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"Lead, Follow, or get the hell out of my way" - from a sign in front of one of the basic training dorms at Lackland AFB.

 

 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill

 

 

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill

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"Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand." - Neil Peart

 

"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims." - Ayn Rand

 

"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint." - Christopher Hitchens

 

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin

 

"I've got more chins than a Chinese phone book." -Fat Bastard

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"What's this button do?" - Christa McAuliffe

 

 

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QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 18 2008, 02:27 PM)
"What's this button do?" - Christa McAuliffe

This is a philosophical quote thread, not a tasteless joke thread. If you want to do things like this go to Grand Designs. Thank you.

 

You too, Merely and Jimbo. I very much appreciate the serious quotes you've posted, but the silly ones? Come on, guys. dazed025.gif wacko.gif

 

Oh, and I don't think Fat Bastard is a philosopher. I'm just sayin'.

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QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 18 2008, 01:27 PM)
"What's this button do?" - Christa McAuliffe

Dude...whoa...

 

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QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jul 18 2008, 04:38 PM)
QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 18 2008, 01:27 PM)
"What's this button do?" - Christa McAuliffe

Dude...whoa...

 

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That's the very same reaction I had.

 

GR, do you really think that's funny? Or were you posting it for the shock value?

 

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QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jul 18 2008, 03:41 PM)
QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jul 18 2008, 04:38 PM)
QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 18 2008, 01:27 PM)
"What's this button do?" - Christa McAuliffe

Dude...whoa...

 

eh.gif

That's the very same reaction I had.

 

GR, do you really think that's funny? Or were you posting it for the shock value?

How did I know you were going to have a cow over this? Probably because I now understand your comedic guidelines:

 

Jokes which provide levity to a tragedy which happened over twenty years ago, to only seven people, all of them personally unknown to the members of the board = not funny; completely inappropriate.

 

Jokes which specifically target GeddyRulz, a person known to everyone on the board, and entire threads which mock his physical attributes = admissable, very funny, and completely appropriate. If the victim himself says otherwise, call him a whining baby and tell him to lighten up.

 

Lighten up.

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QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 20 2008, 02:19 PM)
QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jul 18 2008, 03:41 PM)
QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jul 18 2008, 04:38 PM)
QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 18 2008, 01:27 PM)
"What's this button do?" - Christa McAuliffe

Dude...whoa...

 

eh.gif

That's the very same reaction I had.

 

GR, do you really think that's funny? Or were you posting it for the shock value?

How did I know you were going to have a cow over this? Probably because I now understand your comedic guidelines:

 

Jokes which provide levity to a tragedy which happened over twenty years ago, to only seven people, all of them personally unknown to the members of the board = not funny; completely inappropriate.

 

Jokes which specifically target GeddyRulz, a person known to everyone on the board, and entire threads which mock his physical attributes = admissable, very funny, and completely appropriate. If the victim himself says otherwise, call him a whining baby and tell him to lighten up.

 

Lighten up.

I'm not "having a cow" I'm just asking you not to post tasteless jokes in my forum.

 

As regards the rest of your post, I have no idea what you're talking about.

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QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jul 20 2008, 03:08 PM)
QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 20 2008, 02:19 PM)
QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jul 18 2008, 03:41 PM)
QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jul 18 2008, 04:38 PM)
QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 18 2008, 01:27 PM)
"What's this button do?" - Christa McAuliffe

Dude...whoa...

 

eh.gif

That's the very same reaction I had.

 

GR, do you really think that's funny? Or were you posting it for the shock value?

How did I know you were going to have a cow over this? Probably because I now understand your comedic guidelines:

 

Jokes which provide levity to a tragedy which happened over twenty years ago, to only seven people, all of them personally unknown to the members of the board = not funny; completely inappropriate.

 

Jokes which specifically target GeddyRulz, a person known to everyone on the board, and entire threads which mock his physical attributes = admissable, very funny, and completely appropriate. If the victim himself says otherwise, call him a whining baby and tell him to lighten up.

 

Lighten up.

I'm not "having a cow" I'm just asking you not to post tasteless jokes in my forum.

 

As regards the rest of your post, I have no idea what you're talking about.

A couple of more points:

 

I would have said what I did regardless of who posted it, so don't think like I'm singling you out.

 

No, I didn't know the astronauts aboard Challenger, but I've been a NASA fan for as long as I can remember and I have always held high regard and respect for anyone who volunteers for our space program. It takes a special breed of person to strap into a vehicle propelled by several thousand tons of high explosive and I hold a low opinion of anyone who mocks those who have died doing it.

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QUOTE (j13cents @ Jul 17 2008, 07:33 PM)
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Nope, sorry, that one's not from Neil, it's Shakespeare:

 

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts...

 

From As You Like It, Act 2

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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain

 

"Science, like nature

Must also be tamed

With a view towards its preservation

Given the same

State of integrity

It will surely serve us well

 

Art as expression

Not as market campaigns

Will still capture our imaginations

Given the same

State of integrity

It will surely help us along

 

The most endangered species

The honest man

Will still survive annihilation

Forming a world-

State of integrity

Sensitive, open and strong" -Neil Peart

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"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. " -Goethe

 

"Good is in the details" -Neil Peart (slightly changing L.M. van der Rohe's quote "God is in the details" laugh.gif )

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"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many." -Spinoza

 

I really like this one:

" Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule!" -Nietzsche

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The most Zen words ever written by Neil:

 

Why are we here?

Because we're here.

Roll the bones;

Roll the bones.

 

Why does it happen?

Because it happens.

Roll the bones;

Roll the bones.

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Of course, Master Dogen has this to say:

 

"Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that , in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that."

 

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And then there's my own Zen teacher, Brad Warner:

 

"We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now, the great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads. We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there's no Somewhere Else . Everything is right here."

 

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