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Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
-- George Orwell

"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24

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Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me.

July 18, 2023, 02:21 PM

Perception

Holy shit. I haven't seen that in probably 20 years. That's right up there with George Washington and Strongbad.

"The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford, "it is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards."
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in."

July 18, 2023, 02:30 PM

kkina

quote:
Originally posted by mttaylor1066:
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

Hunter? Is that you?

ACCU-STRUT FOR MINI-14
"Pen & Sword as one."

July 18, 2023, 02:37 PM

P250UA5

quote:
Originally posted by Perception:
Holy shit. I haven't seen that in probably 20 years. That's right up there with George Washington and Strongbad.

Strongbad, that's one I haven't heard in a long tim as well.
Also, Trogdor!

The Enemy's gate is down.

End of Earth: 2 Miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles

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The sadder but wiser girl for me.

July 18, 2023, 04:14 PM

parabellum

quote:
Originally posted by Perception:
Holy shit. I haven't seen that in probably 20 years. That's right up there with George Washington and Strongbad.

The Enemy's gate is down.

July 19, 2023, 12:30 PM

Southern Rebel

....and that's all I got to say about that! (Now, back to my regularly-scheduled third cup of coffee.)

"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."

Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.

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"Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"

"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
-Bomber Harris