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Posted: 8/29/2004 10:21:42 AM | Sexy? I've never been accused of that in my life.
Strange, certainly. Outside the norm...definitely. Sexy? Nope.
This is all too much for me on a Sunday.
Merci beaucoup, mon ami...et vous. | |
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Posted: 8/29/2004 2:28:33 PM | Goat I read some quotes and had to share these with you ...
Books worth reading are worth reading twice;
and what is most important of all,
the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.
John Morley
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an
idea of what he says, but to go off with him,
and travel in his company.
Andre Gride
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A library is a hospital for the mind.
~ Anonymous ~
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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man
far better than through mortal friends.
~ Dawn Adams ~
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to
mankind, which are delivered down from generation to
generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn,
~ Joseph Addison ~
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up
its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
~ Joseph Addison ~
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When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerers and
lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards --
their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon
imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say,
not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books
under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to
give them here. They have loved reading. (1932)
~ Virginia Woolf ~
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I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me.
I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the
course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me
some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
~ Malcolm X ~
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Posted: 8/29/2004 7:25:06 PM | Howdy, Zee. I haven't seen many of those quotes before now...I know, me with my five books of quotations that I've barely looked through.
Here's one that I have on my wall right in front of me now:
"What people believe is a function of what they are and what they are is a part of what has happened to them." -- William Golding.
I didn't really care for Lord of the Flies, but Mr. Golding has a point with that quote.
Thanks again Zee and I hope to see more building going on in that haven of yours. Love having you here in the barn with me too.
Okay, folks. Sleepy time. Tomorrow, then. | |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 7:24:04 PM | Thanks, Zee. I really should open the windows and get some of the smell out of here. It's seemed to have gone downhill here now that you, Goth, Dakota, X-angel, Matahari, Tinka (did I miss anyone?) don't spend a lot of time here. I need a woman's touch in this barn. I may even settle for a touch by a woman in this barn or otherwise...
Er..anyway...to the daily poem:
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Soundtrack? We Don’t Need No Steenking Soundtrack!
A radio station promised me it had
The soundtrack for my life
As I listened to it all day
I discovered they didn’t
They had too much crap in there
And not enough silence
No strains of Ave Maria
No Pie Jesu or Blazen Muzh
No fart sounds
No cacophonic moments
Not a bit of anything I like
Or have really heard
Or would pay attention to
If I paid for that radio station’s claim
I’d take it back
And tell them to cram it
With walnuts
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Well, it was the only thing that inspired me today. It may get better tomorrow. But then, it may get worse. Be prepared.
Tomorrow, then. Wet, stinky kisses to all. | |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 7:27:09 PM | See yer, Holly. You may want to wash that stinky kiss off before going to sleep. You may get a rash...it wouldn't aesthetically pleasing.
Night night. | |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 7:28:50 PM | ;)
no way, not everybody can say they gave a goat a kiss good night..
well some in the southern states.. but thats just.. erm.. nm..
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Posted: 8/30/2004 7:36:16 PM | ...er...traditional?
Any southerners in the crowd tonight? Anyone? No, I don't mean from Estevan...further south.
Nope? | |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 8:11:01 PM | my apologies goat, this would have been a perfect opportunity for some rather witty banter, but sadly, I have the cognitive ability of a dung beetle tonight..
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Posted: 8/30/2004 8:14:35 PM | Dung beetle? Now that was good.
And you say you have no wit, or that dung beetles don't exercise their wee minds while rolling balls of crap by spouting witty banter.
Didn't you say you were going to sleep? Coulda sworn you did... | |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 8:20:30 PM | lol, no i thought you were
premature "ni ni" on my part
I figure thats what i'm going to come back as (if there is such a thing as reincarnation).. knee deep in shit in this life, might as well be poking around in it in the next | |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 8:24:59 PM | Well, it may not be a premature "ni ni" on your part after all.
It's been an ugly day of paperwork for me, so I may be wandering away for the night.
The next life? Hmm...I think I'd want to be a tapeworm, if I had a choice. That would be cool. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2004 7:03:45 PM | Not too inspired today. How about a wee haiku?
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There is a lump in
My big tall glass of iced tea
Curious it is
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Hmm... better make it two:
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Funny how the sun
Wanders out during work time
Never after it
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Yeah, that'll do it for the night. Later peoples. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2004 7:08:48 PM | nice goat
I must confess, i never really fully understood or learned to appreciate the haiku..
and i think your supposed to take the tea bag out when u make iced tea..
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Posted: 8/31/2004 7:59:18 PM | Hey, Holly. Good to see ya. I was just about to wander away for the night...but...ah, you know how it is.
Haikus are a lazy form of poetry to me. A simple 5-7-5 syllabic structure and anything goes within it. Some people take them to a high art, but not me -- especially when I'm so uninspired.
Oh that lump in the iced tea wasn't a tea bag, if you know what I mean. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2004 8:16:25 PM | | I feel a lump in my throat when the Goat is uninspired. But I hope you will be like the sun...out again tomorrow...blazing hot with inspiration..sleep well Goat... | |
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Posted: 8/31/2004 8:39:29 PM | Well, I guess I lied a little. I didn't feel inspired in the way I want to be tonight. I did have a poem tumble out, but it's kinda moody. I thought about tucking it away, but then I figured...why not?
So...why not? After all, you fine people need something other than dreadful haikus to read.
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Hold
I remember the morning was nippy
It was cold
I remember that I longed for a grip
For a hold
In the wake of the news I was given
I was told
The awareness of your life being eaten away
Beyond control
I watched the clock tick by
The time rolled
The coffee that I purchased
It was sold
It became more than tepid
It was cold
All I could do was cling to it
Last thing to hold
As I sat there staring into it
The day turned to gold
I wondered if your heart would break
Or simply fold
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I didn't post this and I was never here. That smell is just the toilet backing up.
Tomorrow, then...for real. G'night. | |
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Posted: 9/1/2004 7:36:27 PM | Thanks, Holly. Slept great last night. You?
Well, now that I'm duly refreshed here's another fresh load:
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My Neighbour Sneezes
My neighbour sneezes
With religious zeal.
He sneezes as if he
Were begging the fates
For a Kleenex.
My neighbour sneezes
As if he were being beaten
With his own fist.
My neighbour sneezes
As if God Himself
Is checking his prostrate
With the same finger
He blessed humankind.
Who knows where that
Most holiest of fingers
Has been since?
My neighbour sneezes
As if the Universe
Was being split
Like a grape.
In space, no one
Can hear you sneeze.
But, in this building,
I can hear him fart.
My neighbour sneezes
Only once at a time.
And he yells like
Alvin the Chipmunk.
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Hey, it ain't art, but...
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I guess I can't justify it, either. Well, I'll see you guys later. | |
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Posted: 9/1/2004 7:43:05 PM | lol
nice..
can you write a "dumb neighbor" one??
my neighbor.. omg.. here are some of his "ism's" that drive me mental..
walmarK = walmart
magnet = maggot
dear pork chop = this i'm still trying to figure out.. not sure if he meant a deer chop or if they cross breed some insane deer/pig creature "dork" or "peer" or "dig"
the list goes on, but its making my head hurt...
and i slept ok tyvm :)
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