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19-Feb-2010 3:13:31 PM
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On 18/02/2010 egosan wrote:
>"Insisting on absolute
>safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world."
>- Mary Shafer, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Everyone's favourite bolter, are you listening?
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19-Feb-2010 3:25:20 PM
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(A post for ww&s...)
>Bumper stickers seen on vehicles around US military bases:
"Except For Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, WAR has Never Solved Anything."
" U.S. Marines - Certified Counselors to the 72 Virgins Dating Club."
" U.S. Air Force - Travel Agents To Allah"
"Stop Global Whining"
"When In Doubt, Empty The Magazine"
"Naval Corollary: Dead Men Don't Testify"
"The Marine Corps - When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight"
"Death Smiles At Everyone - Marines Smile Back"
"Marine Sniper - You can run, but you'll just die tired!"
"Marines - Providing Enemies of America an Opportunity To Die For their Country Since 1775"
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It"
"Happiness Is A Belt-Fed Weapon"
"Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Vulgar Brawl"
"One Shot, Twelve Kills - U.S. Naval Gun Fire Support"
"My Kid Fought In Iraq So Your Kid Can Party In College"
"Machine Gunners - Accuracy By Volume"
"A Dead Enemy Is A Peaceful Enemy - Blessed Be The Peacemakers"
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19-Feb-2010 9:25:09 PM
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I was going to say something else but m9's post reminded me of the following story. Back in the day I did an awesome climbing road trip around the mid west with a californian mate. Anyway in some hick town in the middle of nowhere there was a dude selling bumper stickers with lines such as:
"The miracle of Aids - turns fruits into vegetables"
"Have you hugged your assault rifle today?"
"Reach out and touch somebody - Become a sniper"
Etc - you get the picture.
Anyway I bought a few cos I thought it would appeal to a couple of mates' sense of humour. So we all had a giggle when I came back to oz and I handed them over (I bought the gun ones) and he proudly whacked them on his bumper.
I didn't go but a week or so later my mates drove up to buffalo. But when they got there they got a weird hostile vibe from the other climbers that escalated by the day. Turned out they cut their trip short by a week or so cos the vibe was so hostile.
It was only while driving home to Adelaide (with ther tails between their legs) that they learned that the Port Arthur killings happened during their drive up to buff.
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19-Feb-2010 9:57:04 PM
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My brother but f@cked Jesus and all I got was this lousy T-shirt he wiped his d!ck on.
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19-Feb-2010 10:03:43 PM
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k, are you really saying that bolting stems from a desire for perfect safety?
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19-Feb-2010 10:13:15 PM
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Anyway I was going to say that two quotes made me laugh (spray the computer screen type of laugh) this week.
Firstly (only a light spray for ths one): M9's quip about "a non prophet organisation" made me laugh (despite myself) however it rates very highly in the joke "is so bad its good" stakes. So thanks M9 for lightening an otherwise shiity week.
Secondly and mostly cos it is so true:
>To be fair to the pussies; its one thing to nip down a canyon in marginal
>conditions with a mate when you're both fit and good, another thing entirely
>to bundle a group of numptys down it.......I mean, you just never know
>what shit they're gonna come up with (oh, I see............you have an
>allergy to ferns and crayfish which sends you into coma. Righto..........well,
>bit of a shame you forgot to mention that before we pulled the ropes.......ya
>[expletive deleted by Chockstone Moderator])
That gets the stugang big time spray on the computer screen award. First of all I laughed then I nearly cried cos it is SO true.
So thanks odh you are my hero for this week.
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19-Feb-2010 10:55:57 PM
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I agree. The "allergy to ferns and crayfish' bit go me spraying the computer screen too.
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20-Feb-2010 9:26:18 AM
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+ 1 re the fern/crayfish allergy.
I'm stoked (yeah, I know, wrong thread), you had some lighter moments in your week stugang.
Re the Martin Bryant thing; that still sh!ts me, as the rabbit gun I had, was deemed illegal by the do-gooders and I handed it in. Since then brother bunny's breeding efforts have been overtaking my efforts with a bow (though I got another one this morning), and the crime rate re shooting incidents hasn't changed much... (notwithstanding they are less spectacular), - no offence meant for the bereaved out of that incident.
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27-Feb-2010 5:08:21 PM
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He who has the most toys when he dies, wins. — Mister Gribble
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27-Feb-2010 7:18:13 PM
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Whilst working in an underground mine my deputy pulled out this pearl, I couldnt stop myself laughing...maybe it was the way he said it:
"Jeez that's bigger then Hitlers gas bill"
Note: its an exclamation of how big something is
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3-Mar-2010 1:21:57 PM
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"Its beautiful,of course its beautiful-the harbour, but that isn't all of it; Sydneys the other half, and it takes both of them to ring the supremacy bell. God made the harbour and thats all right; but satan made Sydney." Mark Twain.
Long live Bungonia. Satan made the red track and lives in town.
Thanks Olbert I've now used the gas bill quote numerous times.
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3-Mar-2010 1:45:30 PM
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On 3/03/2010 widewetandslippery wrote:
>Long live Bungonia. Satan made the red track and lives in town.
If you'd ever been up the white track, you'll realise the red track was not his sole accomplishment down there.
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3-Mar-2010 1:47:21 PM
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On 27/02/2010 k wrote:
>He who has the most toys when he dies, wins. — Mister Gribble
Variations on this
He who has the most toys when he dies, still dies.
And the mounatineers version.
He who has the most toes when he dies, wins.
(courtesy of Ferret)
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5-Mar-2010 8:45:39 PM
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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5-Mar-2010 10:56:58 PM
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I may have quoted this before (apologies if I have).
There is an old russian saying:
'He who does not drink nor smoke will die a healthy man'
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6-Mar-2010 1:23:06 AM
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While we're on possibly repeated sayings. Arab (from Lawrence Durrell's Justine)
"Life is like a cucumber, today it is your hand, tomorrow it's up your arse."
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6-Mar-2010 3:05:45 AM
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On 6/03/2010 hero wrote:
>"Life is like a cucumber, today it is your hand, tomorrow it's up your
>arse."
There goes lunch for tomorrow.
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6-Mar-2010 11:39:37 AM
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On 5/03/2010 stugang wrote:
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>I may have quoted this before (apologies if I have).
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>There is an old russian saying:
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>'He who does not drink nor smoke will die a healthy man'
can you sell me a tshirt with that on it? i don't even smoke, cigarettes. Whats your favourite cheap vodke at present stugang, not gormet shit if you know what i mean. Volsk is much cheaper than the absolute/smiroff wank factor. Any other brands you know of?
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6-Mar-2010 3:19:12 PM
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You should go to aldi. Its called VODKA and it says it on the label - actually that's all it says. Handy too if you run out of petrol (you may need to dilute it though).
On the subject of russian/ukranian quotes there is one from gogol (I think) about the two national pasttimes being
"mushrooming and wifebeating" he probably just assumed drinking.
BTW I'm sitting in a bar watching a crazy storm with golfball hailstones right now. I did have shit to do today but I think I'll stay here where its safe.
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6-Mar-2010 4:49:11 PM
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Alas, Aldi stores don't sell grog in NSW.
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