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19 May 00 - 07:06 AM (#230404) Subject: Just do it. From: The Shambles "..yet my mind was not at rest, because nothing was acted, and thoughts ran into me, that words and writings were all nothing, and must die, for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing," Gerrard Winstanley |
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19 May 00 - 07:39 AM (#230420) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Allan C. "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort." -Sydney Smith |
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19 May 00 - 07:43 AM (#230421) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: AndyG We the free People of England, to whom God hath given hearts, means and opportunity to effect the same, do with submission to his wisdom, in his name, and desiring the equity thereof may be to his praise and glory; Agree to ascertain our Government, to abolish all arbitrary Power, and to set bounds and limits both to our Supreme, and all Subordinate Authority, and remove all known Grievances.
John Lilburne et al
you've been looking up The Diggers Sham!
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19 May 00 - 07:54 AM (#230423) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: kendall ..and enterprises of great pith and moment become sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, and lose the name of action.. the bard of Avon |
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19 May 00 - 07:59 AM (#230427) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Gervase "Better pass boldy into that other world in the full glory of some passon than fade and wither dismally with age" - James Joyce, The Dead. |
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19 May 00 - 08:26 AM (#230438) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Amos -------------------------------************_-------------------- "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" |
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19 May 00 - 08:27 AM (#230439) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Amos -------------------------------************_-------------------- "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
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19 May 00 - 08:28 AM (#230440) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Amos Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton |
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19 May 00 - 08:56 AM (#230453) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Wesley S "I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end" Albert Schweitzer |
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19 May 00 - 09:01 AM (#230458) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Peter T. "I don't mind dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens." -- Woody Allen. |
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19 May 00 - 09:48 AM (#230481) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Jim the Bart What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! Theodore Roethke In a Dark Time |
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19 May 00 - 09:54 AM (#230486) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Wesley S "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult" Seneca - but swiped from Doug Harvey on the CBOM list |
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19 May 00 - 10:33 AM (#230502) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: mactheturk "In the divine account-books only our actions are noted, not what we have read or what we have spoken." Mahatma Gandhi |
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19 May 00 - 10:33 AM (#230503) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: GUEST On the other hand... "The descent to Hades is the same from every place." --Anaxagoras |
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19 May 00 - 10:43 AM (#230508) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Bert You can't stop living for fear of dying. |
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19 May 00 - 10:59 AM (#230514) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Peg Do not doubt for a moment that the small act of a single person can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. paraphrased from Margaret Mead |
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19 May 00 - 11:02 AM (#230515) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler "Give me Liberty's or give me Harvey Nicks": Tara Palmer-Tompkinson RtS |
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19 May 00 - 11:11 AM (#230520) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Jacob B As you're lying there in traction If you've been a man of action You can get some satisfaction Thinking, 'Jesus, at least I tried" |
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19 May 00 - 11:17 AM (#230523) Subject: Lyr Add: DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT From: sophocleese Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
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19 May 00 - 11:23 AM (#230528) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: mactheturk "I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal about their acts." Horace Mann |
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19 May 00 - 11:25 AM (#230529) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Giac "... Let us arise and go now to the Isle of Manisfree and live the true blue simple life of wisdom and wonderment where all things grow straight up aslant and singing in the yellow sun poppies out of cowpods ..."
Junkman's Obbligato -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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19 May 00 - 11:36 AM (#230533) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Wavestar All to fragile is the passion of mankind; we can but net its shadows in the webwork of words, as a testament of it, in the time to come. -Micheal Fromberger Nothing in the world is accomplished without passion. -Fortune cookie (and my life's motto) |
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19 May 00 - 11:59 AM (#230543) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Mbo Hold on tight to your dream Hold on tight to your dream When you see your ship go sailing When you feel your heart is breaking Hold tight to your dream. It's a long time to be gone Time just rolls on and on When you need a shoulder to cry on When you get so sick of trying Just hold tight to your dream When you get so down that you can't get up And you want so much but you're all out of luck When you're so downhearted and misunderstood Just over & over & over you could Accroches-toi a ton reve Accroches-toi a ton reve Quand tu vois ton bateau partir Quand tu sents -- ton coeur se briser Accroches-toi a ton reve. Hold on tight to your dream Hold on tight to your dream When you see the shadows falling When you hear that cold wind calling Hold on tight to your dream. Hold on tight to your dream Yeah, hold on tight... To your dream! My favorite ELO song, and my own personal theme song. --mbo
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19 May 00 - 12:12 PM (#230553) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Lady McMoo "Cats prefer plain crisps" - mcmoo mcmoo |
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19 May 00 - 12:27 PM (#230563) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Peter T. Yeah, why is that about cats? I could never get my cat to eat any kind of flavoured crisps (chips). I mean apart from their having impeccable taste in everything but horking up grass on the carpet...yours, Peter T. |
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19 May 00 - 12:31 PM (#230569) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Mbo My cat likes Sour Cream n' Onion chips. Or any kind of snack food with garlic in it... "I remember when we were young, you used to nibble on my ear....now all you nibble is crisps..." --Daisy, from Keeping Up Appearances
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19 May 00 - 01:05 PM (#230593) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Kaleb "You can put a cat in the oven; that don't make it a biscuit" --Clete Sawyer -Kaleb |
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19 May 00 - 01:21 PM (#230607) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: GeorgeH Thanks to all those who posted prior to McMoo - someone had to spoil it, but up to then it had been a wonderful read (the sort of thing I'd expected on dropping into a "world turned upside down" thread the other day - that experience was as disappointing as this was rewarding). Have a great weekend! G. |
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19 May 00 - 02:09 PM (#230633) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: GUEST,Mrr Anyone know the proper phrasing for the Simone de Beauvoir quote from the daycare scenes in a 70s Doonesbury strip with Joanie - something about there being 2 kinds of people, human beings and men (or human beings and women, I can't get it to make sense either way, but the gist is ...) that when women start acting like human beings, they are accused of trying to be men? Act like a human being, is my motto. Which, when I say it to my kids, tends to come out Behave! - to which at least one has already answered But mom, I'm being hayve! |
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19 May 00 - 02:21 PM (#230642) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: MMario I thought it was somehting along the lines of "there are two species - Human beings and men....because when anyone starts acting like a typical man, they get told "Act like a human being!" |
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19 May 00 - 06:04 PM (#230761) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Mbo "Don't try to be a great man--just try to be a man, and let history decide the rest." --Zephram Cochrane |
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19 May 00 - 06:28 PM (#230773) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: McGrath of Harlow "I am inclined to think that a hunt for folk songs is better than a hunt for heroes" - Beethoven |
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19 May 00 - 09:15 PM (#230823) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Mooh "Would you exchange a walk-on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?" Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) "Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, and doubly sweet a brotherhood in song." John Keats "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." Bacon |
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19 May 00 - 11:07 PM (#230852) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Mbo "I've seen enough of this world to know you gotta get it all, to get it all to grow" --Jeff Lynne --Mbo |
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19 May 00 - 11:37 PM (#230875) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Chocolate Pi Compensation I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things, If I could make a single song As lovely and full of light As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night. --Sara Teasdale |
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19 May 00 - 11:44 PM (#230877) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Mark Cohen You don't have to move a mountain All you have to move is you Write a letter, help a neighbor Lift your voice, try something new Though that voice may be small and quiet It can make a mighty sound Find it in yourself and try it You can turn the world around --Mark |
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20 May 00 - 12:42 AM (#230899) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: bbelle You can please some of the people some of the time. You cannot please all of the people all of the time ... P.T. Barnum Jenny |
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20 May 00 - 01:12 AM (#230913) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: JenEllen Here's to those who wish us well, those who don't can go to h&ll. Patsy Cline ~Elle |
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20 May 00 - 03:07 AM (#230929) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: roopoo "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness". mouldy |
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20 May 00 - 03:07 AM (#230930) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Amergin We see the day when man shall rise, And, firm on science building, From Thefts thick mask of fraud and lies Stript all the specious gilding James Connolly-a patriot of the working class Amergin |
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20 May 00 - 09:02 AM (#230974) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: gillymor ...and the over-examined life is not lived at all. G.B. Shaw There's a another world, just next door, that's so much more fun than this one. E.E. Cummings Over-analysis leads to paralysis. Frankie |
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20 May 00 - 09:13 AM (#230979) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: mactheturk "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." Disraeli |
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20 May 00 - 12:01 PM (#231020) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Mbo Hey now, you're an All-star Get your game on, go play Hey now, you're a rock star Get your show on, get paid All that glitters is gold But only shooting stars break the mold... --Smash Mouth --Mbo |
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20 May 00 - 02:19 PM (#231066) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Mary in Kentucky ...A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. ...a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, George Gray. |
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20 May 00 - 07:01 PM (#231159) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Lady McMoo Interesting George that it was YOU that had to bring a touch of sourness to the thread. mcmoo |
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20 May 00 - 08:32 PM (#231204) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: wysiwyg RE: Just do it. Is there any other way? ~S~ |
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20 May 00 - 08:44 PM (#231205) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: McGrath of Harlow Some foods need a bit of sourness to be palateable. |
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20 May 00 - 08:55 PM (#231207) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Amergin Can't remember who said this but here goes: The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise. |
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21 May 00 - 10:40 AM (#231396) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: GUEST,Sheila Hi. I remember my mother telling me, "Don't despair. But when in despair, go on in despair." May all times be happy ones, but we do have to keep going on. Sheila |
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21 May 00 - 11:04 AM (#231410) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Kelida "We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." -Kurt Vonnegut, JR Breakfast of Champions "The true path to wisdom lies in the overeating of fortune cookies." My very own personal mottos. Peace--Keli |
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21 May 00 - 11:45 AM (#231420) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: JulieF Life is something that happens when you're busy planning other things. - Watching the Wheels - Joh Lennon Given that was on the last album it always makes me think. Julie |
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21 May 00 - 11:46 AM (#231422) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Rosebrook "Silence is the voice of complicity" (author unknown to me) |
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21 May 00 - 11:55 AM (#231429) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: kendall It's better to write one Kendall than to curse the darkness.. Utha Phillips. |
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22 May 00 - 01:19 PM (#231883) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Hollowfox You get done quicker if you start. Jim May (an excellent storyteller) |
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22 May 00 - 02:21 PM (#232000) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Grab "I only ever met one journalist who had a completely clear desk, and he was eventually arrested for molesting small boys..." -- Bill Bryson, "The Lost Continent" |
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22 May 00 - 10:13 PM (#232286) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: JenEllen Lesseee...give ya the list:
I like viable women who are out there doing....I like women who are very involved with living and who haven't pulled out from life
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading, it vexes me to choose another guide
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom in mea magnificent glow, than a sleep and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exhist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time
Life is easier than you think. All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensible, and bear the intolerable
Ever notice that "What the hell" is always the right decision?
One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing, One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying
I will not live by ordinary standards. I will not run with the pack. I will not be chained into a routine of living which is the same forothers. I will not look to the ground and move on the ground with the rest: so long as there are those mountaintops, and clouds, and limitless space
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature
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22 May 00 - 10:28 PM (#232292) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: catspaw49 I read Shamble's original post and then read the thread again to see if all this "positive thinking" started that way or slowly eeked its way in and I think its some combination thereof............But if we're passing on personal "life quotes we live by".........I offer only two and neither fits in too well, but what the hell. The world is a giant shithouse and we're the flies it attracts..........Gavin Lambert, "Inside Daisy Clover" There is only what is; what should be never existed...Lenny Bruce, Stand-Up Philosopher Spaw |
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23 May 00 - 12:38 AM (#232344) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: katlaughing Found this in some clippings of my mother's: "The Winning Way" by Anon.
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23 May 00 - 12:46 AM (#232347) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: KT From Langston Hughes... "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." and I don't know who deserves credit for this one, but I like it... "Triumph is merely ... TRY with a little UMPH!!"
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23 May 00 - 02:37 AM (#232368) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: zonahobo This is my own little do it quote which I sadly haven't lived by: Now matter how solid the ground where you stand, hesitation can turn it into quick sand .. |
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23 May 00 - 11:56 AM (#232480) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Mbo C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon--you gotta make it happen! Yeah yeah yeah! Yeah yeah yeah! --Oasis --Mbo |
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23 May 00 - 06:10 PM (#232731) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: kendall You must get out on the limb..thats where the fruit is. |
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23 May 00 - 07:03 PM (#232749) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: ddw As an American living in Canada I get a little tired of hearing the U.S. trashed — usually when I tell somebody I'm going somewhere south — as such a violent place. My standard answer has become: "I'd rather die from a bullet than boredom." But then, if I really wanted some violence, I'd play hockey... cheers, david |
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23 May 00 - 07:10 PM (#232752) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: McGrath of Harlow I find th idea of dying from a bullet extremely boring. Don't care what bore it is either.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow
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23 May 00 - 07:16 PM (#232754) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Mbo "Get up off the floor and believe in life No one's ever gonna ask you twice Get on the bus and bring it on home to me" --Oasis --Mbo |
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23 May 00 - 09:15 PM (#232811) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Amergin Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government, when it deserves it. Heard that somewhere, can't remember where.... Amergin |
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23 May 00 - 09:36 PM (#232824) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: catspaw49 Thanks ddw.....This thread is way too cheery. I was getting a bad case of gas...........but for all you "cheery" types quoting these eminent people, why not go with: "There ain't nothin' to it but to do it." Kermit the Frog Spaw |
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23 May 00 - 11:49 PM (#232873) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: JenEllen The power of the force stopped you, you hosers ~Doug MacKenzie ~Elle |
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24 May 00 - 10:19 AM (#233053) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Skivee "Don't run through the house with scissors in your head." "You can't make an omlet without breaking some legs." "Lie down with dogs and you'll get up with fleas; but lie down with sheep and you'll get up with fleece." Long John Skivee's Da' |
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24 May 00 - 10:29 AM (#233063) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Clifton53 "What if the Hokey-Pokey really 'is' what it's all about? Refrigerator magnet |
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24 May 00 - 10:40 AM (#233073) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler I thought it was "Lie down with sheep and people will think you're from New Zealand" (apologies to Billy the Bus). RtS |
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24 May 00 - 10:43 AM (#233076) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: catspaw49 Yeah Skiff, but they'll KNOW you're from Scotland!!! Spaw |
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24 May 00 - 10:17 PM (#233462) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Robo "Untitled" I was sitting on the bowl thinking I don't have time for this shit. --Rob-o |
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25 May 00 - 08:47 AM (#233648) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: Skivee "You can't go home again." Dylan Thomas "Don't come home." Long john Skivee's Da' "Red sky in mornin', sailor take a drink." Da' again |
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25 May 00 - 06:27 PM (#233911) Subject: RE: Just do it. From: GUEST,liz the squeak Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it, depends on what you put into it... Soon we'll be out into the hard worlds strife, soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.... And my own personal chant -
Hearts full of youth With thanks to Tom Lehrer. LTS |