Million Post March. When will NAXJA reach 1 million posts?

[Root Moose]

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
— Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

 

[XJ Dreamin']

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive

Not true. I learned from my dad, gophering for him while he worked on Mopars. I could swear by the time I was 6.

 

[Root Moose]

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
— John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

 

[jeepdude10000]

signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting clothing. If I HAD any loose-fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place!

 

[Root Moose]

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[Root Moose]

Japan was already defeated ... dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary. I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was no longer necessary to save American lives.
— General Dwight D.Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and later US President.

 

[Root Moose]

She may not look like much kid, but she's got it where it counts. I've made a few modifications.
— Han Solo

 

[XJ Dreamin']

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
— Ernest Hemmingway

That's a very scary thought :shiver:

 

[jeepdude10000]

Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over?

 

[Root Moose]

The truth is more important than the facts.
— Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

 

[jeepdude10000]

Wouldn't you know it...
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but FATcells live forever.

 

[Root Moose]

Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
— Richard Nixon, "Real Peace", 1983

 

[jeepdude10000]

And remember: life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

 

[Root Moose]

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[Root Moose]

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

 

[XJ Dreamin']

This one is priceless...

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
— Plato

Sounds like our church...



...or my sons' Cub Scout pack. Bunch of weenies (the other parents) trying to tell me what and when. I'd like to :twak: the lot of them.

 

[Root Moose]

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
— A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"

 

[jeepdude10000]

The English Language
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

 

[Root Moose]

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

[jeepdude10000]

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.