Subject: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Peace Date: 06 Oct 07 - 03:27 PM |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Peace Date: 06 Oct 07 - 03:29 PM I couldn't resist that first post. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: bobad Date: 06 Oct 07 - 03:36 PM Anyone lived in a pretty how town anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did. Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew autumn winter spring summer) that noone loved him more by more when by now and tree by leaf she laughed his joy she cried his grief bird by snow and stir by still anyone's any was all to her someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hoe and then)they said their nevers and they slept their dream stars rain sun moon (and only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt for forget to remember with up so floating many bells down) one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes. Women and men(both dong and ding) summer autumn winter spring reaped their sowing and went their came sun moon stars rain -- E. E. Cummings |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Emma B Date: 06 Oct 07 - 03:50 PM "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." Plato Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Bee Date: 06 Oct 07 - 04:37 PM "People will forgive you for anything, even murder, except being stupid" - my Father |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Becca72 Date: 06 Oct 07 - 04:41 PM "where ever you go, there you are" Buckaroo Bonzai |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: pdq Date: 06 Oct 07 - 04:56 PM You know, you might be right." |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 06 Oct 07 - 05:06 PM Bobad, that's a great poem (with which I've been familiar for 55 years), but you goofed when you gave the attribution. You said -- E. E. Cummings wrote it. It was written by e. e. cummings. Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Peace Date: 06 Oct 07 - 05:07 PM Capital, my dear Watson, capital. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Bill D Date: 06 Oct 07 - 05:09 PM The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. "Don't do too good of a job, folks will begin to expect it." Talkin' John, mediocre carpenter |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Amos Date: 06 Oct 07 - 05:17 PM "The map is not the territory." Alfred Korzybski, General Semantics "And neither is the territory..." Amos Jessup |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Rapparee Date: 06 Oct 07 - 05:44 PM "Well, this hand sucks. I fold." |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: bobad Date: 06 Oct 07 - 05:55 PM "I'll have a soft drink, I'm driving tonight." |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Stringsinger Date: 06 Oct 07 - 05:57 PM "Is our children learning? Childrens do learn." |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: GUEST,ibo Date: 06 Oct 07 - 07:44 PM never eat yellow snow |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Rapparee Date: 06 Oct 07 - 08:20 PM "Holy crap! Let's get the hell outa here!" |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: folk1e Date: 06 Oct 07 - 08:25 PM It's my fault! |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: bobad Date: 06 Oct 07 - 08:47 PM No dear, it doesn't make your butt look fat. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: folk1e Date: 06 Oct 07 - 09:02 PM There's Liars, Damn Liars, and there's Politicians |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Rapparee Date: 06 Oct 07 - 09:30 PM "I'm sorry. It won't happen again." |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Joe_F Date: 06 Oct 07 - 11:28 PM When smart people are trying to second-guess fools & vice versa, it gets hard to tell them apart. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: GUEST,Ed Date: 07 Oct 07 - 02:34 PM "don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to". Buckaroo Bonzai |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: GUEST,Ed Date: 07 Oct 07 - 02:36 PM Crowded elevators smell different to shorter people. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Peace Date: 07 Oct 07 - 02:37 PM Right Said Ed . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: GUEST,Ed Date: 07 Oct 07 - 02:40 PM Once said to me by an overweight friend: If someone has a gas emission in a crowded room, why does everyone look at the fat guy? |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Peace Date: 07 Oct 07 - 02:42 PM "The Farts' Survey" |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Becca72 Date: 07 Oct 07 - 03:03 PM Hey, there was no option for broccoli fart on there... Every day on my way to work I pass (hehe) the B&M Baked Bean factory which just happens to sit on the edge of Back Cove in Portland. The other morning when I went by they were baking away, the tide was out and it was raining. Smelled like the WORST fart in history. The above statement was probably not the smartest thing I've ever said. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: GUEST,Ed Date: 07 Oct 07 - 04:19 PM I suspect a *pickled egg and sauerkraut fart* tops the fartometer charts.(funny how sauerkraut in French,choucroute, has the same ring to it). |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: kendall Date: 07 Oct 07 - 04:22 PM "I'm not the man I used to think I was." and.. "No amount of belief can create a fact." |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Peace Date: 07 Oct 07 - 04:48 PM That will not produce a fart like the one from pickled egges, pickled tongue and pickled onions washed down with draft/draught beer. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Becca72 Date: 07 Oct 07 - 05:09 PM I find it very amusing that at the top of the Fart Terms page is an ad that reads "Are you dateable?" LOL. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Ebbie Date: 08 Oct 07 - 01:13 AM What's the smartest thing that *nobody* ever said? |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 08 Oct 07 - 04:51 AM 's easy Ebbie. "Hey guys lets sit down and work this out, and we'll save a fortune on weapons". Don T. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: 3refs Date: 08 Oct 07 - 06:28 AM Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. -- Bible, 'Proverbs' 17:28. Tis better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt! I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man with no feet! |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Midchuck Date: 08 Oct 07 - 07:11 AM Never criticize a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes. Then, when he gets mad, you're a mile away and you have his shoes. Peter |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: GUEST,ed Date: 08 Oct 07 - 10:32 AM You go farther in life, with a kind smile and a big gun, than with a kind smile alone (or, something close to that). Al Capone |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: GUEST, Ebbie Date: 08 Oct 07 - 06:38 PM Don T, you got that right. Since, as they say, every lasting peace is gained politically, why don't those with disputes try that first, last and in between? I suspect that it's because blood is more exciting. Especially someone else's. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Amos Date: 08 Oct 07 - 07:18 PM "The Older I Get, The Better I Was" Art Thieme |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: folk1e Date: 08 Oct 07 - 08:02 PM It's only my wallet, here take it ...... no problem! |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: mg Date: 08 Oct 07 - 09:12 PM to me personally, when I was worried about money..You're Irish..you can sleep in a ditch...mg |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: GUEST,Ed Date: 08 Oct 07 - 09:20 PM Darn, so much junk up front. I know, I'll put the propane tank in the trunk. Now, where'd I put that stogie? |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: BK Lick Date: 09 Oct 07 - 12:50 AM Uncle DaveO, he said: "Bobad, that's a great poem (with which I've been familiar for 55 years), but you goofed when you gave the attribution"but bobad had it just right. See decapitaliztion of E. E. Cummings and Not e. e. 2 -- this's been one of my pet peeves for 55 years, dadgummit. —BK |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: fumblefingers Date: 09 Oct 07 - 11:00 PM He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool--shun him. --a Chinaman from way back |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: BK Lick Date: 10 Oct 07 - 12:34 AM Check out On "anyone lived in a pretty how town" if you think you might be interested in a bunch of Cummings scholars analyzing the bejesus out of the poem. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Oct 07 - 01:55 AM "Sex without love is an empty experience....but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best." - Woody Allen |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Amos Date: 10 Oct 07 - 08:55 AM Who also said, "I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens." A |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Sorcha Date: 10 Oct 07 - 09:01 AM I don't know, but we can find out. Here, you do it. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Donuel Date: 10 Oct 07 - 09:57 AM March dreams of June but June is gone too soon yet little Febuary lasts forever. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: bobad Date: 10 Oct 07 - 10:20 AM Thanks for that link BK, I recall that the poem made sense when it was taught to me either in high school or uni. (don't remember now) but when I re-read it I don't remember what I had once learned. Maybe now I will re-discover the meanings again - I have always liked it. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: 3refs Date: 10 Oct 07 - 12:50 PM "Create controversy where none before existed, even though we haven't a clue what we are talking about." B.O. I wonder if this is how government was created! |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Bert Date: 10 Oct 07 - 08:21 PM It doesn't do you any good in the bottle. - Bert. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Grab Date: 10 Oct 07 - 08:52 PM Sonny Boy Williamson to Robert Johnson: "Man, don't never take a drink from a open bottle." |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Peace Date: 10 Oct 07 - 08:59 PM Az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde! |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Linda Goodman Zebooker Date: 11 Oct 07 - 10:54 AM Last summer at a class Scott Ainslie gave, "Failure is a component of success". |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Midchuck Date: 11 Oct 07 - 11:09 AM Last summer at a class Scott Ainslie gave, "Failure is a component of success". That reminds me of: "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." Peter. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Little Hawk Date: 11 Oct 07 - 11:34 AM "I think I'll resist the temptation to join this particular argument...." |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Oct 07 - 06:16 PM Nothing? :D |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: bankley Date: 11 Oct 07 - 09:14 PM I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific. ........Lily Tomlin |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 Oct 07 - 09:50 PM Anything you can say about something is always less true than saying nothing. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Peace Date: 11 Oct 07 - 09:54 PM |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Rog Peek Date: 12 Oct 07 - 11:31 AM Swans sing before they die,-t'were no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. S. T. Coleridge. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: heric Date: 12 Oct 07 - 12:12 PM I read recently (on mudcat?): Wake up and face each morning as if you did it on purpose. Not THE smartest thing anybody ever said but pretty good and I've been trying to keep it in mind. |
Subject: RE: BS: The smartest things anybody ever said. From: Grab Date: 12 Oct 07 - 07:42 PM Two related flying quotes:- "It is better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground." ...and... "Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory." |