Your Quote of the Day

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

Omar Khayyam

So when facts are given that show Ed was mistaken, what do you two do - stop thinking and go to a barrage of quotes. But at least you can say you are part of a large group of sheeple, Rag.

ahahah!

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"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

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And you have the temerity to make fun of GWB, Ed. Are you really any different?

You rag on others, like Brandon, for ignoring the facts. What are you doing but copying Brandon's behavior.

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.” ~W. C. Fields

And you answer to 'Dupe', Ed. Even when facts are placed squarely in front of you, you remain a dupe.

Why?

The fool sig line hit a little too close to home, did it, Ed?

"What we have here, is failure to communicate!"
Strother Martin's character in 1967 movie, Cool Hand Luke.

That's because you and Ed are intellectual cowards.

"Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events."

Robert Heinlein

"You don't change people's mind by the words you speak, but you inspire change in their hearts by the life you live."

"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing ."
William S. Burroughs

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln

"They grew, they grew so awful high
Till they could grow no higher,
An' 'twas there they tied a lover's knot,
The red rose and the briar.

In Charlotte town, not far from here,
There was a fair maid dwellin.'
Her name was known both far and near,
An' her name was Barbara Allen."

Barbara Allen. Bob Dylan. 1988 version.

“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

I would guess Whitman had never experienced a pitiless sun for months on end.

"Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun".

Noel Coward.

USEFUL WORK PHRASES



1. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by

your unique point of view.

2. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean

you're an artist.

3. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet

it's hard to pronounce.

4. Any connection between your reality and mine is

purely coincidental.

5. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't

care.

6. I like you. You remind me of when I was young

and stupid.

7. What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?

8. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.

9. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your

mouth.

10. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions

I had about you.

11. It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of

Karma to burn off.

12. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are

largely ceremonial.

13. No, my powers can only be used for good.

14. How about never? Is never good for you?

15. I'm really easy to get along with once you

people learn to worship me.

16. You sound reasonable. Time to up my medication.

17. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being

smarter.

18. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a

message .

19. I don't work here. I'm a consultant.

20. Who me? I just wander from room to room.

21. My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my

toys!

22. It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the

cellular level I'm really quite busy.

23. At least I have a positive attitude about my

destructive habits.

24. You are validating my inherent mistrust of

strangers.

25. I see you've set aside this special time to

humiliate yourself in public.

26. Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh

nervously, and change the subject.