Dr Wingnut

Month: September 2007

  • Assured mutual destruction

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    The following blurb was in the table of contents in Time, 1 October, 2007 issue under the item for the cover story, “Who owns the Arctic?”:With ice caps melting, competing nations see not catastrophe but oil-filled billions.How unbelievably greedy do we need to be before we wipe ourselves out, the latest of our systematic extinction…

  • Good advice

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    To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.Will Durant

  • People who’ve lost too many brain cells

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    “They” are still out there — in force…ONERecently, when I went to McDonald’s I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.  I asked for a half dozen nuggets.“We don’t have half dozen nuggets,” said the teenager at the counter.“You don’t?” I replied.“We only have six,…

  • Work

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    Work while you have the light.  You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.Henri-Frédéric Amiel

  • Woodpeckers

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    A Hawaiian woodpecker and a California woodpecker were arguing about which place had the toughest trees.  The Hawaii woodpecker said Hawaii had a tree that no Woodpecker could peck.  The California woodpecker accepted his challenge, flew to hawaii and pecked a hole in the tree with no problem.The Hawaiian woodpecker was in awe.The California woodpecker…

  • Play

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    Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.Evan Esar

  • Magazine Ads Of Yesteryear

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    via email from Bob Rosen, Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:17:52 -0700