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Jun 24 00:55 UTC 2003 |
This is the item for quotes of all types, from the famous often quoted to the
infamous overheard on any given day. Speakers need not to be identified.
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dcat
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response 1 of 80:
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Jun 24 01:02 UTC 2003 |
Programming (n.): "Bloody instructions which, being taught, return \ To plague
their inventor." (William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 1, Scene 7)
(From the "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well \ It were done
quickly" soliloquy)
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novomit
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response 2 of 80:
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Jun 24 12:26 UTC 2003 |
Authentic Being -- one's-Self -- does not rest upon an essential
condition of the subject, a condition that has been detached from
the "they"; it is rather an existentiell modification of the "they" --
of the "they" as an essential existentiale.
(Martin Heidegger, "Being and Time")
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polygon
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response 3 of 80:
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Jun 25 19:20 UTC 2003 |
For example, few people claim to like explosions, yet everyone likes
fireworks. Millions of pounds of entertaining explosives go up all over
the world, with millions turning out to watch them. What are they, these
colored lights, flashes, and bangs? They are not real things in nature,
representations of anything else, and they don't remind us of anything at
an intellectual level. They are as abstract as Piet Mondrian or Jackson
Pollock - and yet they provoke a strong emotional reaction, inducing
millions to watch and then walk away, highly satisfied, saying, "That was
wonderful," without anyone being able to say exactly what "That" was.
No other form of abstract visual expression is as popular.
Richard Cytowic
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html
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gull
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response 4 of 80:
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Jun 25 19:44 UTC 2003 |
Anyone who says "few people claim to like explosions" has never talked
to guys about what they want to see in a movie.
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rcurl
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response 5 of 80:
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Jun 26 00:50 UTC 2003 |
I've known several people that like explosions the say they like, say, beer:
they give them a buzz and they use them for the trip they give them.
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oval
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response 6 of 80:
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Jun 26 01:37 UTC 2003 |
have you been drinking?
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rcurl
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response 7 of 80:
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Jun 26 04:52 UTC 2003 |
No, why?
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other
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response 8 of 80:
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Jun 26 06:16 UTC 2003 |
because #5 was utterly incomprehensible.
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gelinas
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response 9 of 80:
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Jun 26 16:17 UTC 2003 |
Not _utterly_ incomprehensible, but it did take me a few readings to figure
out the correct spelling of the ninth word.
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orinoco
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response 10 of 80:
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Jun 26 16:22 UTC 2003 |
"They(1) give them(2) a buzz, and they(2) use them(1) for the trip that
they(1) give them(2)." Too many pronouns flopping around.
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rcurl
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response 11 of 80:
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Jun 26 18:04 UTC 2003 |
My apologies... But flipping the thems and theys did have a sort of rhythm....
I recall news items after the Oklahoma city bombing referring to Nichols and
McVeigh liking to play with dynamite around the family farm. There are a lot
of people like that.
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goose
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response 12 of 80:
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Jun 26 20:39 UTC 2003 |
I like to play with explosives.....it's tough to do where I live now. I go
to my fathers gun range to do that now.
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tod
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response 13 of 80:
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Jun 26 21:03 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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dcat
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response 14 of 80:
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Jun 27 01:41 UTC 2003 |
"I'm happy because the [Texas] Sodomy law was overturned [by the US Supreme
Court] *on* my birthday, and now everyone's going to remember my birthday!"
-- one of the guys i work with
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other
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response 15 of 80:
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Jun 27 04:45 UTC 2003 |
"You've been Microsoftized."
Me, to Adam Felber (panelist for the NPR Quiz show "Wait, Wait, Don't
tell Me") as he was experiencing difficulty trying to access the weather
radar site for me so I could determine how long to wait before putting up
the sound system at TOP this evening.
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aruba
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response 16 of 80:
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Jun 27 05:01 UTC 2003 |
"That can't be your car, that must be your Mama's car!"
- Harrison Ford in American Graffitti
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dcat
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response 17 of 80:
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Jun 27 14:35 UTC 2003 |
"I'm going to always look like a cheap whore as long as there's doctors and
plastic surgeons in the world."
- Dolly Parton, interview with TV Guide
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gelinas
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response 18 of 80:
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Jun 27 14:54 UTC 2003 |
Another Dolly Parton quote:
That's what happens when you try to put fifty pounds of mud in
a ten-pound sack.
Said when the front of her dress fell apart just before she was to go
on stage.
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dcat
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response 19 of 80:
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Jun 27 18:34 UTC 2003 |
There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own
sex. . . People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at
goats. -- Elton John
(this was posted to alt.quotations in response to the Supreme Court decision
in re: the Texas sodomy law.)
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tod
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response 20 of 80:
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Jun 27 21:03 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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other
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response 21 of 80:
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Jun 28 06:59 UTC 2003 |
"I'd offer to help you but you'd see right through that kind of
disingenuous [bullshit?] and I wouldn't want to insult your
intelligence."
Chris Buhalis, to one of the members of Corndaddy, as they were joining
him on stage at TOP for a couple of songs before he turned the stage over
to them entirely.
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goose
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response 22 of 80:
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Jul 1 14:15 UTC 2003 |
That's a bizzare statement...I trust it was said with a smile? (IT doesn't
sound like Chris)
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other
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response 23 of 80:
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Jul 1 14:58 UTC 2003 |
It was indeed. :)
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goose
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response 24 of 80:
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Jul 1 17:28 UTC 2003 |
Ahhh..all clear...;-)
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