QotD
Finally, the International Olympic Committee ditched mandatory lab-based screening,
too. "We found there is no scientifically sound lab-based technique that
can differentiate between man and woman," says Arne Ljungqvist, chair of
the IOC's medical commission.
- Newsweek
"If Darwin had meant for us to stop adapting, he would have made the whole world from something incapable of reacting to new stimuli, like, for example, your arguments."
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson, December 14, 2006
"Both porn mongers and the Religious Right view women as disposable property."
- Blamerella @ iblamethepatriarchy
"We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"Once you accept that the man you are following speaks for God, then you are
left at his mercy.... When you give that kind of authority to a man, you are
also open to the possibility of abuse."
- Sandra Tanner, great-great granddaughter of Brigham Young and a former Mormon
"I prefer to suck at this game on my own."
-- Sarah Van Winkle
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other
poor son-of-bitches die for theirs"
-George Patton
"It's better to have loved and lost, than to be gang raped in a Turkish
prison."
- Dr. Jenny Coriolis
When it comes right down to it, what separates normal people from kooks is how they react to those who disagree with them or tell them "NO"
"You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down."
"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers." - Leonard Brandwein
"You know, that couldn't be ANY MORE WRONG if it was in HTML with a .GIF
of a psychotic nun in a bondage outfit clubbing a baby seal to death
with an Al Gore doll."
--- Huey describes a spammer's WHOIS entry
[...] as a first amendment absolutist I celebrate the killfile since it allows
the idiots to speak without requiring me to listen to them. To
paraphrase my own words "You confuse having the right to speak with having
the ability to make me listen."
- JOHN WARREN
"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."
Motto: Thelemama--> "Do what thou wilt and I'll kick your ass."
"... one man's magnificent obsession ... will soon be a restraining order
..."
The Nightmare of the North American Chinese ...
Gwai-Lo, The White Ghost
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what
I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation,
I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.
-- Les Claypool
"No man is an island, But if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie them together, they make a pretty good raft."
MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease.
"Reality is whatever doesn't go away after you stop believing in it."
-- Philip K. Dick
"what is reality, anyway?"
"something which wants to eat you for breakfast"
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn."
"In his house in R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
Jesus saves. Cthulhu saves ... you for later.
G: "If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?"
EB: "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter
oneself over a wide area."
-- Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4
Cats aren't clean, they're covered with cat spit.
memento mori, "remember you are dying"
Perhaps there can only be a set volume of intelligence in the world and every
time one person learns something someone else has to get dumber to balance it
out.
- William R. James
Fortunately, my current caliber of users is much higher. Why, I haven't once
needed to tell someone "find the big red switch with the 0 and 1 on it,
and set it to the 1 position to make the software work better", or "don't
turn the machine upside down and shake it while it's running". Yes, those
are for-real stories of tech support.
- Alun.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest
- Diderot
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian
religion.
- GEORGE WASHINGTON Treaty of Tripoli 1796
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who
are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
--- Albert Einstein---
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE
BEAT YOURSELF UP
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet,
you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw
Mary had a little lamb,
She had it with mint sauce.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb went too, of course.
Where am I going,
and what am I doing in this handbasket?
chown -R us /yourbase
"Life is tough. Three out of three people die, so shut up and deal."
~Ring Lardner
Dorothy Parker called her parrot "Onan" because he kept spilling his seed on the ground.
De gustibus non est argumentam--"Other people can have bad taste and I don't care." (PKD)
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(For the Morse-impaired, it says "cut along the dotted line").