@farmerman,
hehehe nice
a tee shirt i've always wanted, but never got round to getting:
"if you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers!"
@farmerman,
That's nothing to what I've seen on tee shirts.
Svengali (1983) (TV)
Anton Bosnyak: You shall hear nothing, you shall see nothing, you shall think nothing, you shall be nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali...
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.”
― George Washington
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself,
you will succumb in every battle”
Sun Tzu
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless…
They also serve who only stand and wait
John Milton on his blindness
"life is too short to be serious all the time. pop in, and if you can't laugh at yourself, i'll laugh at you"
a sandwichboard outside a pub i walked past this morning.
@Berty McJock,
You walked past a pub!! Shame on you.
@spendius,
And perhaps there is one reason why a comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life everywhere furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
Henry Fielding.
@spendius,
yeah i was on my way to offload a pallet of flooring from a truck into a house. not the best thing to do after a skinful
@Berty McJock,
Berty McJock wrote:
"life is too short to be serious all the time. pop in, and if you can't laugh at yourself, i'll laugh at you"
a sandwichboard outside a pub i walked past this morning.
Sign outside a bar in Wollaston, Massachusetts:
"Beer is now cheaper than gasoline. Drink, don't drive."
@spendius,
Why, thank you for that thoughtful contribution, spendi.
“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
in introducing himself:
"i'm Doug Stanhope...and that's why i drink." - Doug Stanhope
@spendius,
Quote:What did I not understand? What grammatical faults do you see in the Sonnets or Venus and Adonis?
None. It's the silly prescriptivists that see faults where none exist.
Quote:You should read Sterne on Hobby Horses JT.
You should get up to speed on issues that you try to discuss.
@JTT,
You should knock off blurting assertions which happen to satisfy you.
You can't discuss language use without reference to what it is being used for.
“Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
"Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food."
Michael Levine
