Favorite Quotes

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=amy link=topic=5016.msg31137#msg31137 date=1162856971]

Gotta run, I've got product to ship and customers to screw!

Pompous Jay, said during a pleasant conversation on OTWA, summer of 2005, shortly before he manifestoed from OTWA 
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OMG, what kind of a bloody idiot would say a thing like that in public even if he is an  mileyazwipe:  ?!!

[BellisimaJ.]

Musings Re:Stupidity

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

8)

Bill Cosby

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln (attributed):

Edited to add:

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Nick Diamos

[BellisimaJ.]

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

[jezebel]

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
        Albert Einstein

[BellisimaJ.]

Stupid people are not always malicious, but malicious people are always stupid. Karma does have a strong tendency to bite you in the   

Attributed to:myself

[BellisimaJ.]

Michigan State University will no longer be considered for our annual list of party schools because we feel it is unfair to include professionals on a list of amateurs.

-Playboy magazine


My alma mater.

[bargainbloodhound]

I don't think my alma mater ever made it on that list, but then again what do you expect from a school whose sports teams were called The Violets (and where Neil Diamond (fencing)  is the school's most famous athlete ) 

[regic]

a school whose sports teams were called The Violets

I'm convinced their "we have sports teams" claim was a lie.  I never met anyone who played on any team.  :blinkie:

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=5016.msg32468#msg32468 date=1163947540]
I don't think my alma mater ever made it on that list, but then again what do you expect from a school whose sports teams were called The Violets (and where Neil Diamond (fencing)  is the school's most famous athlete ) 
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Hey! My Dad was on the fencing team when he was in college! 8)

The Violets?

[regic]

[quote author=BellisimaJ. link=topic=5016.msg32509#msg32509 date=1163964361]

The Violets?

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He only had to deal with that reaction for 4 years.  I dealt with it for 10 (3 degrees). 

Laugh about this too while you're at it:

the Violets nickname was personified in the form of a walking, talking, acrobatic Violet. Clad in a skintight, green body suit; arms in the shape of green violet leaves; a necklace of large purple petals; and a purple face with yellow hair