Thought for the Day (October 22)

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 10:41 PM

I can't speak to the other two, but Karen won't even stay in the vicinity when I eat corn. Come to think of it, she's not in the vicinity when I have sex either, but that's another story.

Anyway, by the end of Sweet Corn season every year (when I eat it 5 meals out of 7...and in prodigious quantities), I'm about a gnat's ass away from a divorce.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: kendall
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 07:07 PM

I knew that!! thanks anyway, and, you are right.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 02:19 PM

Kendall, for the uninformed you might have indicated that Lazarus Long is a character in a number of stories and books by Robert A. Heinlein. --seed

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: sophocleese
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 01:33 PM

I read, about a month ago, that some etiquette book labelled breast-feeding, talking about your sex life and eating corn on the cob, as three things that must NEVER be done in public. Mostly because they were considered noisy and intrusive. Ummmm. Do the writers of etiquette books have a life? I see them living in some well carpeted and padded home far away from other people emerging once or twice a decade to enl;ighten us mere mortals on the terrible intricacies of civility as taught by rote not principle.

To get back to the original quote for this thread. Yes.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 01:23 PM

And is Miss Manners obsolete? She was on NPR yesterday, went on for over an hour. Some of what she said I agreed with regarding common courtesies, but other things, the liberated woman in me said, "Sorry sister, no fawking way!" Just seemed like she was saying we should let others walk all over us. She's just written The Complete book on manners and bringing complete tranquility to your home life or some such.

katrude&crudesometimesbutalwaysrememberstosaypleaseandthankyou

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: kendall
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 12:50 PM

"Only a mothers belief that her children will be exceptional keeps her from drowning them at birth." Lasarus Long. Always be prepared to shoot your own dog... farming it out only makes it worse" ditto

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 11:49 AM

Well, Exalted Deity No. 2, you know how I found the quote!
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 11:36 AM

Thank you Peter for quoting from the one exalted Deity in my life who has never disappointed me from the day I discovered him.
Other timeless quotes to live by:
"Never keep up with the Jones's, drag them down to your level!"
"Politics is the art of making the inevitable seem like the result of careful planning."

Rick

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 11:35 AM

Far be it from me to suggest anything, my esteemed colleague.
yours cordially, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 11:21 AM

I BEG your pardon,Peter? What are you suggesting?

Subject: Thought for the Day (October 22)
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 11:14 AM

"In an impolite society good manners are a form of irony."
- Quentin Crisp (The Naked Civil Servant)