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Aphorisms - show off your own or share your favourites

 
 
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 08:33 am
@hingehead,
Assume that I reminded u that my IMPROVEMENTS in spelling
represent a calculated effort to drag society, kicking n screaming
into the 21st Century.*

* subtle reference to supremacy of Individuals
over their CHILD: society.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 08:35 am
@Letty,
Letty wrote:

"...the gift without the giver is bare.." Lowell.
This one is particularly good for this time of year, hinge.

Maybe sometimes.
It depends on how u look at it
and the objective value of the gift.
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chai2
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 08:37 am
bookmarking....these are great.
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Francis
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 08:42 am
@OmSigDAVID,
David, your nitpicking doesn't make the world advance.

Should I go into rebutting your points one by one, which I could easily do, I wouldn't convince your frozen mind of the soundness of that quote.

I do think that simple facts of life are far beyond the grasp of your close-mindedness..

As so, you can have the last word...
djjd62
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 08:46 am
@hingehead,
hingehead wrote:
Are you familiar with the term 'aphorism'?

Here's some definitions:
brief statement which expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation.


"Life, don't talk to me about life."
Marvin the Paranoid Android



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djjd62
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 08:47 am
i'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy
Drunk
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 08:49 am
@Francis,
Francis wrote:

David, your nitpicking doesn't make the world advance.

Should I go into rebutting your points one by one, which I could easily do, I wouldn't convince your frozen mind of the soundness of that quote.

I do think that simple facts of life are far beyond the grasp of your close-mindedness..

As so, you can have the last word...

I am standing up for the rights of the citizens to NOT be robbed.

I have no interest in making the world ADVANCE (toward WHAT ?)





DAVID
Joeblow
 
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Reply Fri 19 Dec, 2008 08:50 am
@djjd62,
Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

Daniele Vare
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hingehead
 
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 08:05 am
@OmSigDAVID,
Quote:
Assume that I reminded u that my IMPROVEMENTS in spelling
represent a calculated effort to drag society, kicking n screaming
into the 21st Century.*


Your inference that spelling will improve society motivates me to once again point out your loose grip on reality.
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hingehead
 
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 08:07 am
@djjd62,
Thanks Deej, for bringing in Douglas Adams, and, I think you'll find a more apropos quote, a la Tom Waits, is

"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy."
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hingehead
 
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 08:08 am
@OmSigDAVID,
Quote:
I am standing up for the rights of the citizens to NOT be robbed.


And how pray tell are you doing that? By posting drivel on a bulletin board populated by a few hundred people? Clap. Clap. Clap.
Miklos7
 
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 09:11 am
@wandeljw,
Living well is the best revenge.
--Sarah or Gerald Murphy (long-suffering and infallibly generous hosts of Fitzgerald and other difficult guests at their villa in southern France)
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Miklos7
 
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 09:17 am
@OmSigDAVID,
David,
Society of the 21st century is already kicking and screaming without your inflicting spelling improvements on them. Food and shelter first, then spelling games?
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 03:06 pm
@Miklos7,
Miklos7 wrote:

David,
Society of the 21st century is already kicking and screaming
without your inflicting spelling improvements on them.

Food and shelter first, then spelling games?

No: rejected.
U give them your food and your shelter.
I ll proceed to show better, more logical n easier ways to spell.



David
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 03:12 pm
@hingehead,
hingehead wrote:

Quote:
I am standing up for the rights of the citizens to NOT be robbed.


And how pray tell are you doing that?
By posting drivel on a bulletin board populated
by a few hundred people? Clap. Clap. Clap.

I said what I said in the ubiquitos context
that EVERYTHING we say is futile commentary
and that NOTHING that any of us posts has
any effect in the outside world.

Everyone ELSE knows that;
Y don t YOU know it ?
hingehead
 
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Reply Sun 21 Dec, 2008 09:51 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
David that doesn't answer my question

Niggly Hinge wrote:
Dave of the loose grip wrote:
I am standing up for the rights of the citizens to NOT be robbed.

And how pray tell are you doing that? By posting drivel on a bulletin board populated by a few hundred people?
?

Rather than arguing a point not made as though you are a genius?

PS the mere fact that you pissfart about with font weights and colors solidifies my notion that you have too much time on your hands.
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hingehead
 
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Reply Sun 21 Dec, 2008 09:54 pm
Sorry I just realised Dave is getting me off topic.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.
Alain, Propos sur la religion, 1938
Miklos7
 
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Reply Mon 22 Dec, 2008 08:31 am
@hingehead,
SOCRATES: The unexamined life in not worth living.

MIKLOS: The unlived life is not worth examining.
Miklos7
 
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Reply Mon 22 Dec, 2008 08:33 am
@Miklos7,
Leave it to me to desecrate Socrates with a stupid typo!
That's "IS not worth living."
Francis
 
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Reply Mon 22 Dec, 2008 08:37 am
@Miklos7,
"**** happens"...
 

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