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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

618.0. "Pithy truths" by PRGMUM::FRIDAY (Patience averts the severe decree) Fri Jan 27 1989 16:41

    Here are some truths stated in a particularily pithy way.
    What are some others that you've heard?
    
    "Real-time means you wait."
    
    "What you see is all you got."
    
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
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618.1no cure still payIJSAPL::ELSENAARFractal of the universeFri Jan 27 1989 17:280
618.2Opinions, not factsRICKS::SATOWFri Jan 27 1989 17:433
Bush is.

The Moral Majority is neither.
618.3PSTJTT::TABEROh brave new worm to have such features in'tFri Jan 27 1989 19:472
The more things change, the more they remain things.

618.4COOKIE::DEVINEBob Devine, CXNFri Jan 27 1989 20:102
    You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make it think.
    -- Dorothy Parker
618.5KAOFS::S_BROOKHere today and here again tomorrowFri Jan 27 1989 20:211
    The rain in Spain is wet, just like everywhere else.
618.6EAGLE1::EGGERSTom, VAX & MIPS architectureFri Jan 27 1989 21:541
    It's not over 'till it's over.
618.7AKOV13::MCGARGHANhear the dragons singing, each to eachFri Jan 27 1989 23:2412
    It'll shine when it shines.
    
    Women and cats do as they please and men and dogs should get used
    to it.
    
    Seen on a bumper sticker:  "If you love God, work for justice. 
    Anyone can honk."
    
    "Never laugh at live dragons."
    
    Kim
    
618.8COOKIE::DEVINEBob Devine, CXNSat Jan 28 1989 01:524
    Don't play leap-frog with a unicorn.
    
    Don't count your chickens before they have passed
    the USDA fresh-poultry inspection.
618.9COOKIE::DEVINEBob Devine, CXNSat Jan 28 1989 04:131
    Six of one; 3 factorial of another.
618.10more numerologyEAGLE1::EGGERSTom, VAX & MIPS architectureSat Jan 28 1989 07:153
    Re: .9
    
    How perfect!
618.11not satisfied? money lost!CLARID::HOFSTEEThe other lane moves fasterMon Jan 30 1989 11:201
    
618.12Bargains and the universePRGMUM::FRIDAYPatience averts the severe decreeMon Jan 30 1989 16:214
    "A bargain means you've spent money"
    
    The anthropic principle: "The universe is the way we see it because
    if it was any different we wouldn't be around to see it."
618.13 LESCOM::KALLISAnger's no replacement for reason.Tue Jan 31 1989 14:327
    A couple from the _New York_ magazine contests:
    
    "Little things come in small packages."
    
    "Lie down with apes, get up with apes."
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
618.14Two from Ogden NashMARVIN::KNOWLESthe teddy-bears have their nit-pickTue Jan 31 1989 14:506
    Parsley
    Is gharsley
    
    and
    
    A bargain dog never bites
618.15COOKIE::DEVINEBob Devine, CXNTue Feb 07 1989 19:4510
    A watched pot is never interesting.
    
    Statistics indicate that there are 3 types of lies:
    lies, damned lies, and statistics.
    
    There's a fine line between ignorance and arrogance.
    [I think this one comes from Duck's Breath comedy group.]
    
    A rolling stone gathers no moss, or anything else of
    worth for that matter.
618.16KAOFS::S_BROOKHere today and here again tomorrowTue Feb 07 1989 20:053
    One day my ship will come in ....
       ... and I'll be waiting at the airport.
    
618.17optimism is the result of intelectual errorMISFIT::GEMMELand now here's Mac and Tosh...Tue Feb 07 1989 21:361
618.18EAGLE1::EGGERSTom, VAX & MIPS architectureTue Feb 07 1989 21:441
    63.75% of all statistics are made up.
618.1942!THEGIZ::PITARDCalifornia Dreaming, on a winters day...Tue Feb 07 1989 21:532
       
       	The answer to all questions in the universe is 42!!
618.20Can you fly too?GIDDAY::VISSEROn a clear day, you can see vacationTue Feb 07 1989 23:4313
     RE .19
    
    Forgive the nitpick, but I believe the actual statement is:
    
    The answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and
    Everything is 42.
    
    Using the same source,  God's final message to all his creation
    is: We apologize for any inconvenience.
    
    
    ..klaas..
    
618.21My fav...IOSG::ROBERTSAbsolutely! .... and why not?Wed Feb 08 1989 14:034
    RE: .. all the stats ones...
    
    If you placed all of the world's statisticians end-to-end, they
    still wouldn't reach a conclusion!
618.22PSTJTT::TABER�Quidado -- es Llamas!Wed Feb 08 1989 17:452
When everything seems to be going right, you aren't aware of everything that
is going on...
618.23CNTROL::HENRIKSONWed Feb 08 1989 18:277
One I remember from my Navy days;

If you can keep your head when all those about you are losing their's;

You obviously don't understand the situation.

Pete
618.24KAOFS::S_BROOKHere today and here again tomorrowWed Feb 08 1989 19:194
    "today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday"

    
    Some consolation ... ha!
618.25BLAS03::FORBESBill Forbes - LDP EngrngThu Feb 09 1989 04:292
    Formerly, I was unable even to spell the word "enginear", yet now I find,
    much to my amazement, that indeed it is exactly that which I have become!
618.26zzzzzGIDDAY::VISSEROn a clear day, you can see vacationThu Feb 09 1989 06:424
    
    I can do this job in my sleep..in fact I usually do!
    
    ..klaas..
618.27 end-to-end onesLAMHRA::WHORLOWPrussiking up the rope of life!Thu Feb 09 1989 12:4216
    G'day
    
    Were one to lay all the people who go to church on Sundays end-to-end
    
    
    They would be a lot more comfortable.
    
    How many young maidens placed head to toe (rather than laid end-to-end
    ;-)   would be needed to go from Reading to London?
    
    
    About 40,; for a miss is as good as a mile!
    
    
    derek @ 22.40 and getting bleary eyed!
    
618.28SNOC01::NICHOLLSI knew Michael before he was famousThu Feb 09 1989 23:047
    re; 618.15
    
    there are FOUR types of lies
    
    lies, damned lies, statistics and
    
    marketing literature
618.29He who hesitates waits.DDIF::CANTORThis is not all rock and roll, dude.Wed Mar 15 1989 23:360
618.30TKOV51::DIAMONDThis note is illegal tender.Wed May 02 1990 08:3111
    From an old Martin Gardner column:
      A penny saved is a penny.
      People who live in glass houses shouldn't.
    
    Hofstadter's law:
      It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take into
      account Hofstadter's law.
    
    (Speaking of Martin Gardner, for all you Rubik fans in those
    cubicles, Mr. G. has accepted an honorary membership in the
    Dutch Cubists Society.)
618.31Wherever you go, there you arePOOL::TRUMPLERPoint of hors d'oeuvreWed May 02 1990 18:511
    
618.32HPSRAD::ABIDIIt's a wild worldFri May 04 1990 20:2412
    
     All's well that ends.
    
    (from Piet Hein):
                 The road to wisdom?-well, it's plain
                 and simple to express:
                 err
                 and err
                 and err again
                 but less
                 and less 
                 and less.