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J Christopher 08-01-2008 02:47 PM
A twist - Who said it?
 
"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will shape your life forever."

schneb 08-01-2008 07:54 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by NovaScotian (Post 485507)
He died in 1980.
Well, I KNEW that NovaScotian. ;)

I just mean whatever happened to that "down home, someone you can trust" style of advertising.

johngpt 08-01-2008 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by schneb (Post 485935)
Well, I KNEW that NovaScotian. ;)

I just mean whatever happened to that "down home, someone you can trust" style of advertising.
Those younger than us are jaded cynics and don't buy it? :)

Jay Carr 08-02-2008 02:44 AM
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Originally Posted by schneb (Post 485935)
Well, I KNEW that NovaScotian. ;)

I just mean whatever happened to that "down home, someone you can trust" style of advertising.
I don't know how much you've looked at old advertisements, but I'm rather inclined to believe that this pretty much has never existed. I mean, just one look at the cold remedy ads from the early 1900's... And who can forget what they used to say about Tobacco! Even the "down home" stuff you see on TV is just manipulation. KFC is, after all, a corporation, not your next door neighbor. He doesn't want you to try his chicken, he wants you to buy it.

The only people you can trust in their advertising are word of mouth advertisers that you've known and trusted for years (i.e., that one guy at the Apple store who's been there since system 1 and always tells it like it is.)

tw 08-02-2008 09:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by schneb (Post 485935)
Well, I KNEW that NovaScotian. ;)

I just mean whatever happened to that "down home, someone you can trust" style of advertising.
it fell victim to advertising.

seriously! to the extent that that kind of advertising ever works, some competitor will come along and try to convince you that that "down home, someone you can trust" person is a shill for some cold, heartless corporate monstrosity (i.e., "don't trust them because they're lying to you; trust us instead").

tlarkin 08-02-2008 10:19 PM
One of my recent favorites...

Quote:

Will the man with telekinesis please raise my hand?

-Kurt Vonnegut, RIP

johngpt 08-02-2008 11:16 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by tlarkin (Post 486096)
One of my recent favorites...
Another from Mr. Vonnegut:

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

johngpt 08-02-2008 11:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by tlarkin (Post 486096)
One of my recent favorites...
Tom, I think you'll appreciate this one. From an interview with Vonnegut.

Quote:
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC
As quoted in "Vonnegut's Blues For America" Sunday Herald (7 January 2006)

tlarkin 08-03-2008 02:32 PM
I like Vonnegut a lot, here is a Douglas Adams quote that I love too.

Quote:
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move
I have always wanted to make that quote into a T-Shirt or something.

NovaScotian 08-03-2008 02:55 PM
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
-- Dave Barry

NovaScotian 08-03-2008 08:44 PM
2% of the people think, 3% of the people think they think, and 95% would rather die than think.
-- G. B. Shaw

J Christopher 08-04-2008 09:45 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by johngpt (Post 486103)
Another from Mr. Vonnegut:

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
So it goes.

tlarkin 08-04-2008 09:50 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by J Christopher (Post 486324)
So it goes.
I am reading Slaughter House Five right now as we speak, great book,

so it goes

ArcticStones 08-13-2008 10:08 AM
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Exam question: Define universe. Give three examples.

tlarkin 08-13-2008 10:24 AM
A bit more than a quote, I know, but I like it.

Quote:
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.


Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April, for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.


It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
-Vonnegut

benwiggy 08-13-2008 11:36 AM
"Of course I haven't fulfilled my potential! What could be worse than fulfilling my potential? What would I do then?"
The late, great Peter Cook.

NovaScotian 08-13-2008 11:37 AM
Wasn't Vonnegut talking about bluetooth cell phone earpieces and iPods -- some might say they had this effect. A fully-wired young lady walked into the passenger door of my car yesterday while I was stopped at a stop sign -- seemed very surprised I was there.

tommaso 08-26-2008 07:14 PM
And, of course, the answer to the age-old "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?":
If a woodchuck could chuck wood, a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck.

seeker777 09-02-2008 01:17 PM
"There are 10 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary code, and those that don't."

seeker777 09-02-2008 01:19 PM
There are two secrets to success in this world:
1. Never tell people everything you know.


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