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leflaw	Date: July 24, 2003 @ 10:32 PM "Hell is other people"-Sarte "We get too soon old and too late schmart" -yiddish proverb "Don't mistake kindness for weakness." - Leflaw "Think for yourself." - anonymous Pro is to con as progress is to Congress. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug. Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor. Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. First Law of Bicycling: No matter which way you ride, it's uphill and against the wind. Osborn's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't. Weinberg's Second Law: While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary. Hartley's First Law: You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've got something. Dentist: A prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.-- Ambrose Bierce Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear. You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers. -- J. D. Salinger If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers? Those who can't write, write manuals. Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. "He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes..." The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today. The brain is a wonderful organ: it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work. Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems, usually caused by other people spying on them. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. Nudists are people who wear one-button suits. Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. Pohl's Law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it. Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. If you don't care where you are, then you aren't lost. Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids. Scott's first Law: No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right. The new Congressmen say they're going to turn the government around. I hope I don't get run over again. About the time we make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. -- Mark Twain Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss. Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.-- W. Somerset Maugham " id="55546">"No indian prince has more attendants than a thief to the gallows" -Edgar Allan Poe "Hell is other people"-Sarte "We get too soon old and too late schmart" -yiddish proverb "Don't mistake kindness for weakness." - Leflaw "Think for yourself." - anonymous Pro is to con as progress is to Congress. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug. Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor. Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. First Law of Bicycling: No matter which way you ride, it's uphill and against the wind. Osborn's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't. Weinberg's Second Law: While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary. Hartley's First Law: You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've got something. Dentist: A prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.-- Ambrose Bierce Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear. You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers. -- J. D. Salinger If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers? Those who can't write, write manuals. Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. "He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes..." The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today. The brain is a wonderful organ: it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work. Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems, usually caused by other people spying on them. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. Nudists are people who wear one-button suits. Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. Pohl's Law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it. Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. If you don't care where you are, then you aren't lost. Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids. Scott's first Law: No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right. The new Congressmen say they're going to turn the government around. I hope I don't get run over again. About the time we make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. -- Mark Twain Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss. Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.-- W. Somerset Maugham
leflaw	Date: July 24, 2003 @ 10:33 PM If you don't care where you are, then you aren't lost.
TameasDust	Date: July 24, 2003 @ 11:50 PM even if you don't like it there is someone who will
Veracohr	Date: July 24, 2003 @ 11:56 PM Culture is not your friend - Terence McKenna
Karmatic	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 12:10 AM Clones are people two.
jackschitt	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 12:15 AM agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. "Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff." "If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal." "Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand." But then... an engineering student then took the jar which the other students and the professor agreed was full, and proceeded to pour in a glass of beer. Of course the beer filled the remaining spaces within the jar making the jar truly full. The moral of this tale is: no matter how full your life is, there is always room for BEER." id="55566">A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks about 2" in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. "Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff." "If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal." "Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand." But then... an engineering student then took the jar which the other students and the professor agreed was full, and proceeded to pour in a glass of beer. Of course the beer filled the remaining spaces within the jar making the jar truly full. The moral of this tale is: no matter how full your life is, there is always room for BEER.
sinai	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 1:22 AM "those who dun't believe in god dont believe in nothing, they believe in everything."
UnbreakableTed	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 3:45 AM None are so blind as those who have no eyes. -- Dr. Philo Drummond.
Pagan	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 5:30 AM jackschitt is my new guru. all hail the schitt!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is the schitt
leflaw	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 8:49 PM why do many people start violent arguments over what only an idiot would disagree with? How come no good deed ever goes unpunished? How come people at a cocktail party will talk about their sex lives, but won't tell you how much money they make?
greatscottpr...	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 11:57 PM The whiter the hat the deeper the mud hole that it falls into.
leflaw	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 12:08 AM HAH!
TameasDust	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 10:22 AM Trust is givin, respect is earned
GeneHilbert	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 12:35 PM Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about a woman is their eyes, and women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. Have you noticed that a slight tax increase costs you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents? In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
thumbtack	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 1:52 PM There is a reason the word Congress begins with the word Con. Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow but a dream, but today well lived make yesterday worth remembering and tomorrow worth dreaming of. There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, Those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Everybody is ignorant, only of different subjects. Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. 24 hours in a day...24 beers in a case...coincidence? Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Acumen	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 4:01 PM trying is the first step towards failure
sinai	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 4:12 PM Bob "Happy Trees" Ross" id="55889">"there are no mistakes, just happy accidents" Bob "Happy Trees" Ross
jackschitt	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 4:28 PM thumbtack: This is Great........ We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
TameasDust	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 5:08 PM the person to get mad first looses
Pagan	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 6:11 PM i live my life by that saying TD
smelv1n	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 7:41 PM Your conscience is the little voice in your head telling you somebody might be watching.
TameasDust	Date: July 28, 2003 @ 6:36 AM When in doubt, sue the !
JFF	Date: July 28, 2003 @ 7:14 AM Reality is a side effect caused by lack of alcohol.
UnbreakableTed	Date: July 28, 2003 @ 7:16 AM Is it finished?
PaBlikMM	Date: July 28, 2003 @ 7:19 AM Mans an womens are only angels with one wing ... so we need each other to fly ... sorry for my english
mracky	Date: July 28, 2003 @ 1:22 PM If you don't want to see yourself grow old, smash every mirror you find. The way to a man's heart is through his ribcage. the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who count, those who don't and those who can't.
professional...	Date: July 28, 2003 @ 3:50 PM i've just been thinking about bed. (and my chubby)
sinai	Date: July 29, 2003 @ 4:44 AM god's greatest invention? palimony!
TameasDust	Date: July 30, 2003 @ 8:39 AM Vic Where are YOU?
GeneHilbert	Date: July 30, 2003 @ 12:12 PM No one can make You feel inferior without your consent, But - you'd be a fool to conceal that from your superiors.
GeneHilbert	Date: July 30, 2003 @ 3:07 PM Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain
victorsskull	Date: July 30, 2003 @ 3:39 PM like spanking your monkey very bad habit and messy too
Pagan	Date: July 30, 2003 @ 3:48 PM great. now you tell me. anyone got a towel?
sinai	Date: July 31, 2003 @ 6:44 AM just do like the rest of us and use a sock
PaBlikMM	Date: July 31, 2003 @ 8:48 AM
jackschitt	Date: July 31, 2003 @ 11:33 AM The "Crusty Old Sock Fucker's" daily meeting will come to order.
GeneHilbert	Date: July 31, 2003 @ 12:07 PM No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her shit.
victorsskull	Date: July 31, 2003 @ 1:46 PM
Etheracide	Date: August 1, 2003 @ 2:34 AM "I see." Says the blind man pissing into the wind. "It's all coming back to me now."
wlfhcommishjava	Date: August 3, 2003 @ 3:55 AM if a tree falls in the woods, and no ones around and no one hears. does anyone give a shit? i mean really, does anyone give a shit if a tree falls in the woods if no one is around to hear it?
jackschitt	Date: August 4, 2003 @ 11:31 PM " id="57400">"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
sinai	Date: August 5, 2003 @ 12:48 AM "the past only matters to the dying and the dead"
mikekennedy	Date: August 5, 2003 @ 8:10 AM "It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." "I regret that I cannot accede to your request, because I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed." (In response to the suggestion that he undergo psychoanalysis, 1927). "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." "I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel (to serve as President), and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it. All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions." "Concern for man himself and his fate must form the chief interest for all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations." "When the blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it." "If I would be a young man again, I would not try to become a scientist or a scholar or a teacher. I would choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances." "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater." (Letter to a 12-year-old). "If all the young people in America were to act as you intend to act, the country would be defenseless and easily delivered into slavery." (Letter to a pacifist, 1941). "Woe is me." (Upon hearing of the Hiroshima bombing, 1945). "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate has made me an authority myself." "Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and generally more rational than we are (or were)—why then, the Devil take you. Having, with all respect, given utterance to this pious wish, I am (or was) Yours, Albert Einstein." (From a time capsule placed in 1936). " id="57433">Thoughts of Albert Einstein: "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” "It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." "I regret that I cannot accede to your request, because I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed." (In response to the suggestion that he undergo psychoanalysis, 1927). "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." "I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel (to serve as President), and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it. All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions." "Concern for man himself and his fate must form the chief interest for all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations." "When the blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it." "If I would be a young man again, I would not try to become a scientist or a scholar or a teacher. I would choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances." "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater." (Letter to a 12-year-old). "If all the young people in America were to act as you intend to act, the country would be defenseless and easily delivered into slavery." (Letter to a pacifist, 1941). "Woe is me." (Upon hearing of the Hiroshima bombing, 1945). "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate has made me an authority myself." "Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and generally more rational than we are (or were)—why then, the Devil take you. Having, with all respect, given utterance to this pious wish, I am (or was) Yours, Albert Einstein." (From a time capsule placed in 1936).
Lcrowley	Date: August 6, 2003 @ 2:16 PM Always tell those you love how much they mean to you, because you never what tomorrow will bring..
professional...	Date: August 6, 2003 @ 5:27 PM cheese: which is better swiss or red leicester...
GeneHilbert	Date: August 10, 2003 @ 10:39 PM Divorce: The fuckin' you get for the fuckin' you got.
sinai	Date: August 10, 2003 @ 10:54 PM give it all back to the monkeys
GeneHilbert	Date: August 11, 2003 @ 9:55 PM I thought the "Hey, Hey We're The" had it already.
thumbtack	Date: August 21, 2003 @ 3:17 PM A wet mop never stands alone..
TameasDust	Date: September 20, 2003 @ 10:26 AM Things come, things go, but somethings keep coming back like dandruff
erikshawn	Date: September 20, 2003 @ 11:24 AM i posted this in another forum, but noone has answered;couldn't dmusic become a full-fledged independent record label?if all members pitched in, couldn't we release our stuff under it's label?
GeneHilbert	Date: September 20, 2003 @ 11:44 AM That's funny I have also voiced the same opinion.
redrasta	Date: October 18, 2003 @ 2:20 AM If it aint broke....I obviously haven't been near it. "If a man speaks in the woods with no woman there to hear him....is he still wrong??"

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