P. J. O'Rourke Quotefest 2004

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:00 am

"The moment has not come, but it is around the corner, when non-Muslims will reasonably demand to have evidence that the Muslim faith can operate within boundaries in which Christians and Jews (and many non-believers) live and work without unconstitutional distraction."

Wm F Buckley, Jr.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:25 am

"he makes the crucial concession that, though a society may progress, individuals don't. Human nature does not progress at all. Our aggressive, tribal nature is hard-wired, unreformed and unreformable."

Joel Mokyr
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 95,00.html

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:44 am

“You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background,”

Diplomat-historian George F. Kennan

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:00 pm

"The art of economics consists of looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”

- Henry Hazlitt

Long term effects,,,,You HAVE to be kidding G.B.

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:25 pm

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- Gore Vidal

kilngod · Post by **kilngod** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:19 pm

In this Google-icious word of ours, the overease of looking up quotes on the Internet makes me sound a bit glib. Its a lazy way to appear literate. I mean, like Hunter Thompson's got some cool attributes, but I admit I've never read any of his books. (ok ok maybe I should.) I have read all of Douglas Adams Hitchhikers books but "So long and thanks for all the fish" only goes so far. At least that's the way I feel.

What would YOUR quote of the dayyear/lifetime be if it were to be immortalized on the E-Playa? Thimk hard and give us some pith, worthy of a t-shirt. Or go back to stuff famous people said.

Barbie: Dammit, Ken! (actual dialogue from my 3-yr old daughter, holding a naked barbie and a naked and headless ken)

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:38 pm

kilngod wrote:In this Google-icious word of ours, the overease of looking up quotes on the Internet makes me sound a bit glib. Its a lazy way to appear literate. I mean, like Hunter Thompson's got some cool attributes, but I admit I've never read any of his books. (ok ok maybe I should.) I have read all of Douglas Adams Hitchhikers books but "So long and thanks for all the fish" only goes so far. At least that's the way I feel.

What would YOUR quote of the dayyear/lifetime be if it were to be immortalized on the E-Playa? Thimk hard and give us some pith, worthy of a t-shirt. Or go back to stuff famous people said.

Barbie: Dammit, Ken! (actual dialogue from my 3-yr old daughter, holding a naked barbie and a naked and headless ken]

the idea has already got a thread, and a damn fine thread, i might add.
Jaded Old Timer's Thread

the quote i would use... from a U of I professor years ago

"if some is good, more is better"

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:42 pm

Kilngod, my entries aren't googled up. One of these days I'll have to get a job, but for the present, I read about 10--12 hours a day.

D.A. is gone but here's something that you might not have seen.
http://members.allstream.net/~baunb93/rants/adams.htm

Joel, in the search for something "pithy" to come up with, reading hasn't done it. I had to fall back on memory.

Keeping in mind that the economy is going to tank in a big way,,,here's a logo for a T-shirt. It's something that I say every now and then.

I have this problem,,,let me make it your problem

Dan

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:27 pm

"I`ve got a yard of yang and a bucket of balls,
I can stand flat footed and shit in a dump truck.
Don`t call me boy."

-E. ViLLe Dustbooger 2005-

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:17 pm

"They seem to sense…that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.” Further he states that: “Under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy’s stability and balanced growth.”

Greenspan,,,,,,many years ago

Joel, I had no idea about the monkeys.

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:16 pm

Explanation of the feeding of monkeys...

Who's Got the Monkey?

"How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?"

-Henry David Thoreau:

kilngod · Post by **kilngod** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:03 pm

Eat fire for breakfast and worship cat gods. - wthk

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:08 pm

"What I'm starting to realize is ... that Washington is very skeptical about helping us, And it's very clear to me that if we don't start to help ourselves ... we're going to get left behind."
-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

an amazing grasp of the blindingly obvious

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:42 pm

"The mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly."

this was actually written for the June 1932 issue of The Birth Control Review by W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:39 am

(during the great eugenics phase...)

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:59 am

Ms Crypto, I found a cute little place for quotes.
http://www.iol.ie/~taeger/wisdomqu/wisdomq1.html

They're are some real gems.
Dan

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:29 pm

"That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Newton

Ridiculing his theory of gravity

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:01 am

regarding the dating situation in Humboldt County, my friend Grizzle says:
"You don't miss your chance with someone, you just miss your turn."

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:31 pm

Time for this one again....

“As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land well reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron” H.L. Menken

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:15 pm

Ben Rich, former head engineer to Kelly Johnson at Lockheed's 'Skunk Works' :
"We have things in the Nevada desert that you and the best minds in the world won't even be able to conceive that we have for 30 or 40 years and won't be made public for another 50."

I don't think that he was talking about Burning Man
http://www.stealthskater.com/Home.htm

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:50 pm

"We spread disproportionate terror and confusion in the public mind, arbitrarily linking the unrelated problems of terrorism and Iraq. The result, and perhaps the motive, is to justify a vast misallocation of shrinking public wealth to the military and to weaken the safeguards that protect American citizens from the heavy hand of government."

Quote from the resignation letter of U.S. Ambassador
John Brady Keisling, Feb. 27, 2003.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:11 am

"People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive." Joseph Campbell.

Lorgasm · Post by **Lorgasm** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:46 am

"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:28 am

Oooo -- P. J. O'Rourke -- that name jumped right out at me! He sure has a way with words!

I just found this thread. Good read. May I?

"Predictions are hard to make, especially about the future."
-Niels Bohr, Danish physicist.
Which seems appropriate for the 2006 BM theme!

Here is Henry Ford's take on the same topic (from memory):
"You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do."
Some of us day-dreamers need to keep that in mind.

Finally, mental health advice from Robin Williams:
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
Which I try hard to live by.

kilngod · Post by **kilngod** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:25 pm

1. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.
2. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt.
3. Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist.

F.T. Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto, 1909 (first 3 bits)

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:45 am

"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."
- Paul Fix

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:17 am

Tuesday, May. 02, 2006

“Conservatives would like to make illegal immigration a felony, while the president favors a guest-worker program. The Democrats pray that nobody asks them what they think of anything.”

— Jon Stewart

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Tue May 16, 2006 10:22 am

“Show me a 100 percenter, and I will show you a guy with gas, ulcers, heartburn, and BO.”

Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, a champion of bipartisanship, decrying lawmakers who refuse to compromise

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:51 am

He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!

Hanover Fiste, Heavy Metal

Magikal · Post by **Magikal** » Sun May 21, 2006 3:44 pm

Oh, man, you hit the nail on the head with that one. Heavy Metal was one of my all-time favorite movies.