Dr Wingnut

Month: March 2005

  • Success

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    Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere.  Self-pity gets you nowhere.  One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.Harry Emerson Fosdick

  • PDAers from hell

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    Few things in the world spread as much misery as a happy, smiling, well-adjusted pair of newly minted lovebirds.  Wherever you go — shopping malls, restaurants, target ranges — you’re likely to run into this evil breed, grinning, giggling and holding hands like a pair of lovestruck teenagers.  What is it about a happy couple…

  • Idea

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    I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)

  • Smart Words

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    The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.  Here are 2004’s winners.IntaxicationEuphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.ReintarnationComing back to life as…

  • Anger

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    When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.Thomas Jefferson

  • Pop culture flash

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    Bizarre, bizarre, bizarre Flash video chock-full with pop culture references. (Who has time to make this stuff?)Only a little less bizzare: M. B. Saulnier points us to 3-minute world travelogues, starring a pair of fingers and a lot of paper.Still less bizarre, but cool – dancing Flash-dude movie.Futurist Poetry (thanks to Geoff Ross)I always like…

  • Ridicule

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    Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832