ravisunny2
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Funny & scary, but not surprising.
Why even bother to make up the stuff about WMD ?
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Funny & scary, but not surprising.
Why even bother to make up the stuff about WMD ?
captaincranky
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If Only......
The old saw about, "if you're going to do something, do it right", springs to mind here.
"He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword"..... (speaking of God, in the Battle Hymn of the Republic). I didn't have to Google this one, it's right in "The Methodist Hymnal".
If only Emerson, lake and Palmer would put this to music!foofoohightec said:
The old saw about, "if you're going to do something, do it right", springs to mind here.
"He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword"..... (speaking of God, in the Battle Hymn of the Republic). I didn't have to Google this one, it's right in "The Methodist Hymnal".
Samuel Clemons died in 1910. Consequently, he missed both world wars. The Mustard Gas in WW1, the Zyklon B, crematoriums, and Kamikazis of WW2. Let's not forget the atomic bomb. It's an even more forceful indictment of Homo "Sapiens" that we can look back (with the pride of accomplishment in our hearts) and say, WTF are you complaining about, look how much better we've gotten with practice!foofoohightec said:
"If his lips are moving he's lying" A universally applicable cliche, it's not just for lawyers any more!foofoohightec said:
These require some thought.
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." Mel Brooks
On growing old:
"First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down." George Burns
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." George Burns
"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home." Bill Cosby
"Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door." Jeff Foxworthy
"You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more." Jeff Foxworthy
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." Mel Brooks
On growing old:
"First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down." George Burns
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." George Burns
"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home." Bill Cosby
"Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door." Jeff Foxworthy
"You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more." Jeff Foxworthy
ravisunny2
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'When in Rome, do as the Romans do'
howard_hopkinso
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Shouldn`t that be "When in Rome, do as the Italians do"?
Regards Howard
Regards Howard
ravisunny2
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Perhaps, I stand corrected.
Or, perhaps not.
http://www.goenglish.com/WhenInRomeDoAsTheRomansDo.asp
That went tan.
LERT ???
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My math prof loved to use this one :
'If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck ….'
captaincranky
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Following the same reasoning...........
Since "ex" as a prefix means "out of", or in some cases "former", wouldn't that make an "expert" a former spurt?
Unless they decide to name it "Rome, Rome"! Hey, yo, it happened in "New York, New York"!
Tedster said:
Since "ex" as a prefix means "out of", or in some cases "former", wouldn't that make an "expert" a former spurt?
howard_hopkinso said:Shouldn`t that be "When in Rome, do as the Italians do"?
Regards Howard
Unless they decide to name it "Rome, Rome"! Hey, yo, it happened in "New York, New York"!
Lewis Caroll, had important important thoughts to say, good for reflection, before breakfast:
The one that speaks best for computer techs is probably the exclamation,
"Curiouser, and Curiouser"
Then
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Especially good for people on this forum:
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
l
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
But I was thinking of a plan to dye one's whiskers green.
Another for computer techs:
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
That's the reason they're called lessons,
because they lesson from day to day.
The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
Well, slithy means lithe and slimy. Lithe is the same as active. You see, it's like a portmanteau, there are two meanings packed up into one word.
What I tell you three times is true.
'What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?'
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late ?
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
The one that speaks best for computer techs is probably the exclamation,
"Curiouser, and Curiouser"
Then
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Especially good for people on this forum:
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
l
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
But I was thinking of a plan to dye one's whiskers green.
Another for computer techs:
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
That's the reason they're called lessons,
because they lesson from day to day.
The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
Well, slithy means lithe and slimy. Lithe is the same as active. You see, it's like a portmanteau, there are two meanings packed up into one word.
What I tell you three times is true.
'What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?'
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late ?
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
captaincranky
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Who.......?
I would just close my eyes and pretend I was at home with Lucy Liu.
I would just close my eyes and pretend I was at home with Lucy Liu.
captaincranky said:
Not to argue who said what... But generalizing Lincoln as "almost to the point of delusionality" because of a speech he made in order to motivate our soldiers in the Civil War is extreme.
Whoops this is sooo out of date sorry
Also staying with the thoughts of the day theme
"Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise. "
Mike Ditka
captaincranky
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Delusionality...Fact or Fiction?....It Depends Who you Ask....
Despite the fact that I have several college credits in English Composition, it does seem that I am unable to register sarcasm or hyperbole in a way that anyone really picks up on. I'll just take that at face value, "Well, all righty then".(Jim Carey) How the heck did he mean that? >I'm about to be sarcastic> Well I suppose that could have been Mark Twain as well, or maybe Lincoln. <I'm being sarcastic there.
I suppose that when dealing with writers that believe "4", is a synonym for, for, four, and fore, you have to make certain allowances. < (That statement was directed at no one in particular). I'm hoping, (my synonym for "idealistic to the point of delusionality"), that the moderators will add a "tongue in cheek" smiley to the repertoire of those we already have available, in order to assist me with my apparently limited communicative skills.
Or were you being sarcastic? I am certainly capable of missing nuance on the printed page also. Besides, <the constant necessity for annotation ruins the flow of the concept.
But that would mean a person would have to get out from behind the computer, consider the inconvenience of that! < Again, always with the sarcasm. Sometimes I even upset myself.
Dabears said:
Despite the fact that I have several college credits in English Composition, it does seem that I am unable to register sarcasm or hyperbole in a way that anyone really picks up on. I'll just take that at face value, "Well, all righty then".(Jim Carey) How the heck did he mean that? >I'm about to be sarcastic> Well I suppose that could have been Mark Twain as well, or maybe Lincoln. <I'm being sarcastic there.
I suppose that when dealing with writers that believe "4", is a synonym for, for, four, and fore, you have to make certain allowances. < (That statement was directed at no one in particular). I'm hoping, (my synonym for "idealistic to the point of delusionality"), that the moderators will add a "tongue in cheek" smiley to the repertoire of those we already have available, in order to assist me with my apparently limited communicative skills.
Or were you being sarcastic? I am certainly capable of missing nuance on the printed page also. Besides, <the constant necessity for annotation ruins the flow of the concept.
Dabears said:
But that would mean a person would have to get out from behind the computer, consider the inconvenience of that! < Again, always with the sarcasm. Sometimes I even upset myself.
captaincranky said:
Sorry that I didn't know that. I guess I should really ask what grade everyone is and what they are learning in school before I comment. Didn't realize we had such well educated people on here. Most of the time people make those comments and believe the BS that they write. Please Forgive me Cap. Cranky.
ravisunny2
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Very nicely put.
foofoohightec
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.raybay said:
-- Issac Asimov
There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be leglislation against it.
-- Patrick Moore
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.raybay said:
-- Issac Asimov
There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be a leglislation against it.
-- Patrick Moore
foofoohightec
Posts: 33 +0
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
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tifc8lraz
"Why do for tomorrow what you can do for today"
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"Life is like a dirt road, it has bumps, and it has smooth spots"
-cfitzarl
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"Life is like a dirt road, it has bumps, and it has smooth spots"
-cfitzarl
Thoughts to ponder:
I do not want people to be agreeable,
as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen
t is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
I do not want people to be agreeable,
as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen
t is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
beef_jerky4104
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Example is better than advice. But advice involving example is best.
"When you use force, even your shoes won't fit" -Stupid fortune cookie.
"When you use force, even your shoes won't fit" -Stupid fortune cookie.
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