Words to Live By.

[southernson]

"Intelligence and wisdom are two very different things. Choose carefully which one you seek after most."

 

[southernson]

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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation" Herbert Spencer

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

If you want something done right, do it yourself.*
*Exceptions include surgery, dentistry, practicing law, test piloting jets and rockets, crocodile hunting, handling explosives, and jugling chainsaws.

 

[Cataract]

If you want something done right, do it yourself.*
*Exceptions include surgery, dentistry, practicing law, test piloting jets and rockets, crocodile hunting, handling explosives, and jugling chainsaws.

Most people might want to include plumbing and electrical work too...

 

[Gratefulcaver]

"What goes around ... Comes around"

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

The gun is always loaded.

~ C.G.

 

[Cataract]

"No one can see past the choices they do not understand" -Oracle

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Most people might want to include plumbing and electrical work too...

I'm an electrical apprentice, my dad's an electrical contractor, and we did our own plumbing working on our house. My family and I are not most people.

 

[Cataract]

I'm an electrical apprentice, my dad's an electrical contractor, and we did our own plumbing working on our house. My family and I are not most people.

So... are you arguing with my statement because it intrinsically specifies it has nothing to do with you and your family, or are you just bragging you and your family are not "most people"??? (I am saying this in a joking, yet curious tone...)

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

I'm an electrical apprentice, my dad's an electrical contractor, and we did our own plumbing working on our house. My family and I are not most people.

Thanks for the laugh.

~ C.G.

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

I are not most people.]/QUOTE]

I'll just say that my family is special, not that kind of "special".

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

'Words mean things. We live in a time when many politicians utter words that are meant to beguile and fool, not communicate properly."

- Rush Limbaugh

 

[StarHalo]

'Words mean things. We live in a time when many politicians utter words that are meant to beguile and fool, not communicate properly."

- Rush Limbaugh

classic

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

"Laugh it up, Fuzzball."

- Han Solo

 

[bshanahan14rulz]

Thanks for the laugh.

~ C.G.

Funny that the English language can sometimes sound so wrong.

I once had a fortune cookie tell me something that I still don't understand, but I chuckle whenever I think of it:
"Confucius say, he who laughs last laughs latest"

I don't think it's a real quote......

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

I read somewhere, "He who laughs last, is slowest to get joke."

~ Chance

 

[Cataract]

A lot of those "fortunes" are not even Chinese or anywhere in Asia. First off.... fortune cookies are an American invention:

"Like chop suey, fortune cookies are an American invention. They originated in California, but who the actual inventor was, and which city in California is the true home of the fortune cookie, has continued to be a matter of debate. Unequivocally not Chinese, the fortune cookie may in fact not even be Chinese American.

Read more: The History of the Fortune Cookie | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fortunecookies.html#ixzz3AmeNqjJp"

The are -apparently- based on a Japanese recipe, however...
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[jtr1962]

Cycling is the closest a human being can get to flying

Me but it turns out the late Robin Williams said the same thing.

 

[orbital]

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[StarHalo]

"Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it's composed, and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The world is awash with (mostly) recorded sounds. We used to have to pay for music or make it ourselves; playing, hearing, and experiencing it was exceptional, a rare and special experience. Now hearing it is ubiquitous, and silence is the rarity that we pay for and savor." - David Byrne, How Music Works