Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.

-- Daniel Greenberg

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), November 30, 2000

Answers

"Better a Bush in your face than a Gore in your rear." hee hee

-- Pamela Sue (pamela_sue@hotmail.com), November 30, 2000.

Anita ran a bunch of Texasisms last year. My favorite,

"There are three kinds of men. Some learn by reading. A few learn by listening. But most have to piss on the electric fence for themselves."

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), November 30, 2000.

"If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, then you don't need advice."

-- (food@for.thought), November 30, 2000.

"Barber, can you spare a shave?" --- bankrupt dot com investor

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), November 30, 2000.

Unk's best quote of the day:

Now I understand how they beat our military. Their dongs are worthless, and a guy with a worthless dong is a mean SOB.

That one could get you nominated for a cabinet post, Unk. Or at the very least a book deal. I can see the title now...

My Life as a Mean SOB

Any ideas for a ghost writer?

-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), November 30, 2000.

Alternate Title:

Shooting Blanks For My Country: Portrait Of A War Hero

-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), November 30, 2000.

One night I was laying in bed, looking up at the stars, contemplating life, and I thought, "What the hell happened to the ceiling?!?!".

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 01, 2000.

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."

-- Eric Hoffer

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 01, 2000.

LOL Patricia! =0)

-- cin (cin@=0.)), December 01, 2000.

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

-Oscar Wilde

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 02, 2000.

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

-Erica Jong-

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 02, 2000.

"Another greeting card category consists of those persons who send out photographs of their families every year. In the same mail that brought the greetings from Marcia and Philip, my friend found such a conversation piece. "My God, Lida is enormous!" she exclaimed. I don't know why women want to record each year, for two or three hundred people to see, the ravages wrought upon them, their mates, and their progeny by the artillery of time, but between five and seven per cent of Christmas cards, at a rough estimate, are family groups, and even the most charitable recipient studies them for little signs of dissolution or derangement. Nothing cheers a woman more, I am afraid, than the proof that another woman is letting herself go, or has lost control of her figure, or is clearly driving her husband crazy, or is obviously drinking more than is good for her, or still doesn't know what to wear. Middle-aged husbands in such photographs are often described as looking "young enough to be her son," but they don't always escape so easily, and a couple opening envelopes in the season of mercy and good will sometimes handle a male friend or acquaintance rather sharply. "Good Lord!" the wife will say. "Frank looks like a sex-crazed shotgun slayer, doesn't he?" "Not to me," the husband may reply. "to me he looks more like a Wilkes-Barre dentist who is being sought by the police in connection with the disappearance of a choir singer."

-- James Thurber, "Merry Christmas"

-- flora (***@__._), December 02, 2000.

Sorry Patricia but I disagree with Erica. Lots of smart women are involved with stupid men, at least in my neck of the woods.

-- Dr. Pibb (dr.pibb@zdnetonebox.com), December 02, 2000.

>> "[...] you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy." <<

Elementary logic for Erica Jong: if you see a lot of smart women with smart guys, then you must see a lot of smart guys with smart women. Right? (If you can't bring yourself to say yes, just nod.)

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), December 02, 2000.

Hey, I didn't say I agreed with it.....

When I lived in NYC, I saw a LOT of smart women with dumb guys.

But who's to say? I used to have a friend many moons ago who would make herself appear to be as dumb as a doughnut (she wasn't; not by any stretch).....she always had a "smart guy" by her side.

I just could never play that game.....

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 02, 2000.

"When I was in prison I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap. People shouldn't read that stuff. When we read these books what purpose does it serve in this day and time?"

--Mike Tyson

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 03, 2000.

"The only reason so many people attended his funeral was they wanted to make sure he was dead."

--Samuel Goldwyn, on Louis B. Mayer's funeral

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 04, 2000.

Winston Churchill was in the bathroom when his private secretary knocked on the door.

"Sir, the Lord Privy Seal [a governemtn official] is here to see you"

"Well you can tell the Lord Privy Seal that I am sealed on the privy and can deal with only one sh*t at a time!"

-- Johnny Canuck (j_canuck@hotmail.com), December 04, 2000.

ahhh....frozen fingers...s/b government official

-- Johnny Canuck (j_canuck@hotmail.com), December 04, 2000.

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing what they could and should do for themselves."

-- Abraham Lincoln

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 05, 2000.

"Work is for people who can't handle fishing."

--Bumper Sticker

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), December 05, 2000.

My other bumper sticker: "A bad day fishing beats a good day at the office." I have that one on my Civic.

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), December 05, 2000.

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face."

I said, "You'll be sorry."

He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?"

I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."

--Emo Philips

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 06, 2000.

From our local publican:

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll spend all day sitting in a boat and swilling beer."

-- Malcolm Taylor (taylorm@es.co.nz), December 06, 2000.

Accepting reality is the first step to insanity.

"Me-today"

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 06, 2000.

"You see a lot of beautiful women with ugly men, but you hardly ever see a handsome man with an ugly woman".

-Y2J-

With apologies/credit where due to Erica Jong.

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), December 06, 2000.

My imperfections & failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes & my talents & I lay them both at his feet. — Mohandas Gandhi

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), December 07, 2000.

Cut your job and get a hair!

Fluffy from their self-titled debut album

-- Dr. Pibb (dr.pibb@zdnetonebox.com), December 07, 2000.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

-- Doris Lessing

-- uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 07, 2000.

Life is like a shit sandwich...

The more bread ya got the less shit ya eat.

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 07, 2000.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

--Margaret Millar

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 08, 2000.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

--Woody Allen

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 09, 2000.

Some quotes for wannabe revolutionaries---

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"Terror is nought but prompt, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is less a particular principle than a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to the most pressing needs of the fatherland."

Maximillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre Address, National Convention, 1794

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"Robespierre, with his cruel moral relativism, embodied the cardinal sin of all revolution, the heartlessness of ideas." Paul Johnson "The Spectator"

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"He [the revolutionary] is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves by whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it - an abstract and geometric love."

Arthur Koestler

"Darkness at Noon"

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"The French Revolution had opened an era of intense politicization. Perhaps the most significant characteristic of the dawning modern world, and in this respect it was a true child of Rousseau, was the tendency to relate everything to politics. In Latin America, every would-be plunderer or ambitious bandit now called himself a "a liberator"; murderers killed for freedom, thieves stole for the people."

Paul Johnson

"Modern Times"

"What we learn from the study of the Great [French] Revolution is that it was the source of all the present communist, anarchist and socialist conceptions."

Prince Petr Kropotkin

Russian naturalist, author and soldier writing in 1909 on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), December 09, 2000.

"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and, furthermore, always carry a small snake."

--W. C. Fields

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 10, 2000.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

-- I'm Here, I'm There, (I'm Everywhere,@So.Beware), December 10, 2000.

The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 11, 2000.

Why let reality wreck your day!

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 11, 2000.

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross.

--Ezra Pound

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), December 11, 2000.

"Very funny, Scotty...now beam down my clothes."

bumpersticker in West Texas

-- helen (b@c.k), December 11, 2000.

I've gotta be me.
(everyone else was taken)

-- bumper sticker

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 11, 2000.

"Some men are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity." - Michel Mignon

"Discomfort is the catalyst for growth." - David L (really!)

-- David L (bumpkin@dnet.net), December 11, 2000.

LOL helen!

-- cin (cin@cin.cin), December 11, 2000.

"You can fool some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can never fool a Swede."

--Abraham Lincoln

-- Peter Errington (petere@ricochet.net), December 11, 2000.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

--Samuel Goldwyn

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 12, 2000.

I don't have a problem with God, it is his followers I have issue with...

scratchin' an itch...

The Dog

-- The Dog (dogdesert@hotmail.com), December 12, 2000.

Shocking bumpersticker sighted yesterday in chi-chi Hippyville, CA:

"Quit honking, I'm reloading"

-- flora (***@__._), December 12, 2000.

"Retraction: The 'Greek Special' is a huge 18 inch pizza and not a huge 18 inch penis, as described in an ad. Blondie's Pizza would like to apologize for any confusion Friday's ad may have caused."

--Correction printed in The Daily Californian

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 13, 2000.

Charo, recently: "I still don't know what the hell 'cuchi-cuchi' means. But hey, it works for me!"

-- Peter Errington (petere@ricochet.net), December 13, 2000.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

-- Al Gore

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 14, 2000.

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." W. H. Auden

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), December 14, 2000.

Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. .

--Marion Barry (while mayor of Washington, D. C.)

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 15, 2000.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

--Ambrose Redmoon

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 16, 2000.

Let's have some new cliches.

--Samuel Goldwyn

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 17, 2000.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

--Henny Youngman

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 18, 2000.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), December 18, 2000.

I heard this conversation with my own ears. A bunch of us were decorating for a Christmas play in a rural area.

Woman-1: "I have to dress a whole bunch of chickens, and I just don't have time."

Woman-2: "How many do you have?"

Woman-1: "Too many. Do you want some?"

Woman-2: "I don't have time to dress them either."

Teenage girl: "I want some!"

Woman-1: "You can have as many as you want, but you have to ask your parents first."

Teenage girl: "How big are they?"

Woman-1: "About regular size for a chicken."

Teenage girl: "Would doll clothes fit them?"

Woman-1: "What??"

Teenage girl: "I've got some doll clothes that would look really cute on them."

Woman-1: "Honey, have you ever dressed a chicken?"

Teenage girl: "No, but I bet they look cute."

Woman-1: "Honey, I mean we're gonna kill them and gut them and put them in the freezer. That's what I mean by dressing a chicken. Don't your parents ever do that?"

Teenage girl: "NO! Why would you want to do that?"

Woman-2: "I guess we're living closer to town than we used to..."

-- helen (b@r.n), December 18, 2000.

"Insanity is using the same action and expecting different results"

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), December 19, 2000.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

-- Mark Twain

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 19, 2000.

from an ad for Sterling Commerce:

"I wish there was a control button on the computer to turn up intelligence.

There's a button called 'brightness', but it doesn't work."

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 19, 2000.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

-- Ayn Rand

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 20, 2000.

Ayn Rand was one of the greatest "intellectuals," of our time. Alan Greenspan was a student of hers. When Alan speaks, the world pays attention, when the President speaks, you wonder who yanked his chain.

-- Libby (Libby@ranspan.con), December 20, 2000.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

--Samuel Goldwyn

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 21, 2000.

"Every time I get the urge to exercise, I lie down until it passes."

(Robert Benchley)

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), December 21, 2000.

In a Russian tragedy, everybody dies. In a Russian comedy, everybody dies too. But they die happy.

--Barry Farber

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 22, 2000.

old Quote Of The Year

Nominated for quote of the year is the statement made by Congressman Dick Armey of Texas, who when asked if he were in the President's place, would he resign, responded:

"If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'"

-- Gotta Contribute (lol@with.u-all), December 22, 2000.

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the Gift Wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

-- Steven Wright

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 23, 2000.

Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home.

--Carol Nelson

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 24, 2000.

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

--Calvin's Dad

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...

--Berke Breathed

May you have the greatest two gifts of all on these holidays; someone to love and someone who loves you.

-- John Sinor

Merry Christmas everyone!

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 24, 2000.

Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

--Ann Landers

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 26, 2000.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

--Emo phillips

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 27, 2000.

from Tallulah Bankhead (on seeing a former lover for the first time in years),

"I thought I told you to wait in the car."

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), December 27, 2000.

"He must have made that before he died."

--Yogi Berra, upon seeing a Steve McQueen movie

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 28, 2000.

"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself"

- George Burns

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), December 28, 2000.

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a boat big enough to sail right up next to it."

- David Lee Roth

-- Bemused (and_amazed@you.people), December 28, 2000.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

--Napoleon Bonaparte

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 29, 2000.

"The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing."

Baseball great Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), December 29, 2000.

"You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

--Al Capone.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 30, 2000.

LOL Net

-- cin (cin@cin.cin), December 30, 2000.

Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy.

--Benjamin Franklin

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 31, 2000.

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet."

--Rodney Dangerfield.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 01, 2001.

To fear to face an issue is to believe the worst is true.

-- Ayn Rand

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 02, 2001.

"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves." - Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead)

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 02, 2001.

Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

--Coventry Patmore

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 03, 2001.

I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?

--Paul Merton.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 04, 2001.

"I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot."

-- Axel Rose (Guns 'n' Roses)

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 04, 2001.

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

-- Ron Nesen

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 05, 2001.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

--Graham Greene

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 05, 2001.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

-- cin (cin@cin.cin), January 06, 2001.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

--Samuel Goldwyn

.

PS, cin, not fearing a Rottweiller that has your nuts in his mouth would take an extraordinary amount of understanding ;-)

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 06, 2001.

Hey no problem

what do I need nuts for =)

-- cin (cin@cin.cin), January 06, 2001.

Cin -- to go with the beer.

-- helen (b@r.f), January 06, 2001.

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

-- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 06, 2001.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,

The hand that held the steel:

For only blood can wipe out blood,

And only tears can heal.

--Oscar Wilde

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 07, 2001.

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."

-- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 07, 2001.

Behind every great man, there is a surprised woman.

--Maryon Pearson

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 08, 2001.

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."

-- Steven Wright

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 08, 2001.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

--Helen Rowland

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 09, 2001.

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

-- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 09, 2001.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is riding someone's face like a rodeo pony. Yeeeehhhaaaaaaawwwwwwwww!

-xxx

-- (xxx@xxx.xxx), January 09, 2001.

It doesn't matter who you love

or how you love

but that you love.

---Rod McKuen

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), January 10, 2001.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

--P. B. Medawar

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 10, 2001.

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

-- Frank Zappa

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 10, 2001.

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

--Groucho Marx

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 11, 2001.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 11, 2001.

"I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky".

--William Jefferson Clinton

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), January 11, 2001.

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it. -- Dizzy Dean

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), January 12, 2001.

I don't see much future for the Americans. Everything about the behavior of the American society reveals that it's half judaized, and the other half is negrified. How can one expect a state like that to hold together?

--Adolf Hitler

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 12, 2001.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

-- P.J. O'Rourke

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 12, 2001.

The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

--P.J. O'Rourke

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 13, 2001.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

-- Bismarck

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 13, 2001.

God bless the America

We are trying to create.

--Hillary Clinton

-- (Paracelsus@Pb.Au), January 13, 2001.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

--Douglas MacArthur

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 14, 2001.

I think it would be a good idea.

-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 14, 2001.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

--Mohandas K. Gandhi

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 15, 2001.

He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun.

-- Steady Eddy

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 15, 2001.

(a bonus in honor of a great man.....)

"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."

-- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 15, 2001.

"Nothing is so useless as an ex-president"

--John Quincy Adams (in the movie Armistad

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), January 15, 2001.

"Staring us in the face is this stunning assertion now harder than ever to controvert: An American president's foreign policy decisions were substantially influenced by unlawful campaign contributions at critical times from a foreign source. In my view, that inescapable judgment will be more damning in history's eyes than Whitewater cover-ups or any abuses for which Clinton was impeached."

—William Safire, The New York Times

-- (Paracelsus@Pb.Au), January 15, 2001.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

--Benito Mussolini

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 16, 2001.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

-- Cato the Elder (234 - 149 BC)

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 16, 2001.

The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.

--Ludwig von Mises

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 17, 2001.

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

--Woody Allen

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 18, 2001.

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. "

-- Yogi Berra

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 18, 2001.

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

--Thomas Sowell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 19, 2001.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

-- George Washington Carver

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 19, 2001.

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

--Samuel Goldwyn

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 20, 2001.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist as he grows up.

-- Pablo Picasso

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 20, 2001.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

-- Aristotle

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 21, 2001.

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

-- Unknown

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 21, 2001.

For northerners-----

There is a certain slant of light

On winter afternoons

That oppresses like the heft

of cathredral tunes

--Emily Dickinson

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), January 21, 2001.

"A Liberal is someone so broadminded he won't take his own side in an argument."

--Robert Frost

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), January 21, 2001.

I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.

--Anonymous Chinese student

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 22, 2001.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

--William Shakespeare

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 23, 2001.

There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.

-- Timothy Leary

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 23, 2001.

The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.

--Thomas Sowell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 24, 2001.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

-- Douglas Adams

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 24, 2001.

A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while and act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being. - Prophet Mohammed

Any interference with the body of a live animal which caused pain or disfigurement is contrary to the Islamic principles. - Imam Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad Masri

If we eat the flesh of living creatures, we are destroying the seeds of compassion. - The Surangama Sutra

Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality. - The XLV Dalai Lama

Spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants. - Mohandas Ghandi

We, the Christian leaders, practice abstinence from the flesh of animals. The unnatural eating of flesh-meat is polluting. - St. John Chrysostom

Thou shalt no kill. - God

I have since an early age given up the eating of meat. - Leonardo Da Vinci

Educate the children in such a way that they become exceedingly kind and merciful to animals. - Abdul-Baha, Baha'i World Faith

He that kills an ox is as if he killed a man. - Hosea 6:6

Cruelty to animal is as if man did not love God. - Cardinal John H. Newman

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. - Albert Einstein

Be kind and compassionate to all creatures that the Holy One created in this world. Never beat nor inflict pain on any animal. - Sefer Chasidim

I will have mercy and not sacrifice. - Hosea 6:6

Whoever is kind to the creatures of God is kind to himself. - Prophet Mohammed

Do not kill, but rather preserve and cherish all life. - The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama

Meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited. I have not permitted meat eating to anyone. - The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama

-- (cin@cin.cin), January 24, 2001.

"Beef - it's what's for dinner".

Beef Industry Council advertising slogan.

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), January 24, 2001.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

-- William Hazlitt

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 25, 2001.

If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it!

-- Arthur Kasspe

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 25, 2001.

A flint in time, saves all of us from committing verbal crimes.

FutureShock

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), January 25, 2001.

Thanks cin.

Things Dogs Teach Us

The size of the heart is more important than the size of the body.

Play more.

Worry less.

Always have some I.D. when you leave the house.

Sometimes you have to "speak" up to get what you want.

Drink lots of water every day.

Things Cats Teach Us/h2>

If someone offers to scratch your back, let them.

Look forward to someone you love coming home.

Conserve your energy for when it counts.

When you can lie in the sunshine, do.

Make fun wherever you are!

If an opportunity presents itself, pounce on it.

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), January 25, 2001.

Oh, man. I'm sorry. Unk can you fix that please? I'm SO embarassed!

-- (Netsc@pe 6.0), January 25, 2001.

Feel the need, sow your seed

Feel the need, sow your seed

Feel the need, sow your seed

(repeat)

--Jesse Jackson

-- (nemeisis@awol.com), January 25, 2001.