andrew.anderson Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 "the United States cannot afford to preclude itself from using nuclear weapons even in a local situation, if such use will bring the aggression to a swift and positive cessation, and if, on a balance of political and military consideration, such use will best advance U.S. security interests." - President Eisenhower in 1950s. Crazy what we used to think as a nation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew.anderson Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 "You may have to recognize the fact of evil, but that doesn't mean that you have to clasp it to your bosom." - John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State from 1953-1959) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 (edited) “A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.” --Douglas Adams. (who passed away May 11th 2001, which makes this an anniversary) Edited May 11, 2019 by ehsnils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 “The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.” ― Judith Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBT Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 - Pro amore Dei et patriam et populum - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 After all, small engines are a carb-based life-form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 If u want to go on an expedition get a Land Rover, if u want to come home from an expedition get a Landcruiser! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Always drink upstream from the herd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammcinnis Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 (edited) All joy and pleasure is good, not least the sexual ones, provided it is not harmful to others.- Sign in the window of a "high class" Danish pornography shop, Copenhagen, June 1969 Edited May 31, 2019 by ammcinnis "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." ~ The Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. -- Neil Armstrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammcinnis Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Better to die than to look bad. ~ USAF test pilot, Edwards AFB, CA (personal acquaintance) "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." ~ The Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Dates back to the days of "The right stuff". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr02n1b8sUE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dishwasher Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” -Confucius Brought to you by Pfizer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on. -- Hepler, Systems Design 182 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dishwasher Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 When I am in a slump, I comfort myself by saying if I believe in dinosaurs, then somewhere, they must be believing in me. And if they believe in me, then I can believe in me. Then I bust out. - Mookie Wilson Brought to you by Pfizer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew.anderson Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 "avoid the enemy when their sprit is keen and attack him when it is sluggish" - Sun Tzu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBT Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Very true. - Pro amore Dei et patriam et populum - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew.anderson Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 “The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.” ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxkita Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Adam and Eve were the first to suffer for failing to follow the Apple terms and conditions. Quote on the signboard of the local Dunn Lumber store Build my car Boxkita Track days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew.anderson Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" - Martin Luther King Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew.anderson Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 "In Asia, talking and relationship building is half the challenge to solving problems." - Murray Hiebert, Senior Advisor and Deputy Director of the Southeast Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickDastardly00 Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." - Stephen Hawking ♪Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.♫ -Bob Marley, Redemption Song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 "If night flying in a single engine aircraft and the engine fails, get into a best glide and turn the landing light on. If you don't like what you see, turn it off." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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