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jar
Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 31 of 121 (582855)
09-23-2010 5:16 PM
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"How pierceful grows the hazy yon! How myrtle petaled thou! For spring hath sprung the cyclotron - How high browse thou, brown cow? -- Churchy LaFemme, 1950"
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Straggler
Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: 09-30-2006
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Message 32 of 121 (582856)
09-23-2010 5:19 PM
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Reply to: Message 30 by dwise1
09-23-2010 5:10 PM
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
There are many relevant to the EvC debate. Here are a few:
Oscar Wilde writes: When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. "I sometimes think that God, in creating men, somewhat overestimated his ability".
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subbie
Member (Idle past 1283 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: 02-26-2006
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Message 33 of 121 (582859)
09-23-2010 5:22 PM
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`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe. Lewis Carroll
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate ...creationists have a great way to detect fraud and it doesn't take 8 or 40 years or even a scientific degree to spot the fraud--'if it disagrees with the bible then it is wrong'.... -- archaeologist
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cavediver
Member (Idle past 3672 days) Posts: 4129 From: UK Joined: 06-16-2005
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Message 34 of 121 (582865)
09-23-2010 5:42 PM
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Reply to: Message 33 by subbie
09-23-2010 5:22 PM
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And the mome raths outgrabe... Ah, but then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes...
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Omnivorous
Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: 07-21-2005 Member Rating: 6.9
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Message 35 of 121 (582869)
09-23-2010 5:54 PM
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Nothing humbles a man like bad plumbing. -Me Edited by Omnivorous, : I'm fixing the sink.
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Straggler
Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: 09-30-2006
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Plumbers
Woody Allen writes: "Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday."
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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 763 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 37 of 121 (582873)
09-23-2010 6:07 PM
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"Moe! Larry! Cheese!" - Jerome Lester Horwitz
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Omnivorous
Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: 07-21-2005 Member Rating: 6.9
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Message 38 of 121 (582879)
09-23-2010 6:21 PM
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Reply to: Message 36 by Straggler
09-23-2010 5:59 PM
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Re: Plumbers
"What? You don't have a gun?!" An Iranian student to me (ca. 1984) as I investigated the student's report of an intruder in his apartment. It was the plumber.
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Artemis Entreri 
Suspended Member (Idle past 4257 days) Posts: 1194 From: Northern Virginia Joined: 07-08-2008
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I didn't realize there was statute of limitations on being silly. there aint. your trolling style just seems odd to me.
Would it be OK for me to comment on it if it had been written yesterday? It would have been more in context and been more witty, rather than taking a 13th century quote and applying modern ideas to it.
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ringo
Member (Idle past 441 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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"Eat me." -- a very small cake, with currants
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onifre
Member (Idle past 2979 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: 02-20-2008
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Message 41 of 121 (583244)
09-25-2010 4:56 PM
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sunset on the beach
"I believe in 'live and let live'. And anyone who does agree with that, take 'em outside an shoot 'em." ~ Carlin "A lot of Christians wear a cross. Do you think when Jesus comes back he's gonna want to see a fucking cross?" ~ Hicks "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's the best they're going to feel all day" ~ Sinatra "Women are hard to please. And when you do please them, they're hard to get rid of." ~ Oni - Oni
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Dr Adequate
Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: 07-20-2006
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your trolling style just seems odd to me. And my style of writing Russian prose is equally puzzling. All those Roman characters, non-Slavonic roots, Anglo-Saxon grammatical inflections ... why would anyone write Russian like that?
It would have been more in context and been more witty, rather than taking a 13th century quote and applying modern ideas to it. I guess the context would be that a modern person, living in the twenty-first century, quoted it with apparent approval this Tuesday as though it applied to modern times. If it was just meant to be a quaint reminder of how people used to think in bygone days, then it may well fulfill that function.
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Stile
Member Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined: 12-02-2004
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Message 43 of 121 (583283)
09-25-2010 10:22 PM
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A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind.
-Robert Oxton Bolt
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subbie
Member (Idle past 1283 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: 02-26-2006
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Message 44 of 121 (583296)
09-26-2010 12:49 AM
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When you believe in things that you don't understand,
Then you suffer. - Stevie Wonder
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate ...creationists have a great way to detect fraud and it doesn't take 8 or 40 years or even a scientific degree to spot the fraud--'if it disagrees with the bible then it is wrong'.... -- archaeologist
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Rrhain
Member Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: 05-03-2003
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Message 45 of 121 (583423)
09-27-2010 4:55 AM
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To love another person is to see the face of god.(Herbert Kretzmer, Les Misrables) I don't know why I can't think of anything I would rather do
Than be wasting my time on mountains with you.(Tim Rice, Chess) Propriety? Noun. Conformity to established standards of behaviour or manner, suitability, rightness, or justice. See ETIQUETTE.(Buck Henry, David Newman, Robert Benton, What's Up, Doc?) Is this a kissing book?
Someday you might not mind so much.(S. Morgenstern as translated by William Goldman, The Princess Bride)
Rrhain
Thank you for your submission to Science. Your paper was reviewed by a jury of seventh graders so that they could look for balance and to allow them to make up their own minds. We are sorry to say that they found your paper "bogus," specifically describing the section on the laboratory work "boring." We regret that we will be unable to publish your work at this time.
Minds are like parachutes. Just because you've lost yours doesn't mean you can use mine.
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