What are some of your favorite sayings?

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I used to work with a guy called Dave Kiernan. Whenever things went wrong, he would say to me in a serious voice, "Well, we know the problem; we just don't know the solution."

"What's the problem then, Dave?" I would ask.

"The problem is... they're all c*nts!".

I never tired of this analysis and it used to make people laugh.


My Dad once described an egotistical colleague thus:

"If you've got a black cat, he's got a blacker b-stard..".


The other put-down I love is Winston Churchill's reply to Lady Astor when she accused him of being drunk:

"Yes, but you are ugly, and in the morning I shall be sober!".


Mountain Biking UK has a cartoon strip called Mint Sauce, drawn by Jo Burt, based around the adventures of a cycling sheep. It veers between psychedelia, humour and melancholy. For example, the cartoon skies feature the Love and Reality Squadrons, who fly flower-power bi-planes and grey jet fighters respectively. Mint's best friend is a stoical cow called Coleman, who once transformed into a bovine superhero called the Fantastic Formidable Fearless Fuschia Fresian (Fx5). Other characters include Death, a hippy sheep called Chipko, Mint's girlfriend (sheepfriend?) Oonagh, the Spirit of Summer, woodland sprites, a rabbit glove-puppet called Harrison and a range of hills (the Mendip Brothers) with their friend Roger the Raincloud. It has the ability to make me laugh out loud and to cry. On top of the general wonderfulness of it all, Jo hides little sayings and song lyrics in tiny writing around the borders. Here are a few of my favourites:

Living on dreams and custard creams.

And you hear the echo of your "I love you!" bounce around the empty hills.

Does your tea sometimes smell of garlic?

Convenience is no substitute for love.

I know my heart's in the right place, because I hid it there.



Here are a couple of random (non-humourous) lines of my own:

The autonomy paradox.

Bucolic contentment in imaginary sun-drenched fields.


And lastly, a Super Furry Animals lyric:

"And sunny days in January, left spaces in my diary".

"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
- Bernard Mannes Baruch

Is that a saying to add to the list, or an observation regarding my previous post?

No, I like your posts, really, but I don't think

is really a question.

Have you had a reaction to this drug before?

Gonna challenge Veresae's record, huh?

Cool, that's ok then!

LOL, think again! The "surely" seeks affirmation of the statement. It's another way of asking "Is she wearing address labels?". Both are equally valid.

Well, maybe in your neck of the woods.

Headline on a personal ad I saw:
"Diagonally parked in a parallel universe"

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months- Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth- Oscar Wilde

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God- Voltaire

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic- George Bernard Shaw

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher- Socrates

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric- Bertrand Russell

Death is not the worst than can happen to men- Plato

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently- Nietzsche

He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened- Lao Tzu

“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
- Leo Buscaglia

Whoever you are, you are she or he for whom the Earth is solid and liquid. (Whitman)

Every journey begins with a single stomp. (me)

“She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting.”
- Douglas Adams

"knowledge without compassion is not only impotent; it is dangerous."

--some obscure hindu guy

One that sticks in my mind was what my ex wrote in a b-day card for me. . .

"Happy Birthday to you. Go die in a zoo!"
"I don't care if you're a witch. I still really hate you."

And to the lion in the zoo,
Madeline says, "Pooh, pooh!"

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
Any direction you choose.
(Dr. Seuss)