Dr Wingnut

Year: 2009

  • Seasoning

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    Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned.Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Courage

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    What is courage according to you?Is it driving dangerously in a car?Jumping with a parachute?Bungee jumping?Extreme skiing?Insulting your boss?I have now discovered the true meaning of courage and I am sure you will agree.Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to courage…via email from D. Kimball Lord, Tue, 3 Feb 2009 04:50:38 -0800

  • Red Skelton’s recipe for the perfect marriage

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    Two times a week we go to a nice restaurant, have a little beverage, good food and companionship She goes on Tuesdays; I go on Fridays.We also sleep in separate beds.  Hers is in California , and mine is in TexasI take my wife everywhere… but she keeps finding her way back.I asked my wife…

  • Patience

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    A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.Dutch proverb

  • Happy Valentine’s Day

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    A friend of mine forwarded this link to me, and the site to which it transports you shows approximately 500 years’ worth of women’s portraits, using truly excellent morphing software to transition between the various faces over a period of three minutes.  To those of you who have speakers hooked up to the computer you…

  • Unixtime milestone

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    Per Michiel Ross: Number aficionados, you probably already know what happens today.  As of 6:31:30PM ET this afternoon it will officially be 1234567890 Unix time, which started at zero and has been counting seconds since the stroke of midnight on January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds.via email from Michael Cannon, Fri, 13 Feb 2009…

  • Objectives

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    We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.Dwight D. Eisenhower