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Posted: Apr 26, 2009 - 5:59am

I often think how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

~Carlin

Posted: Apr 26, 2009 - 5:57am

Several months ago, a friend of mine told me that while he was cleaning his garage he threw his back out. I told him it was probably over-enthusiasm. Sometimes when you're cleaning, you get carried away and throw out something you intended to keep. The next time I ran into him he seemed to have learned his lesson. He had recently cleaned out his attic, but this time he didn't throw his back out. He gave it to Goodwill.

~Carlin

Posted: Apr 26, 2009 - 5:57am

smokinsean wrote:

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

-John Maxwell

Posted: Apr 26, 2009 - 5:53am

Two hundred skydivers holding hands in a big circle as they free-fall is not news. You know what's news? If all two hundred parachutes fail to open.

~ Carlin

Posted: Apr 26, 2009 - 5:02am

Good manners is ignoring bad manners.

Posted: Apr 26, 2009 - 2:44am

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Posted: Apr 13, 2009 - 6:34am

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

- Rita Mae Brown

Posted: Apr 12, 2009 - 9:12pm

"Everyone knows what to do except me."

—Fred, a few months before he passed away.

Posted: Apr 12, 2009 - 12:51pm

my ten year old niece wrote a crime story for a class project. This is from it:

life is a moving walkway. if you're unlucky it's a very long one.

Posted: Apr 12, 2009 - 10:53am

It's not as easy to feel good as it once was. To feel good when I was 21, all I had to do was to smoke a joint. Now I have to turn off my phones, do tai chi for an hour, drink a strong cup of coffee, and stay away from bad people, so I can feel good for an hour or two knowing when it ends, I'm gonna feel like the miserable 59-year old prick that I actually am.

Iggy Pop

Posted: Apr 11, 2009 - 12:33pm

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

-John Maxwell

Posted: Apr 11, 2009 - 10:11am

Â smokinsean wrote:

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them â words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear."

Stephen King

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Lovely.

Posted: Apr 11, 2009 - 10:05am

"So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corner of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little."

-Stephen King

Posted: Apr 11, 2009 - 9:25am

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear."

Stephen King

Posted: Apr 5, 2009 - 1:48pm

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Posted: Apr 5, 2009 - 12:54pm

phineas wrote:

No, no, that's where you're wrong, of course: a treavle is more like geoduck, albeit without the personality.

A geoduck is just the Canadian word for a mule-tortoise hybrid. Maybe you're thinking of a tondart?

Posted: Apr 5, 2009 - 12:53pm

BlueHeronDruid wrote:

That's a poor Jamaican.

Posted: Apr 5, 2009 - 12:53pm

winter wrote:

No, you're thinking of a treavle.

A craven is part cranberry, part ventricle.

No, no, that's where you're wrong, of course: a treavle is more like geoduck, albeit without the personality.

Posted: Apr 5, 2009 - 12:53pm

phineas wrote:

That's a rastbega.

That's a poor Jamaican.