Deep Thoughts...

[minstrel]

"Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral." - Robert Orben

[minstrel]

"Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry with what you've said, you're a mile away... and you've got his shoes." - Jack Handey

[Greyhawk]

To err is human... to really foul things up requires a computer.

Author Unknown

Greyhawk

[wenwilder]

"Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walkind distance" Anonymous

[wenwilder]

"Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out and you need help getting a potato chip across town." - Ron Darian

[wenwilder]

And of course, the one truly deep thought that hangs on my computer:

"It is never too early, or too late, for chocolate." - Heather Steil

[tertius]

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

[tertius]

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

[tertius]

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

[tertius]

I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.

[minstrel]

"Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because they'll think we're not ready. But maybe they'll change their tune after a little torture." - Jack Handey

[minstrel]

"If you're ever in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is... and then while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them."


"If you ever fall off the Sears tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because... Hey! Free dummy!"


"There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as... oh, I don't know, say, a pack of wild dogs."

[Greyhawk]

OK I am convinced next election minstrel is getting a write in vote for the job of Prime Minister. He shows far more intelligence then the people in office for the past 38 years.

Now if we could just get him to cheer for a good hockey and football team.

Greyhawk

[esiegel]

there are 10 types of people in this world....those who understand binary and those who don't.

[mikmik]

there are 10 types of people in this world....those who understand binary and those who don't.
That's a good one,esiegel!. I had to look 101 or 110 times to get it. ( okay, only 10, but double or triple that 'looks' more impressive)

Greyhawk (whom would have my hearty support as BC premier candidate - If I don't run, but then you still might!) said;
OK I am convinced next election minstrel is getting a write in vote for the job of Prime Minister. He shows far more intelligence then the people in office for the past 38 years.

Now if we could just get him to cheer for a good hockey and football team.
Even above Trudeau! High praise indeed, minstrel, and if you cheer for 'les habitant', I concur.

Some days you're the Dog, & Some days you're the Hydrant Not sure who, but not Espinoza.

[matauri]

When choosing between two evils, always choose the one you haven't tried yet. - Mae West


The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane - Marcus Aurelius


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[mikmik]

Matauri provided this:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane - Marcus Aurelius
And therefore the rest of us concluded this:
OH! No wonder Marcus Aurelius hasn't been posting anything here lately.

[rocky1]

Nothing smells quite so bad as bait left in the trunk for several days! ~~ ref. Fishing for Dummies

"Saskatchewan - Explosive nasal sound produced by anglers in Northern climes during winter months." ~~ ref. Fishing - An Anglers Dictionary

"Fishing - A jerk on one end of a line, waiting on a jerk on the other end of the line." ~~ Mark Twain


And, lastly, for the incorrigible lady down under ~~

"A woman without a man, is like a fish without a bicycle." ~~ Gloria Steinham }:~)


Rocky

[minstrel]

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." ~~ Gloria Steinham
I found that quote written on the blackboard one day about a year ago when I arrived to teach my psychology class, presumably by the professor for the course just before mine in that lecture room. That Gloria was a strange dudette at times...

I asked the class if they knew if the reverse was true - "A man without a woman is like a bicycle without a fish" - and if so, what the heck does it mean?

[rocky1]

I asked the class if they knew if the reverse was true - "A man without a woman is like a bicycle without a fish" - and if so, what the heck does it mean?

I don't know if I'd say it were true or not, and I sure don't know what it means, but.... It would seem that it is in all likelihood every bit as logical as it's inverse counterpart in theory!

Concurr on that weird dudette theory as well. I wonder if Gloria ever talked to her jello?

Rocky

[rocky1]

And, having led into such subjects ~~~

The fishing was so good, I thought I was here yesterday. ~ Dave Engerbretson

Sounds like another Wen theory I read someplace!


Fish are strange creatures. They're even more unpredictable than women --- and that's going some.
~ R.V. Gadabout Gaddis


Rocky

[wenwilder]

I wonder if Gloria ever talked to her jello?

Rocky

"No matter how much Jello you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water" - What kids teach us

"I didn't even burn my jello! And the funny thing is.....I wasn't even making jello." - Unknown

"Rue McClanahan is the Jello queen. She can easily tell you at least 101 different recipes using jello" - Christopher Dane Owens

[paulhiles]

"It is better to do the right thing wrong, than to keep doing the wrong thing better and better."
~ Russell Ackoff

Now where did I put that jello recipe? ;-)

Paul

[venezart]

"It's one thing to face up to your past actions. It's another to build a new future. Now that you've identified any areas of weakness, create a plan that will prevent you from making the same mistake again"
[ John C. Maxwell ]

[tertius]

Insert Tab A into Slot B.

(Found in innumerable sets of assembly instructions, therefore it must be important...)

[Steven Glover]

God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent --
it says so right here in the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash, and in small bills. - Lazarus Long

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Lazarus Long

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. - Lazarus Long

Always yield to temptation, It may never pass your way again. - Lazarus Long

Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing---with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place. - Lazarus Long

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Lazarus Long

[wenwilder]

"There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us."
~Attr. to Edward Wallis Hoch~

"Time may restore us in his course
Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force:
But where will Europe's latter hour
Again find Wordsworth's healing power?"
~Matthew Arnold~

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour."
~The great William Blake~

[rocky1]

The charm of fishing is, that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~ John Buchan


Fish die, belly-up, and rise to the suface; it is their way of falling. ~ Andre Gide

I want fish from fishing, but I want a great deal more than that, and getting it is not always dependent upon catching fish. ~ Roderick Haig-Brown

[minstrel]

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. - Lazarus Long

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." - Barnett Cocks

[minstrel]

"It all began with Adam. He was the first man to tell a joke - or a lie. How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant." - Mark Twain, 1867

[wenwilder]

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
-- Richard Harkness (New York Times, 1960)

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
-- Paul Ehrlich

[wenwilder]

"Even if you've been fishing for 3 hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm."
- Unknown

"Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish."
- James Gorman

"Fish are supposed to be brain food, and yet people eat it on Friday and then do the silliest things over the weekend."
- Unknown

"You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try."
- Kathy Seligman

"Fish and visitors smell in three days."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath."
- Arnold Glasow

"Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish."
- Ovid

"Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat."
- Osbert Sitwell

"A poor man between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
- Unknown

"Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley."
- Ann Landers

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.
- Leigh Hunt

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
- George Herbert

[rocky1]

There were lots of people who committed crimes during the year, who would not have done so if they had been fishing, and I assure you that the increase in crime is due to lack of the those qualities of mind and character which impregnate the soul of every fisherman except those who get no bites. ~~ Herbert Hoover

Fishing is a chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of the sun on the blue water.... And, it is discipline in the equality of man --- for all men are equal before fish ~~ Herbert Hoover

To look upon the depths of the sea is to behold the imagination of the unknown. ~~ Victor Hugo

[labrynth_of_fire]

Humans think they are the superior beings on the planet...
Do ants think the same way?

[Greyhawk]

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat drinking beer and telling lies all day.

So ah Rocky what about that one that got away?

We know, it was thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big!

Greyhawk

[jdiben]

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - Omar Bradley, General

[rocky1]

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat drinking beer and telling lies all day.

So ah Rocky what about that one that got away?

We know, it was thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big!

Greyhawk


I never lost a little fish --- Yes I am free to say!
It always the biggest fish I caught that got away. ~~ Eugene Field (1889)

[mikmik]

for rocky1 :
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than to be selfish and worry about my liver.'
--Jack Handey

Also: Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head."Normally you would think that "Fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts

My favorite (apologies in advance) - If you build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day;
But if you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

[rocky1]

My favorite (apologies in advance) - If you build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day;
But if you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life!


Anyone ever tell you, you're a tough act to follow MikMik?

[minstrel]

"I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder, really. But it's sad that I never knew my real ladder."

-- Craig Charles

[rocky1]

If a little madness be necessary requisite to obtain the ultimate in pleasure of angling---then, O Lord, give me insanity! ~~ John Alden Knight

[wenwilder]

Humans think they are the superior beings on the planet...
Do ants think the same way?

A lot of people did a lot of thinking about ants - who knew? :)

"The greatest enemies of ants are other ants, just as the greatest enemies of men are other men." --Auguste Forel

"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves. The families of weaver ants engage in child labor, holding their larvae like shuttles to spin out the thread that sews the leaves together for their fungus gardens. They exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television." --Lewis Thomas

"As I watch the busy ants on the trail and around the ant pile, I am impressed by the fact that they are doers and not just believers." --CR 1967

"This is what metaphor is. It is not saying that an ant is an elephant. Perhaps; both are alive. No. Metaphor is saying the ant is an elephant. Now, logically speaking, I know there is a difference. If you put elephants and ants before me, I believe that every time I will correctly identify the elephant and the ant. So metaphor must come from a very different place than that of the logical, intelligent mind. It comes from a place that is very courageous, willing to step out of our preconceived ways of seeing things and open so large that it can see the oneness in an ant and in an elephant." --Natalie Goldberg

"It's kind of an insane case ... 6,000 ants dressed up as rice and robbed a Chinese restaurant." --Steven Wright

[Greyhawk]

Ok I have to stop eating Jello I just understood Wen Last post....HELP ME

Greyhawk

[rocky1]

One of the peculiarities of angling is its inexplicable capacity to inspire almost unanimous disagrement amongst its followers. ~~ John Alden Knight

(And here we thought only Jell-O had that power!)

In our family there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. ~~ Norman MacLean

....all good things --- trout as well as eternal salvation --- come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy. ~~ Norman MacLean

[pete61uk]

The only problems with fishing are the constant interruptions

[paulhiles]

"All my friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane." ~ Anonymous

I've noticed Anonymous isn't posting as much as he/she used to... :c)

Paul

[matauri]

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." -E.L Doctorow

"I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either."

and my favourite...

"We have a strange and wonderful relationship. You're strange and I'm wonderful."



Cindy
I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.

[B Noble]

Humans think they are the superior beings on the planet...
Do ants think the same way?

Of course they do! :)

[mikmik]

B Noble

groß sensenmann wrote:
Humans think they are the superior beings on the planet...
Do ants think the same way?


Of course they do! :)

Okay, I demand to see a picture. If you are an blonde ant, I bow to your predominance.
In case you are an blonde aunt, how old are you? do;

[fastedge]

What's wrong with this match? It worked a minute ago.

[Islands]

It's not that animals are smarter than we think (ants included); it's that humans are not as smart as we think.
MGD

[minstrel]

"How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue... and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?" - Rita Rudner

[rocky1]

A skillful angler ought to be a general scholar, and seen in all the liberal sciences, as a Grammarian, to know how either to write or discourse on his Art in true terms, either without affection or rudeness ~ Gervase Markham (1635)

This spot must be fine for fishing>

'cause the sign says "Fine For Fishing"


Happy Holidays

Daren!
http://webpageturner.com

[minstrel]

At a deer crossing sign:

"How do they know to cross there?"

- either Chief Wiggans on The Simpsons or perhaps Officer Barbrady on South Park

[Greyhawk]

Rocky there is a fantastic Canadian band called the Arrogant Worms, they do a song that reminds me of you it is called "Gonna to go fishing". These guys are a riot. They also have a song called "Rippy the Gator". Check them out I'm sure you will like them.

Greyhawk

[minstrel]

I have to admit I have never seen a "deep thought" by this guy before, and I never expected to see one:

"If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on Earth." - MATRIX star Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves? I didn't know the guy could even talk... I thought it was all done with computer graphics...

[Steven Glover]

Minstrel,

I have a feeling he is a little deeper than anyone thought. You will find him in a few movies such as "A walk in the clouds" that are really good films where he actually gets to form full sentences.

[wenwilder]

"I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.

All of us live spiritually by what others have given us. Often unwittingly, in the significant hours of our life. At the time these significant hours may not even be perceived. We may not recognise them until years later when we look back, as one remembers some long-ago music or a boyhood landscape.

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselvs what will others owe to us." - Albert Schweitzer

[rocky1]

Probably it was in that moment that all the bickerings and backtalk of husbands and wives originated; when Adam called Eve to come and look at his first fish while it was still silver and vivid in its living colors; and Eve answered she was busy. ~ Christopher Morley (c. 1930)

[mikmik]

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselvs what will others owe to us." - Albert Schweitzer
Aww shucks, wen! You guys don't owe me a thing ;OB

[jdiben]

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else. - Despair.com (http://www.despair.com)

[wenwilder]

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares,
why is there a song about him?

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out?"

Who was the first person to see an egg come from a chicken and think, "I'll bet that would be good to eat?

Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?

If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight?

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours?
They're both dogs!

What do you call male ballerinas?

Why do they call it 'getting your dog fixed' if afterwards it doesn't work anymore?

If Wile Coyote had enough money for all the Acme products, why didn't he just buy dinner?

Where in the nursery rhyme does it say Humpty Dumpty is an egg?

Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn't usually wear any pants?

Do one-legged ducks swim in circles?

Whose cruel idea was it for the word 'lisp' to have a 's' in it?

Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?

And who opened that first 'oyster' and said "My, my, my. Now doesn't 'this' look yummy!"