Saturday, June 30, 2007

The Angels Have the Phone Box

Quote of the Day

Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts -- there is just too much misery and cruelty for that. On the other hand, I respect and envy the people who get inspiration from their religions.
-- Benjamin Spock

Week in Review

- Friday Random Ten
- Reading: _Post Captain_
- Insincere Compensation
- So What
- Microsoft Light Bulb Jokes
- Euromillions FreeDraws
- I think I’ll pass on this one…
- Score
- Rated PG
- Masonic Death Ritual

Friday, June 29, 2007

Quote of the Day

Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving.
-- Jack Handey

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Quote of the Day

Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
-- Jack Handey

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Quote of the Day

Oh, well, of course, everything looks bad if you remember it.
-- Homer J. Simpson

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Quote of the Day

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.
-- Jack Handey

Monday, June 25, 2007

Quote of the Day

You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires, post-haste.
-- Charles Montgomery Burns

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Quote of the Day

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-- Albert Einstein

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Quote of the Day

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, his last words

Week in Review

- Rated PG
- Masonic Death Ritual
- Friday Random Ten
- Big-ass table
- Simple Home Remedies
- Robot Chicken: Star Wars
- Al Walid Khalid
- Drum and Bugle Corps Scores - 2007
- 110,000
- Friday Random Ten

Friday, June 22, 2007

Quote of the Day

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."
-- Jack Handey

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Quote of the Day

I suspect that today if you asked people to justify their belief in God, the dominant reason would be scientific. Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.
-- Richard Dawkins

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Quote of the Day

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
-- Groucho Marx

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Quote of the Day

Another war ... must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost in this way? ... Obedience. Duty. Death, and more death ...
-- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2

Monday, June 18, 2007

Quote of the Day

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.
-- Jack Handey

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Quote of the Day

Because all you of Earth are idiots!
-- Eros (Plan 9 from Outer Space)

Friday, June 15, 2007

Quote of the Day

As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name.
-- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Quote of the Day

Probably the most difficult thing in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil. Other than that, it's been a good day.
-- Emo Philips

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Quote of the Day

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
-- Eddie Izzard

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Quote of the Day

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
-- Albert Einstein

Monday, June 11, 2007

Quote of the Day

The laws of science be a harsh mistress.
-- Bender Unit 22

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Quote of the Day

I think that in philosophical strictness at the level where one doubts the existence of material objects and holds that the world may have existed for only five minutes, I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the Christian God any more probable than the existence of the Gods of Olympus or Valhalla. To take another illustration: nobody can prove that there is not between Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptic orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice. I think the Christian God just as unlikely.
-- Bertrand Russell

Friday, June 08, 2007

Quote of the Day

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
-- Donald E. Knuth

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Quote of the Day

Oh my God! Space aliens! Don't eat me, I have a wife and kids! Eat them.
-- Homer J. Simpson

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Quote of the Day

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
-- Richard P. Feynman

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Quote of the Day

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Monday, June 04, 2007

Quote of the Day

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
-- Rudyard Kipling

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Quote of the Day

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley

Friday, June 01, 2007

Quote of the Day

I can't believe Liberace was gay! Women loved him! I didn't see that one coming.
-- Austin Powers