LIFESTYLE

1) I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

2) Lewd I did live-evil I did dwel*.

The sentence reads the same backwards or forwards. (*This isn't an actual word, though; too bad, as it works so well)

TRAVEL

1) It is better to travel well than to arrive sausage. (What....???)

2) There comes a time in every man's life when he must walk barefoot through the snow.

PHILOSOPHY

1) Now that I know I am no wiser than anyone else, does that in fact make me wiser?

And my personal favorite:

2) Common sense is rarer than bird sh*t in a cuckoo clock.

INC KEN

"Me wonders how many people know of the terms real politik or blowback"

Me wonders, too, although if you defined the terms a lot of people would understand at least the second from first hand experience.

"Au Contraire! There are 11 kinds of people in this world... Those who understand binary numbers, those who don't and those that do and flaunt it."

Au counter contraire! There are 100 kinds of people in this world... Those who understand binary numbers, those who don't, those that do and flaunt it, and those who do and don't flaunt it.

Tetrapharmakos ( the four part cure for happiness by Epicurus )

do not fear the gods
do not fear death
what is good is easily obtained
what is terrible is easily endured

"Au Contraire! There are 11 kinds of people in this world... Those who understand binary numbers, those who don't and those that do and flaunt it."

Au counter contraire! There are 100 kinds of people in this world... Those who understand binary numbers, those who don't, those that do and flaunt it, and those who do and don't flaunt it.

Au un-counter contraire! If you count the people who don't understand binary numbers, but still try to flaunt it... There's 7 (or something)!

Man in bathroom with tool in hand not necessarily plumber.

Edited by dag4643 on 11/15/2011 21:12:42 MST.

Ambulo ergo sum (I hike, therefore I am)

Idiots abound.

Me wonders, too, although if you defined the terms a lot of people would understand at least the second from first hand experience.

sweet, this will earn me more hate mail. I love having an opinion anymore, especially when the propaganda shows up in snail mail and scares the poo outta' my family

realpoltik can be summed up with the publically explained intent behind policy vs. the actual reasoning shaping said policy. Iraq is a great example - sure Saddam had those weapons, Reagan sold them to him!

in this context - blowback is a CIA term, used internally, that refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. A certain angry extremist made public comment about 80 years of Islamic humilation, people were doing the math saying, "whuh?!?"

"Au un-counter contraire! If you count the people who don't understand binary numbers, but still try to flaunt it... There's 7 (or something)!"

Ahem.... Don't you mean: There's 1011 (or something)? ;=)

"Ambulo ergo sum (I hike, therefore I am)"

A worthy companion quote to: Solvetara ambulando (It is solved by walking).

"sweet, this will earn me more hate mail. I love having an opinion anymore, especially when the propaganda shows up in snail mail and scares the poo outta' my family"

An oracle worthy of Pythia.

"realpoltik can be summed up with the publically explained intent behind policy vs. the actual reasoning shaping said policy. Iraq is a great example - sure Saddam had those weapons, Reagan sold them to him!"

Hmmmmm... Meaning? I was taught that realpolitik meant the formulation and execution of national policy without regard for moral and ethical considerations. Is that what you mean here?


"in this context - blowback is a CIA term, used internally, that refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. A certain angry extremist made public comment about 80 years of Islamic humilation, people were doing the math saying, "whuh?!?""

Old Chalmers would give you an "A+" for digging up this one.

Hmmmmm... Meaning? I was taught that realpolitik meant the formulation and execution of national policy without regard for moral and ethical considerations. Is that what you mean here?

yes sir. That bit in the doolittle report (my 1st post) probably should've been covered again, sorry.

thanks for clarifying

profound for a generation that could care less & less about those who would sit in luxury with their criticisms.

YouTube - Company Flow:

"I've got two underpaid educators on the faders
Mad about the salaries of baseball players
A nation of thugs waving guns at the mayor
The meek on they knees, cold prayin' for savior
Enabled to outlast disease that plagues ya
Scientists with remedies, save 'em for later
In God we trust, written on the paper
Which soon will burn, as humans learn
To upgrade, advance
But wade, too far in the waters of chance
Stress reaches up to the heavens, its arms
Take the form of nuclear bombs
And when they weary, they drop and crush theory
Laying to waste every thing you held dearly
Let this near it, at this point you see clearly
You nodded through peril, just scream if you hear me

anger will not recognize your good intentions beamed from your keyboards. there is no shortage of rage... building at breakneck speeds



intimately profound, you wanna ignore the truth in that?



in close, more from Company Flow

"My time is slim, it ripples like tight skin over rib cages
Where I'm from, the powers that be got us livin' like dogs
Chasing our tails three-hundred and sixty degrees
Going nowhere, blinded by the glare of the green
Not talking weed I'm talkin' dollars
They're taping your every move on this planet
It's a life-long race from start to finish
A competition where many win and many more get deminished
A selected few cross through, a checkered flag for the first of 'em
Those who come in first place just had more thirst in 'em
A little bit more burst in 'em, but keep out the catch
We're all living in this poll-position
Some are just more focused to win and acquire the things that glisten
While others get left in the dust, miles away
Placed in the opposite position, *issing their lives away
So my time is slim, my time is slim, my time is slim..."

I started this thread but I was too dumb to come up with a profound statement to start things off.

Now I realize that I'm too dumb to understand about half of the profound statements that have been posted.

Talk about dumb and dumber!

"Now I realize that I'm too dumb to understand about half of the profound statements that have been posted."

Nothing's wrong with your intellect, Daryl. All of this profundity is just so much chaff thrown up into the wind by a bunch of seasonally bored BPLer's. It gets that way around here every year about this time. Be of good cheer; this, too shall pass. ;=)

"This film is not funny." - Steven Peabody, Colorado Board of Real Estate Professionals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzoN2MFkCXI

That's a little funny........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w


This to Shall Pass - Ok Go


Reminded me of this video. Good stuff