BS: The smartest things anybody ever said.

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!