#51 2008-07-16 10:49:24
sofaking wrote:
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Hasn't this thread got a little too introspective?
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-Albert Camus
A Rolex owner is someone whose watch minds it's self.
A sailor is someone whose wind matches it's self.
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#52 2008-07-16 14:20:51
**NEWS FLASH**
I am a self loathing loser. I HATE myself, and my putrid fat body. I have no friends. I take out my frustrations on a tag board. I think people like me there, because I am delusional. I have tongued my mother's gaping anus, and savored the ooze.
--Horseonovich
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#53 2008-07-16 14:54:26
Cap'n Crunch wrote:
"You can't get away with the crunch, because the crunch always gives you away."
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#54 2008-07-17 04:32:30
Ah, Emmeran, thanks for reminding me of the Devil's Dictionary.
Ambrose Bierce wrote:
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
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#55 2008-07-17 11:58:32
'80s t-shirt wrote:
"Your criticism is greatly appreciated. Fuck you very much."
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#56 2008-07-17 12:41:43
Julius Caesar wrote:
Veni, Vidi, Vici
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#57 2008-07-18 00:55:49
whiskytangofoxtrot wrote:
Cap'n Crunch wrote:
"You can't get away with the crunch, because the crunch always gives you away."
Edit: score one for the context-aware side banners:
Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs
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#58 2008-08-20 23:33:24
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
--C.S. Lewis
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#59 2008-08-21 00:17:48
sofaking wrote:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
--C.S. Lewis
So now we have the Religious Right, a merging of omnipotent moral busybodies and robber barons. The Left may be omnipotent social and environmental busybodies, but the robber baron part isn't as pronounced.
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#60 2008-08-21 00:45:08
sigmoid freud wrote:
sofaking wrote:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
--C.S. LewisSo now we have the Religious Right, a merging of omnipotent moral busybodies and robber barons. The Left may be omnipotent social and environmental busybodies, but the robber baron part isn't as pronounced.
Funny you should say that. It was a quote I recently used in an arguement with my father regarding religion, because he has read C.S. Lewis' Christian writings, and is a conservative Catholic who believes that regular church attendance is an automatic ticket into heaven. I agree with Lewis' Universal Morality theory -- that it doesn't take a morally-driven bureaucracy to tell us not to be assholes to each other (this includes not robbing the poor to go to war while pretending piety).
I should just let him be at his age, but I'm an asshole, and he thrives on debate (as long as he thinks he's winning).
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#61 2008-08-21 00:57:19
Emmeran wrote:
"Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters"
"Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head"
- Ambrose Bierce
Which his friend Twain in Puddenhead Wilson called a cauliflower with a college education. I think. I'm not looking it up.
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#62 2008-08-21 01:41:32
sofaking wrote:
I should just let him be at his age, but I'm an asshole, and he thrives on debate (as long as he thinks he's winning).
Something tells me Raul Duke has even less patience for that noise.
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#63 2008-08-21 02:40:57
If it doesn't fit, you must acquit. - Gerald Uelmen ( OJ Lawyer who just won the State's rights Vs The Feds Pot laws case on Constitutional grounds)
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#64 2008-08-21 02:48:20
sofaking wrote:
I should just let him be at his age, but I'm an asshole, and he thrives on debate (as long as he thinks he's winning).
The problem is, all people his age hold every truth they agree with to be self-evident, which is a nice way of saying you don't want to discuss it.
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#65 2008-08-21 03:16:15
tojo2000 wrote:
The problem is, all people his age hold every truth they agree with to be self-evident, which is a nice way of saying you don't want to discuss it.
Disagreeable fucks are born old, is my view.
My ancient friend here recently described full throttle on an Indian Chief at 3am along the Cape Cod Canal and brought tears to my eyes. Anyone here know that road? Shit.
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#66 2008-08-21 08:24:46
"First of all, I am a real Minimalist, because I don't do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating. I really don't do very much."
- Robert Wyatt
"War is the health of the state."
- Randolph Bourne
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#67 2008-08-21 08:32:00
"When I was a little kid I wished the first word I'd ever said was "quote," so that right before I died I could say "unquote." - Steven Wright
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#68 2008-08-21 08:37:39
tojo2000 wrote:
**NEWS FLASH**
I am a self loathing loser. I HATE myself, and my putrid fat body. I have no friends. I take out my frustrations on a tag board. I think people like me there, because I am delusional. I have tongued my mother's gaping anus, and savored the ooze.
--Horseonovich
BWAHAHAHHAHAHA Best Quote Yet!
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#69 2008-08-21 08:45:48
"We always believed that if God loved us and we were good, that He would permit us to be pirates."
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#70 2008-08-21 08:49:26
I know that road well but not enough to go full throttle.
Disagreeable fucks are born old, is my view.
Yes but there is a certain type, that like mold on cheese, can only be be acquired over time.
I am rereading some Nietzsche after 30 years. An interesting experience. Time may have added great weight to my understanding of stuff. But surely I would never get far in life unless I am willing to let go of what I had become, from time to time, accustomed to be sure of.
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#71 2008-09-13 17:49:00
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
~George Orwell
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#72 2008-09-13 18:00:46
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. Fred Allen
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#73 2008-09-14 17:03:06
"The simple minded and the uninformed are easily lead astray, and those who cannot connect the dots look the other way."
---John Mellencamp
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#74 2008-09-14 17:43:43
"there, THERE! Now suck-off the dwarf!" (in reference to a real Pigmy)
"you flipped your tongue all the way AROUUUNNNDDDD it!"
"I've just got to keep on fucking, I've just GOT TO!!!!"
"oooooohhhhhhh, Ilovetogethead" (said really fast and run together)
All quotes from the poorly-translated-French-to-English early late 70's/early 80's porn flick, Perverse.
The comedy value of the dialog never fails to make me laugh...
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#75 2008-10-01 13:37:06
“We must not confuse dissent from disloyalty. We must remember always, that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another, we will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.” - Edward R. Murrow
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#76 2008-10-01 13:42:49
"nothing is true, everything is permitted"
-Hassan-i Sabbah
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