was their first name and NOTHING ELSE!

At the end of "Karn Evil 9" (3rd impression), does Greg Lake say "Nuclear Dawn". or "New Clear Dawn"? No really, I'm asking you.

I'm embarrassed to say as an ELP fan, I'm very familiar with the 1st and 2nd impressions of "Karn Evil 9" but not the 3rd! What album is it on? BTW, "Karn Evil 9" is "carnival".

 

[twite]

I stand corrected! I didn't catch real mistake and that you were playing up on it. Your wit outsmarted me!!

I obviously didn't either. :blackeye:

 

[captaincranky]

Techies Need credits in Philosophy Too.......

I'm embarrassed to say as an ELP fan, I'm very familiar with the 1st and 2nd impressions of "Karn Evil 9" but not the 3rd! What album is it on? BTW, "Karn Evil 9" is "carnival".

"Brain Salad Surgery" (The grayish one with the painting by "H.R. Giger").
Impression 3 is the "slammin" one, it begins "Man alone born of stone of will stamp the dust of time....., and pretty much ends in an argument with "the" computer. "Load your program, I am yourself....."! Should be required listening for anyone involved with black boxes....... (all I'm trying to say here is that in the end the black box becomes sentient, perhaps a worthwhile caution for us all). <<<< Does that count as a thought for the day?

 

[twite]

At the end of "Karn Evil 9" (3rd impression), does Greg Lake say "Nuclear Dawn". or "New Clear Dawn"?

It is "New Clear Dawn"


No computer stands in my way

Only blood can cancel my pain

Guardians of a new clear dawn

Let the maps of war be drawn

 

[captaincranky]

Gawd.....

Here,Here... Well Said...... That whole track is blood curdling !!!

"Rejoice glory is ours,
Our young men have not died in vain,
Their graves need no flowers,
The tapes have recorded their names"!

And "THEIR" you have it, an anthem for the Bush Presidency.

Copyright 1973: Wow, it's like they wrote it yesterday!

 

[ravisunny2]

Very nice, Ididmyc600.

I liked these best.

*Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat? **

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but
check when you say the paint is wet? **

Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection? **

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?**

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?**

*Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze **
these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?" *

*Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?** *

*If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables,**
**then what is baby oil made from* *? *

*If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons** ? *

*Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?** *

 

[foofoohightec]

You're ripping off George Carlin!!

Never said I made them up !
Here are some of his that I really like :

- When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?

- I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

-Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

-Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an *****, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

-If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

and finally "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." !!

 

[ravisunny2]

-If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

In the heavens ?

 

[almcneil]

My Thought of the Day ...

Whatever happened to The Gong Show?!?!?!

Trash TV at it's finest (until Baywatch and Jerry Springer came along!)

 

[captaincranky]

Going, Going, Gong......

I think it was too far ahead of it's time

 

[Ididmyc600]

Very nice, Ididmyc600.

I liked these best.

I cant take the credit for them, it was a collection I received via spam mail from work, we dont atually work all day just sit there reading funny emails.

Someone mentioned the ladder of success being one person wide, I prefer this one.

The monkey tree

At the top are the bosses,,, looking down on those below, they look serious.

You see were at the bottom looking up and were laughing...why ??

Well those at the top look down and see a bunch of monkey's

Us at the bottom look up and see a bunch of ar*eholes....

so endeth the lesson.

Regards

 

[captaincranky]

I'm going to tackle these also.....

Never said I made them up !
Here are some of his that I really like :

- I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Boobies, most likely.

-Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Being taught to fish is not anywhere near a requisite for drinking on a boat.

-Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an *****, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

No, anyone going slower than me is an imbecile, and anyone going faster than me is an a******e.

-If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

At today's ticket prices, likely home in front of their TV.

and finally "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." !!

All that could happen here is they'll call you for directions, collect!

 

[foofoohightec]

All that could happen here is they'll call you for directions, collect!

Just checked your public profile for an address, but found none. Alas !!

 

[captaincranky]

Not to Mention the Unlisted Phone Number....

"Armageddon could be knocking at my door, I ain't gonna answer that's for sure".
(Jennifer Nettles (song "Something More") CD "Twice the Speed of Life"))

Catchy tune.

I forgot to mention the band is "Sugarland".

 

[ravisunny2]

I cant take the credit for them

Credit for posting them here, is certainly yours.

 

[beef_jerky4104]

Counter-Strike: Source...

 

[Stacey]

Why do you drive on the parkway and park in the driveway?

 

[ravisunny2]

In how many countries do people drive on the right side of the road ?

And in how many countries is the up position of the electric switch the on position ?

 

[foofoohightec]

Why is George Bush are president?

Speaking of which, check this out :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lDslhQNegEE

 

[captaincranky]

See Look, That Guy on the TV's Dumber Than Me Sweetheart........

Speaking of which, check this out :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lDslhQNegEE

I've gone to the irack video, and now I'm conflicted. I not sure if that's too funny to be scary, or too scary to be funny. Perhaps it's too true to be either one.
During the past few years, we in America have developed a subtle, self serving strategy in voting for our president. He or she needs to way stupider than the voting public at large. This way we can all say to one another, J**** C*****, that guys an *****, and be correct without humility or introspection.

 

[raybay]

When you dress up and go someplace, it is best to really go someplace. Like maybe MacDonalds or Burger King. (my four year old)

 

[foofoohightec]

I've gone to the irack video, and now I'm conflicted. I not sure if that's too funny to be scary, or too scary to be funny. Perhaps it's too true to be either one.
During the past few years, we in America have developed a subtle, self serving strategy in voting for our president. He or she needs to way stupider than the voting public at large. This way we can all say to one another, J**** C*****, that guys an *****, and be correct without humility or introspection.

I once read a passage by Mark Twain, that I think summs it all up. Here it is :

"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth."

 

[raybay]

My thinking was that these Thoughts of the Day were to be humorous. But if not, here are other things Mark Twain said about war:


If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.
- "Mark Twain as a Presidential Candidate," New York Evening Post, 6/9/1879


All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
- "The Private History of the Campaign That Failed"


Before I had chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain

A wanton waste of projectiles.
- The Art of War speech, 1881

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, " Our country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation.
- "Glances at History," 1906


An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.
- "Glances at History," 1906


Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
- "Chronicle of Young Satan"

 

[foofoohightec]

Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
- "Chronicle of Young Satan"

Here is one last quote by Mark Twain (painful as it is), afterwhich we can return to more light hearted stuff !

"O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it. ~Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"