Truisms for life. Or, ... - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

cyrnel · 03-07-2006, 04:41 PM

...Everything I needed to know I learned the hard way.

Can we answer all of life's riddles with simple one-liners? Name your bit-o-wisdom. (Funny is okay but watch out for PC potholes.)

Starting things off:
"There will always be a market for straight jackets and/or sedation."

Grancey · 03-07-2006, 10:18 PM

A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

uncle phil · 03-08-2006, 04:04 AM

Whatever it is, I didn't do it...and I'll never do it again!!!

nezmot · 03-08-2006, 04:28 AM

If something needs selling, it's not worth buying.

healer · 03-08-2006, 04:32 AM

No good deed goes unpunished.

healer · 03-08-2006, 04:47 AM

Experience is something gained right after you needed it.

Sticky · 03-08-2006, 09:59 AM

Sorry
....

Sion · 03-08-2006, 04:48 PM

If it has tits or wheels, it will give you trouble.

SirLance · 03-08-2006, 05:24 PM

Prior planning prevents poor performance.

uncle phil · 03-10-2006, 02:36 PM

ya don't tug on superman's cape...

The_Jazz · 03-10-2006, 03:21 PM

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire - caveat emptor.

Crack · 03-11-2006, 01:56 PM

hands bigger than yours, and an adam's apple do not a good hooker make.

Toaster126 · 03-11-2006, 02:02 PM

Using a urinal is like taking a test. There's no talking and you keep your eyes on your own work.

uncle phil · 03-11-2006, 06:02 PM

ya don't spit into the wind...

Toaster126 · 03-11-2006, 06:12 PM

Whoever loves the least, holds the most power in a relationship.

Sion · 03-11-2006, 08:25 PM

those who say that there are no stupid questions obviously have never been on the internet.

uncle phil · 03-12-2006, 02:01 PM

ya don't pull the mask off the ol' lone ranger......

Coppertop · 03-12-2006, 02:12 PM

Never park next to a smoking car.

taboo · 03-12-2006, 10:14 PM

it is better to try and fail, than to fail to try

uncle phil · 03-13-2006, 02:57 PM

...and ya don't mess around with slim...

03-07-2006, 04:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Truisms for life. Or, ... ...Everything I needed to know I learned the hard way. Can we answer all of life's riddles with simple one-liners? Name your bit-o-wisdom. (Funny is okay but watch out for PC potholes.) Starting things off: "There will always be a market for straight jackets and/or sedation." __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

03-07-2006, 10:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
Grancey Life's short, gotta hurry... Location: land of pit vipers	A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. __________________ Quiet, mild-mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool.

03-08-2006, 04:04 AM	#3 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Whatever it is, I didn't do it...and I'll never do it again!!! __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-08-2006, 04:48 PM	#8 (permalink)
Sion Dumb all over...a little ugly on the side Location: In the room where the giant fire puffer works, and the torture never stops.	If it has tits or wheels, it will give you trouble. __________________ He's the best, of course, of all the worst. Some wrong been done, he done it first. -fz I jus' want ta thank you...falettinme...be mice elf...agin...

03-08-2006, 05:24 PM	#9 (permalink)
SirLance Junkie Location: In the middle of the desert.	Prior planning prevents poor performance. __________________ DEMOCRACY is where your vote counts, FEUDALISM is where your count votes.

03-08-2006, 04:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
nezmot Registered User	If something needs selling, it's not worth buying.

03-08-2006, 09:59 AM	#7 (permalink)
Sticky	Sorry .... __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-10-2006, 02:36 PM	#10 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	ya don't tug on superman's cape... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-10-2006, 03:21 PM	#11 (permalink)
The_Jazz Asshole Administrator Location: Chicago	The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire - caveat emptor. __________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin "There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

03-11-2006, 01:56 PM	#12 (permalink)
Crack Misanthropic Location: Ohio! yay!	hands bigger than yours, and an adam's apple do not a good hooker make. __________________ Crack, you and I are long overdue for a vicious bout of mansex. ~Halx

03-11-2006, 02:02 PM	#13 (permalink)
Toaster126 Extreme moderation Location: Kansas City, yo.	Using a urinal is like taking a test. There's no talking and you keep your eyes on your own work. __________________ "The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand) "The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)

03-11-2006, 06:02 PM	#14 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	ya don't spit into the wind... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-11-2006, 06:12 PM	#15 (permalink)
Toaster126 Extreme moderation Location: Kansas City, yo.	Whoever loves the least, holds the most power in a relationship. __________________ "The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand) "The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)

03-11-2006, 08:25 PM	#16 (permalink)
Sion Dumb all over...a little ugly on the side Location: In the room where the giant fire puffer works, and the torture never stops.	those who say that there are no stupid questions obviously have never been on the internet. __________________ He's the best, of course, of all the worst. Some wrong been done, he done it first. -fz I jus' want ta thank you...falettinme...be mice elf...agin...

03-12-2006, 02:01 PM	#17 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	ya don't pull the mask off the ol' lone ranger...... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-12-2006, 02:12 PM	#18 (permalink)
Coppertop Getting Medieval on your ass Location: 13th century Europe	Never park next to a smoking car.

03-12-2006, 10:14 PM	#19 (permalink)
taboo Crazy	it is better to try and fail, than to fail to try

03-13-2006, 02:57 PM	#20 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	...and ya don't mess around with slim... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.