Post a random quote

[cmyk]

"Bubba didn't do it!"

[Shodan]

Originally Posted by Sunspace

"The Miracle of the Dancing Bear is not that the bear dances well. It is that the bear dances at all."

This has been in my head a lot in the past few days, and I would like to know where it came from. It's not original with me. A Google search was inconclusive.

Samuel Johnson said something similar about women preaching -

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

Regards,
Shodan

[BubbaDog]

The bitch hit me with a toaster

[Taomist]

Originally Posted by Oly

In the absence of consensus chaos is better than bad rules.

This needs to be the opening, and ending, speech of any session discussing SOPA/CISPA.

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-- Henry David Thoreau --

[cmyk]

"Do you all have amnesia?! HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF THE COCK-A-DOODIE CAAAAR!"

[TruCelt]

The person who alwasy does as he wants is not free; he is the slave of his appetites. Only those who choose what they will do are truly free.

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[Steve MB]

"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

[Tangent]

"Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again."

[Nava]

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

[SticksAndString]

Leonard: Sure, the more the merrier.
Sheldon: Wait, no. That's a false equivalency. More does not equal merry. If there was 2000 people in this apartment right now, would we be celebrating? No, we'd be suffocating.

[Jackknifed Juggernaut]

Just read this in a Reader's Digest (perhaps the most self-referential magazine title ever):

"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative of truth but not its twin!"

Apologies to the author for forgetting his or her name.

[handsomeharry]

"France is a nation full of hairdressers and dance masters."

"We will astonish the world with the magnitude of our ingratitude."

[Tapioca Dextrin]

From a recent crime blotter

The plunger was recovered

[tr0psn4j]

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Hemingway

I'm more of a listener too, fwiw.

[Jackknifed Juggernaut]

"The moon shape of a palm tree"

[Boyo Jim]

"I wanna be sedated." -- The Ramones

[Gangster Octopus]

"It's science."

[Quasimodem]

"We domesticated them, and that makes us responsible".

Me - 2008

Thanks

Quasi

[Tangent]

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is American Idol.

[kayT]

"Right now you are my problem. Don't make me pull out my registration card to prove to you that I am a Slapaho from Kickabitch Creek because you will not like what happens when I do. "
--Spaz Cat in the workplace griping thread. I really want one of those cards!

[KneadToKnow]

"Will you shut this kid up? He's makin' me look like a bully."

[Sister Vigilante]

I wish that people cared more for the earth than they prayed to the one who created it.

[TruCelt]

Originally Posted by Jackknifed Juggernaut

Just read this in a Reader's Digest (perhaps the most self-referential magazine title ever):

. . .

I've always wondered whether the "Digest" part was a polite nod to where folks most often read it. . .

[movingfinger]

Ernest Hemingway after crashing his plane in Africa; "The luck; she is still running good."

[Typo Knig]

"When I was an apprentice machinist they told us to run the machine so fast the tool would break, then stop the machine, replace the tool, turn the speed down one notch and that was how fast we should run the machines. But that was during The War and we were all in a hurry."

[KneadToKnow]

"Back when I was picking beans in Guatemala, we used to make fresh coffee, right off the trees I mean. That was good. This is shit but, hey, I'm in a police station."

[Lust4Life]

Don't say sorry now and expect to be let off of the hook.

In future be sorry beforehand and don't do it in the first place .

[Gangster Octopus]

"Not the momma!"

[sahirrnee]

"Can a woman wear white to her wedding if she wasn't a virgin when she was still a man?"

[Czarcasm]

"Never appeal to a man’s “better nature.” He may not have one. Invoking his “self—interest” gives you more leverage."

"There are hidden contradictions within the minds of people who “love nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.” The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of “Nature”--but beavers and their damns are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver damn (erected by beavers for beaver’s purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purpose of men) the “Naturist” reveals his hatred for his own race--i.e., his own self-hatred. In the case of “Naturists” such self—hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate. As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. Sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women-- it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly “natural.” Believe it or not, there were “Naturists” who opposed the first flight to old Earth’s Moon as being “unnatural” and a “despoiling of nature.”

"What are the facts? Again and again and again-what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history”--what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!"

-L.L. aka W.W.S. aka R.A.H.

[Gleena]

"The sky was Bible black in Lyon
When I met the Magdelene
She was paralysed in her streetlight
She refused to give her name
And a ring of violet bruises
They were pinned upon her arm
200 francs for sanctuary
And she led me by the hand
To a room of dancing shadows
Where all the heartache disappears
And from the glowing tongues of candles
I heard a whisper in my ears
'J'entend ton coer'
I can hear your heart"

Fish, Marillion, Bitter Suite (a recurring earworm fro more than 20 years! GAH!)

[movingfinger]

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"--Honore de Balzac

"When the buffalo are gone we will hunt mice, for we are hunters and we want our freedom."--Sitting Bull

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."--Winston Chuchill

"Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade under the trees."--last words of Stonewall Jackson

"The dead are the invisible ones, but not the absent ones."--Victor Hugo

"In the past even I was afraid of my greatness, therefore I could not stand in front of mirrors."--Aaron Burr

[Tangent]

"First time I set eyes on Mary Swanson, I got that romantic, old fashioned feeling where I'd do anything to bone her."

[2gigch1]

Well I'll be Goddamned, the bitch set me up!

DC Mayor Marion Barry