Dr Wingnut

Month: October 2006

  • Close to the vest

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    1. Never tell everything at once.Ken Venturi

  • Not today

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    One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house.  His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard.  The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the…

  • Follow through

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    You give a monkey a gun, and it’s your responsibility what happens.Ira Winkler, former chief security strategist for Hewlett-Packard, about CEO Mark Hurd’s claims to have been ignorant of wrongful tactics in the company’s leak investigation.

  • More reasons to crawl under a rock

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    An insurance man visited me at home to talk about our mortgage insurance.  He was throwing a lot of facts and figures at me, and I wanted to follow as best I could, so I told my 6-year-old son to run and get me a pad.  He came back and handed me a Kotex right…

  • The Boy’s of October

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    The baseball gods have definitely been smiling on the Minnesota Twins this year.  From twelve eleven and one-half games back early in the season they won a Central Division championship today.  All of this in a nail biting finish where we were rooting for Joe Mauer to clinch the batting title for the American League…

  • Tools

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    All human beings hold to the tools of their own destruction.Barbara Gordon author of “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can” [1979]

  • Tools

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    Man is a tool-using animal.  Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.Thomas Carlyle