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mayflow · 12-18-2010, 12:56 PM

A painter may paint what He/She wishes to with whatever brushes are chosen in the moment. ~ mayflow in the approximate now.

uncle phil · 12-18-2010, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mayflow

A painter may paint what He/She wishes to with whatever brushes are chosen in the moment. ~ mayflow in the approximate now.

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Originally Posted by warrrreagl

My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday.

uncle phil · 12-19-2010, 03:40 AM

Fritz Reiner - December 19, 1888

“Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance!”

uncle phil · 12-20-2010, 03:07 AM

Harvey S. Firestone - December 20, 1868

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

bagatelle · 12-20-2010, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by uncle phil

Harvey S. Firestone - December 20, 1868

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

This is very befitting quote for today for me.

uncle phil · 12-21-2010, 03:23 AM

Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili - December 21, 1879

“A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.”

uncle phil · 12-22-2010, 03:45 AM

Giacomo Puccini - December 22, 1858

“Art is a kind of illness.”

uncle phil · 12-23-2010, 04:31 AM

Joseph Smith - December 23, 1805

“We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.”

uncle phil · 12-24-2010, 05:14 AM

Howard Hughes - December 24, 1905

“I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.”

uncle phil · 12-25-2010, 04:28 AM

Humphrey Bogart - December 25, 1899

“If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.”

bagatelle · 12-25-2010, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by uncle phil

Humphrey Bogart - December 25, 1899

“If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.”

Oh my, how the time flies.

uncle phil · 12-26-2010, 03:32 AM

Charles Babbage - December 26, 1791

“Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.”

uncle phil · 12-27-2010, 04:25 AM

Johannes Kepler - December 27, 1571

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

uncle phil · 12-28-2010, 04:58 AM

Hildegarde Kneff - December 28, 1925

“Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.”

uncle phil · 12-29-2010, 03:45 AM

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson - December 29, 1721

"Après nous, le déluge."

uncle phil · 12-30-2010, 03:22 AM

Rudyard Kipling - December 30, 1865

“Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”

uncle phil · 12-31-2010, 02:50 AM

Simon Wiesenthal - December 31, 1908

“None of my "clients" - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.”

uncle phil · 01-01-2011, 02:44 AM

Barry Goldwater - January 1, 1909

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

haywoodu · 01-01-2011, 08:49 AM

When all else fails, We can whip the horse's eyes, and make them sleep, and cry.

uncle phil · 01-01-2011, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by warrrreagl

My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday.

Quote:

Originally Posted by haywoodu

When all else fails, We can whip the horse's eyes, and make them sleep, and cry.

happy new year...

uncle phil · 01-02-2011, 03:18 AM

Nathaniel Bacon - January 2, 1647

"The poverty of the country is such that all the power and sway has got into the hands of the rich, who by extortious advantages, having the common people in their debt, have always curbed and oppressed them in all manner of ways."

uncle phil · 01-03-2011, 03:08 AM

Marcus Tullius Cicero - January 3, 106 bc

“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?”

uncle phil · 01-04-2011, 03:24 AM

Louis Braille - January 4, 1809

"Yesterday was one of the greatest and most beautiful days of my life. I tasted the greatest joys. God was pleased to hold before my eyes the dazzling splendors of eternal hope. After that, doesn't it seem that nothing more could keep me bound to the earth?"

uncle phil · 01-05-2011, 03:29 AM

George Reeves - January 5, 1914

“Knock the 't' off the 'can't'”

uncle phil · 01-06-2011, 03:36 AM

Jeanne d'Arc - January 6, 1412

“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”

uncle phil · 01-07-2011, 03:24 AM

Butterfly McQueen - January 7, 1911

“Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history. You have no idea how hard it is for black actors, but things change, things blossom in time.”

uncle phil · 01-08-2011, 02:54 AM

Milton Hines - January 8, 1926

"Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you."

uncle phil · 01-09-2011, 03:23 AM

Richard Milhous Nixon - January 9, 1913

“Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?”

uncle phil · 01-10-2011, 03:10 AM

Ethan Allen - January 10, 1738

“In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.”

uncle phil · 01-11-2011, 03:22 AM

Ezra Cornell - January 11, 1807

“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”

thedoc · 01-11-2011, 07:19 PM

"I didn't want that on my birthday." - thedoc's brother 1-11-'43

uncle phil · 01-12-2011, 03:28 AM

Edmund Burke - January 12, 1729

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

uncle phil · 01-13-2011, 03:34 AM

Horatio Alger - January 13, 1834

"No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls."

uncle phil · 01-14-2011, 03:23 AM

William Bendix - January 14, 1906

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

uncle phil · 01-15-2011, 02:53 AM

Jean Baptiste Moliere - January 15, 1622

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”

uncle phil · 01-16-2011, 03:24 AM

Jay Hanna Dean - 16 January, 1910

“Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.”

uncle phil · 01-17-2011, 02:55 AM

Anton Chekov - January 17, 1860

“When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'”

uncle phil · 01-18-2011, 03:21 AM

Alan Alexander Milne - January 18, 1882

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”

uncle phil · 01-19-2011, 03:35 AM

Robert E. Lee - January 19, 1807

“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.”

uncle phil · 01-20-2011, 02:59 AM

Theobald Wolfe Tone - January 20, 1763

"Strum, strum and be hanged"

12-19-2010, 03:40 AM	#683 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Fritz Reiner - December 19, 1888 “Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance!” __________________ "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.

12-20-2010, 03:07 AM	#684 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Harvey S. Firestone - December 20, 1868 “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.” __________________ "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.

12-21-2010, 03:23 AM	#686 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili - December 21, 1879 “A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.” __________________ "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.

12-22-2010, 03:45 AM	#687 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Giacomo Puccini - December 22, 1858 “Art is a kind of illness.” __________________ "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.

12-23-2010, 04:31 AM	#688 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Joseph Smith - December 23, 1805 “We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.” __________________ "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.

12-18-2010, 12:56 PM	#681 (permalink)
mayflow Upright	A painter may paint what He/She wishes to with whatever brushes are chosen in the moment. ~ mayflow in the approximate now.

12-24-2010, 05:14 AM	#689 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Howard Hughes - December 24, 1905 “I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.” __________________ "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.

12-25-2010, 04:28 AM	#690 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Humphrey Bogart - December 25, 1899 “If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.” __________________ "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.

12-26-2010, 03:32 AM	#692 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Charles Babbage - December 26, 1791 “Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.” __________________ "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.

12-27-2010, 04:25 AM	#693 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Johannes Kepler - December 27, 1571 “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.” __________________ "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.

12-28-2010, 04:58 AM	#694 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Hildegarde Kneff - December 28, 1925 “Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.” __________________ "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.

12-29-2010, 03:45 AM	#695 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson - December 29, 1721 "Après nous, le déluge." __________________ "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.

12-30-2010, 03:22 AM	#696 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Rudyard Kipling - December 30, 1865 “Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.” __________________ "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.

12-31-2010, 02:50 AM	#697 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Simon Wiesenthal - December 31, 1908 “None of my "clients" - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.” __________________ "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.

01-01-2011, 02:44 AM	#698 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Barry Goldwater - January 1, 1909 "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." __________________ "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.

01-01-2011, 08:49 AM	#699 (permalink)
haywoodu Upright Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.	When all else fails, We can whip the horse's eyes, and make them sleep, and cry. __________________ I hide my tears when I say your name, for the pain in my heart is still the same.

01-02-2011, 03:18 AM	#701 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Nathaniel Bacon - January 2, 1647 "The poverty of the country is such that all the power and sway has got into the hands of the rich, who by extortious advantages, having the common people in their debt, have always curbed and oppressed them in all manner of ways." __________________ "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.

01-03-2011, 03:08 AM	#702 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Marcus Tullius Cicero - January 3, 106 bc “What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?” __________________ "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.

01-04-2011, 03:24 AM	#703 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Louis Braille - January 4, 1809 "Yesterday was one of the greatest and most beautiful days of my life. I tasted the greatest joys. God was pleased to hold before my eyes the dazzling splendors of eternal hope. After that, doesn't it seem that nothing more could keep me bound to the earth?" __________________ "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.

01-05-2011, 03:29 AM	#704 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	George Reeves - January 5, 1914 “Knock the 't' off the 'can't'” __________________ "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.

01-06-2011, 03:36 AM	#705 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Jeanne d'Arc - January 6, 1412 “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.” __________________ "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.

01-07-2011, 03:24 AM	#706 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Butterfly McQueen - January 7, 1911 “Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history. You have no idea how hard it is for black actors, but things change, things blossom in time.” __________________ "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.

01-08-2011, 02:54 AM	#707 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Milton Hines - January 8, 1926 "Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you." __________________ "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.

01-09-2011, 03:23 AM	#708 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Richard Milhous Nixon - January 9, 1913 “Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?” __________________ "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.

01-10-2011, 03:10 AM	#709 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Ethan Allen - January 10, 1738 “In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.” __________________ "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.

01-11-2011, 03:22 AM	#710 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Ezra Cornell - January 11, 1807 “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.” __________________ "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.

01-11-2011, 07:19 PM	#711 (permalink)
thedoc Tilted	"I didn't want that on my birthday." - thedoc's brother 1-11-'43

01-12-2011, 03:28 AM	#712 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Edmund Burke - January 12, 1729 “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” __________________ "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.

01-13-2011, 03:34 AM	#713 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Horatio Alger - January 13, 1834 "No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls." __________________ "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.

01-14-2011, 03:23 AM	#714 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	William Bendix - January 14, 1906 "What a revoltin' development this is!" __________________ "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.

01-15-2011, 02:53 AM	#715 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Jean Baptiste Moliere - January 15, 1622 “Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.” __________________ "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.

01-16-2011, 03:24 AM	#716 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Jay Hanna Dean - 16 January, 1910 “Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.” __________________ "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.

01-17-2011, 02:55 AM	#717 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Anton Chekov - January 17, 1860 “When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'” __________________ "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.

01-18-2011, 03:21 AM	#718 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Alan Alexander Milne - January 18, 1882 “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start 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.

01-19-2011, 03:35 AM	#719 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Robert E. Lee - January 19, 1807 “Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.” __________________ "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.