"When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot."
- Larry Lujack
Probably very sound advice, Piffka!
exceptionally good quote...
and, you're back!
Hi everybody... yep... I'm baaaaaaaaaack. (For now... leaving again next week for California.) I am going to check the radio stations, next time we buy a car!
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"It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons." - Henry Miller (1891-1980)
I think Henry was having a bad day when he said that, Piffka!
Ayup, but he wasn't so fond of people... at least not Americans...
from
a Henry Miller bio
Quote: "Why is it that in America the great works of art are all Nature's doing?" Miller believed that the majority of people in the United States were all dead, "all but the Negroes, Indians and an occasional nonconformist. The American way of life has created a spiritual and cultural wasteland."
Some people consider his trilogy a wasteland...no, not me.
<smiling> Here is today's...
"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things. One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."
- Butch Hancock
Seem to remember Butch being a singer...but then my memory often fails me.
You've got it right, Panzade -- that would be Butch Hancock from Lubbock & Austin.
Gosh, Piff. I feel so masculine and smart all of a sudden.
Glad to oblige, but this worries me... how were you feeling before?
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
-Voltaire (1694-1778)
I like that, Piffka.
I'm gonna use that down at the feedmill today.
Hi Gus. Use it? As in quoting it while leaning back on your porch-chair, right? I hope there is no activity planned 'gainst the miller... ... I can see the headlines now.
Quote:Herr Ratzenhofer of the Comingled Capybara Swamp took matters into his own hands Sunday morning and battered the Dismal Miller with a hefty flake of alfalfa which caused undo sneezing activity & a severe disruption in the feedmill debate society.
Gus, I like that quote you had about the blind pig and the acorns...how did it go?
I used Piffka's quote and it went quite well.
There were three of the boys at the feed mill when I arrived -- Ben Stinson, George Clodarski, and Clem Pitonk. They were in a heated debate about politics as I made my way up the wooden steps.
Ben looked up as he saw my familiar straw hat come into view and said, "Hey, Gus, what the hell do you think is wrong with this country? Are we going to hell or what?"
I leaned on my pitchfork, spit some chew on the ground, and said, ""The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
They all stared at me, openmouthed.
Finally Clem said, "Well, goddamn it, Gus. What'd you do, go out and get one of them fancy educations?"
I just chuckled and walked away.
I guess I showed them boys a thing or two.
Quote:Gus, I like that quote you had about the blind pig and the acorns...how did it go?
Digressions, objections, blind pigs, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional, with the exception of acorns, belongs in pathology.
Is that the one you're talking about, Panzade?
I agree; it is a hell of a quote.
