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Vew From The (Aphoristic) Bridge - Christmas Special
Clive Hale of View From The Bridge has released his Christmas Special note. We present it to our readers solely because it contains zero financial analysis, numbers, data and what not - with the year almost over, the last thing people care about is further analysis about just how hopeless everything is when one cuts through the male cow manure. Instead, the letter is replete with precisely the kind of stuff we enjoy the most - that which makes people think.
From View from the Bridge
At this time of year it is traditional to peer into the future to see what the New Year might bring, but, like you dear reader, I haven’t got a clue so here are some random quotes I have come across over the past year that I hope you will enjoy instead.
Dear Noah, We could have sworn you said the Ark wasn't leaving till 5. Sincerely, Unicorns
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a parliament. John Adams
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. G. Gordon Liddy
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. James Bovard
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Sir Winston Churchill
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true and it will sound like it's from Neptune. Noam Chomsky
If you don't trust gold, do you trust the logic of taking a pine tree, worth $4,000-$5,000, cutting it up, turning it into pulp, putting some ink on it and then calling it one billion dollars? Kenneth J Gerbino
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers
Some little known Zen teachings
- No one is listening until you pass wind.
- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
- Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- There are two excellent theories for arguing with women. Neither one works.
And finally – “The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it’s difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine” Abraham Lincoln
A very Merry Christmas to all of you who have put up with my diatribes during 2011 and may you continue to do so and prosper, but not necessarily as a result, in 2012.
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"Dear Noah, We could have sworn you said the Ark wasn't leaving till 5. Sincerely, Unicorns"
Excellent!
"Dear fellow ZHers, please tell me the day of the collapse, so I can sell my paper assets the week before and buy physical." - Robo
"Remove the forces of natural selection from the environment and you will end up with a population of idiots."
Nothing says "It's Christmas!" like a quote from G. Gordon Liddy.
the guy still wares polyester suits, seriously - i sat next to him, and hasn't yet mastered basic hygiene to boot!
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." – Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
Let me reiterate for the benefit of stubborn males everyone and to one in particular:
There are two excellent theories for arguing with women. Neither one works.
(just purely because fun is fun):
This time keep that !! ball on the ground woman! - your pal Chuck
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Thank you.
I enjoyed them all.
Best of the Season to you and your family.
All fiat currencies sink..just at different rates.
Nope -- “The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it’s difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine” Abraham Lincoln
That's my favorite
Yep, Lincoln and internet. Actually I think Lincoln would be to smart for this quote but it's still funny.
Truthfully, with all the corruption that is our government, I am not sure even Lincoln could survive.
Lincoln was the first American imperial aggressor! He should be retrospectively hung for being the first to use the US government against its own people and in total defiance of the Constitution.
Something gives me an inkling that you are a closet Rebel.
For a nanosecond, I thought he way quoting from the other side, no?
Do-Be-Do-Be-Do! Frank Sinatra
If you want to hit the jackpot, you have to put a few nickels in the machine - Flip Wilson
got gold?
I've got a question for silver bugs:
On ebay, silver prices are way over spot, I keep on getting outbid. Does anybody else see this to?
the reason you're forever getting out-bid is because you're cheap
i hope i've helped in some small way toward improving your bidding technique
Now, now. It's not cheapness, but preference for fiat at a given price point.
(Cheapness implies that the fiat has value.)
Since the smashdown in 2008. I rarely ever see prices anywhere close to spot on there.
Of course, I consider ebay to be a better price discovery mechanism than the paper tiger that did the smashing.
Yes, Ebay is physical silver coins, not paper rights in silver that may not exist.
Never get in a bidding war with people dumber than you.
The "spot" price now just tracks the price of paper silver. If you want to go the whole hog and actually buy some metal, you have to stump up a little extra and pay the "physical" price. The fact that these two price discovery mechanisms are diverging has long been predicted, and it is going to become much more pronounced.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a parliament. John Adams
...and six useless men makes Super Committee
you wouldn't happen to know where i left my bong, would you?
slewie:If I knew that I wouldn't be here, I'd be smoking it
Slewie, maybe in the freezer next to the crushed ice, or in the cabinet over the fridge where you keep the Doritos?
That was amusing. I loved the John Adams quote. The currency paper is a rag paper, cloth fibers, manufactured by Crane & Co. in North Adams, MA. At least it was, back when I lived in that county. There was always a big story about it in The Berkshire Eagle newspaper. Well, keep yer stick on the ice, yer powder dry, and remember that a herd of swine makes more sense than Congress, when they speak.
http://georgesblogforum.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-daily-climb-2/
Thomas Edison said ---- " Genius is one percent inspiration & 99% perspiration"
Also, "There is no expedient to which man will not go to escape the true labor of thinking"
my favorite . . .
Early to bed
Early to rise
Your girl goes out with other guys.
On that note: "They leave you for the same reason you found them."
people talk -
while -
others listen -
what matters most, is -
who will whisper dry the haranque`hangers -
morrors flaccid diatribe fused with yesterdays gibberish
"I stood still and was a tree amid the wood, Knowing the truth of things unseen before"
- Ezra Pound
Merry Christmas everyone.
Don't ever let the scroogies kill your Spirit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJi6cQtVE-c&feature=related
"If you're so smart, why ain't you rich."
My father
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
It's one of the opening lines from 1776. I just got it on dvd for christmas. She got the 2 oz perth tiger. We are both happy. Althou I think she came out on top.