lol...

"If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment"
-Maura Cooper

There is no need for you to keep track of your misstakes, everyone else will do that for you.

There are some mistakes it's better to learn for yourself :-)

There are some things in life that you have to do right the first time. -Uncle Jerry

TR

Sorry save. After almost 200 hours of "setting pins" for Marksmen I was just a bit weary. (For any of you young people reading this, before they had "automatic pin setters" at bowling allies the "pin setter" was human.)

Darius^
Joined 10/6/2002
Posts : 29
Posted : Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 19:50
I think the lesson here is that a victory that takes forever and costs too much is just no good.

Last Edited : Friday, January 17, 2003 - 06:55


savetuba
Joined 11/5/2001
Posts : 438
Posted : Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 20:04
hey put that in the words of wisdom post.


TaurusRex
Joined 6/14/2002
Posts : 373
Posted : Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 20:09 edit
It's already in the dictionary and the Greek history books.

Try looking up the definition of "pyrrhic victory".

TR


savetuba
Joined 11/5/2001
Posts : 438
Posted : Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 20:17
Main Entry: pyr·rhic
Pronunciation: 'pir-ik
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin pyrrhichius, from Greek (pous) pyrrhichios, from pyrrhichE, a kind of dance
Date: 1626
: a metrical foot consisting of two short or unaccented syllables

Main Entry: Pyr·rhic
Pronunciation: 'pir-ik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Pyrrhus, king of Epirus who sustained heavy losses in defeating the Romans
Date: 1885
: achieved at excessive cost <a Pyrrhic victory>; also : costly to the point of negating or outweighing expected benefits <a great but Pyrrhic act of ingenuity>

so TR is it a pyrrhic victory or a Pyrrhic victory?




TaurusRex
Joined 6/14/2002
Posts : 373
Posted : Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 21:02 edit
save no comment other then it got you there didn't it?

TR


savetuba
Joined 11/5/2001
Posts : 438
Posted : Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 21:28
yes it did get me there.

PS:
save doesn't the use of quotation marks (i.e. "pyrrhic victory") give me a sort of "poetic license" or something? Afterall it wasn't King Pyrrhus who won this "Pyrrhic victory".

TR

If you want a poetic license i'm sellin' 'em £10er each..Mwahahahahahaahha

Do you have to take a test??

Nope.In fact,if you vote tarim player of the month he'll make sure you never have to take a test ever again.
And that's not just another empty election promise!

Did you hear the one about "Snow White and the Six Little Wheels"? I know that you are all thinking what happened to the 7th little wheel?

He was the squeaky one that got the grease.)

TR

"Diplmoacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" til you can find a rock"

and

"Your head creates your world"

and finally..

"DONT LEAVE MAL UNATTENDED IN A FORUM WHEN HES BORED"

'Teenage Dirty Fighting Sofas' should sort you out,Mal!
'...Heroes in a half-price sale'.

hehehe

Hey, never turn your back on those Teenage Mutant Ninja Sofa's!

When they aren't busy kickin back eating pizza and chasing reporters.. They'll eat any lazy asses that they come across..

hehe

..and they're never short of change!

Exactly!

So they can buy an endless supply of trinkets!
(*thinks about Shenmue and laughs*)

Thanks "Elader"
for your compliment in your "one liner thread"
but I'm an old guy and I'm not up to date with some expressions;
So yes I guess a "one liner" is meant to be a comical statement in one sentence, but I thought as long as it was some famous one line statement it would be acceptable.

So anyway I'm sorry for causing the disruption in your thread even though I don't think you personally objected to my post but here they are again for my old friend
"Egregius" and anyone else who was interested in them:

I admit that I don't know all the names of the people who said these "one liners";
but I know plenty of "one liners."

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
-"John Wayne"

"Know thyself for the unexamined life is not worth living."
-"Socrates"

"I shall return."-"Douglas MacArthur

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
-"Nathan Hale"?

"Give me liberty or give me death."-"Patrick Henry"

"The evil that men do lives after them but the good is often interred with their bones."-"Mark Antony" from "William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar"

"I have not yet begun to fight."-"John Paul Jones"

"Be sure you're right and then go ahead."-"Davy Crocket"?

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."-"Theodore Roosevelt"

"Et tu Brute?" i.e. "And you too Brutus?"-"Julius Caesar to his friend Brutus" who had just added his blade to the assassination of his friend from "William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar"

"Veni, vidi, vici." i.e. "I came, I saw, I conquered."
-"Julius Caesar"

"Somebody up there likes me."-"Rocky Graziano"

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."-???

"One if by land and two if by sea."-??? was the signal for "Paul Revere"

"I have no respect for a man who doesn't love his mother."
-TaurusRex

"We're only passing through my friend."-my Uncle

"Father forgive them for they know not what they do."

PS:
I found that I'm close enough with Nathan Hale's quote.
I wonder why this thread went under because I thought we were having fun with it. I guess we ran out of
"words of wisdom".

TR

Last Edited : Friday, 5 November 2004 - 19:13

Don't expect a 21 year old woman to hang around for very long, they have too many opportunities.

Mark Twain:

Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.*

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Sacred Cows make the best hamburgers

Be careful about reading Health books, you may die of a misprint.

*my favorite

Last Edited : Friday, 5 November 2004 - 13:34

One serious, one silly.

"When the pure, clean calf is raised with the pigs, it too will learn to eat dirt."

"Ya know, death is just natures was of saying 'hey, you're not alive any more!'"

Just because you're gentlemanly and constructive doesn't mean she can't or won't make you out to be a dog," Gregg says. "In my experience, too many women have an innate sense of entitlement, part of which is that they have the right to never be offended, inconvenienced or hurt. And making a clear, mature gesture to minimize the pain you might cause them by ending things nevertheless condemns you to their wrath for having the audacity to think you have the right to make that decision at all, no matter how you handle it. So when you set the goal of not coming off like a rat, do it because it's the right thing to do, not because you hope she might give you some brownie points
for one week you stand straight, tuck in your stomach, hold your head high, and smile at those you meet. Based on many such experiments, Wainwright predicts you will begin to be treated with more warmth and respect and start attracting more people to you.

We do not stop playing because we grow old;

we grow old because we stop playing.

Intelligence is looked so highly upon in our society that it is relieved of all the burden of leadership.
-Mark Twain