@cicerone imposter,
When I left my ship, I intended to reup as a soldier and fight in Vietnam. They were just sending volunteers at the time. First I wanted a couple of months' freedom before signing the papers. Funny how that little separation is all it takes to change one's life. I learned enough about the war to turn against it and I marched in protest against it instead of joing up again.
"A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it's accepted by a majority." -Booker T. Washington
@edgarblythe,
Quote:A lie doesn't become truth,...
, but many politicians repeat lies to make it true. It's called the "illusory truth effect."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Rob Siltanen
I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates.
Steven Wright
@edgarblythe,
Steven Wright always makes me laugh.
@edgarblythe,
I liked Mitch Hedberg who also had an interesting delivery. Sadly he died in 2005 at age 37 of a drug overdose.
@glitterbag,
That's every bit as important as the material, in my view. When a comedian loses that, they seem to simultaneously run out of good material.
Kilon Ya3ne Kilon!
[All (of them) means all (of them)]
-- one of the loudest chants being heard in recent days in Lebanon, where protestors have paralized the main cities, rejecting the entire political class
“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
― Charles Darwin, Notebooks
“My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?”
― Galileo Galilei, Frammenti e lettere
“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
OK, so what’s the speed of dark?
- Steven Wright
"Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else" - Isaac Asimov
@edgarblythe,
One of the opening scene lines of
The Fanatic (2019).
Why did the lord give us agility, if not to evade responsibility?
- from a poem by Ogden Nash
"I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal." -Groucho Marx
