Profound Sayings

Subject: Signature file of the day

I've been accumulating "best of" e-mail signatures for some time now. One of the pithiest from my work environment is

"A schedule is not a plan."
That says so much in so few words that I went to the trouble of getting official permission from the author to use it in every "planning" meeting I am forced to attend...

I saw this one today, and it very well could become my favorite...

"You mean we spent 3 Billion years giving them brains the size of cantaloupe, and we didn't install an ON switch???" 

Subject: a start... for old times sake
From the dark depth of Bornsidian Philosophy:
"It is better to observe the obscure than to obscure the observed" - Isobarb, cica 1972 

Subject: Re: Signature file of the day
Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.

Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, An auge hath my ham.
Freezeth river, turneth liver, Damn you, sing: Goddamm.

--excerpt from Ezra Pound 

"People have the power to redeem the work of fools."
Patti Smith


(Contributed by AIM in a different thread)



Subject: Re: Signature file of the day


That one from Ezra is very appropriate... it's supposed to be 10 F here in Birmingham tonight. I know, I know, 'sheer luxury' compared to all you Midwestern plains people...


Paul, if your favorites are in a file, why not post them?


Here's my current favorite:


"Home? I have no home - hunted, despised, living like an animal - the jungle is my home! But I will show the world that I can be its master.  I shall perfect my own race of people - a race of atomic supermen that will conquer the world!" 


from "Bride of the Monster", by Ed Wood Jr.


Martin

Subject: Re: Signature file of the day


Alas, they're in my head or still in my e-mail inbasket. I shoulda had a file...


The collection would be very much the digital equivalent of the file ISOBARB used to have. As I recall, it was just a pile of scraps of paper upon which he'd jotted down pithy sayings, presumably for later reuse. Or maybe just because having the collection of scraps of paper was its own reward...


I wish I had ISOBARB's collection today - then *I'd* have a sigfile with a collectable "thought of the day..."


Here's another I've always liked. If I am not mistaken, it is a verse from Michael Cross' version of "Gimme That Old Time Religion"


If it's good enough for Druids

Running nekkid through the wuids

Drinking strange fermented fluids

It's good enough for me!



Subject: Re: Signature file of the day


hold your horses.... i think i still have that box with all the sayings in it.... anyone want to scan them in... or should i just dispense them to the wind???


isobarb


#2:


Even the King must shed light on his subject to take their picture.

Isobarb cira 1022

Subject: Re: Signature file of the day


If by dispensing to the wind you mean typing them in one at a time, I'd vote for that.


Otherwise, mail the whole box to me and I'll use 'em to test the OCR software that came with my scanner...

Subject: Bumper Stickers (We'd Like to See)


Got this from Marga, who got it from Susan, who...


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THE GENE POOL COULD USE A LITTLE CHLORINE


I DIDN'T FIGHT MY WAY TO THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN TO BE A VEGETARIAN


YOUR KID MAY BE AN HONOR STUDENT BUT YOU'RE STILL AN IDIOT


IF WE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO EAT ANIMALS, WHY ARE THEY MADE WITH MEAT?


SOME PEOPLE ARE ALIVE ONLY BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL TO KILL THEM


FORGET ABOUT WORLD PEACE...VISUALIZE USING YOUR TURN SIGNAL


WARNING: DATES ON CALENDAR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR


WE HAVE ENOUGH YOUTH, HOW ABOUT A FOUNTAIN OF 'SMART'


HE WHO LAUGHS LAST THINKS SLOWEST


VERY FUNNY SCOTTY...NOW BEAM DOWN MY CLOTHES


CONSCIOUSNESS:  THAT ANNOYING TIME BETWEEN NAPS


WE ARE MICROSOFT. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED





Subject: Re: Bumper Stickers (We'd Like to See)


If Terminator was real, Bill Gates would be the owner of Cyberdine Industries.





Subject: A bumper sticker I have & 2 I've seen


A bumper sticker I have on our Escort & I need to get another one for our van:


My only domestic quality is that I live in a house!


Plus two I've seen elsewhere, both of which I'd like to have:


PLEASE!  Hang up and drive!


Mutants for toxic waste  (there's a cyclop-smiley next to the message)

Subject: Re: Historical info




... Oh, never mind. Good line from somewhere that is usually
relevant to "computer problems":


   Component failure between keyboard and chair. Repair or replace.


Subject: Crossover


"Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to
be silent." 

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet and novelist


"You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you need to say
 sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."


 Frank Zappa, American sage and composer 


A little cross-over from the other list I belong to...  it seemed relevant.


- XX

Subject: Crossover


I kinda liked these two:


"One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes 
a stool pidgeon when he cannot be a soldier"


Gustave Flaubert


"Definition of Rock Journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews 
with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who 
can't read"


Frank Zappa  (From an old interview that FZ claims was "borrowed" by the 
screen writer for the film Rich and Famous.......i don't know you decide)


yeah.....o.k. its right outta his book but its late, I can't think, and I 
just HAD to respond.


Cine-Paul





Subject: wish i'd said that




After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art
tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form.  The greatest scientists
are always artists as well.


A. Einstein  1923 


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Aha! Another clue. ISOBARB was  not  using the name "A. Einstein" in 1923.
But I think we knew that...


The same sentiment was expressed in  Godel Escher Bach, and I believe it to
be true, except for that "skill" bit... I've become quite skillful at a
number of things, but one of the reasons I am not now a research
mathametician is that I realized that even though I could acquire just about
any level of skill through hard work (if it's not TOO hard...) I did not
have (or had not discovered) the  talent  that it takes to do something
 creative  with a given skill level.


I'd amend Albert's observation to begin with "After a certain high level of
technical skill is achieved by a person with talent, science and art..."




Subject: mmm


...snip...my tribute to 'the lives and times of archie and
mahitable'  (sic)....  the story (that was syndicated in the chicago sun in
the 20's or so) about a fateful writer who woke up as a cockroach and his
companion, mahitable the cat...   one of the more memorable quotes from that
series is something like


"it seems to me that the chief preoccupation of man is the state of his
digestion and the condition of his soul.... and just look at both of them".


or this one:


"the human body is an ingenious collection of portable plumbing"


iso


Subject: What prompted this?


Iso wrote:

>and a Isobarbarian quote from the days at Sambo's

>

>"Procrastination will give you gray sidings"


A little shed that sat next to 

Sambo's  parking lot,
whose weathered wood was repeatedly considered most 
picturesque and photogenic by Iso, was one day seen 
to be recovered by an unappealing gray siding.


Martin "I was there, finally!"






It's more Winsor than Walt. Mauudie, 1997



See 
Layers of the Onion for appropriate context.





26 February 1997 update




    

  1. 
Don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven, because it
hasn't. Bugs    Bunny

  2. 
If you don't believe in dragons, don't expect them to believe in you!

  3. 
Variety is the spice of battle.--Natasha Kerensky

  4. 
"Drop it punk--before I give you another nostril."

  5. 
Organization: A poorly installed InterNetNews site

  6. 
Desperately seeking lawn chair floating dude (This was a thread in
rec.skydiving)

  7. 
Always remember that you can scoot with your puller but you sure as hell
   can't pull with your scooter!  (The subject was tow vehicles for horse
 trailers.)

  8. 
You'll get further with a smile and a gun than just a smile.--Terry von
Gease

  9. 
Good guys on dead horses always finish last!

  10. 
You must allow people to be right, because it consoles them for not
being anything else.--Andre Gide




I read the following in rec.travel.usa-canada: Subject:Washington Live
Camera  "Live video feeds from Washington's most crime-ridden streetscapes
will be available in the near future.  In addition to law-abiding citizens,
see open-air drug markets, male, female and transvestite prostitution, and
customers as they make their buys.  On-line crime witnesses are encouraged
to call the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department at (202) 727-1010
or 911 (local only) for emergencies." 
 http://www.fga.com/crimenet/video.html 





 27 Feb 1997 update



Arnold's responsible for finding the following collection!

    

  1. 
"If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown, too?"

  2. 
"It doesn't matter if you have one dollar or a million dollars.  A fat
butt is still a fat butt."--Oprah Winfrey

  3. 
Join the Navy if you want a floating date.

  4. 
EARTH FIRST!  We will mine the rest of the planets later!--M.C. Albrecht

  5. 
"To fly a kite is to hold God's hand."--Dan Hawkins

  6. 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former."--Albert Einstein

  7. 
Suzuki GS700ES gears reached...(x)3rd (x)4th (x)5th ( )reverse

  8. 
"Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift."--Miss Piggy

  9. 
"Practice safe food--always use a condiment when eating."--Sandy Smith

  10. 
I've always wanted to be a MAD SCIENTIST; so far I've accomplished the
1st half.  Boingee, Boingee, Boingee, NARF!--Ronald McVan

  11. 
"Life: Vast stretches of mindless tedium punctuated by brief interludes
of panic."--Dean Pilato










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