Quote for the Day!

“I put a few strange things up on Webshots yesterday that I'd found cruising the internet... including an image of the Zappa poster I got on the Them or Us tour, <G> (the one with the One Oven Mitt á là Michael Jackson)

Today, unfortunately, I got a nasty email from Webshots about copyright infringement, LOL. They deleted the whole photo album, <grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr>


Man. Looks like the #&%!$'s about to hit the fan over there....”

“Webshots did that? No sense of humor, I guess...

Looks like the fan gonna spew in many places in the next few days too”

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
--Dwight Eisenhower 1953 speech”

“The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!

Robert Burns
from To A Mouse”

“"This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them." - Gracie Allen

"I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet." - Erma Bombeck

"I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster." - Joe E. Lewis

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead." - Woody Allen

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet." - Fran Lebowitz

"Health food makes me sick." - Calvin Trillin

"Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face." - Enrico Caruso

"Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get." - Robert Orben

"Artichokes ... are just plain annoying ... After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual 'food' out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking thirty or forty postage stamps. Have the shrimp cocktail instead." - Miss Piggy

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." -Sam Levinson”

“I am tired of four walls and a ceiling; I have need of the grass.

--Richard Hovey, Along the Trial: Spring

Amen to that!”

“I'm looking for a quote, either by the great john muir, or quoted by him in one of his books... somewhere along the lines of, You learn more by travelling poor.

I can't remember where it's from, anybody have any idea's?”

“SImmer190 --

There is a qute by Thoreau along those lines.

It has to do with traveling "the rails" to Fitchburg (a town near boston). Whether his friend is better off earning the price of the ticket and taking the train to get there, or, like Thoreau, simply walking the 30 miles and enjoying the trip for the trips sake.


let me google it.”

“yeah, i know that one too... but that's not the one i was thinking of, i remember that one from walden...”

“yup . .from walden.


Google is god.

One says to me, "I wonder that you do not lay up money; you love to travel; you might take the cars and go to Fitchburg today and see the country." But I am wiser than that. I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try who will get there first. The distance is thirty miles; the fare ninety cents. That is almost a day's wages. I remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road. Well, I start now on foot, and get there before night; I have travelled at that rate by the week together. You will in the meanwhile have earned your fare, and arrive there some time tomorrow, or possibly this evening, if you are lucky enough to get a job in season. Instead of going to Fitchburg, you will be working here the greater part of the day. And so, if the railroad reached round the world, I think that I should keep ahead of you; and as for seeing the country and getting experience of that kind, I should have to cut your acquaintance altogether.”

“Fear is like fire, if you can't control it will burn you. If you can, its a very powerful force.

My dad.

He always had a bunch of cool sayings like that.”

“Life is short have a cigar!

8)”

“Life is short have unprotected sex!

8)”

“Good one!

8)”

“"If brains were gas you wouldn't have enough to power a piss-ant's moped around a BB!"

-- Nigal's Dad”

“"I will give [George W. Bush] the same level of support and encouragement that was given to the [Clinton] administration by such luminaries as Tom DeLay, Trent Lott, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Scaife, Ted Olson, Pat Robertson and, of course, George W. himself. In other words, I will badmouth the president daily, I will work in whatever small way I can to defeat and undermine his programs and agenda, I will believe every scurrilous lie told about him and I will criticize and ridicule his wife and children at every opportunity."
--Paul Kirkpatrick, December 2000”

“"So who the hell is Paul Kirkpatrick and why should anyone give a rat's @ss what he thinks?"

Father Goose, March 2003”

“Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldy they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.

--Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade”

“One of the great British military mistakes”

“"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

-S. G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire”

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but Defeat is always a bastard.- JFK”

“Sorry, had to jump in. That's one of my all-time favorites.”

“"Do that which you fear to do, and that fear will die"
--Emerson
"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"
--my training officer a few years ago.”

“Paybacks are heck.

-- Anon.”

“"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." -- Mark Twain”

“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. -- 1 Cor 1:27”

“"I need a drink. A drink a day will keep the shrink away."”

“Hey! They're lighting their arrows! Can they do that?

Dammit Jim, I'm a floor wax, not a dessert topping!

ERROR #0492: Sector not found. Search behind couch?

Confucius say Lady who go camping must beware of evil intent.

If I told you once I told you twice, "Pillage FIRST, THEN burn!!"”

“"A mans prosperity can be judged by the depth of his tire tread"”

“What's the point of going out? We're just going to wind up back here anyway.

-- Homer Simpson”

“Never be flippantly rude to elderly strangers in foreign hotels. They always turn out to be the King of Sweden.
-- “Saki” (H.H. Munro)”

“We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare...Thanks to Trail Talk, we now know this is not possible.”

“Don't be talking 'bout lyra's monkeys!!!”

“Its easier to ask for forgiveness after, than get permission before.”

“All warfare is based on deception.

Sun Tzu”

“"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."

President William Clinton”

“"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

Benjamin Fraanklin”

“nice one FG”

“...so long as the lamb passes a thorough background check, and he isn't excessively armed, like with tank destroying grenade launchers.”

“Actually, Ben only had one 'a' in his last name...^_^”

“Hi,

My name is Tarp Rat...

I have been on this board since it began... I started many a thread and helped many people with choosing the right gear (TNF). And I left the board in 2001 because many of the threads became racist after 9-11 and I felt that I no longer wanted to associate with these people. I recently came back and started to voice my opinions about the current crisis in Iraq. I know many people disagree with me, and that's fine! However, I should be allowed to state my views just as everyone else. I was recently banned from the board, my IP disabled. I was told this was because of my off-topic posting, but this is a false claim because the threads I was posting to were completely off topic and unrelated to backpacking in the first place. I just wanted to say that this is unfair. Have a nice day… and let the games begin!

;-o”

“Hi,

My name is Tarp Rat...

I have been on this board since it began... I started many a thread and helped many people with choosing the right gear (TNF). And I left the board in 2001 because many of the threads became racist after 9-11 and I felt that I no longer wanted to associate with these people. I recently came back and started to voice my opinions about the current crisis in Iraq. I know many people disagree with me, and that's fine! However, I should be allowed to state my views just as everyone else. I was recently banned from the board, my IP disabled. I was told this was because of my off-topic posting, but this is a false claim because the threads I was posting to were completely off topic and unrelated to backpacking in the first place. I just wanted to say that this is unfair. Have a nice day… and let the games begin!

;-o”

“Desirable Qualities for Sailing Crew (or Hiking Partners):

Strong, swift and agile with a bent toward telepathy.
Doesn't bruise easily; doesn't complain when bruised.
Enjoys being cold, wet and hungry.”

“"yoga has become popular , but i say, what has become popular is not Yoga"~~~~Amrit Desai”

“Looks like I win...

Have fun freely debating your biased views and hanging out your destructive laundry. I am no longer welcomed here and I no longer seek the webmasters welcome. Someone can’t take criticism and can’t admit they were wrong.

NOTE: Remember we are all pathetic and worthless, and not unlike a maggot on a wound, humans are destroying the earth. It would be to the earths benefit if we parish. Remember this the next time you get in your car and head to work. You are trying to build something out of nothing. You are nothing, you only exist in your own mind, and you have most likely never fully comprehended or accepted your eventual demise. Think about it tonight… just imagine yourself gone. Feel free to cry, fully embrace it until you become immune. For it is a wonderful thing not to exist… it is something you should cherish. You can now walk into the woods knowing that it doesn’t matter if you come out… you are no more important than the road kill you pass on the road. Say hi next time you drive by, and realize that it was you. No funeral necessary. OM MANI PADME HUM!”

“that's a long quote...”

“"While wandering, you experience a kind of mysteriously organic process. It's like a tree growing. It doesn't know where it's growing next."

-- Joseph Campbell”

“"Why don't you write books people can read?"

-- Nora Joyce to her husband James”

“"I'm not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing."

(theft worthy quote from poster on another board)”

“Resist much. Obey little.


-Walt Whitman”