Quote of the day board

Grantisms:

"I feel like I'm walking on thin air" Lisa Orff 9/22/06

"I'm behind the PowerBall" Lisa Orff tubing on South 7/9/06

"I guess I let the cat out of the hat" Bill grant 1/17/05

"I can't think of it off the top of my hand" Fosco 11/20/4

"he was sputtering and sperming all over the place" unknown

"that's an irreportable untrueism" Bill Grant 4/18/4

"I never leave early...what are you incinerating" Joe Lawrence 11/23/3

"she's going to rant and rage at him" Mary Picchi 11/20/3

"we will unturn every stone" Gov. Baldacci (ME) 9/15/3

"I full-heartedly endorse that" Bill Grant 8/24/3

"I'm in the mindframe now" Lisa Orff 5/17/3

"The altimiter is going up like a rock". Bill Grant 2/15/3

"as you can see we're not out of the clear yet" Cheryl Doyle (WCSH weather)

"it's not rocket surgery" unknown

"we've got people from all planets on earth in this state" Gov. Grey Davis (CA)

"I'm going to have to put my fist down" Kellie Sbardella

"I'm Gruntled" GR

Words:

"Clutterbug" - Tyler Liberatore 5/29/9 (Ref MWP)

"Suspeculated" That's what we suspeculated would happen.- FD 9/21/04

"Funderfull" - a new word meaning fun and wonderfull?...no it's just fu*&%#@ wonderful. Comedy Central 4/22/04

"Automagically" - Caution: Door will open automagically. Disneyworld

"Innoventions" - Exhibit name at Disneyworld

"Disremember" - I used to know that once but I disremembered it. Mary Picchi

"Boschester" - JG (New combined ATC facility Boston & Manchester

"Angulated" YO

"Bibilistic" LB

"Grubnik" MC 7/20/10

Good Quotes:

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"If you can't be good... be careful" Shaun Smith 6/19/09

"I can break Sean Hannity by giving him a middle seat in coach!" Wanda Sykes at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner 2009

“Yes, it’s illegal, but so was Rosa Parks sitting in the front of the bus.” unidentified botnet researcher refering to plans to use a worm to alert users to a virus’ presence. Jan 2009

'The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.' -- Albert Einstein  

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." Unknown

"Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it" Unknown

"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!" P.J. O'Rourke

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." George Bernard Shaw

Mr. Sammons’s ambition has always been in the classical style, and he is unforgiving when talking about modern architecture, which he feels is perverse for the sake of perversity. “We are still affected by the pull of gravity and rain,” he said. “The inputs haven’t changed.”

Richard Sammons, a Manhattan architect,

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." Thomas Jefferson

"My respect for nature is predicated on the harm it wants to do to me."
Peter Coviello, Ice fisherman December 2007

"I don't believe this is a low point in this presidency, I believe it is just a lull before a comeback." Stephen Colbert on George Bush, April 2007

"if you drink too much from a bottle marked poison, it's almost certain to disagree with you sooner or later" Alice in Wonderland

"everything I care about will either die or turn to dust" Me 12/17/06

"some things are true even if George Bush believes them" 12/17/06

"You cannot train a snake to bite someone else.” Hamid Karzai 9/27/06

"in Texas, they say, gun control means using both hands" NYTimes 7/14/06

"if you want to premote abstinance...premote marrige" Michael Feldman 12/18/04

"that's an equine of a diverse hue" Mike Diggins 11/21/4

"adopt a pet peeve" Mary Picchi

"it's what we call the middle coast" Garrison Keeler reffering to living on the Mississippi. 5/16/4

"without the darkness, how would we recognize the light?" Tuvok (Cold Fire) 11/13/95

"never attribute to malice what can be perfectly explained by incompetance" unknown

"I wish I had the words...even if they're the wrong ones" KC 8/8/4

"Time flys when you're tubing" LS 8/6/4

"I want to build my sick leave balance back up so I can start using it" EL 7/12/4

"it's easier to get forgiveness than permission" Mark Haskell 5/24/3

"all one needs is good old common sence...Ooops" GR 5/17/4

"I reserve the right to be difficult" JB 5/16/4

"being stupid is a much more comfortable position to be in" Mike Wood 2/5/3

"salad is what you feed the cow to make it taste good" Prarie Home Companion 11/14/4

Selected quotes of Sir Winston Churchill:

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
(on the eve of his 75th birthday)

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
(speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954)

Mark Twain:

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself."

"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."

"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."

"There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress."

Useful Words:

Malware - computer virus or worm

Flummoxed - perplexed, confused.

Miscreant - an evil doer...a villian

Irascible - prone to outburst "irascible and profane"

Scullduggery - verbal misrepresentaion intended to take advantage of you in some way

Tomfoolery - foolish or senseless behavior

Buffoonery - acting like a clown or buffoon

Hooliganism - willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others

Befuddled - filled with bewilderment

Curmudgeon - a crusrt irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas

Balderdash - trivial nonsense

Malarkey - silly behavior or nonsense

Amphigory - nonsensical writing

Hokum - a message that seems to convey no meaning

Flubdubben - pretentious nonsense

Cajolery - flattery intended to persuade

Raconteur - One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.

Shambolic - (UK Slang) disorderly or chaotic

Symbiont - the "lesser" creature in a symbiotic relationship...the larger is the "host".

Fuggetaboudit - Ok Tony...whatever you say.

priapism

Mis-speakes of George W. Bush:

"border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better" 9/24/01

"I've not made up our mind about military action" 3/6/03

"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."

"The future will be better tomorrow."

"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."

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