Saturday, November 29, 2008

Hot Dog Anyone?


Nom nom nom noms

I love quotations

I have to admit that I do love quotations...especially from old dead people. I found a website that had several on it...So i stole what they obviously stole....but there are references to who supposedly said it....so I am giving credit to wo they say should be getting the credit. (So I feel ok about this theft)

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. - unknown

A bulldog can whip a skunk, but sometimes it's not worth it. - J. Nowell

A clean house is a sign of a misspent life. - unknown

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. - unknown

A closed mouth gathers no feet. - Sam Horn

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. - John Florio (1553-1625)

A diplomat is one who thinks twice before saying nothing. - unknown

A flatterer never seems absurd: the flatter'd always takes his word. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

A friend in need is a pest. - Arthur Daley in the popular 1980's British sitcom, "Minder"

A husband is someone who takes out the trash and gives the impression he just cleaned the whole house. - unknown

A man must serve his time in every trade except censure-critics are ready made. - Lord Byron (1788-1824)

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. - Rhonda Hansome

A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. - Mark Twain

A teacher's job is to take a room full of live wires and make sure they are well grounded. - unknown (submitted by fubar@nque.com)

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - unknown

All the world is mad save for me and thee, and sometimes I wonder about thee. - Old Quaker saying - special thanks to the reader who replied to our query.

All would live long but none would be old. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but an onion a day keeps everyone away. - Cassandra Chatfield

Anyone who doesn't think there are two sides to an argument is probably in one. - unknown

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away and barefoot. - unknown

Being young is a fault that diminishes daily. - Swedish (on youth and age)

Blessed is he that can laugh at himself, he will never cease to be amused. - unknown

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be dissapointed. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. - Ogden Nash (1902- )

Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. - unknown

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. - Rene Decartes (1596-1650)

Credit cards are like mosquitoes. You can keep them away for a while, but sooner or later they will be back to suck your blood. - Ted Steckley (1949-)

Creditors have better memories than debtors. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Dear God, I have a problem; it's me. - unknown

Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. - Canning

Do what you think is right in your heart. You'll be criticized anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Dying while young is a boon in old age. - Yiddish (on death and dying)

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse can happen to you for the rest of the day. - unknown

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. - unknown

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest -- and so am I! - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Everyone has the right to be stupid but you're abusing the priviledge. - Shiv Daddar

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else. - Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. - unknown

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Fish and visitors stink after three days. - - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Fond pride of dress is sure an empty curse; ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)

Gingerbread man is a perfect man, he's cute, he's sweet and if he gives you any heck, you can bite his head off. - kd with thanks to K. Walker

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. - Jewish Proverb

God works wonders now and then; behold! a lawyer, an honest man. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Golf: A good walk ruined. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Great talkers should be cropped for they have no need of ears. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Happiness is merely the remission of pain. - unknown

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln, a gentle needle

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Winston Churchill, a gentle needle

He has delusions of adequacy. - Walter Kerr, a gentle needle

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. - William Faulkner about Earnest Hemingway. (thanks to Pete Hartzel of Woodstock Corp.)

He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends. - Oscar Wilde, a gentle needle

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder, a gentle needle

He is a self-made man and worships his creator. - John Bright, a gentle needle (thanks to Pete Hartzel of Woodstock Corp.)

He is not only dull himself, but he is the cause of dullness in others. - Samuel Johnson, a gentle needle

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating, a gentle needle

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. - Forrest Tucker, a gentle needle

He that drinks beer, thinks beer. - Washington Irving (1783-1859)

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow money to be repaid at Easter. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts, for support rather than illumination. - Andrew Lang, a gentle needle

He who dies with the most toys is still dead. - unknown

He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. - Mae West, a gentle needle

Housework done properly can kill you. - unknown

How many observe Christ's birthday, how few his precepts. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

I believe the only time the world beats a path to my door is when I'm in the bathroom. - unknown

I can't be out of money, I still have checks left. - unknown

I did not fall off the turnip truck just yesterday. - Terry Davis

I didn't attend the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain, a gentle needle

I feel so miserable without you, its almost like having you here. - Stephan Bishop, a gentle needle

I have a new philosophy, I'm only going to dread one day at a time. - Charles Shulz ("Peanuts")

I have never killed a man but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow, a gentle needle/i>

I never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

I refuse to enter a battle of wits with an unarmed man. - unknown

I saw few die of hunger; of eating -- 100,000. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

If a frog didn't hop, he wouldn't bump his butt. - Sarah Isabelle Wendt

If a patient dies, the doctor killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him. - Italian Proverb

If at first you don't succeed, skydivings not for you. - S. Johns

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. - unknown

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands. - Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

If the baby is happy, don't try to make it happier. - Dan Keeton

If you aren't careful, your kids will suck the marrow right out of your bones. - Anonymous

If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before. - unknown

If you want to be criticized, marry. - Irish Proverb

If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir. - Romanian Proverb

If you'ld lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

If you're going to be dumb, you've got to be tough. - William Dempsey Wendt

In God we trust; all others pay cash.- American (on money)

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. - Louis Grizzard

It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain (Thanks to Michael Beard)

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later. - Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945)

It is easier to get forgiveness than to get permission. - unknown

It takes less time to do something right than to explain why it was done wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

It's not easy being green. - Kermit the Frog

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx, a gentle needle

I've just learned of his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb, a gentle needle

I've suffered a great many catastrophies in my life. Most of them never happened. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Lazy people work harder. - unknown (thanks to Jeff Hatch)

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Life is a big headache on a noisy street. - Yiddish Proverb

Life isn't like a box of chocolates...it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow. - unknown

Life's too short for chess. - Henry James Byron (1834-1884)

Life's hard; get a helmet. - kd with thanks to K.Walker

Long tongue, short hands. - Czech (on words and deeds)

Love is blind but not the neighbors.- Mexican (on life and living)

Love your neighbor; yet don't pull down your hedge. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Man has his will but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

Man's work is from sun to sun, woman's work is never done. - H. Blaney Giese

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Many foxes grow grey but few grow good. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)

Men are from earth, women are from earth, deal with it. - unknown

Middle age is when the broadness of the mind and the narrowness of the waist change places. - unknown Mistakes will happen; others will be blamed. - Paul Perves (on corporate life)

Most people aim at nothing in life and hit it with amazing accuracy. - unknown

My idea of housework is to sweep a room with a glance. - unknown

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me but I think she enjoyed it. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Nepotism works, get on the right side of it. - Dan Keeton

Never criticize a man till you have walked a mile in his shoes. That way when you do criticize him, you are a mile ahead and you have his shoes. - unknown (thanks to S. Johns)

Never praise your cider or your horse. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It only frustrates you and really annoys the pig. - Dale Cade

No good deed goes unpunished. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

No husband has ever been shot doing the dishes. - unknown

Now I have a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good-morrow. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but hate in leisure. - Lord Byron (1788-1824)

One good husband is worth two good wives for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A.A. Milne (1882-?)

Only in America, if you fail as a person, you can always write a book. - Ferg Stevens

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming. - unknown

People ask you for criticism but they only want praise. - Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it hundreds of times. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Remorse the fatal egg by pleasure laid. - William Cowper (1731-1800)

Sacred cows make great hamburgers. - Michael Thompson

She was often wrong but never in doubt. - unknown

Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world. - unknown

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. - English Proverb

Speak the truth but leave immediately after. - Slovenian Proverb

Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't even fallen asleep yet. - unknown

Suppers have killed more than doctors have ever cured. - Spanish (on food and hunger)

Tact is the act of making a point without making an enemy. - Clarence Darrow

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadad, a gentle needle

The best thing about telling the truth is..you don't have to remember what you said! - unknown, courtesy of Georgie Bee

The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully, - Russian Proverb

The difference between the Pope and your boss.... The Pope only expects you to kiss his ring. - unknown, courtesy of Jack Shea

The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer. - Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - unknown

The golden age never was the present age. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. - Helen Hayes

The money is always greener in the other fellow's wallet. - Bill ? The older I get, the righter my parents were. - Jeanne Warner

The other line always moves faster until you get in it. - unknown The poor have little - beggars none; the rich too much - enough, not one! - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind but how to get the old ones out. - Dee Hock The sheik's miracles are those of his own telling. - Turkish (on words and deeds)

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

The trouble with being in a rat race is that even when you win you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

There are more old drunkards than old doctors. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it. - Mark Twain

There can't be another crisis this week, my schedule is completely full. - unknown

There is nothing more stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. - Will Rogers (1879-1935)

There is no waste of time like making explanations. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure. - Jack E. Leonard, a gentle needle

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. - Thomas Brackett Reed, a gentle needle

They never taste who always drink, they always talk who never think. - Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

They who drink beer, think beer. - Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Three may keep a secret if two are dead. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Time is fun when you are having flies. - Kermit the Frog

'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest and seems against others' interest to pay principal. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - unknown

We developed language because of our deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

What the mulla says, you must do; what he does, you must not do.- Kashmiri (on hypocrisy)

Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. - Charlotte Whitton

When a pessimist has nothing to worry about, he worries about why he has nothing to worry about. - unknown

When man and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

When mother ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. - unknown

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

When we think we lead, we are most led. - Henry James Byron (1834-1884)

When you get at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Who was the one who put the needle in the haystack anyway? - Lester Goslar

With the mouth, one can ford the wildest river. - Ethiopian (on words and deeds)

You are what you eat. Don't be a vegetable. - unknown

You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife ? - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

You've got the brain of a four year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it. - Groucho Marx,

Jim


...And I feel fine!

I was travelling out to go hunting this morning at O'Dark Thirty and a song came on the radio. It was a song I have heard probably a million and a half times over the last thirty years...in fact I had it on a tape cassette (remember those?) back in my freshman year. We had a contest where you had to memorize the lyrics and everyone put money in ......granted there was no internet then and you had to figure out the lyrics first.....I came in second in the contest....but it was a good song and fun to try and learn..... I wish I had spent the much time in high school learning...it would have helped.....

Well, here are the actual lyrics....I am sure you will be interested enough to read them all... Go into the playlist and select the song and get ready to refresh this page and start the song over.

That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, don’t misserve your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn’t coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it’ll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves it's
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o’clock - TV hour. Don’t get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...
(It’s time I had some time alone)

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Here is a little spoof of a facebook page...heaven forbid anyone actually made this page, but it is possible.....
























































Friday, November 28, 2008

Volleyball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_baAC1G9Fc

Here is a link to one of the wekends I played in 2007. This is the end of the day , semi-finals....and I am worn out.....

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Four Point Four - The Sequel

Well, I am happy to say that there are a lot of sadistic people in Rochester, so my wife is not that crazy after all. I was able to finsh the race in 44 minutes, not bad for not having run in two years. My wife did the most amazing thing and gave up a respectable time to run with me. I had one goal in mind ....to run the entire race, but i had to walk for about a minute...it happened right around mile 3. My wife was great today. She stayed with me the whole way and kept me going. My Ipod on the other hand gave up on me again after mile 3. This is the fourth time the IPOD has frozen when I run. It hates running.


Four Point Four

4.4 miles may not seem that far if you are in a car or riding a bike, but to the average untrained and unwilling participant runner....that is way to far to run. I unknowingly signed up for the 4.4 mile Turkey Trot this month so that I could spend some quality time with my gorgeous wife. I thought Turkey Trot meant 5k....but apparently that is not enough diversity for these sadistic running bastards, so they made two flavors...2,5 and 4.4. And that is another thing....shouldnt it be 2.2 and 4.4.... Where do they come up with the extra .3 miles for the shorter race.....I will never understand runners or people who run for enjoyment anyways....but some things really dont make any sense to me....

I love my wife...But she hates the cold and rain...and she chose running to be one of her hobbies.

Well, I will let you know how well I do....or if I do.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Tag I am It...That is the understatement of the week.

So my wife sleeps next to me every single night, and feels the need to cyber-tag me because it is fun.....and it is fun.....but I don't have anyone to tag, because I don' follow any blogs at all....except my wifes.

So i am supposed to open a picture folder and select the fourth picture and tell the story.....so here is the picture
Now, this is a picture of one of my good friends and fellow volleyball players, Andrew Murtha. I know what you are thinking, or maybe not , He is a setter....but he is one of the good guys. The picture was taken in NYC where Andy used to work.