Minor note on the economics sidetrack: in ANY economy, everything is affected by and connected to everything else. By definition. So any “inflation” anywhere, in a barter or a money-based economy, can and will end up affecting everything else. After all, money was invented to begin with, to FACILITATE what continues to be essentially a barter economy.
Now as to lousy “profound” sayings. I just stumbled across an old gem.
" It’s good that love is blind, or it would see too much."
It might SOUND deep and insightful at first, but since it’s based on a stupid falsehood to begin with (i.e. that love is a creature or a thing or an independent force in nature), in the end it’s just an annoying snotty comment by someone with a bad attitude.
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igor , out of quriosity, you’re not the occasional googler so how did you stumble upon this +13 year old thread and decided to reply to it?
Seriously, 2004, and NOBODY banned?
And what’s it been with the recent zombie attack? Do I need to go out and buy an axe?
To be fair, that’s not a real saying. It was spouted by a movie character who was losing his mind.
This, a thousand times this. Blames people for not having supernatural power to make things happen as wished.
Don’t try to beat cancer - just *beat *cancer!
Don’t try to get into Harvard - just get into Harvard!
Don’t try to win the gold medal - just *win *gold!
Velocity:
This, a thousand times this. Blames people for not having supernatural power to make things happen as wished.
Don’t try to beat cancer - just *beat *cancer!
Don’t try to get into Harvard - just get into Harvard!
Don’t try to win the gold medal - just *win *gold!
Don’t try to reply to a 13-year-old thread and add nothing of substance - just *reply *to a 13-year-old thread and add nothing of substance!
Scougs
October 8, 2017, 11:31am
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I was merrily reading this thread and was about to reply to one of the points in it. Then I saw a reference to Christopher Reeve in the present tense and looked at the date.
In an old Wizard of Id comic strip, an eastern ruler – call him The Sultan – is showing The King around his place:
Sultan: And here are my concubines, each more beautiful than the last!
King: Really?
Sultan: Well, only if you line them up that way.
I love it. It takes the wind out of that extravagant saying by pointing out how meaningless it really is.
So much wrong, here! I’m not even going to bother…
Wife, U of C washroom wall, early '70s. She resented later appropriations: “A man without God is like a fish without a bicycle.”
Yeah, this is so wrong.
First, the tags don’t match.
Second, it’s Geddy Lee, not Getty Lee.
Geez, get it right!
jtur88
October 9, 2017, 6:34am
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"If you believe you received this message in error . . . " No, dumbass, I was trying to get intercept.
I wonder if anyone thought “life’s like a box of chocolates” to be profound.
I am trying to remember what I was doing 13 years ago, oh yeah, that.
Yeah, it’s only profound if you’re an illiterate idiot who can’t or won’t read the box. Which, you know, Forrest was.
I much prefer the original aphorism from the book: “Being an idiot is no box of chocolates”.
Freedom is the driving force of freedom
My favorite deflation of a profound-sounding saying is from the comic strip The Wizard of Id
The King is visiting a Middle Eastern country and is being shown the harem by the Sultan.
Sultan: There they are, fifty beautiful women, each more beautiful than the last!
King: (clearly excited by the thought) Really??!!
Sultan: (nonchalantly) Well, only if you line them up that way.