Profound Quotes For My 1000th Post

Sheesh, only took me 4 1/2 years to become a Dork.

From someone much wiser than moi:

“Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.”

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”

“Who was the first guy that looked at a cow and said," I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?”

“What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?”

“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”

Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes

I thought the parking lot in Hell was paved with good intentions until Joey and I visited during "the Rapture" turns out the place has a gravel drive.

JmfnB, 05/23/2011 9:54am EST

That second quote is one of my favorites.

Calvin - You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.

Hobbes - What mood is that?

Calvin - Last-minute panic.

Watterson is a genius!

I want to see a Sunday length, color strip of Spaceman Spiff battling zombie threads.

I try to live by this one:

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional."

I don't drink, and I don't condone excessive drinking, but I just like how this one reads:

"Life is not a waste of time, time is not a waste of life. So let's not waste any time, get wasted and have the time of our lives."

There's some Really Big Reasons why end of life hits me hard and I am often not able to sufficiently express my feelings why it happens to someone I know (or don't).


I know we never met and only talked on the phone a few times, but those were some of the most real conversations I ever had with anyone.   
I miss you, Barry.  And I really wish I could have completed the task you put before me before you had to leave.   I wanted to take one worry off your mind.    I hope you are at peace now.   You are still my hero.
 

In reply to Russian Warship, Go Berkeley Yourself :

I also only interacted with Barry a couple of times but I still think about him. 

If you're not walking out of the laundry room naked, you haven't done all of the laundry.