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What's your favorite saying?
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Flatfoot
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I love those idiot quotes. The way I heard it, though, was
"Never argue with an idiot, because people won't be able to tell the difference."
Most of my other favorite quotes come from Despair, Inc. I'd post some of them, but since they're licensed ideas, that'd be a no-no. From that website, though, I'll tell you that my personal favorites are the principles of Defeat, Dysfunction, Mediocrity, Mistakes, Incompetence, Ignorance, Dare to Slack, Adversity, Idiocy, Trouble, Underachievement, and Laziness . Don't misunderstand me, though. I'm not pessimistic, just an optimistic realist.
P.S. Don't trust people who are outnumbered by their cats? Shoot, my wife and I are headed there, fast. We've already got two, and she's intent on a third! What does that quote mean, anyway???
"Never argue with an idiot, because people won't be able to tell the difference."
Most of my other favorite quotes come from Despair, Inc. I'd post some of them, but since they're licensed ideas, that'd be a no-no. From that website, though, I'll tell you that my personal favorites are the principles of Defeat, Dysfunction, Mediocrity, Mistakes, Incompetence, Ignorance, Dare to Slack, Adversity, Idiocy, Trouble, Underachievement, and Laziness . Don't misunderstand me, though. I'm not pessimistic, just an optimistic realist.
P.S. Don't trust people who are outnumbered by their cats? Shoot, my wife and I are headed there, fast. We've already got two, and she's intent on a third! What does that quote mean, anyway???
The thing about cats is one of my originals, and it comes from some personal experience with two people who were just waaaaaaaaaaay too into cats.
One lived with four cats, and claimed that they raised him better than his mother ever did. He often said that he preferred the company of cats to humans. He carried the aroma of their litterbox with him at all times. I met the lad through gaming, and while I played RPGs as an occasional break from the stresses of reality, this guy entered reality only for brief periods of absolute necessity, preferring to focus on the fantasy universe he had created for himself, where felinoid alien women were disturbingly common.
The other was a girl who lived with at least 14 cats. She slept in a walk-in closet while the cats had the run of the apartment. She would often call me (Ostensibly to discuss her terrifying Feminist Fantasy Novel, a horrid tale about a woman warrior whose greatest triumph was returning to her home village to kill all the men and castrate all the prepubescent boys... and she wondered why I didn't think it was brilliant 😱 ), and in the middle of a sentence, a cat would enter the room at her end of the conversation and she would drop everything to talk to it. She wouldn't hang up, but treated me to the priviledge of listening to her talk to the cats. 😕 She would eventually remember that she had called me when the cat left, and then managed to get out a sentence or two to me before another of her now 15 cats would demand her undivided attention, repeating the process.
Then there was the woman who worked with a friend of mine, who claimed that their employer was racist because she couldn't claim her cats as family members under the health plan...
I've nothing against cats in and of themselves, mind you. I just have yet to have a good experience with anyone who gives them treatment preferential to the way they treat other people.
One lived with four cats, and claimed that they raised him better than his mother ever did. He often said that he preferred the company of cats to humans. He carried the aroma of their litterbox with him at all times. I met the lad through gaming, and while I played RPGs as an occasional break from the stresses of reality, this guy entered reality only for brief periods of absolute necessity, preferring to focus on the fantasy universe he had created for himself, where felinoid alien women were disturbingly common.
The other was a girl who lived with at least 14 cats. She slept in a walk-in closet while the cats had the run of the apartment. She would often call me (Ostensibly to discuss her terrifying Feminist Fantasy Novel, a horrid tale about a woman warrior whose greatest triumph was returning to her home village to kill all the men and castrate all the prepubescent boys... and she wondered why I didn't think it was brilliant 😱 ), and in the middle of a sentence, a cat would enter the room at her end of the conversation and she would drop everything to talk to it. She wouldn't hang up, but treated me to the priviledge of listening to her talk to the cats. 😕 She would eventually remember that she had called me when the cat left, and then managed to get out a sentence or two to me before another of her now 15 cats would demand her undivided attention, repeating the process.
Then there was the woman who worked with a friend of mine, who claimed that their employer was racist because she couldn't claim her cats as family members under the health plan...
I've nothing against cats in and of themselves, mind you. I just have yet to have a good experience with anyone who gives them treatment preferential to the way they treat other people.
Flatfoot
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Wow. Don't misunderstand me, I was only kidding about the quote. It didn't offend me, but I was just curious as to what it referred to. Applying the quote to the people you just referred to, yeah. I'd definitely have to agree with you. I've known some people like that myself, and it drove me crazy. If I ever have phone conversations that are interrupted by my cats, it's usually because they're pissing me off or fighting with each other, not because they're doing something cute that requires announcement. Now, my wife on the other hand, who is a true vegetarian/animal-lover spoils the heck out of them. She basically gave me a few choices to choose from. It's either kids, dachsunds, or cats. I'm only twenty years old, so there's no way in hell I plan on having kids yet. I don't like the smell of dog, so that leaves me with cats, because I like cats, and they pretty much maintain themselves (I'm a lazy twenty year-old. 
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).My fav come from mst3k
Detective- You mind if we discuss this over dinner?
Woman- Is this a date or buisness?
Crow- Well what ever getts me sex faster!
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Sonic Adventure 2
Shadow- Our threat fell on deaf ears.
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These are me fav there funny and series I have one thats sad well 2 actually.
one I made up.
The world isn't a bad place its just the people in it.
Shadow- Maria this is what you wanted right?
This is my promise I made to you.
Detective- You mind if we discuss this over dinner?
Woman- Is this a date or buisness?
Crow- Well what ever getts me sex faster!
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Sonic Adventure 2
Shadow- Our threat fell on deaf ears.
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These are me fav there funny and series I have one thats sad well 2 actually.
one I made up.
The world isn't a bad place its just the people in it.
Shadow- Maria this is what you wanted right?
This is my promise I made to you.
Strelnikov
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"If you get to feeling like you're indispensable, stick your fist into a bucket of water. Then pull it out and measure the depth of the hole you left."
"There's never time nor money to do it right, but always time and money to do it over."
"I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help you."
"Your tax dollars at work."
Strelnikov
"There's never time nor money to do it right, but always time and money to do it over."
"I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help you."
"Your tax dollars at work."
Strelnikov
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Mine isn't a very fancy or refined saying...but I have always been partial to:
"I don't want to kill you.....and you don't wanna be dead."
~ Danny Glover in "LONESOME DOVE" ~
"I don't want to kill you.....and you don't wanna be dead."
~ Danny Glover in "LONESOME DOVE" ~
I just remembered a couple of sayings that I saw spray painted on the side of a bridge, one on each side:
It may be a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
And then on the other side...
It's only funny until someone loses an eye.
Mykal
It may be a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
And then on the other side...
It's only funny until someone loses an eye.
Mykal
giggleygirl25
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hey baby how's it hanging no no no just kidding....my favorite saying is...whatcha doin luv?..or one that i use alot is "Duh" but you cannot forget the head slap with that 😀
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Favorite Sayings
I've worked on ranches in Co. & Az. The Guys I worked with were a colorful bunch:
1) Drunker then $900.00
2) Hotter than nickle-night at the 'Cat-House'
3) Dumber than 4 dead hogs
Two of my favorites hail all the way back to Bugs Bunny:
"Wadda Maroon!!"
"I think Spencer Tracy did it much better, don't you folks?"
& Last but not least;
Groucho: "With a Hey-Non-nonny-and-a-Hot-Cha-Cha!"
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I've worked on ranches in Co. & Az. The Guys I worked with were a colorful bunch:
1) Drunker then $900.00
2) Hotter than nickle-night at the 'Cat-House'
3) Dumber than 4 dead hogs
Two of my favorites hail all the way back to Bugs Bunny:
"Wadda Maroon!!"
"I think Spencer Tracy did it much better, don't you folks?"
& Last but not least;
Groucho: "With a Hey-Non-nonny-and-a-Hot-Cha-Cha!"
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lightninbug
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Fav Sayings
Being one who collects quotes, I had to come back & drop off some more.
1) Don't sweat the petty stuff & don't pet the sweaty stuff.
2)Pay attention & tell the truth.
3)Amatures built the ark, Profesionals built the Titanic.
4) Whatcha don't mean won't hurt cha.
5) For TEXAS, & Miss Lilly!
6) One man gathers what another man spills.
& 7) Not only am I a Jehovah's Witness, I ALSO sell insureance.
........OK, That's it
Bug😎
Being one who collects quotes, I had to come back & drop off some more.
1) Don't sweat the petty stuff & don't pet the sweaty stuff.
2)Pay attention & tell the truth.
3)Amatures built the ark, Profesionals built the Titanic.
4) Whatcha don't mean won't hurt cha.
5) For TEXAS, & Miss Lilly!
6) One man gathers what another man spills.
& 7) Not only am I a Jehovah's Witness, I ALSO sell insureance.
........OK, That's it
Bug😎
lightninbug
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EVEN more fav sayings...
Put a rubber band around your head & snap out of it!
He couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
She couldn't find her own ass if all 10 fingers were flashlights.
If ya can't take a joke, try a suppository.
I'm funny that way.
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Bug
Put a rubber band around your head & snap out of it!
He couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
She couldn't find her own ass if all 10 fingers were flashlights.
If ya can't take a joke, try a suppository.
I'm funny that way.
😎
Bug
giggleygirl25
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another one i've heard use in reference to my favorite football team...they can't find(win) their way out of a paper bag
My favorite saying....
I really enjoyed reading all the quotes from everybody, so I thought I'd add mine.
"The best is yet to be." Robert Browning
"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to do battle."
Richard M Devos
"Follow your bliss." Joseph Campbell
"Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic." Rosalind Russell
I really enjoyed reading all the quotes from everybody, so I thought I'd add mine.
"The best is yet to be." Robert Browning
"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to do battle."
Richard M Devos
"Follow your bliss." Joseph Campbell
"Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic." Rosalind Russell
red indian
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If someone says your girlfriend is ugly.....
"You dont look at the mantle piece when your poking the fire mate!"
"You dont look at the mantle piece when your poking the fire mate!"
Here's a few from Murphy's Laws of Commerce:
The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.
If you are working 24 hours a day and still can't make the deadline, work nights.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
And finally my favorite...
To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.
Mykal
The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.
If you are working 24 hours a day and still can't make the deadline, work nights.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
And finally my favorite...
To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.
Mykal
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pretty much any quotable from the movie "The Princess Bride" is a great saying..... for example
"stop that rhyming now, I mean it......... Anybody want a peanut?"
also.... one of my own that has it's own backward logic...
"If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, then too much practice must make you a nobody."
Slappy McGee
"stop that rhyming now, I mean it......... Anybody want a peanut?"
also.... one of my own that has it's own backward logic...
"If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, then too much practice must make you a nobody."
Slappy McGee
