Jack Burton wrote:

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

They think I do not know a buttload of crap about the Gospel, but I do! -Nacho Libre

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.

Mark Twain

"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." (from The Invisible Man, prologue)

Edit -- The Ralph Ellison classic, not the H.G. Wells pulp sci-fi novel.

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choad wrote:

"At 50, everyone has the face they deserve"-- George Orwell

Easy for you to say. You don't look your age.

"Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented."

Mark Twain

sofaking wrote:

choad wrote:

"At 50, everyone has the face they deserve"-- George Orwell

Easy for you to say. You don't look your age.

You mean I should look like a smug asshole, instead? Oh, wait!

"Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place."

- Lazarus Long

"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch."

-Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. - Steven Wright

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. - Steven Wright

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"Never turn down a free meal or a chance to take a shit." - Lyndon B Johnson

"All coloreds want is good sex, loose shoes, and a warm place to go to the bathroom" - Earl Butz

"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."  - Spiro T. Agnew

"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands."  - Spiro T. Agnew

"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." - Adlai E. Stevenson

"The oil can is mightier than the sword." - Everett Dirksen

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... and a few from my favourite politician of all time:

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have." - Barry Goldwater

"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass." - Barry Goldwater

"I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone." - Barry Goldwater

"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight." - Barry Goldwater

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."  - Barry Goldwater

"Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages." - Barry Goldwater

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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
  None knew so well as I.
For he who lives more lives than one
  More deaths that one must die. - Mr. Wilde

"People who read 'quotes' are tourists in the land of thought."
    - WilberCuntLicker

Survival is the name of the game, William. The scruffiest hippie is my messenger...do not expect radiant messengers of light. Expect the flawed, the maimed in body and spirit. It's all a film run backward...the Atom Bomb through the Manhattan Project to the formula...E=MC2. --William S. Burroughs

"People who comment on people commenting on people who read quotes are guilty of initiating complex and possibly fractal and/or recursive postings for which the only tour guides are concrete mathematicians and gibbering idiots with piles."
    - WCL

Now you know that is a load of shite, don't you colonial boy?  We can sort that out with Mr. Occam's device, no?

Just sayin'

Dusty

jesusluvspegging wrote:

"Write-once-run-anywhere.  Ha.  Hahahahaha."
    -John Carmack on java

Nice.

I suppose there's always this classic:

"This feature is by design."
         -Microsoft Knowledgebase

Decadence (To a pseudo-well-dressed man extending a copy of "Watchtower" whilst inquiring as to whether or not I might be "concerned about the current state of the world") wrote:

I really did care about humanity at one point - For about a month or so.  As teen-aged infatuations go, that's really not a bad run; But, yeah  . . .  As far as I'm concerned at this point, That bitch deserves every-thing that she's brought up-on her-self.  Look . . .  My sauce is about to "cook-down;" So, I really can't be bothered at the moment.  Would you mind removing your foot from my door-jamb?  I'd really hate to break it; But, if need be . . .

Decadence wrote:

Oh, my apologies.  I certainly didn't intend to make you feel as though I'd not even considered your point of view.  I assure you that my laughter was no more than the unconscious result of attempting to resolve your expressed views with verifiable history.

And, I've yet to play with the censorship tool (Even during the height of its "lulz"); But, if I see one more misinterpretation of "Occam's razor" . . .  The one fucking "theory" that every-body on the internets seems to be some-what a-ware of; But, not fucking one of them seems to fully comprehend.  Yes, it's a rather simplistic theory (And, intentionally so); But, not quite as simplistic as you bastards make it out to be (Sorry, Dusty; But, you really disappointed with that one).

No grave misunderstanding here. My "thrust" relied on the potential confusion created by the latin "multiplicanda," thus the references to abortion clinics inter alia. If you wish to discuss the meaning of Doc Occ's Whisker-Stroker, I could probably keep up. Dec, you seem to grow ever more down-at-the-mo-uth. Are you lost in the big black bog-?

Hasn't this thread got a little too introspective?

Further

Neal Cassady/Ken Kesey/et al.

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W.C. Fields, after having been stopped from smacking Baby LeRoy...

"No kid of mine is gonna tell me I don't love him!"

Decadence wrote:

Yeah, thanks for that.  I actually got a bit of a "kick" out of that portion of the exchange.  Your bit of "play" with the Occam reference actually made the pseudo-ordeal a bit more bearable.  Still, it doesn't erase the fact that - Yet, again - some-body inappropriately applied "Occam's Razor" to an internets discussion.  It's kind of like the thousandth time that you hear some-body repeat the as-if-indisputable "six million dead' claim.  Come on, do I look that fucking gullible?

Well, we do have the Nazi's own records on this...

Emmeran wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Decadence wrote:

It's kind of like the thousandth time that you hear some-body repeat the as-if-indisputable "six million dead' claim.  Come on, do I look that fucking gullible?

Well, we do have the Nazi's own records on this...

Meticulous to a fault, not a culture to abide by shoddy work or sloppy book-keeping.

You can thank IBM for that.

but here's a quote that rules my life-

"I WAS never attracted to girls who always had everything. I didn't like the girl who came in with the high heels and the makeup. The sex appeal is the girl who walks in in a T- shirt and has someplace else to be" - Ralph Lauren to Interview.

and the other, from, yea verily, Spongebob Squarepants-

"Is this the bus for people who have nowhere else to go?"
"Sure is! We make stops at Quittersville, Failuretown and Loserburg!"