ehsnils Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Really? Well, if you watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXnpFcwMbrE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonka Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 “May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.” -- General George S. Patton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonka Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." -- Jean Rostand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonka Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency." --Douglas MacArthur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boattlebot Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not your friend. U.S army training manual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
700watts Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 (edited) Look at the donut not the hole Dr. Vincat Edited June 27, 2014 by 700watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation’s OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie. Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. Pronunciation (think of Psyche!) Is a paling stout and spikey? Won’t it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It’s a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Finally, which rhymes with enough, Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up!!! English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
700watts Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Can't read, too long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICECOLD Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” Bruce Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Target, now a retail store and a shooting gallery with a very attractive name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KartRacerBoy Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Well behaved women don't make history. Unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonka Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Well behaved women don't make history. Unknown. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
700watts Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Well behaved women don't make history. Unknown. I believe that was Amelia Aerhart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm25rs Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 I'm not a parent, but still found this amusing: Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say, “Shut up! I just got here myself." -Kurt Vonnegut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAC5.2 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Well behaved women don't make history. Unknown. I don't know who said THAT quote, but Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said: "Well-behaved women seldom make history" in a 1976 article, and she wrote a book with that title in 2007. I think you could credit the "don't" version to KRB, if you wanted. [URL="http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/proper-flip-key-interesti-159894.html"]Flip Key Development Thread[/URL] "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." - E. Hubbard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAC5.2 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 On a wall, in a stairwell at the Nurburgring. http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii287/bac52/2919DC0F-AC65-469C-B378-62F1810E10C3_zpsabdycjut.jpg [URL="http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/proper-flip-key-interesti-159894.html"]Flip Key Development Thread[/URL] "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." - E. Hubbard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KartRacerBoy Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 "The majestic equality of the law, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." Anatole France (written with his ironic pen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 a problem is something with a solution. There is no solution to the Middle East. Therefore it can't be a problem. -- former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonka Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” ― Emma Lazarus (also on the Statue of Liberty plaque) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 You don't wax the balls of a German shepherd named Göring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
700watts Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I have neither Twitter, nor Instagram. Therefore I walk around downtown screaming at random people about what I have eaten, how I have it at home and so on. So far I have three followers; One psychiatrist and two cops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm25rs Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Another Kurt Vonnegut quote, this from a commencement speech: Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pages when you turn them with your sensitive fingertips. A large part of our brains is devoted to deciding what our hands are touching, is good or bad for us. Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us. And don’t try to make yourself an extended family out of ghosts on the Internet. Get yourself a Harley and join Hell’s Angels instead. It was a bit odd reading that first paragraph on an e-reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 http://www.bedug.com/pics/Fun2/quotes_without-deviation-from-the-norm-by-frank-zappa.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 When anger rises, think of the consequences. -- Confucius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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