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March 29th, 2004, 10:33 AM
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Strike Leader
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Location: Middleofnowhere, NH
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
--Maya Angelou
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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March 29th, 2004, 10:34 AM
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Strike Leader
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
--Ambrose Bierce
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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March 29th, 2004, 10:36 AM
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Strike Leader
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Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
--Unknown
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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March 29th, 2004, 12:41 PM
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Major
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Cheesehead in Connecticut
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If mama ain't happy, no ones happy!
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Cheese: [has tinfoil on his teeth] I have braces!
Mac: You found that on the ground, didn't you?
Cheese: Garbage can.
-episode "Mac Daddy"Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"
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March 29th, 2004, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by bsg1fan1975
If mama ain't happy, no ones happy!
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Close, but the way Lewis Grizzard repeated it was:
"If Mama ain't happy, AIN'T NOBODY happy!"
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March 29th, 2004, 04:46 PM
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Stubborn Colonial Warship
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Deeeeep space, 3rd system on the left
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And now for something completely different
During the spring of 1940, the German Blitzkrieg exploded upon the armies of France and England in the West. The British Expeditionary Force and a good number of Frenchmen were bottled up on the Fench coast around the port of Dunkirk, or Dunquerque in the French spelling. An unplanned, frantic operation ensued to rescue as many of the men as possible. This plan was commanded from room that formely housed an elelctric generator, so it was given the name "Operation Dynamo." The British Admiralty did not hold much hope for Dynamo; they origanlly hoped to get out 45,000 of the trapped men.
When Operation Dynamo came to an end on 4 June, 1940, 338,286 troops had been rescued. After the operation, the man who led it, Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, said this:
"We can always count on glorious deeds, but less often on good direction and management."
Take that quote to work with you and see what your boss thinks of it. You might want to throw in Ramsay's follow on:
"This may sound as self praise, but you know that I count little for myself and think soley of the wider aspect of the job to be gained."
Regards,
Gunstar Aries
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Antwaan Randal El is no name for a football player! It's a name for a Star Wars Character!! Can't you just hear Obi Wan saing "A young Jedi named Antwaan Randal El, who was a pupil of mine..."
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March 30th, 2004, 07:39 AM
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Strike Leader
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
--Gallagher
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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March 30th, 2004, 07:40 AM
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Strike Leader
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
--Martin Luther King Jr.
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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March 30th, 2004, 01:17 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Cheesehead in Connecticut
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Originally Posted by Thomasbombadil
Close, but the way Lewis Grizzard repeated it was:
"If Mama ain't happy, AIN'T NOBODY happy!"
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not the way my fiance's former captain says it!
"Lord I'll do anything you ask tommorrow just don't call an alert tonight!" -Starbuck
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Cheese: [has tinfoil on his teeth] I have braces!
Mac: You found that on the ground, didn't you?
Cheese: Garbage can.
-episode "Mac Daddy"Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"
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March 30th, 2004, 02:59 PM
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"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
-- Oprah Winfrey
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Lay down
Your sweet and weary head
The night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore .
Children are a message that we send
to a time that we will never see.
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March 30th, 2004, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by bsg1fan1975
not the way my fiance's former captain says it!
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Fair enough.
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March 30th, 2004, 08:25 PM
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Location: Utah
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a man is what he thinks about all day long-----ralph waldo emerson
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March 30th, 2004, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by braxiss
a man is what he thinks about all day long-----ralph waldo emerson
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No, that's can't be right. That would mean that most men are women.
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March 30th, 2004, 08:50 PM
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March 30th, 2004, 08:55 PM
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Major
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Location: Utah
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common-looking people are the best in the world; that is the reason the lord makes so many of them.------abraham lincoln
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March 31st, 2004, 03:50 AM
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Major
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Cheesehead in Connecticut
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Men, can't live with them and you can't shoot 'em!
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Cheese: [has tinfoil on his teeth] I have braces!
Mac: You found that on the ground, didn't you?
Cheese: Garbage can.
-episode "Mac Daddy"Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"
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March 31st, 2004, 06:42 AM
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Strike Leader
Join Date: Dec 2003
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
--Aesop
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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March 31st, 2004, 06:45 AM
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Strike Leader
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Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
--Hasidic Saying
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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March 31st, 2004, 06:46 AM
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Strike Leader
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
--Bertrand Russell
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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March 31st, 2004, 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by unowhoandwhy
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
--Bertrand Russell
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True story about how people translate what they hear into what they think they heard:
As a teacher in a private school, I once had a conference with the mom of one of my 7th graders. I was careful to compliment the boy, who was fairly bright. I told mom this, and added that he had the ability to pick things up more rapidly than the majority of his classmates. I thought she would be pleased.
Next day, principal calls me in his office. Wants to know why the mom is so mad and threatening to pull the child from the school. I have no idea. He adds that it has something to do with with my class is holding her son back. I tell him exactly what I told her, he smiles and we both laugh. You have to be SO careful when you choose your words!
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March 31st, 2004, 12:48 PM
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Major
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Cheesehead in Connecticut
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Open mouth insert foot!
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Cheese: [has tinfoil on his teeth] I have braces!
Mac: You found that on the ground, didn't you?
Cheese: Garbage can.
-episode "Mac Daddy"Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"
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April 1st, 2004, 07:33 AM
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Strike Leader
Join Date: Dec 2003
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To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
--Joan Klempner
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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April 1st, 2004, 07:34 AM
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Strike Leader
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Middleofnowhere, NH
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
--Ellen DeGeneres
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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April 1st, 2004, 07:35 AM
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
--A. Bronson Alcott
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Each smallest act of kindness reverbrates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
This Momentous Day, H. R. White
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April 1st, 2004, 08:37 AM
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Open mouth insert foot!
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He only opens his mouth to change feet.
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April 1st, 2004, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by unowhoandwhy
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
--A. Bronson Alcott
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"This is not a book which should be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
(--Don't remember who)
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April 1st, 2004, 06:23 PM
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Bad Email Address
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: New Mexico
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Originally Posted by Thomasbombadil
"This is not a book which should be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
(--Don't remember who)
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I looooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeee that quote!  
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April 1st, 2004, 06:52 PM
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Bad Email Address
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Location: New Mexico
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Instead of LOOKING for Opportunities to drop in your lap................
Make your OWN!
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April 2nd, 2004, 06:40 AM
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I don't think I want to belong to a country club that would accept somebody like me as a member.
--Groucho Marx
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April 2nd, 2004, 06:45 AM
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Upon landing on the moon and surveying the situation, one astronaut quipped to the other: "even though our technology has advanced remarkably, I'm happy to see one feature of our goverment hasn't changed sinse world war 2. Here we are on mars and our supplies are on venus."
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