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 Cinder 
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Priceless Observations Department:
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.' - Lillian Carter (mother ofJimmy Carter)
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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement..- Mark Twain
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible- George Burns
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Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.- Victor Borge
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.- Mark Twain
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.- Socrates
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.- Groucho Marx
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.- Jimmy Durante
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I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.- Alex Levine
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My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
- Rodney Dangerfield
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Money can't buy you happiness ... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. - Spike Milligan
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Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP .- Joe Namath
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.- Bob Hope
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I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it..- W. C. Fields
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We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.- Will Rogers -
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.- Winston Churchill
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Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, spread out, leak or dry up! - Phyllis Diller
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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.- Billy Crystal
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And the cardiologist's diet: - If it tastes good spit it out.
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Cinder
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Tue Sep 14, 2010 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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Way with Words was supposed to go here! They are after all quotes!
These glorious insults are from an era before the English language was boiled down to four-letter words.
The exchange between Churchill and Lady Astor:
She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison."
He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.." - Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, response.
"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
- John Bright
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyrand
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.." - Oscar Wilde
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
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Location: Warsaw & once in a blue moon Szczecin (Poland)
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Great quotes Cinder. Thanks.
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Cinder
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Location: Washington state
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Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject: The Old English Language |
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Might be helpful to those not living in the US, working on their language skills.
A LICK AND A PROMISE
'I'll just give this a lick and a promise,' my mother said as she quickly mopped up a spill on the floor without moving any of the furniture.
'What is that supposed to mean,' I asked as in my young mind I envisioned someone licking the floor with his or her tongue.
'It means that I'm in a hurry and I'm busy canning tomatoes so I am going to just give it a lick with the mop and promise to come back and do the job right later.
'A lick and a promise' was just one of the many old phrases that our mothers, grandmothers, and others used that they probably heard from the generations before them. With the passing of time, many old phrases become obsolete or even disappear. This is unfortunate because some of them are very appropriate and humorous. Here is a list of some of those memorable old phrases:
1. A Bone to Pick (someone who wants to discuss a disagreement)
2. An Axe to Grind (Someone who has a hidden motive. This phrase is said to have originated from Benjamin Franklin who told a story about a devious man who asked how a grinding wheel worked. He ended up walking away with his axe sharpened free of charge)
3. One bad apple spoils the whole barrel (one corrupt person can cause all the others to go bad if you don't remove the bad one)
4. At sea (lost or not understanding something)
5. Bad Egg (Someone who was not a good person)
6. Barking at a knot (meaning that your efforts were as useless as a dog barking at a knot.)
7. Barking up the wrong tree (talking about something that was completely the wrong issue with the wrong person)
8. Bee in your bonnet (To have an idea that won't let loose )
9. Been through the mill (had a rough time of it)
10.Between hay and grass (Not a child or an adult)
11. Blinky (Between sweet and sour as in milk)
12. Calaboose (a jail)
13. Catawampus (Something that sits crooked such as a piece of furniture sitting at an angle)
14. Dicker (To barter or trade)
15. Feather in Your Cap (to accomplish a goal. This came from years ago in wartime when warriors might receive a feather they would put in their cap for defeating an enemy)
16. Hold your horses (Be patient!)
17. Hoosegow ( a jail)
18. I reckon (I suppose)
19. Jawing/Jawboning (Talking or arguing)
20. Kit and caboodle (The whole thing)
21. Madder than an wet hen (really angry)
22. Needs taken down a notch or two (like notches in a belt usually a young person who thinks too highly of himself and needs a lesson)
23.No Spring Chicken (Not young anymore)
24.Persnickety (overly particular or snobbish)
25.Pert-near (short for pretty near)
26.Pretty is as pretty does (your actions are more important than your looks)
27.Red up (clean the house)
28.Scalawag (a rascal or unprincipled person)
29.Scarce as hen's teeth (something difficult to obtain)
30.Skedaddle (Get out of here quickly)
31. Sparking (courting)
32.Straight >From the Horse's Mouth (privileged information from the one concerned)
33.Stringing around, gallivanting around, or piddling (Not doing anything of value)
34.Sunday go to meetin' dress (The best dress you had)
35.We wash up real fine (is another goodie)
36.Tie the Knot (to get married)
37.Too many irons in the fire (to be involved in too many things)
38.Tuckered out (tired and all worn out)
39. Under the weather (not feeling well this term came from going below deck on ships due to sea sickness thus you go below or under the weather)
40.Wearing your 'best bib and tucker' (Being all dressed up)
41. You ain't the only duck in the pond (It's not all about you)
Well, if you hold your horses, I reckon I'll get this whole kit and caboodle done and sent off to you. Please don't be too persnickety and get a bee in your bonnet because I've been pretty tuckered out and at sea lately because I'm no spring chicken. I haven't been just stringin' around and I know I'm not the only duck in the pond, but I do have too many irons in the fire. I might just be barking at a knot, but I have tried to give this article more than just
A LICK & A PROMISE!
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Cinder
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Valentine's Day Trivia
Valentine's Day is celebrated in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France and Australia.
Love is something, which makes everyone and everything, flow and perhaps there is no living being whom this bug has never bitten. May this Valentine's Day be filled with love, understanding, and contentment as you journey through life with all your near and dear ones.
History Trivia
1. February 15th was the date of the Roman festival of Lupercalia - where young men held a lottery to decide which girl would be theirs.
2. During Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St. Valentine's Day to have a dream of their future husband.
3. In the middle Ages, people believed that the first unmarried person of the opposite sex you met on the morning of St. Valentine's Day would become your spouse.
4. In the middle of the 17th century even married people took a Valentine - not always their legal other half!
5. Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, on the Valentine's Day, 1876.
6. It wasn't until 1537 that St. Valentine's Day was declared an official holiday. England's King Henry VIII declared February 14th a holiday in 1537 for the first time.
7. On February 14, 1779, the natives of Hawaii murdered Captain James Cook the great English explorer and navigator.
8. Some people believed that if a woman saw a robin-flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it meant she would marry a sailor and if she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she would marry a very rich person.
9. The Taj Mahal at Agra, India is perhaps the most splendid gift of love. Built by the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in memory of his beautiful wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
10. In England, the Romans, who had taken over the country, had introduced a pagan fertility festival held every February 14. After the Romans left England, Pope Gelsius, who established St. Valentine's Day as a celebration of love in 496 A.D abolished the pagan ritual.
11. In Victorian times it was considered bad luck to sign a Valentine's Day card.
12. In 1929 in Chicago, gunmen in the suspected employment of organized-crime boss Al Capone murder seven members of the George "Bugs" Moran North Siders gang in a garage on North Clark Street. The so-called St. Valentine's Day Massacre stirred a media storm centered on Capone and his illegal Prohibition-era activities and motivated federal authorities to redouble their efforts to find evidence incriminating enough to take him off the streets.
13. In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
14. February 15th was the date of the Roman festival of Lupercalia - where young men held a lottery to decide which girl would be theirs.
15. During Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St. Valentine's Day to have a dream of their future husband. In the middle Ages, people believed that the first unmarried person of the opposite sex you met on the morning of St. Valentine's Day would become your spouse.
16. In the middle of the 17th century even married people took a Valentine - not always their legal other half!
17. Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, on the Valentine's Day, 1876.
18. It wasn't until 1537 that St. Valentine's Day was declared an official holiday. England's King Henry VIII declared February 14th a holiday in 1537 for the first time.
19. On February 14, 1779, the natives of Hawaii murdered Captain James Cook the great English explorer and navigator.
20. The act of kissing can be traced back to primitive times, when mothers fondled their children, much as mothers do today.
21. Much later, in the sixth century, society apparently accepted the custom of kissing between adults as an expression of their affection.
22. Giving flowers dates back to the 1700s when Charles II of Sweden introduced the Persian custom of "the language of flowers" to Europe.
23. Centuries ago, a woman would drop her handkerchief in front of the man she liked. This was a form of encouragement to him, and if he picked it up for her an introduction could be made.
24.In England, the Romans, who had taken over the country, had introduced a pagan fertility festival held every February 14. After the Romans left England, Pope Gelsius, who established St. Valentine's Day as a celebration of love in 496 A.D abolished the pagan ritual.
25. In the Middle Ages, most people couldn't read or write. Important documents were signed with an X and kissed in order to show themselves trustworthy. The kiss has since come to be represented by an X.
Statistic Trivia
1. About 3% of pet owners will give Valentine's Day gifts to their pets.
2. In the United States, 64 percent of men do not make plans in advance for a romantic Valentine's Day with their sweethearts.
3. 15% of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day.
4. In the United States over 1 billion valentine cards are sent each year. That's the largest seasonal card-sending occasion of the year, next to Christmas.
5. Parents get 1 out of every 5 valentines.
6. Women buy 85% of all valentines.
7. 73% of people who buy flowers for Valentine's Day are men, while only 27 percent are women.
Romantic Trivia
1. Famous Valentines Day weddings - The Captain & Tennille, Elton John & Renate Blauel, Leeza Gibbons & Stephen Meadows, Meg Ryan & Dennis Quaid, Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia & Deborah Koons, Roseanne, of Rosanne & Ben Thomas, Prince &
Mayte Garcia, Sharon Stone & Phil Bronstein, Diane Ladd & Robert Charles Hunter.
2. In Wales, wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts, Hearts, keys and keyholes were favorite decorations on the spoons. The decoration meant, "You unlock my heart!"
3. The Empire State Building in New York City played a prominent role in the movie Sleepless in Seattle. This year 15 couples will take (or renew) their vows on the 80th floor of this famous landmark.
4. In Wales, love spoons of wood were carved and given as gifts on February 14th. Hearts, keys and keyholes formed the favorite theme of decorations on the spoons, which together symbolized- "You unlock my heart!"
5. Some people believed that if a woman saw a robin-flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it meant she would marry a sailor and if she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she would marry a very rich person.
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Cinder
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Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Principles
There are times I think I'm doing things on principle,
but mostly I just do what feels good. But that's a principle, too.
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Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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RED SKELTON'S RECIPE
FOR THE PERFECT MARRIAGE
1. Two times a week we go to a nice restaurant, have a
little beverage, good food and companionship.
She goes on Tuesdays, I go on Fridays.
2. We also sleep in separate beds.
Hers is in California , and mine is in Texas ....
3. I take my wife everywhere,
but she keeps finding her way back.
4. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary.
"Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said.
So I suggested the kitchen.
5. We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
6. She has an electric blender, electric
toaster and electric bread maker.
She said "There are too many gadgets, and no place
to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.
7. My wife told me the car wasn't running well
because there was water in the carburetor.
I asked where the car was. She told me, "In the lake."
8. She got a mud pack and looked great for two days.
Then the mud fell off.
9. She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late
for the garbage?" The driver said, "No, jump in!".
10. Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce.
11. I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her
first name was 'Always'.
12. I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months.
I don't like to interrupt her.
13. The last fight was my fault though.
My wife asked, "What's on the TV?"
I said, "Dust!".
Can't you just hear him say all of these?
I love it. These were the good old days when humour
didn't have to start with a four-letter word.
It was just clean and simple fun.
And he always ended his programmes with the words,
"And May God Bless", with a big smile on his face.
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Cinder
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Location: Washington state
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:10 am Post subject: |
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From one of my favorite films about living in the south...
I found out what the secret to life is: friends. Best friends.
~Ninny Threadgoode from the movie Fried Green Tomatoes
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Location: Minot, ND
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Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:34 am Post subject: |
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I posted this quote on Facebook a few weeks ago - it really hits home right now.
"For those rebuilding right now, a quote from Life as a House: "I always thought of myself as a house. I was always what I lived in. It didn't need to be big. It didn't even need to be beautiful. It just needed to be mine. I became what I was meant to be. I built myself a life. I built myself a house.""
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Location: Washington state
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Give yourself a gold star for everything you do today.
Grow a milk mustache.
Open a pack of cupcakes and give one to a friend even though you wanted both of them for yourself.
Have a staring contest with your cat.
Kiss a frog just in case.
Make a face the next time somebody tells you "no."
Ask "Why?" a lot.
Believe in fairy tales.
Have someone read you a story.
Wear your favorite shirt with your favorite pants even if they don't match.
Do a cartwheel.
Hide your vegetables under your napkin.
Make a "slurpy" sound with your straw when you get to the bottom of a milkshake.
Sit really still for as long as the dog (or cat) is asleep in your lap.
Find some pretty stones and save them.
Stick your head out the car window and moo if you see a cow.
Walk barefoot in wet grass.
Giggle at nude statues in a museum.
Make cool screeching noises every time you turn.
Count the colors in a rainbow.
Fuss a little, then take a nap.
Take a running jump over a big puddle.
Giggle a lot for no real reason.
Do that tap-someone-on-the-shoulder-while-you-stand-on- their-opposite-side-and-they-turn-around-and-no-one's- there thing.
Enjoy your all-time favorite candy-bar. (Forget you've heard of calories!)
Throw something and when it lands make a cool exploding bomb noise.
Squish some mud between your toes.
Buy yourself a helium balloon.
Put an orange slice in your mouth, peel side out, and smile at people.
Be a kid again...
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Location: Washington state
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Random Quote
" "From joy all beings have come, by joy they all live,
and unto joy they all return."
"Where there is joy, there is creation.
Where there is no joy, there is no creation.
Know the nature of joy." " Upanishads
"Those gifts are ever the most acceptable
that are made precious by the giver." Ovid
"The treasure house within you contains everything, and you are free to use it. You don't need to seek outside." Zen Master Dazhu
""It is true that the body is mortal, that it is under the power of death,
but it is also the dwelling place of Atman, the Spirit of immortal life. ...
when a man is in the joy of the spirit, he is free from all bondage,
the bondage of pleasure and pain."
" Upanishads
"The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself." Thales
""There the sun shines not, nor the moon, nor the stars,
lightning shines not there and much less earthly fire.
From his light all these give light: and his radiance illumines all creation."
" Upanishads
"The sound of Brahman is Om. At the end of Om there is silence. It is the silence of joy.
It is the end of the journey, where fear and sorrow are no more:
steady, motionless, never falling, everlasting, and immortal.
It is called the omnipresent Vishnu.
" Upanishads
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William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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