Who is not attracted by pleasant children,
to prattle, to creep, and to play with them.
Epictetus
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1. Left alone most things will improve themselves...except debt and love affairs.
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2. It's safer to be a big fish in a small pond...rather than a small fish in a big fan.
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3. Forget what you were supposed to forgive...remember.
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4. Always be modest...and proud of it.
5. All men are equal...in sleep.
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6. Marry above your station... and you will always have a stationmaster.
7. Aristotle never had a kid in college...with a credit card.
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8. Never tell people about the "good ol' days"... keep it a secret.
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9. May others do unto you...as you would do unto others with the same interests and place in society.
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10. If a thing is worth doing...it is worth getting someone else to try it first and then learn from their mistakes.
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"Spiced mice are nice...but, jellied goldfish are delish."
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted
with an optimist.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The optimist proclaims that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist fears this is true.JAMES BRANCH CABELL
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
DON MARQUIS
Mrs. Pam Paradigm sent the following e-mail to Senator Barfley Bodine
after their recent fiasco on her TV interview show, "Paradigm Shift.":
Sen. Barfley: Rarely has it been my displeasure to conduct an interview with a public servant (That's you, Bozo) whose only interest was in pedalling a book of dubious anecdotes and insipid prose.
I had some carefully researched and insightful questions to ask you about your current positions on subjects your constituents are interested in ( Repeat after me, con-stit-u-ents.) After wasting my time as well as my viewers time with your relentless marketing efforts.
You walked off the program,leaving me with 15 minutes of air time to fill. In sum, I feel that you are a bifurcated old blunderbuss...a melon- stomping, hog-rolling, barn-burning, bung-starting old dunderhead... and pious,old podium pounding blockhead. To close, my dear old cooter-catching, stump-jumping, slip-sliding, bump-thumping, old thunderump, I have cleaned up my language for public consumption, but, what I said as you left the interview chair still stands. With the greatest disrespect, I am Pam Paradigm, you ol' sumabich ( that's
French for "public servant")
after their recent fiasco on her TV interview show, "Paradigm Shift.":
Sen. Barfley: Rarely has it been my displeasure to conduct an interview with a public servant (That's you, Bozo) whose only interest was in pedalling a book of dubious anecdotes and insipid prose.
I had some carefully researched and insightful questions to ask you about your current positions on subjects your constituents are interested in ( Repeat after me, con-stit-u-ents.) After wasting my time as well as my viewers time with your relentless marketing efforts.
You walked off the program,leaving me with 15 minutes of air time to fill. In sum, I feel that you are a bifurcated old blunderbuss...a melon- stomping, hog-rolling, barn-burning, bung-starting old dunderhead... and pious,old podium pounding blockhead. To close, my dear old cooter-catching, stump-jumping, slip-sliding, bump-thumping, old thunderump, I have cleaned up my language for public consumption, but, what I said as you left the interview chair still stands. With the greatest disrespect, I am Pam Paradigm, you ol' sumabich ( that's
French for "public servant")
The buck stopped here. It was out of gas.
A TOAST...
To every lovely lady bright,
I wish a gallant faithful knight;
To every faithful lover too,
I wish a trusting lady true.
Sir Walter Scott
My very own award, soon to be coveted; or ignored; or despised.
It will be awarded(?) from time to time to anyone I deem worthy for
reasons of my own. There are no requirements whatsoever.
You might, if you like, write an acknowledgement or a decline of award
statement, or nothing at all, if you prefer. The first recipient of the
Award is my friend, Gary Phillip Pennick of "Klahanie. blogspot.com"
for being Gary, a good friend!
Huzzah!
(APPLAUSE)
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