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50 Random Messages
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"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
-- Douglas Adams |
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"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself."
-- Roseanne Barr |
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"I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house."
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor |
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Strange Fact:
You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags. |
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Interesting Fact:
The search engine Google got its name from the word "googol", which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it. |
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In History:
On August 9th 1942 the U.S. - Canada border is defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. |
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"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever."
-- Anonymous |
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
-- Mark Twain |
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My top 10 favorite movies:
Requiem for a Dream, Voyage of the Damned, Chasing Amy, Bring It On, Imitation of Life, Lost in Translation, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, Mon Oncle, The Blues Brothers, The Sorrow and the Pity |
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Happy Birthday Mom!
- Love, your daughter Cherry |
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
-- Epictetus |
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"CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'"
-- Conan O'Brien |
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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
-- Sir Winston Churchill |
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"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."
-- Katharine Whitehorn |
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"Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value."
-- Editorial in the Boston Post (1865) |
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World Record:
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. |
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"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country."
-- George W. Bush, on the Kyoto accord, April 24, 2001 |
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10 books I would like to read:
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood, The Boat of a Million Years - Poul Anderson, The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell, The Holcroft Covenant - Robert Ludlum, Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand, The House of Stairs - Barbara Vine, Diary of Adam and Eve - Mark Twain, Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders - Greg King, Rebels on the Backlot - Sharon Waxman, On the Road - Jack Kerouac |
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"Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."
-- Robin Williams |
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Strange Law:
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. |
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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left over by those who hustle."
-- Abraham Lincoln |
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Strange Law:
It is illegal to marry the spouse of a grandparent in Maine, Maryland, South Carolina, and Washington, DC. |
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Strange Fact:
Monks in the 16th century recorded seeing a giant explosion on the side of the Moon. It most likely was a large meteor that slammed into the Moon and left a large crater. |
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"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
-- David Friedman |
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"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man."
-- Socrates |
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Strange Law:
Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. |
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"Man walk on road. Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk down middle, sooner or later, get squished just like grape."
-- Mr. Miyagi |
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Strange Fact:
All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee. |
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"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy."
-- Woody Allen |
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Strange Fact:
If you are standing on a mountain top and the conditions are just right you can see a lit match from 50 miles away. |
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In History:
On August 9th 1936 Jesse Owens won his 4th gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. |
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"I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again."
-- Noel Coward |
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"People change and forget to tell each other."
-- Lillian Hellman |
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"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
-- Georges Duhamel |
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"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."
-- Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) |
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They came for the Communists, and I didn't object For I wasn't a Communist;
They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Socialist;
They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a labor leader;
They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Jew;
Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object."
-- Martin Niemoller |
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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
-- Tom Stoppard |
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World Record:
At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years. |
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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
-- Sir Winston Churchill |
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"I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lives next door complained."
-- Steven Wright |
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"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
-- Muhammad Ali |
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"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Strange Fact:
Undertakers report that human bodies do not deteriorate as quickly as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the modern diet contains so many preservatives that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposition too rapidly after death. |
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"I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother."
-- Artemus Ward |
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"I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy."
-- Frank Zappa |
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Historical Fact:
Louis XV was the first person to use an elevator: in 1743 his "flying chair" carried him between the floors of the Versailles palace. |
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I paid $1 and all I got was to spread this shitty message to the world! |
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
-- George Bernard Shaw |
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"The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee."
-- Tellis Frank |
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