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"Baseball's Sad Lexicon"

These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double--
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

So, what the heck is a "gonfalon bubble?"

Mines from the classic film 'Swept Away' with Madonna, which is actually better than some people think.

If the truth be known, I havent the foggiest where it came from.

It's something that someone from a girl group said as their motto when i was about 10, and i kinda adopted it a long time ago. It's been my email signature and my sig on every forum ever since

It sums everything I've learned to be true in the world.

I changed one of me lines. Need I say more :-D

It is the deepest and the most concise and complete spiritual statement I've ever heard.

I change mine quite often, too. The second line is new.

I started with

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

which turned out to be not Voltaire but a paraphrase of his words:

The phrase "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is widely attributed to Voltaire, but cannot be found in his writings. With good reason. The phrase was invented by a later author as an epitome of his attitude. It appeared in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym S[tephen] G. Tallentyre. ...

So I found the orignal quote which was being paraphrased...here it is!

Either seem to work for my attitude to a discussion forum. KP

Interesting, kitchenpete. I actually prefer Voltaire's actual quote since it's more realistic. How many of us would really "defend to death" the right of someone else to speak?

Mine is an attempt to remind myself not to take things so frikken serious.

Mine is from a book titled Jacques Lacan and the adventure of insight written by Shoshana Felman -French and Comparative Literature Professor at Yale-. I picked it because I have a particular simpathy for pshychoanalytical theory and for the constant questioning of being.

Mine is the title of a novel, a line from "Amelie" and half a dozen other movies and pieces of pop culture . Cliched, yes, but it sums up my antisocial tendencies perfectly .