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Post by BadBeast on Jul 3, 2012 6:45:41 GMT -5
“I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!' Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that.” ― Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small IslandInteresting fact. The Bluestones were floated down the Severn, around the South Coast, and up the Hampshire Avon. |
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Post by BadBeast on Jul 5, 2012 17:28:56 GMT -5
Professor Brian Cox, on Cern's announcement re: Discovery of Higgs Bosun announced in Comic Sans
"Using Comic Sans (except in comic strips) is like doing physics in Imperial units"
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Post by marisol on Jul 6, 2012 10:29:31 GMT -5
Magnets, how do they work then?
Witchcraft babe!
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Post by BadBeast on Jul 6, 2012 13:04:33 GMT -5
Magnets, how do they work then? Witchcraft babe! Not true. You can sprinkle Holy Water on a Magnet, and it still works. |
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Post by firesong on Jul 6, 2012 13:09:01 GMT -5
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
~Thomas Jefferson
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Post by BadBeast on Jul 6, 2012 13:26:41 GMT -5
"Now we've got them exactly where they want us" James Tiberius Kirk (Cptn)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2012 13:33:07 GMT -5
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. -- Harry S. Truman
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 6, 2012 13:40:49 GMT -5
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman
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Post by marisol on Jul 6, 2012 13:44:06 GMT -5
Magnets, how do they work then? Witchcraft babe! Not true. You can sprinkle Holy Water on a Magnet, and it still works. Who said magnets aren't holy or witches? The Vatican? |
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 6, 2012 13:46:48 GMT -5
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
Aeschylus
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro
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Post by Random Panther on Jul 7, 2012 13:54:44 GMT -5
Science,my boy,is made up of mistakes,but they are mistakes which it is useful to make,because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne's Professor Lidenbrock-Journey To The Centre Of The Earth.
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Post by BadBeast on Jul 7, 2012 15:56:20 GMT -5
"Alchemy is a chaste Prostitute, who has many lovers, but disappoints all, and grants her favours to none. She transforms the haughty into fools, the rich, into paupers, the Philosophers into dolts, and the decieved, into loquacious lovers." Trithemious
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Post by BadBeast on Jul 9, 2012 19:49:51 GMT -5
"I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stirs the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs, whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof!
They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this"
the priest of the princes,
Ankh-f-n-khonsu.
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Post by BadBeast on Jul 9, 2012 20:17:19 GMT -5
"Since a great deal of primate behavior was considered just
awful, most of the domesticated primates spent most of their
time trying to conceal what they were doing.
Some of the primates got caught by other primates. All of
the primates lived in dread of getting caught.
Those who got caught were called no-good shits" R.A.W.
Also,
"Since words contain both denotations (referents in the
sensory-existential world) and connotations (emotional tones and
poetic or rhetorical hooks), humans can be moved to action even
by words which have no real meaning or reference in actuality.
This is the mechanism of demagoguery, advertising and much of
organized religion"
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Post by Random Panther on Jul 10, 2012 18:47:38 GMT -5
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures;because the Earth never froze entirely during an ice age;because a small tenuous species,arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago,has managed,so far,to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ''higher'' answer-but none exists
---Stephen Jay Gould
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