Monday, April 30th, 2012

It isn't what we don't know
         that gives us trouble,
         it's what we know ain't so.
                   -Will Rogers

Friday, April 27th, 2012

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     Common sense and a sense of humor are
     the same thing, moving at different speeds.
     A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
                          -Clive James

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Golden Oldie

          If genius is one percent inspiration
          and 99 percent perspiration, I sure
          have been sharing elevators with a
          with a lot of very bright people.
                    -Phil Corless Sig File

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

It is never wise to appear to be more
      clever than you are.  It is sometimes
      wise to appear slightly less so.
                      -William Whielaw
                       Bits and Pieces
                       December 2009

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

 *
       A doctor, an architect, and a computer scientist were arguing
about whose profession was the oldest.  In the course of their
arguments, they got all the way back to the Garden of Eden, whereupon
the doctor said, "The medical profession is clearly the oldest, because
Eve was made from Adam's rib, as the story goes, and that was a simply
incredible surgical feat."
       The architect did not agree.  He said, "But if you look at the
Garden itself, in the beginning there was chaos and void, and out of
that, the Garden and the world were created.  So God must have been an
architect."
       The computer scientist, who had listened to all of this said,
"Yes, but where do you think the chaos came from?"

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

  Golden Oldie


       We should be thankful for the good things we have
       and, also, for the bad things we don't have.


                                   -Anon
Twin Spin

       He is a man of sense
       who does not grieve for what he has not,
       but rejoices in what he has.

                       -Epictetus
                        The (Other) TFTD
                        December 5, 2006

Friday, Apruil 20th 2012

Thought for the day: *
A billion here, a billion there --
first thing you know it
adds up to be real money.

-Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen < yesterday's thought

The Lone Ranger Creed

              "I believe that to have a friend,
                      a man must be one.
                That all men are created equal
             and that everyone has within himself
            the power to make this a better world.
               That God put the firewood there
                      but that every man
               must gather and light it himself.
                      In being prepared
              physically, mentally, and morally
                    to fight when necessary
                    for that which is right.
               That a man should make the most
                   of what equipment he has.
                      That 'This government,
                  of the people, by the people
                        and for the people'
                        shall live always.
                     That men should live by
                     the rule of what is best
                      for the greatest number.
                       That sooner or later...
                        somewhere...somehow...
                    we must settle with the world
               and make payment for what we have taken.
                 That all things change but truth,
               and that truth alone, lives on forever.
             In my Creator, my country, my fellow man."
                               The Lone Ranger