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Thought for Friday, Jun 29, 2007 |
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Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots
Thought for Thursday, Jun 28, 2007 |
You do not lead by hitting people over the head --
that's assault, not leadership.
that's assault, not leadership.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
The (other) TFTD
June 12,2007
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Thought for Wednesday, Jun 27, 2007 |
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Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the
center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation
works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop III
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the
center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation
works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop III
Thought for Tuesday, Jun 26, 2007 |
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"The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity."
"The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity."
Thought for Monday, Jun 25, 2007 |
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This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
-- Hofstadter
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
-- Hofstadter
Thought for Friday, Jun 22, 2007 |
Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough
enough even if they're right.
enough even if they're right.
-James Reston (1909-1995)
Journalist
Bits and Pieces May 25, 2007
Thought for Thursday, Jun 21, 2007 |
__________ would be a great place to visit
if there were not so many tourists.
if there were not so many tourists.
H.D. "Cotton" Galvin
1905-1976
Thought for Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007 |
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I don't want to alarm anybody, but there is an excellent chance that
the Earth will be destroyed in the next several days. Congress is
thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists
broadcast signals to alien beings. This would be a large mistake.
Alien beings have nuclear blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off
their federal programs as if they were merely poor people ...
-- Davy Barry, "THE ALIENS ARE COMING, THE ALIENS ARE
COMING!"
I don't want to alarm anybody, but there is an excellent chance that
the Earth will be destroyed in the next several days. Congress is
thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists
broadcast signals to alien beings. This would be a large mistake.
Alien beings have nuclear blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off
their federal programs as if they were merely poor people ...
-- Davy Barry, "THE ALIENS ARE COMING, THE ALIENS ARE
COMING!"
Thought for Monday, Jun 18, 2007 |
Golden Oldie
Poor little Willie was a chemist.
He isn't a chemist anymore.
For what he thought was H O
2
Was H SO .
2 4
Thought for Friday, Jun 15, 2007 |
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai Stevenson
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai Stevenson
Thought for Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 |
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"I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages. You
sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an
eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer job, and all four ulcers working. I
have never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of
beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below. Westbrook Pegler, a
guttersnipe, is a gentleman compared to you. You can take that as more
of an insult than as a reflection on your ancestry."
-- President Harry S Truman
"I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages. You
sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an
eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer job, and all four ulcers working. I
have never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of
beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below. Westbrook Pegler, a
guttersnipe, is a gentleman compared to you. You can take that as more
of an insult than as a reflection on your ancestry."
-- President Harry S Truman
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tftd believes that the review was concerning his daughter's piano playing.
Thought for Wednesday, Jun 13, 2007 |
Golden Oldie
Although botanically speaking a fruit, in 1893 the U.S. Supreme Court
unanimously ruled that tomatoes are a vegetable (and thus taxable under
the Tariff Act of 1883) because of the way they are usually served.
ref: Smithsonian, August, 1990.
Thought for Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007 |
A flea and a fly in a flue.
Were imprisoned but what could they do?
Let us flee said the fly,
Let us fly said the flea,
so they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Were imprisoned but what could they do?
Let us flee said the fly,
Let us fly said the flea,
so they flew through a flaw in the flue.
-Probably from Boy's Life
circa 1950's
Thought for Monday, Jun 11, 2007 |
Golden Oldie
I've been rich and I've been poor;
rich is better.
-Sophie Tucker
Thought for Friday, Jun 8, 2007 |
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ACHTUNG!!!
ACHTUNG!!!
Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy
schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit
spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das
rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und
vatch das blinkenlights!!!
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tftd- This 'thought' comes from the good old days when computers
had blinking lights in abundance.
Thought for Tuesday, Jun 5, 2007 |
The past should be culled like
a box of fresh strawberries,
rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously
and served in small portions, not very often.
a box of fresh strawberries,
rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously
and served in small portions, not very often.
-Laura Palmer
From the Masters
2007/05/23
Thought for Monday, Jun 4, 2007 |
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"I hate quotations."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I hate quotations."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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