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Subject: a new aphorism From: guest(intruder-inactive) Date: 06 Mar 01 - 08:06 PM i thunked this one up all by mesel', i did you cannot change the future by letting the past be your excuse for the present i sorta like it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Amos Date: 06 Mar 01 - 08:24 PM A desperate truth, but a recurring one! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Mar 01 - 09:02 PM Also, you cannot change the past by letting the present be your excuse for the future. I'm sure it's very deep. It does not however feel the least bit desperate, nor likely to recur. Plus I don't like it. *G* ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Bert Date: 06 Mar 01 - 10:07 PM It's almost tomorrow but what can I do... |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Mar 01 - 10:23 PM ........uh, yeah...................I get it............sure.................I mean if my present were my past then my future would, uh....no...wait a minute........I see it now......If my past was my future then my present would be past unless it was the future and uh, then, well.............hmmmmmm..............uh............Say, did you know that if you take cranberries and stew them like prunes, they taste much more like applesauce than rhubarb does?.......................I mean, like, uh....whaddaya' think? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Spud Murphy Date: 06 Mar 01 - 10:52 PM If you eat cranberries that are stewed like prunes, you deserve the rhubarb. Spud |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: katlaughing Date: 07 Mar 01 - 12:42 AM I coined this one a few years ago, "You cannot live in the past and expect the future." |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Ebbie Date: 07 Mar 01 - 03:59 AM I like it, Intruder Guest. I spent too many years living there. I saw no hope for the future because I continually measured TODAY by YESTERDAY. When I eventually learned that it was in my power to change things- and did- it was a tremendously freeing thing. Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: guest(intruder-inactive) Date: 07 Mar 01 - 06:51 AM ::grinning over in the corner:: then this may do as well in spite of age in spite of fear in spite of sure knowledge of certain defeat there is a time for a person to cry SANCHO!! MY ARMOR!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Troll Date: 07 Mar 01 - 08:14 AM YES!!! troll |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: catspaw49 Date: 07 Mar 01 - 08:38 AM In spite of odor In spite of toxins In spite of sure knowledge of certain shunning There is time to flare one off LEPETOMAIN!! A MATCH!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: CarolC Date: 07 Mar 01 - 10:16 AM in spite of age in spite of fear in spite of sure knowledge of certain defeat there is a time for a person to cry SANCHO!! MY AMORE!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: MMario Date: 07 Mar 01 - 10:21 AM in spite of age in spite of fear in spite of sure knowledge of certain defeat there is a time for a person to cry MUDCAT! OH MY GOD! |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: GUEST Date: 07 Mar 01 - 11:05 AM In spite of age In spite of fear In spite sure knowledge of certain defeat There is time for a person to cry ...i..i..is..th..this seat taken? |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: LR Mole Date: 07 Mar 01 - 11:35 AM in spite of Bluegrass on spite of Andes in spite of, um, spiders, there comes a time to shout, BANJO!! My LLAMAS!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Jim Krause Date: 07 Mar 01 - 01:02 PM In spite of death In spite of Texas In spite of sure knowlege of what wrecks us There is always Mudcat. Chester Drawers! My Fiddle!
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Mr Red Date: 07 Mar 01 - 01:14 PM well are we glad we passed this one? (emphasis on what we "passed") |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: DonMeixner Date: 07 Mar 01 - 06:23 PM Didn't Catspaw have an aphorism? I seem to recall it made him really sick |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 07 Mar 01 - 06:48 PM One of my favourite books is The Faber Book of Aphorisms.
Here's one totally at random:
Whilst we have prisons, it matters little which of us occupy the cells. (Shaw) Proverbs are folk aphorisms; catch phrases are a kind of eroded populist descendants; One of my favourites is "I've arrived and to prove it I'm here" - but I can't remember whose it was. Someone on the wireless many years ago. |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: mousethief Date: 07 Mar 01 - 06:54 PM Whilst we have prisons, it matters little which of us occupy the cells. (Shaw) This is hooey. Kaka. Scheisse. Merde. Crapola. Whilst we have people who maim, murder, and rape, we will have prisons (or just lynch 'em all -- is that what Shaw wanted?). And it matters a great deal who is in 'em. I want all the murderers and rapists IN jail and the innocent people NOT in jail, thank you very much. Every now and then you just gotta speak up against stupidity. |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: GUEST,Yorkie Date: 07 Mar 01 - 07:01 PM How about: If yesterday were today, what would you be doing tomorrow? |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: mousethief Date: 07 Mar 01 - 07:11 PM Today is the yesterday I'll get nostalgic about tomorrow? |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: katlaughing Date: 07 Mar 01 - 07:36 PM And my favourite from Ruth Gordon; I think she said it when she was about 80 and some idiot was asking her about being old, "How old would you be if you didn't know?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Troll Date: 07 Mar 01 - 09:13 PM Lives there a man With soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said.... F**K IT!! troll |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Amos Date: 07 Mar 01 - 09:25 PM ...this is my own, my native land And I think I'll sell it to this white guy for $24 and Try setlling on Mars. |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Bill D Date: 07 Mar 01 - 11:06 PM lordy, I long for the days before all this nostalgia... not only that, "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide" besides "scram gravy ain't wavy" |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: GUEST Date: 07 Mar 01 - 11:43 PM I'll pass that one up. I haven't worn out my old one yet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: LR Mole Date: 08 Mar 01 - 09:46 AM " I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."---Voltaire |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: mousethief Date: 08 Mar 01 - 11:53 AM The day before yesterday is yesterday's yesterday, and the day after tomorrow is tomorrow's tomorrow, but did you realize that the day before yesterday is the day after tomorrow's day before the day before the day before yesterday? Me neither. |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Bert Date: 08 Mar 01 - 12:44 PM Ah Troll! Upon seeing a pretty woman, my Dad always recites it like this... Breathes there a man With soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said.... I could stuff her. |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: wdyat12 Date: 08 Mar 01 - 01:32 PM Things can seem better than they actually are. wdat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: a new aphorism From: Bill D Date: 08 Mar 01 - 06:11 PM local band has the motto..."It's better than it sounds" |