Enduring philosophies and favorite quotes

They would twirl the emotional kaleidoscope until it gave them a picture that was comfortable.

From Washington Post article How the Brain Helps Partisans Admit No Gray by Shankar Vedantam on 31 July 2006, quoting Emory University psychologist Drew Westen [via, source]

Playlist pieces

St. Joseph’s baby aspirin, Bartles and Jaymes, and you
— or your memory.

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I want so much to open your eyes, ‘cause I need you to look into mine.

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Excuse me, are you lost? Perhaps you would care to visit the site map

“early to bed and early to rise
makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

...and makes you not have bags under your eyes.

:) #link

Gaiate: Let me just say this: don’t trust purple-haired priests.

Gaiate #link

i’m not an angel. “you are to me.”

“The light just changed from yellow to red. Is it now less delicious than it was? Sometimes I just don’t understand you.”

Will K. (aka: Dad) #link

“you have memorable legs.”

anonymous #link

do the lil bugs bite?
“what lil bugs?”
they’re itty bitty and tiny
“uhh”

ali, a.p. 23Sep02 #link

NoStaw: but DAMN that pic, her breasts really magnified. hehe. it’s like two babies. yeah, she’s in the club. you can tell. she HEADS the club.
alicson: the club?
NoStaw: the future wives of watson club.

NoStaw 9Sep02 #link

NDN: a curse upon seth insaaf

NDN #link

Lie to your plants. Reprimand any disorderly nachos and punish accordingly.

Joe #link

cnostaw: berto and I are funny people.
cnostaw: actually, were.. I don’t think we have that spark anymore.
cnostaw: I need to find another hispanic friend. a fresh one.

nostaw #link

“if a man speaks in a forest, and his wife isn’t there, is he still wrong?”

unknown #link

crying’s for babies, little girls, and men who have just had their ears ripped off.

JoyServ #link

No Staw: I’m gonna go play a game now, where I shoot people, instead of worrying if they’re gonna climb a freakin mountain for me. [referring to quoted lyrics in an away message]

No Staw #link

click this to be confused. if that link is out of order, click this or just run a web search for “kan guo lai”

unknown 2 comments #link

Overheard at a homeless shelter: “Why won’t you meddling do-gooders LISTEN? I LIKE to live under a bridge and eat goats!...” [courtesy of Roskronos]

unknown 8Aug02 #link

“Programming is like sex – one mistake and you’re supporting it forever.” [courtesy of izzyadidas]

anonymous 8Aug02 #link

As part of the university's new policy of not being so mean to Duke, the following mean anti-Duke signs were replaced with more diplomatic language:

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unknown #link

“Yeah, by trying to get out of here to watch a bunch of drunken ho’s show their boobies for no reason?”
“Not for no reason, they do it for beads!”
[courtesy of pythonite]

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Gaiate: I'm a bit slap happy right now . . .

alicson: what'd she do?

Gaiate: :-D hee . . .

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Gaiate #link

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die. In the rain.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American.

DR. SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I've not been told!

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