A Thought for the Day

[Witness]

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

[sparks]

A nice sentiment, but debatable.

[Witness]

A nice sentiment, but debatable.

Only quality booze, sparks, only quality!

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

[Witness]

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

[shemp]

"Please pass the ketchup"
– Albert Einstein.

[Hotarubi]

[Abdul Alhazred]

The only tip off that it's a joke is the word "gobshite".

I've seen worse along those lines that weren't jokes. Not intentional ones anyway.

[Witness]

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

[Bruce]

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]

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

[Hotarubi]

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]

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

[Doctor X]

My Bibles have a lot of small print.

Sometimes levels of them.






What?

– J.D.

[Doctor X]

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]

[Abdul Alhazred]

That is not "civilization". That is just being human.

Still not bad for a gal who projected her sexual fantasies onto the Samoans and fooled the world.

She was big into mental telepathy and stuff, too.

[Tommy D]

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]

“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

[Abdul Alhazred]

When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend."

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[Witness]