Specifically, for my senior yearbook. It doesn't have to be original or anything, just something to put next to my picture. I'm kinda leaning towards "Smarter than a speeding bullet", but "I'm a cypher, wrapped in an enigma, and smothered in secret sauce" is also appealing. Then there's "Understanding is a three-edged sword," just to mess with peoples' heads.
Come, people, ideas!
Posted by Malnurtured Snayer (Member # 411) on :
I've got two GREAT quotes for you. Check my .sig, won't you?
Speaking of which, aren't you homeschooled? Are you going to open your yearbook in twenty-years and say, "gee I remember my older brother. Sat next to me in Chem ..."
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Q: "So, if the US Code didn't outlaw incest, you'd have no problem w/ it, ignoring the Leviticus laws?"
A: "You haven't seen my cousins. :-)"
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Well, that whole initial OmegaLust conversation would be good. Or just "Actively not wanting to lust." 8)
But, then, I always liked that "secret sauce" tagline of yours; you could do a lot worse. . .
Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
You're going to have to come up with your own quote for your book, otherwise it won't be yours. And don't think too hard about it, then it'll just become forced and intellectualized. It'll come spontaneously, if it really means much to you.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Hmm... who said "I hate quotation. Tell me what YOU know."?
As for my quote being from someone else, I'm not going to quote myself. I want somethign that's good out of context. The whole Marx brothers "Art is art" routine, for example.
And my homeschool yearbook has a couple hundred people in it, thank you very much. Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Your quotes ARE good out of context. You do know that, right?
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
[ April 28, 2002, 13:58: Message edited by: Cartman ]
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
How about You can prick you finger but never finger.... Wait thats not appropriate
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
"Developed by vets, recommanded by top breeders."
"I want chicken, I want liver. Meow-Mix Meow-Mix please deliver."
"Where ever you go, there you are."
Posted by Malnurtured Snayer (Member # 411) on :
So, wait, how do you fit several hundred people in your home to be homeschooled? I mean, isn't that against fire-code or something?
"Wherever you don't go, you aren't."
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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
...unless, of course, you happen to start there..."
Benson, there are vast organizations of homeschoolers. There are nearly as many of us in TN as there are private school students.
Posted by Malnurtured Snayer (Member # 411) on :
quote:There are nearly as many of us in TN as there are private school students.
No wonder there's so much inbreeding going on.
So why do you all have a yearbook? Do you all get together? Describe the organizations - what do you ya'll do? Otherwise, why bother with a yearbook? And, hey, why not just form a private school for homeschoolers?
[ April 28, 2002, 19:31: Message edited by: Malnurtured Snayer ]
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
So why do you all have a yearbook? Do you all get together?
Oh, yeah. Nobody knows EVERYONE, but everyone knows someone a few. Oddly enough, the
*counts*
four homeschooling families from my church are NOT in the yearbook, so even with all the homeschoolers in the thing, lots more aren't.
Describe the organizations - what do you ya'll do?
Hmm... well, looking through last year's book...
Band, track, two baseball teams, four basketball teams, bunches of 4-H stuff, and at least ten seperate local support groups of decent size. One of which is apparently predominantly jewish. Never noticed that before. Odd, considering I helped build the frikin' book.
I've also heard good (REALLY good) things about the mock trial team and the debate team.
Hmm... you know, now that I have a scanner, I suppose I could post a picture or two of myself... be back in a bit. Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
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Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Life is nothing but a challenge- play the game!
Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
I didn't mean create your own quote, although I see how it could've sounded that way.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Well, from my incredibly advanced and mature position, I can say that yearbook quotes are quite possibly one of the least meaningful modes of personal expression since the mood ring. So I'd just pick whatever makes you smile at the moment, Omega.
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
"'e's NOT the Messiah! 'E's a very naughty boy!" -- 'The Life of Brian.'
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side" -- Han Solo
"Onward Christian soldiers, fragging everyone..." -- Fo2
"When the fox gnaws... smile!" -- unknown
"Incoming fire has the right-of-way" -- US Army 'unwritten' training.
"Gun Control is being able to hit your target." -- unknown
"Some adventure for glory, others for gold. Me? I just like to kill things." -- Daniel Fairchild
"[expletive deleted]" -- anonymous
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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
"Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten."
"I did not have romantic relations with that woman, Liz LaFrance."
"Born to boogie-woogie in the barn with the Bible and Bubba as my copilot."
"I worship at the altar of the one called Benson the Deer Slayer."
"I'm more than just a short-lived captain of a starship named Enterprise."
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
"I am an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman, which means I can be a cast-iron son-of-a-bitch when it suits me." --Jubal Harshaw
"For people with resources, the right events happen. They may look like coincidences, but they arise out of necessity." --T�rk Hviid, "Smilla's Sense Of Snow
"Archaeology is the search for FACT, not TRUTH. If it's truth you're after, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall." --Indiana Jones
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
"I mock you with my monkey pants" - Xander Harris Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
Shit, if this gonna be that kind of party I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes!"
-Beastie Boys, B-boys making with the Freak Freak
[ April 30, 2002, 07:45: Message edited by: Nim Pim ]
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shik: "I am an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman, which means I can be a cast-iron son-of-a-bitch when it suits me." --Jubal Harshaw
I like...
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
I did, too. The language factor is a problem, though.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Without a doubt, Jubal got the best quotes in the book. Some other good ones:
"My dear, I used to think that I was serving humanity... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw."
"Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is about eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried. Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents--a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect?"
"Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing."
"A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom... and the other twenty percent isn't very important."
"I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists."
"This indiscriminate liquidation of cops must stop!"
"So please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or before you know it you will be trying to feel gratitude--and that is the treacherous first step downward to complete moral degradation...."
"'Gratitude' is a euphemism for resentment."
"Man is the animal that laughs."
"Big Money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money, to the utter exclusion of all other interests."
"Wealth--great wealth--is a curse . . . unless you are devoted to the money-making game for its own sake. And even then it has serious drawbacks."
"Well . . . look at it this way. Religion is a solace to many people and it is even conceivable that some religion, somewhere, really is Ultimate Truth. But in many cases, being religious is merely a form of conceit. The Bible Belt faith in which I was brought up encouraged me to think that I was better than the rest of the world; I was 'saved' and they were 'damned'--we were in a state of grace and the rest of the world were 'heathens' . . . and by 'heathen' they meant such people as our brother Mahmoud. It meant that an ignorant, stupid lout who seldom bathed and planted his corn by the phase of the Moon could claim to know the final answers of the Universe. That entitled him to look down his nose at everybody else. Our hymn book was loaded with such arrogance--mindless, conceited, self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us and us alone, and what hell everybody else was going to catch come Judgement Day."
"With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist."
"Hitler ... all he had to peddle was hate. Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise."
"... of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time. If it sometimes pains them to make a choice--if the choice turns out to look like a 'noble sacrifice'--you can be sure that it is in no wise nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness . . . the unpleasant necessity of having to decide between two things both of which you would like to do when you can't do both. The ordinary bloke suffers that discomfort every day, every time he makes a choice between spending a buck on beer or tucking it away for his kids, between getting up when he's tired or spending the day in his warm bed and losing his job. No matter which he does he always chooses what seems to hurt least or pleasures most. The average chump spends his life harried by these small decisions. But the utter scoundrel and the perfect saint merely make the same choices on a larger scale. They still pick what pleases them."
"Analogy is even slipperier than logic."
"Abstract design is all right--for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce--render emotional--his audience, each time. These laddies who won't deign to do that--and perhaps can't--of course lost the public. If they hadn't lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for 'art' that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes or such." "Mmm, one does have to learn to look at art, just as you must know French to read a story printed in French. But in general it's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code like Pepys and his diary. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything-- obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence."
"A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!"
"... sex should be a means of happiness. The worst thing about sex is that we use it to hurt each other. It ought never to hurt; it should bring happiness, or, at the very least, pleasure. There is no good reason why it should ever be anything less. "The code says, 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife'--and the result? Reluctant chastity, adultery, jealousy, bitter family fights, blows and sometimes murder, broken homes and twisted children . . . and furtive, dirty little passes at country club dances and the like, degrading to both man and woman whether consummated or not. Is this injunction ever obeyed? The Commandment not to 'covet' I mean; I'm not refering to any physical act. I wonder. If a man swore to me on a stack of his own Bibles that he had refrained from coveting another man's wife because the code forbade it, I would suspect either self-decepiton or subnormal sexuality. Any male virile enough to sire a child is almost certainly so virile that he has coveted many, many women--whether he takes action in the matter or not. "Now comes Mike and says: 'There's no need for you to covet my wife . . . love her! There's no limit to her love, we all have everything to gain--and nothing to lose but fear and guilt and hatred and jealousy.'"
"Age does not bring wisdom ... but it does give perspective . . . and the saddest perspective of all is to see far, far behind you, the temptations you've passed up."
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Well, I had to turn it in today. I used the secret sauce one. Thanks, guys!
Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
Well, Shik? That was time well spent, no? Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Yeah, copying from my qoutes file & hitting Control-V was such a burden. 976 billion ergs wasted that I'll never, ever get back.
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...and I finally got a sig... Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
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