Vodka

"I don`t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."

- Woody Allen

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Vodka TUWUF
The Untamed Wild Ukraine Fiend

Xazy

Just because of primary day.

" All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats." - Groucho Mark

The_Jazz

"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

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"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

Jetée

Is this going to evolve into a guessing game, or am I the only one of us that really likes structured doings & tellings-us-what-to-do?



Human fallibility being what it is, victory and truth do not always go together. Therefore, if you have to always win, you can't always be true.

—Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

The_Jazz

Jetee, let's see where this thread goes. So far, my guess is that it will be in the Fun Zone fairly soon since it seems to be a very free-form thread.

In other words, don't curate someone else's thread.

"Don't curate someone else's thread." The_Jazz

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"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

Xerxys

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. - Steven Wright

Jetée

Heha? Haho! Yes, while I have been known to verge on this practice from time to time,
I more readily invest in such self-entitled "moderate" duties to themes in which I've enraptured myself within (read as: "created").

Additionally, I'm all about adding conversation in rattling places, because, how else will we get anywhere if we just follow the examples, and not the rules? The question was more aimed at Vodka, and the response to which would follow.

So, while I'm not seeking to curate or reform this thread in any manner, (yet! Haho!) I am sincerely asking the OP to expand upon his initial premise with a simple explanation, if he is willing. I love my (all) context, and it serves me the better to abide by it (lest I fall into the void).

I also think (this is me thinking here) I am truly ruining parenthetical thoughts for everyone who comes across an instance of one of my posts. There's also me just realizing the couldn't be simpler formula to this is a Who [person] said What [quote], and here I am asking how is this thread supposed to structured?

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continued...

[I have a super power now]

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

uncle phil

"I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates."

Steven Wright

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"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
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"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"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Vodka

Tak (yes) as Jazz assumes, purely a free-form thread Jetee.

One of my browsers home pages is a NZ site containing various info like news, lotto results, weather and anything else you want info on. The info is selective and one of the choices I ticked was Quote/Thought of the Day and therein, is where the thread originated from.

"With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me." Rodney Dangerfield (whoever he is)

btw, Uncle Phil, your signature's first quote is so, so accurate. I bought Tom Weiner's Legacy of Ashes, the History of the CIA a while back now and was stupefied how the American govt have been so stupid but that would create a political debate so I'll leave it there. I also don't follow our own politics so I'd be unable to debate the subject matter sufficiently.

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Vodka TUWUF
The Untamed Wild Ukraine Fiend

Jetée

Even when we joke about him, he still gets no respect. (and I'm sure he wouldn't have it any other way (pause) who am I talking about here? /existentialism)



“Americans are famous for two things. They either take a perfectly good idea and pound it into the ground, or they take a bad idea and pound it into the ground.” --(George Henry Wallace)

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

uncle phil

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize."

steven wright

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"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
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"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"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Vodka

ps Jetee, i'm also very much ALL woman

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Vodka TUWUF
The Untamed Wild Ukraine Fiend

uncle phil

vodka, please lose the red...

it is impossible to read it...

thanx...

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"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
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"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"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

SSJTWIZTA

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up. -mitch hedberg

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First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for me And there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Pastor Martin Niemoller

Xerxys

I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've travelled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map... so it won't fall down. - mitch hedberg

Lindy

There are three kinds of murder: Reprehensible, Justifiable, and Commendable.
Ambrose Bierce

Looks fine on my computer. MacMini, OS10.5, Dell Monitor

Lindy

Vodka

pls would you lose yer avatar, i can't see it clearly

it's harder, but not 'impossible', to read text in this, or this color to mention other signature colors noticed, and THEN, having to use American spelling

real red is also hell of a lot harder on the eyes and seems to be used frequently

thank you Lindy


"The person who walks alone is soon trailed by the FBI." Wright Morris

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Vodka TUWUF
The Untamed Wild Ukraine Fiend

uncle phil

"How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?"

steven wright

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"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
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"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"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Vodka

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Mae West

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Vodka TUWUF
The Untamed Wild Ukraine Fiend

Jetée

“I think it’s really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It’s such an absurdity to take anything really seriously … I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what’s the story here? Being alive is so weird.” --(Frank Zappa)

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Ourcrazymodern?

"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles & by opposing end them?" - Shakespeare

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BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

uncle phil

"In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part."

Washington Irving

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"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
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"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"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Craven Morehead

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
John Lennon

noodle

My current favorite...

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand

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BadNick

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Albert Einstein

Lindy

The occasion is piled high with difficulty.
A. Lincoln

uncle phil

"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

George Bernard Shaw

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"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
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"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"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

BadNick

"Because it's there."


- George Herbert Leigh Mallory when asked "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?"

SirLance

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

--Jimi Hendrix

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DEMOCRACY is where your vote counts, FEUDALISM is where your count votes.

Craven Morehead

"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering."
Ernest Hemingway

Vodka

“You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you”

Audrey Hepburn

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Vodka TUWUF
The Untamed Wild Ukraine Fiend

uncle phil

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"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.

Ourcrazymodern?

"All sins are attempts to fill voids." - Simone Weil

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BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

uncle phil

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Anais Nin

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"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.

Xazy

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. - Mark Twain

Ourcrazymodern?

"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it." - Calvin Coolidge.

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BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

lostgirl

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." ~ Buddha

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We're about to go through the crucible, but we'll come out the other side.
We always arise from our own ashes. Everything returns later in its changed form. - Children of Dune

BadNick

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

Homer Simpson

uncle phil

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

P. J. O'Rourke

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"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.

uncle phil

"If you don't control your mind, someone else will."

John Allston

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"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.