A Thought for the Day

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:21 pm

They asked a wise man, 'Is he who gives you a wild tiger in a jade box being truly generous?'

The Great Sage replied, 'How should I know?'"

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:44 pm

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

--Abraham Lincoln

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 10:29 pm

"Buying books would be a good thing, if one could also buy the time to read them."
– Arthur Schopenhauer

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:59 am

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:29 pm

Depends on whether or not it is the Lady or the Tiger.

– J.D.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:17 pm

Doctor X wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:29 pm Depends on whether or not it is the Lady or the Tiger.

– J.D.

Pussy.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:36 pm

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
– Winston Churchill

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:07 pm

A nice sentiment, but debatable.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:45 pm

sparks wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:07 pm A nice sentiment, but debatable.

Only quality booze, sparks, only quality!

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
– Thomas Paine

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:47 pm

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:31 pm

"Please pass the ketchup"
– Albert Einstein.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sun Aug 23, 2020 10:49 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:06 pm

"PDF is where (good) data goes to die."

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:38 am

Young, inquisitive Bruce: Why do we scan all of our reports as pdfs before sending them to our clients?

Old boss (tired of Bruce's questions): Because it can't be altered. Keeps our clients from changing something and claiming we did it.

Young, inquisitive Bruce: But pdfs absolutely can be altered. In fact, Adobe itself makes a pdf to text converter. There are better digital technologies that has been around for years that are way more secure than pdf.

Old, world-weary Bruce training new recruits: Why scan pdfs? Because fuck our clients and modern technology. Just be grateful that you have a job and you're not making copies of these reports with a quill in the basement of a church. Maintaining the status quo in the corporate world is more important than common sense. If you want innovation, go join a start-up and see how long it can stand up to big pharma before it buys it out, swallows its assets and shits you out on the curb.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:40 pm

“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
– Aristophanes

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:29 pm

I dunno what stigmata sufferers are whining about. A little bit of blood from the hands is not much to write home about.

They should think themselves lucky that Jesus didn't live in a more modern environment, such as the French Revolution when their heads would just fall off, or modern day Texas where they would shake violently from side to side with their hair standing on end while their eyeballs boiled.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 10:04 pm

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
– L.P. Hartley

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 5:47 am

My Bibles have a lot of small print.

Sometimes levels of them.

What?

– J.D.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 6:03 am

The story goes that he was out riding with two of his junior staff officers on day. They see a landscape, and one of the officers says, "Isn't that beautiful?!"

But [Field Marshal Alfred von – Ed.] Schlieffen looks and says, "A minor tactical obstacle!"

– Prof. Denis Showalter, Colorado State College, "Best Laid Plans," Great Military Blunders: Timeline

– J.D.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:03 am

Tommy D · Post by **Tommy D** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 7:42 am

Reporter: "I asked Fat Tony if he had anything to say about all of this!"

Reporter: "Thank you!"

Fat Tony Salerno: "You're welcome."

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Sep 02, 2020 11:24 pm

“O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv’n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.”
— William Blake

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 12:02 am

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 12:11 am

We've always been peasants. We just got paid better.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:18 am

“There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know.”
― Roger H. Lincoln

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:19 pm

Dog philosophy
If you can't eat it or fuck it piss on it.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Thu Sep 10, 2020 6:16 am

"Prime Minister, I neither smoke, nor drink, and I'm 100% fit!"

– Gen. Bernard Montgomery

"I smoke, and drink, and am 200% fit!"

– Prime Minister Winston Churchill

from the wonderful

– J.D.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:58 am

"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."
— Denis Diderot

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Sep 11, 2020 10:20 am

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:08 am

Harter says I have claim.

Too soon?

Relax.

J&D

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:41 pm

Post by **Captain** » Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:48 pm

shemp wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:41 pm

You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:27 am

"So we must beware of a tyranny of opinion which tries to make only one side of a question the one which may be heard. Everyone is in favour of it. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage."

— Churchill, U.K. Parliament on October 13, 1943

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Sep 14, 2020 1:37 am

“The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.”
– Charles Darwin

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:45 am

– J.D.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 11:03 am

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:14 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 11:07 pm

“In those early days, the Chief Engineer was almost always the Chief Pilot, as well. This had the automatic result of eliminating poor engineering very early in aviation.”
– Igor Sikorsky

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:34 pm

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
— Franklin P. Jones

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:19 pm

Before rushing around to your neighbor's house to warn them that there's a kangeroo in their backyard, remember to double check that its not their Great Dane having a shit.