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post #1 of 20
3/30/02 at 3:47pm
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  • Spart
  • Beloved Local Storyteller
The one stuck in my head right now-

"My administration will be compashinerific."

-George W. Bush (The SNL incarnation, that is )
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post #2 of 20
3/30/02 at 4:09pm
"Strateagery."

--Another SNL Dubya classic.
I was promised flying cars. Where are the flying cars?
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I was promised flying cars. Where are the flying cars?
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post #3 of 20
3/30/02 at 4:24pm
"I never had sexual relations with ...."

Bill Clinton
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post #4 of 20
3/30/02 at 4:29pm
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"
-Theodore Roosevelt

PS, it's so true
I have a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
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I have a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
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post #5 of 20
3/30/02 at 4:37pm
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  • Spart
  • Beloved Local Storyteller
"Windows is like Mac OS in the same way that a transvestite is like a real woman. It's 95 percent the same, and actually what some would prefer, but not really the same for those who care about small differences."

-John Dvorak

"Windows NT: Not Today, Not Tomorrow, Nice Try!"

-Anon
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post #6 of 20
3/30/02 at 4:44pm
"Knowledge is useless unless somebody else knows that you know."

Albert Einstein
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post #7 of 20
3/30/02 at 5:01pm
[quote]Originally posted by ThinkingDifferent:
<strong>"Knowledge is useless unless somebody else knows that you know."
Albert Einstein</strong><hr></blockquote>

Velly Interestink...

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein

One of my faves... <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
I AM THE Royal Pain in the Ass.
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I AM THE Royal Pain in the Ass.
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post #8 of 20
3/30/02 at 5:21pm
Thread Starter 
  • Spart
  • Beloved Local Storyteller
"It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy."

-Steve Jobs

"Tell me do you think before you speak or do words just flow out?"

-"tidrion"

"I might be a bastard, but I'm not a Fvckin' bastard."

-George Clooney in Dusk Till Dawn
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post #9 of 20
3/30/02 at 5:44pm
Buying software, ' Santa Clause' is coming to town... odd but true....
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post #10 of 20
3/30/02 at 9:24pm
Some dude at Ars:

"European: Think, think, think, think, build
American: Build, build, build, brag, eat hamburgers
East asian: Copy, copy, copy, copy, copy
Japanese: Copy, copy, build, think, build"

Don Quayle:

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure"
*Registered March 1, 1999*
Member #14
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*Registered March 1, 1999*
Member #14
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post #11 of 20
3/31/02 at 1:25am
  • Anders
  • Feared and Biased Moderator
I´m surprised no one mentioned the classic Mac quote of them all:

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse'. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. John Dvorak
"I reject your reality and substitute it with my own" - President Bush
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"I reject your reality and substitute it with my own" - President Bush
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post #12 of 20
3/31/02 at 6:43am
"You do not have to be a poet, but you are obliged to be a citizen."

-- Nikolai Nekrasov, Russian poet
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post #13 of 20
3/31/02 at 9:45am
See here: <a href="http://www.apple.com/thinkdifferent/" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/thinkdifferent/</a>

And in my sig.
"Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Think Different
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"Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Think Different
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post #14 of 20
3/31/02 at 11:07am
"I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose."
-- Spock

"If you analyze anything, you destroy it."
-- Arthur Miller
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post #15 of 20
3/31/02 at 11:43am
To love is to admire with the heart; To admire is to love with the mind.

-- Theophile Gautier
Living life in glorious 4G HD (with a 2GB data cap).
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Living life in glorious 4G HD (with a 2GB data cap).
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post #16 of 20
3/31/02 at 11:44am
My absolute favorite ever:

"Life is too important to be taken seriously!"

-- Oscar Wilde
Living life in glorious 4G HD (with a 2GB data cap).
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Living life in glorious 4G HD (with a 2GB data cap).
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post #17 of 20
3/31/02 at 11:50am
"Luck is the residue of design"
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post #18 of 20
3/31/02 at 12:21pm
"No, seriously, this was one of those 'MegaMan blasting his way out of my colon' farts."
- me at my (then new) girlfriend's house with a male friend not aware that the gf's mother was 2 feet behind me
proud resident of a failed state
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proud resident of a failed state
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post #19 of 20
3/31/02 at 6:43pm
"It's awful. I am sorry I had ever something to do with it." - Erwin Schrodinger

"The important thing is to never stop questioning" - Albert Einstein

"It was quite the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you" - Ernest Rutheford
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post #20 of 20
3/31/02 at 7:53pm
"Blac kmage is always helping people, the problem is that they never understand his unique brand of help so they usually end up yelling... or screaming... or burning" - <a href="http://www.nuklearpower.com/comic/045.htm" target="_blank">8-bit theatre ep 45</a>

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams

"...Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck
about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons." - The Original Hitch Hikers Guide Radio Scripts

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexeplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - The Original Hitch Hikers Guide Radio Scripts

and of course, my sig.
Those who dance the dance must look very foolish to those who can't hear the music
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Those who dance the dance must look very foolish to those who can't hear the music
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