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February 6, 2006 at 7:41 pm #2192409
words of wisdom
Lockedby jaqui · about 18 years, 2 months ago
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright….. until you hear them speak………
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February 7, 2006 at 2:20 am #3093344
Now Jaqui
by jardinier · about 18 years, 2 months ago
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There’s no need to get personal.:)
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February 7, 2006 at 5:10 am #3093265
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February 7, 2006 at 5:22 am #3093256
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February 10, 2006 at 3:48 am #3253804
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February 10, 2006 at 7:36 am #3253693
see, I was right
by jaqui · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Actually Jaqui
“Word of wisdom” 😀
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February 11, 2006 at 4:18 am #3090893
Oldies but goldies
by julianpenn · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Now Jaqui
It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are stupid, than to open it and take away all doubt.
There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don’t.
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February 11, 2006 at 3:40 pm #3077827
Ah but which 1’s (or 0’s) would they be?
by sleepin’dawg · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Oldies but goldies
Hmmmmm? Then you would need to look to see if you were ‘off’ or ‘on’ in binaryspeak, so to speak. Are you an [b]er[/b] or an [b]ee[/b]??? Think about it. ]:)
[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)
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February 7, 2006 at 2:47 am #3093333
for the women
by stargazerr · about 18 years, 2 months ago
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Coffee,chocolate,Men…Somethings are just better rich …
]:)
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February 11, 2006 at 4:40 pm #3077808
the response
by apotheon · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to for the women
Cars, computers, and women. Some things are just better quiet.
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February 11, 2006 at 8:21 pm #3077763
Awwhhh, mang..Dat’s code….
by armandocanales · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to the response
But true!…lol
AC
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February 11, 2006 at 8:29 pm #3077762
Ahem!
by jessie · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to the response
‘Scuse me, are you saying that all woman noises should be kept quiet? Does that include those “private moment” noises? ]:)
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February 11, 2006 at 8:46 pm #3077757
God I hope not!….
by armandocanales · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Ahem!
A gentleman never tells…Honey…hush!
AC
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February 12, 2006 at 7:39 am #3077685
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February 7, 2006 at 4:30 am #3093285
More words…
by v_man · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
?A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed?
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February 7, 2006 at 5:16 am #3093263
lips closed
by rob mekel · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to More words…
dunno about this one.
Depends on the lips I guess. hahahaha 😀 (blush)
Rob
@life is too short to not enjoy it 😡-
February 7, 2006 at 5:21 am #3093257
I know..
by jaqui · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to lips closed
some lips look better “wrapped”. ]:)
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February 7, 2006 at 5:38 am #3093246
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February 12, 2006 at 4:32 pm #3133813
More Words
by humph2 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to More words…
Dugger, that sounds like an Irish Diplomat.
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February 10, 2006 at 1:23 am #3253834
Penny for my thought
by cameron taljard · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
The Law of Unintended Consequences, stronger than any written Law. ‘Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.
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February 10, 2006 at 3:20 am #3253808
For the troubleshooters
by zyphlar · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Penny for my thought
Occam’s Razor:
“Entities are not to be multiplied without neccesity.”With technology, the simplest answer is frequently the correct (or best) one.
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February 10, 2006 at 11:36 am #3091123
Give way to the Zebras
by cameron taljard · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to For the troubleshooters
Then surely you would say: “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras” Where it would be cleary more prudent to think too move out the way…
“Necessity” is the mother of all invention, and necessity is nessesary.
imho & jest.
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February 11, 2006 at 4:44 pm #3077807
similar to Occam’s Razor
by apotheon · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to For the troubleshooters
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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February 11, 2006 at 8:32 pm #3077761
Never
by jessie · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Penny for my thought
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.
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February 20, 2006 at 2:11 am #3252773
More pennies , I need the cash.
by cameron taljard · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Never
heard this again after some time:
“Plan the work and work the plan.”
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
– Hyman G. Rickover, 1900 – 1986” I didn’t say that I didn’t say it. I said that I didn’t say I said it. I want to make that very clear.”
– George Romney, 1907 – 1995
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February 10, 2006 at 4:59 am #3253783
Yogi Berra-isms
by daniel.muzrall · about 18 years, 2 months ago
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Wherever you go, there you are…
There are a lot of great lines from Yogi.
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February 11, 2006 at 5:22 am #3090879
the tao of yogi
by cberding · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Yogi Berra-isms
I thought someone wrote that book once….there is the tao of pooh, too, I think.
Daniel:
I’m from STL, where Yogi is from. You can walk into any bar on the Hill and find real-live Yogi-like quotes any day of the week. ;->
I change my marquee on my desktop each month with a new Yogi-ism.
One of my favorites (for election season)
“Texas has a lot of electrical votes” and the classic Yogi,
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
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February 10, 2006 at 6:32 am #3253754
Favourite Words of Wisdom…
by ashby · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
… and so true:
“Common Sense is an oxymoron”
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February 10, 2006 at 7:36 am #3253695
so are
by jaqui · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Favourite Words of Wisdom…
jumbo shrimp
good morning
progressive conservative [ defunct Canadian political Party ]
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February 10, 2006 at 7:09 am #3253714
My personal motto
by mickster269 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”
-Douglas Adams
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February 10, 2006 at 8:00 am #3253673
On stupid people
by gsg · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
You can’t cure stupidity
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February 11, 2006 at 6:04 am #3077964
or
by barryaaa2 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to On stupid people
Ignorance can be cured;
Stupidity is forever.-
February 11, 2006 at 11:39 am #3077869
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February 11, 2006 at 3:48 pm #3077825
and then there’s……………
by sleepin’dawg · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to and then…
[b][i]”Stupid is, as stupid does.”[/i][/b] Forest Gump.
[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)
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February 11, 2006 at 4:16 pm #3077810
Funny thread
by lowlands · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to and then there’s……………
One of my favorites:
There are no stupid questions but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots
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February 11, 2006 at 4:52 pm #3077805
great thinkers on stupidity
by apotheon · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to On stupid people
Bertrand Russell: Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
Albert Einstein: Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
Elbert Hubbard: Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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February 12, 2006 at 11:35 am #3077661
How ’bout this one?
by armandocanales · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to great thinkers on stupidity
Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups
– Source Unknown –
AC
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February 12, 2006 at 6:25 am #3077693
How They Got That Way
by sourceror · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to On stupid people
My lament:
God’s greatest oversight in creation was in not making stupidity painful.
Of course, as in the case of the Darwin Awards, sometimes stupity is fatal.
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February 10, 2006 at 8:03 am #3253670
Don’t Take Life
by rbanfieldau9 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
too seriously – Nobody Gets out alive
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February 10, 2006 at 11:05 am #3091140
People
by tryten · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
“People as individuals are generally smart. But the general public is f**king stupid.”
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February 10, 2006 at 12:16 pm #3091100
My favorite…
by jerryk · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
There’s never enough time to do it right, but plenty of time to do it over…
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February 10, 2006 at 5:23 pm #3090968
OK, U ASKED 4 this:
by btljooz · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
#1. If you have it; a trucker helped get it there.
#2. Some days you’re the windshield; Some days you’re the BUG!
#.3
small people talk about other people
Average People Talk About Things
GREAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IDEAS#4. Ladies & Gentlemen, Take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice!
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February 11, 2006 at 2:54 am #3090906
From a Local Government IT Department
by jevans4949 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
“If a thing’s not worth doing, it’s not worth doing well”
(Passed on to me by a collegue in the 1970’s)
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February 11, 2006 at 5:16 am #3090880
Kudos Jaqui! Now on communication …
by puterfx · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
Just a couple of my favorites …
When dealing with upper management…
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I?m not sure that you understand that what I said is not what I meant.”
When under the gun and doing your best, remember…
“All you can do is all you can do,
and all you can do is enough”
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February 11, 2006 at 5:40 am #3090876
This Works in every occasion
by thelurch · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
My Dad was in the Armed Forces so we did a lot of traveling overseas. It was customary for Dad to take the family in the car on a weekend and just travel to see the sights of the region.
One time, Mom thought Dad might have taken a wrong turn a ways back and tried to explain that we were lost.
Dad’s reply (and also what I colsider the “Kida Credo of Life”)
“You’re Never Lost Until You’ve Run Out of Gas.”
Now, everywhere I travel I make sure I have a full tank, mentally and physically.
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February 11, 2006 at 9:17 am #3077898
creativity quotes
by trillian_sk · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
great thread. here are some from my collection on creativity
1. You have to allow room for serendipity and the unexpected. (Thomas Zimmerman, IBM, on the creative process of invention)
2. Imagination is intelligence having fun.
3. Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving
4. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. (Cynthia Heimel)
5. I have spent my day stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung-
February 11, 2006 at 11:51 am #3077867
Another along that line
by mtrose · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to creativity quotes
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one you have.”
–Emili Chartier
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February 11, 2006 at 10:43 am #3077885
Time Wounds ALL Heels……………………
by sysadmin/babysitter · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
My personal favorite.
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February 11, 2006 at 8:35 pm #3077760
more words of wisdom
by bluron · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
“the higher, the fewer…”
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February 12, 2006 at 6:20 am #3077694
Reply To: words of wisdom
by majikten · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to more words of wisdom
When in panic
Or in doubt
Run in cicles
Scream and shoutThat always works for me.
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February 12, 2006 at 1:47 pm #3077632
“danger”
by apotheon · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Reply To: words of wisdom
That’s supposed to be “danger”, not “panic”. Much more euphonous that way, too.
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February 12, 2006 at 8:40 pm #3133753
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February 13, 2006 at 6:43 am #3133646
Euphonius
by majikten · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to euphonous
Sorry for any confusion, but I already know the definition, I was nit-picking the spelling.
I checked two of my dictionaries (I like real paper books), and I couldn’t find a form of
euphony that matched yours.
Websters New Lexicon 1990
Merriam-Websters Collegiate 2003I read the whole thread about Email grammar
and spelling and I saw your name quite a few
times. Just thought I would take my turn at picking nits.Sorry for wasting anyones time.
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February 13, 2006 at 1:36 pm #3091798
look again
by apotheon · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Euphonius
http://www.onelook.com/?w=euphonous
seven matching dictionaries for “euphonous”http://www.onelook.com/?w=euphonius
no matching dictionaries for “euphonius”, suggests “euphonous” as an alternate spellinghttp://www.onelook.com/?w=euphonious
fifteen matching dictionaries for “euphonious”It seems that “euphonious” is a more common spelling, but “euphonous” isn’t wholly deprecated.
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February 12, 2006 at 8:53 am #3077667
As my father used to say…
by neilb@uk · about 18 years, 2 months ago
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remember that:
Making a cup of coffee is like making love to a beautiful woman. It’s got to be hot. You’ve got to take your time. You’ve got to stir… gently and firmly. You’ve got to grind your beans until they squeak. And then you put in the milk.
Laying a carpet is… very much like making love to a beautiful woman. You check the dimensions, lay her out on the floor, pin her down, walk all over her. If you’re adventurous – like me – you might like to try an underlay.
Well, hanging wallpaper is also very much like making love to a beautiful woman. Clean all the relevant surfaces, spread her out on the table, cover her with paste, and stick her up. Then you clean your brush, light your pipe, stand back and admire your handiwork.
Putting up a tent, is… very much like making love to a beautiful woman. You rent her, unzip her, put up your pole an’… slip in to the old bag.
Washing a car, is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. You’ve got to caress the bodywork. Breathe softly and gently. And give every inch of it your loving attention. And make sure you’ve got a nice wet sponge.
And yet, having therapy is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. You … get on the couch, string ’em along with some half-lies and evasions, probe some deep dark holes, and then hand over all your money.
Going to the brink of death and back, in a nine car pile-up on a dual carriage-way, is … very much like making love to a beautiful woman. First of all, brace yourself, hold on tight – particularly if it’s a rear-ender. And pray you make contact with her twin airbags as soon as possible.
going fishing is much like making love to a beautiful woman. First of all, clean and inspect your tackle, carefully pull back your rod cover, and remove any dirt or gunge that may have built up whilst not in use. Then, extend your rod to its full length, and check that there are no kinks or any wear. Particularly at the base, where the grip is usually applied. Make sure you’ve got the appropriate bait, and that there’s plenty of shot in your bag.
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February 12, 2006 at 1:50 pm #3133842
I see.
by apotheon · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to As my father used to say…
Your father was . . . single-minded.
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February 13, 2006 at 5:24 am #3133675
More Words of Widsom
by buckeyenuts · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
Stay single and your pockets will jingle.
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February 13, 2006 at 6:32 am #3133655
motto
by dshaffer1 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
Half the battle is knowing when to give up.
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February 13, 2006 at 7:05 am #3133630
Project Management
by rogue leader · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
“No plan survives contact with the enemy”.
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February 13, 2006 at 1:38 pm #3091797
grand military tradition
by apotheon · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Project Management
That’s the First Law of Combat.
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February 13, 2006 at 11:40 am #3091872
On Being – somewhere
by rick_from_bc · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to words of wisdom
Rule 1: Everyone has to be somewhere.
Corollary 1: You can’t get there from here; you have to start
somewhere else.
Corollary 2: No matter where I am, there I am.[Doggerel]
As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today.
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February 13, 2006 at 1:41 pm #3091794
er
by apotheon · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to On Being – somewhere
You should probably use something other than the carat as your wildcard character. The first thing that came to my mind when I saw H^^^ wasn’t “hell”, it was that ^H is the visible detritus of a control character used to delete/backspace in some applications. Thus, Hell^H^H^H^H would be a “clever” way of indicating that you “deleted” a word, similar to using a strikethrough.
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February 13, 2006 at 2:18 pm #3091760
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February 13, 2006 at 4:04 pm #3091717
agreed
by apotheon · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to more words….
Of course, I didn’t say anything about the control characters for other deletion operations.
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February 13, 2006 at 7:16 pm #3091643
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February 24, 2006 at 1:05 pm #3272294
Credo for life
by ryoung2 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
In reply to words of wisdom
Be a friend to the person you see in the mirror, they were there when you came into the world and they will be there when you leave.
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