# Pithy observations

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observations/1021883>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 8, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observations/1021883 "2025-08-08T23:33:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observations/1021883/61 "2025-08-13T21:59:13Z")

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Always plan ahead. That way you don’t have to do anything right now. (Val McKee in **Tremors** )

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**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observations/1021883/62 "2025-08-14T00:24:30Z")

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> [@TreacherousCretin](#):
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> Always plan ahead.

I try not to plan ahead. That’s when the term “premeditated” starts to get bandied about the courtroom.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observations/1021883/63 "2025-08-14T00:56:29Z")

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“I feel like a sack full of assholes with the good ones picked out.” - quote from my Chief early in my Navy career, describing his hangover.

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observations/1021883/64 "2025-08-14T02:37:06Z")

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If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observations/1021883/65 "2025-08-14T12:20:46Z")

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War is worse than Hell, because innocent people don’t go to Hell.

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observations/1021883/66 "2025-08-14T18:52:39Z")

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From Nicholas Kristoff in today/s Times (a propos the summit without Zelenskyy):

“If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu”.

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observations/1021883/67 "2025-08-14T19:05:05Z")

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Yep, I posted this, after an orange-cat morning. Managed not to damage myself, but that was sheer dumb luck.

> **[https://preview.redd.it/omg-is-it-catching-v0-tfh5wu1u81jf1.png?width=640&cr...](https://preview.redd.it/omg-is-it-catching-v0-tfh5wu1u81jf1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=208fc26a6abb002c9ed9d3283dfb85b123f9ac93)**

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pithy-observations/1021883/68 "2025-08-14T19:11:03Z")

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Lifted from a David Gerrold post:

> “Yes, you can get out of the box. The instructions are written on the outside of the box.” – Solomon Short

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