tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post8599481499183875065..comments2023-10-28T04:50:55.216-05:00Comments on Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: She Said, He SaidNancy Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429062957063032872noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-80443490231300692702007-12-04T22:09:00.000-06:002007-12-04T22:09:00.000-06:00b2, I think that was running through my mind when ...b2, I think that was running through my mind when I said, "I do."Nancy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429062957063032872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-36645852651951083482007-12-04T20:57:00.000-06:002007-12-04T20:57:00.000-06:00More wisdom from Woody Allen:I don't want to get m...More wisdom from Woody Allen:<BR/><BR/><I>I don't want to get married. I just want to get divorced.</I>boran2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10483728578007756485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-73339328878699054842007-12-04T17:35:00.000-06:002007-12-04T17:35:00.000-06:00Lol, Dada, I love that.Lol, Dada, I love that.Nancy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429062957063032872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-36028292099134280562007-12-04T16:30:00.000-06:002007-12-04T16:30:00.000-06:00today l've got to go with the great blues bard BB ...today l've got to go with the great blues bard BB King:<BR/><BR/><I>Nobody loves me but my mother,<BR/>And she could be jivin' me too</I><BR/><BR/>kinda fits my frame of mind.<BR/><BR/>laterdadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06949727917480786306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-79589126913524998232007-12-04T15:37:00.000-06:002007-12-04T15:37:00.000-06:00Hey, good for him! And he even caught a typo? You'...Hey, good for him! And he even caught a typo? You're right, there's hope for him yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-77682740106285132982007-12-04T15:32:00.000-06:002007-12-04T15:32:00.000-06:00Tee hee… The Boy read my short and figured out tha...Tee hee… The Boy read my short and figured out that he's Old Guy. And he caught a typo!<BR/><BR/>His comment: "That story was kind of weird."<BR/><BR/>Me: "Yeah, well Old Guy is kind of weird."<BR/><BR/>Him: (grin) "I know. You think I'm stupid?"<BR/><BR/>Me: LOL!!!Larry Kollarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-40529026761618561402007-12-04T14:50:00.000-06:002007-12-04T14:50:00.000-06:00Aw, he's just a widdle bit nuts...Aw, he's just a widdle bit nuts...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-53894434760909328962007-12-04T14:42:00.000-06:002007-12-04T14:42:00.000-06:00Well, good, I'm glad you were already nuts. :)Well, good, I'm glad you were already nuts. :)Nancy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429062957063032872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-56453524716265166512007-12-04T12:51:00.000-06:002007-12-04T12:51:00.000-06:00far, lol! We're driven you bonkers already, too?Oh...<I>far, lol! We're driven you bonkers already, too?</I><BR/><BR/>Oh, no no no. I've been skating that wet pavement for years.<BR/><BR/>(If you've never skated, those little wheels get no grip on wet pavement. Or leaves. Or whatever. Makes cornering rather… challenging.)Larry Kollarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-7792824936545226812007-12-04T11:17:00.001-06:002007-12-04T11:17:00.001-06:00I just realized that in the best passive-aggressiv...I just realized that in the best passive-aggressive fashion, I have managed to get you guys to do my work for me. Namely, to give me quotes for my Quote of the Day at the bottom of the front page, which I rarely remember to change. Nelson Mandela has been there for months. I'll change it to Quote of the Week, and use yours, giving you credit, of course. Thanks. Tee hee. ; }<BR/><BR/>: }Nancy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429062957063032872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-80299499180031026122007-12-04T11:17:00.000-06:002007-12-04T11:17:00.000-06:00LOL.Andif!LOL.<BR/><BR/><B>Andif!</B>GhostFolk.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942600698461250382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-66351602675224104202007-12-04T09:45:00.000-06:002007-12-04T09:45:00.000-06:00Jeanette Rankin: If I had my life to live over, I ...Jeanette Rankin: <I>If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.</I>AndiFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07767389458803503532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-27137656275063063282007-12-04T09:40:00.000-06:002007-12-04T09:40:00.000-06:00"Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every ...<I>"Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world."</I> - -Dolores Huerta<BR/><BR/><I>“Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.”</I> - Octavio Paz<BR/><BR/>Good mornoonevenight, everyone!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16837068933376597307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-25938857975996684952007-12-04T09:35:00.001-06:002007-12-04T09:35:00.001-06:00far, lol! We're driven you bonkers already, too?far, lol! We're driven you bonkers already, too?Nancy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429062957063032872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-20114587917409032702007-12-04T09:35:00.000-06:002007-12-04T09:35:00.000-06:00Nice, Rick. Very very nice.Damn that Raymond Carve...Nice, Rick. Very very nice.<BR/><BR/>Damn that Raymond Carver, though. The man only wrote short stories and poems didn't he? What does he know. Grumble grumble.Nancy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429062957063032872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-762443898442202102007-12-04T09:31:00.000-06:002007-12-04T09:31:00.000-06:00Kelly,I've managed to drive you bonkers and it's n...Kelly,I've managed to drive you bonkers and it's not even noon yet. :) <BR/><BR/>Kimberly, I wish I could have been there to see her face.<BR/><BR/>Jen, my fav--at least at this moment, having spent some of the morning catching up on the NIE report about Iran--is the Claire Wolfe quote.Nancy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429062957063032872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-24288190674231238982007-12-04T09:11:00.000-06:002007-12-04T09:11:00.000-06:00ACK!Gloria Steinman = Gloria SteinemACK!<BR/><BR/>Gloria Steinman = Gloria SteinemJenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00793793027935224823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-66721136419802859642007-12-04T09:06:00.000-06:002007-12-04T09:06:00.000-06:00I keep a word processor file of quotes I like. It...I keep a word processor file of quotes I like. It's now at 49 pages. I shall try to exercise some restraint.<BR/><BR/><I>Beliefs are great, cherish them, just don't go around passing them off as the truth.</I><BR/>--Bill Hicks<BR/><BR/><I>Anything may be accidentally the cause of joy, sorrow, or desire.</I><BR/>--Spinoza<BR/><BR/><I>America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.</I><BR/>--Claire Wolfe<BR/><BR/><I>The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.</I><BR/>--Gloria Steinman<BR/><BR/><I>Homer: Stupid God, sometimes I think He's teasing me, like He teased Moses in the desert.<BR/>Marge: Tested, Homer; God *tested* Moses in the desert.</I><BR/>--The Simpsons<BR/><BR/><I>No person is your friend who demands your silence.</I><BR/>--Alice Walker<BR/><BR/><I>A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.</I><BR/>--Mitch Ratcliffe, ratcliffeblog.com<BR/><BR/><I>It's never too late to be who you might have been.</I><BR/>--George Eliot<BR/><BR/><I>You obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.</I><BR/>--Katherine Hepburn<BR/><BR/><I>When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.</I><BR/>--Mark Twain<BR/><BR/>Yes, lol, that was restraint.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00793793027935224823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-49311548496133415462007-12-04T09:04:00.000-06:002007-12-04T09:04:00.000-06:00Hee hee hee. Ha ha ha. This list is great!! What ...Hee hee hee. Ha ha ha. This list is great!! What a wonderful way to start the morning.<BR/><BR/>I love quotes. Here are a couple...<BR/><BR/>"No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up." Lily Tomlin<BR/><BR/>There's an exchange between Winston Churchill and a titled lady whose name I can't remember, which went roughly:<BR/><BR/>"Sir, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your [tea]." <BR/><BR/>"Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."Kimberly Frosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01858506885360410658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-27597751684815099142007-12-04T08:54:00.000-06:002007-12-04T08:54:00.000-06:00On further searching, I'm going to have to go with...On further searching, I'm going to have to go with Far's source. As far as I can tell "Eddy Peters" isn't actually a real figure, but rather a name arbitrarily attached to the slightly different variation I am more familiar with. What particularly baffles me is that despite having read Far's post, I still produced the second version without noting (externally or internally) that Far had preceded me. I have to put it down to posting something before I wake up. I am so incredibly not a morning person.Kelly McCulloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06399122960869198042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-48848805429846853782007-12-04T08:51:00.000-06:002007-12-04T08:51:00.000-06:00Three in the morning. Two underfried eggs bordered...Three in the morning. Two underfried eggs bordered by limp bacon stared at me. A slab of butter sat on an slice of cold, burnt toast. My stomach rumbled out of disgust, but my hunger overruled. Lots of salt, pepper, and ketchup helped it along. Kim had oatmeal thicker than concrete mix. We had talked through the night, but now our trip to nowhere had turned silent in a backbooth with dim lighting. Three spoonfuls of oatmeal later, she slipped low in the seat and slept. She needed it. Our gabbing didn't keep her from writing on the laptop. "The habit of discipline to finish each story is the difference between a hobby and a profession," she said, somewhere between there and here. "Who said that?" I asked. "Raymond Carver," she mumbled. I nodded.<BR/><BR/>The blond waitress grabbed my empty plate, ripping me from the memory. The tab fluttered to the table, and she walked away with a sexy sway betraying the weariness of small town witnessing I could only imagine. Without the dripping nose ring and raccoon make-up, she could pass for a young Marilyn Monroe. Scrap away the grimy exterior, I could get excited. Inexplicably, a fortune cookie came with the tab. I cracked it open. "A trip of a thousand miles begins with the first step." I grinned the grin of a man who hadn't slept much lately, whose fingers hadn't spent enough time at the keyboard, whose feet were as tired as the waitresses, but I nudged my traveling partner. "Let's go. We've got miles to go before we sleep, miles to go before we sleep."<BR/><BR/>I paid the waitress and gave her a big tip. She smiled, and beyond the window behind her outside in the dark, I saw a ghostly image of a man who didn't exist walking a dog. The next writing journey had begun.Rick Bylinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10493557860835710721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-9005971271835440312007-12-04T08:47:00.000-06:002007-12-04T08:47:00.000-06:00L2TP support is available for Wireless Mesh Networ...L2TP support is available for Wireless Mesh Networking through the CLI (including remote provisioning). — ah crap, wrong fiction.Larry Kollarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-33127284616749808062007-12-04T08:45:00.000-06:002007-12-04T08:45:00.000-06:00I haven't found an answer, though I did find someo...I haven't found an answer, though I did find someone who claims (without evidence, %@#%&#$@) that the Peters is the original. <BR/><BR/>More importantly, I found this apropos of both today's topic and yesterday's: <I>Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.</I> Samuel Becket<BR/><BR/>In general, Becket irritates me, and I find his <I>Endgame</I> to be one of the most awful things it has ever been my displeasure to read, but this makes me think more highly of him.Kelly McCulloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06399122960869198042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-38831592465297633822007-12-04T08:17:00.000-06:002007-12-04T08:17:00.000-06:00Oh, we have a mystery! Essentially the same quote,...Oh, we have a mystery! Essentially the same quote, one version from James D. Nicoll and the other from Eddy Peters. Anybody have a clue?<BR/><BR/>You know, this is just the sort of thing to give a writer an idea for a story. Far and Kelly get first dibs, of course.Nancy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429062957063032872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004909290975090333.post-46234907666416738162007-12-04T08:06:00.000-06:002007-12-04T08:06:00.000-06:00I'm pretty fond of this one: I have sworn upon the...I'm pretty fond of this one: <I>I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.</I> Thomas Jefferson.<BR/><BR/>And for completely different reasons, this one: <I>Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets.</I> Eddy Peters.<BR/><BR/>And for yet another set of reasons, how about this: <I>My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah my foes, and oh my friends—it gives a lovely light.</I> Edna St. Vincent MillayKelly McCulloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06399122960869198042noreply@blogger.com