I saw that painted on the door to the chaplains office in a Catholic high school the other day. It made me realize that having the hallways made of cinderblock was a bad idea, because you could really hurt yourself from banging your head against them after reading that bit of inspirational lunacy and trying to make any kind of sense out of it.
Become What You Are.
Become what …but I am what I are. Amn’t I? The paradoxes are getting to me.
It reminded me of another inspirational line, chiseled into the base of a statue erected in the image of a great educator.
Knowledge is Good.
At least THAT has some coherence!
Anybody else got any (un)Inspirational sayings?
“there’s a club if you’d like to go,
You might meet someone who really loves you.
So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die”
The Smiths “How Soon is Now”
Quite easily, the most un-inspirational sentences ever written in the English language.
Pretty much every sentence from my latest pile of student papers.
“This story is only meant for entertainment and it would not be entertaining unless one knew and understood the meaning of the word ‘fuck’.”
“The amusement of the story takes place on the Internet. Although, the type of Internet that the characters are on, a Sex Chat, is often frowned upon by most of society and is rarely condoned.”
“Typically the average airport employee contributes to the passengers’ frustration because he / she seems so sarcastically polite.”
“The truth is that any student can relate to the frustrations of brain cramping on an exam, which affects them in some way.”
Whilst traveling through Utah, I saw a billboard that stated:
“Real Men Don’t Use Porn!”
I have a hard time thinking this would dissuade someone from looking at a dirty magazine/website/movie/whatever. It also makes me wonder. . . what do REAL men use?
I hate to attack fundies (with whom I pretty much totally agree; heck, we all have to pick a world view) but I’ve a horrible feeling the implication of the ad is that real men therefore USE women. This is highly offensive.
I always liked Mr Boffo’s one: “The idea should be no bigger than the box it comes in and should always include the correct postage”.
I hate to attack fundies (with whom I pretty much totally agree; heck, we all have to pick a world view) but I’ve a horrible feeling the implication of the ad is that real men therefore USE women. This is highly offensive to real men, of course. I’m a real man (I’ve checked) and I’m offended.
I always liked Mr Boffo’s one: “The idea should be no bigger than the box it comes in and should always include the correct postage”.
“Secondly, apparently there were some problems with their access to the product? Can you check into that? Jim at BCR is already expecting their invoice will be prorated (sigh).”
(Sigh) is right. I stopped wanting to work after I read that at 10:31 am today.
Well, here in beautiful Bellingham, Washington there is a very excentric store called Lone Wolf Antiques. As far as I know the owner gave our city its unifficial motto. At least I never saw it anywhere before I saw it there: “The City of Subdued Excitement.”
Anyway, every few months there is a gallery walk in which the museum, the art galleries, etc. show off their
nicest stuff. And for one gallery walk the owner of LW chose to cover his entire front window with brown paper on which he had written:
