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Quotations you remember
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"Awright, wait a minute, wait a minute. I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin' - there's more of us ugly mother-******s than you are, hey-y....." - Frank Zappa
“ When you are out and about and you see some old guy that appears to never have been any wear or done anything, you should be very respectful. You may be in the presence of a true lion in winter. “ Instruction given to a snappy teenager some years ago.
Me, while doing cable Inernet support during the rollout of telephone service that wasn’t ready when it launched:
Some people say I have a bad attitude. I say f-em.
Some people say I have a bad attitude. I say f-em.
" As God it my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."-Carlson
Your buddy must have known my dad. He’s full of pithy wit. In no particular order, here’s my top four.
“I can stand on my head whistling Dixie while hot lead is poured in my ass, as long as I know it’s temporary.”
“Where I come from we whip one another's ass.”
“There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who handle their problems and those whose problems handle them.”
“what’s the matter son? Your sportin blood turn to piss?”
there’s more, but that’s enough for now.
'You're either on the train or in front of the train' - my old boss
'No one ever lies on their death bed wishing they had worked more' - unknown
'No one ever lies on their death bed wishing they had worked more' - unknown
Another one that your dad's first quote reminded me of:Your buddy must have known my dad. He’s full of pithy wit. In no particular order, here’s my top four.
“I can stand on my head whistling Dixie while hot lead is poured in my ass, as long as I know it’s temporary.”
“Where I come from we whip one another's ass.”
“There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who handle their problems and those whose problems handle them.”
“what’s the matter son? Your sportin blood turn to piss?”
there’s more, but that’s enough for now.
In the military, we'd often ask each other, "How much more time ya' got?". We were referring to either time left prior to discharge, or time left before going back to "The World" from Vietnam.
If the dude said, "Six more months", I'd reply, "Well hell, I could hold my fist up a bears' ass for 6 months!"
