The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
–Carl Jung
So long for now, George….
- The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine.
- The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
- There are two pips in a beaut, four beauts in a lulu, eight lulus in a doozy, and sixteen doozies in a humdinger. No one seems to know how many humdingers there are in a lollapalooza.
- Tonight’s Forcast: dark, It will be mostly dark tonight, followed by widely scattered light in the morning.
- Wanna help your kids? Leave them the fuck alone!!!
- I’ve never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.
- One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you’re too tired.
- When you sneeze, all the numbers in your head go up by one.
- Why do people say “I’m going to take a shit”?… They don’t take a shit, they leave one.
Thoughts by George Carlin….he’ll be missed…..he’ll be remembered….
Happy Father’s Day……
“By profession, I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father.” ~ General Douglas MacArthur
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” ~ Theodore Hesburgh
“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.” ~ Anonymous
“What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.” ~ Jean Paul Richter
“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” ~ Clarence Budington Kelland
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” ~ Ruth E. Renkel
“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.” ~ Author Unknown
“There are three stages of a man’s life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.” ~ Author Unknown
Struggles…
In your thoughts of distant moonbeams,
In the cafes of your mind,
Do you see, the tribesman yelling,
Or lords and ladies, so refined?
Is your struggle with all the ‘others’,
While you alone are doing ‘right’?
Perhaps, you’ve created your own delusion,
Perhaps, that’s why you don’t sleep at night.
See the struggle of the pyramids,
See the lives ground in the mill?
Do you still feed the bull whip master,
Or, have you reached your wisdoms fill?
Carry on , my weak willed brethren.
Be the part that does not squeak.
Come to me the day you realize,
Money isn’t all you seek.
CAWatson 06/14/2008
Bruce Lee…..
- Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
- This statement probably derives from a famous one of Jiddu Krishnamurti: “Truth is a pathless land.”
From Bruce Lee’s Tao of Jeet Kune do 1975
Presidential Age at Inauguration
This guy has put together a floating chart, including Obama and McCain….interesting….easy visual to see it.
http://mengwong.livejournal.com/54885.html
75 years of Drive-In movies….
Wired did a great, short history of the Drive-In and brought memories, flooding back…..take a look…
June 6, 1933: A Car, a Movie, Some Popcorn and Thou
1933: The world’s first drive-in movie theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
The concept was developed by Richard Hollingshead Jr., who experimented with various projection and sound techniques in the driveway of his house. Using a 1928 Kodak projector mounted on the hood of his car and aimed at a screen pinned to some trees, Hollingshead worked out the spacing logistics to make sure that all cars had an unobstructed view of the screen.
He received a patent for his idea in May 1933 and opened his first drive-in theater only three weeks later. They quickly fanned out across the country.
Their popularity soared after World War II, when Americans started having kids in droves. (Can you say “Boom”?) The drive-in offered cheap family entertainment, a place where parents could take the kids without having to shell out for a baby sitter, or worry about them bothering other patrons.
In fact, that was Hollingshead’s original hook: “The whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are.”
Drive-in theaters tended toward B movies — Muscle Beach Party, Tarzan, Creature From the Black Lagoon and stuff like that — and always included a snack stand and a play area where the kids could go when they got bored. Which is what kids do.
Another feature of the early drive-in theater was the tinny sound, delivered to the car through a single, monaural speaker. As the technology improved over time — the car’s FM radio became the receiver in some cases — so did the sound.
The drive-in’s heyday lasted from the late 1950s until the mid-’60s, when nearly 5,000 theaters were operating in the United States. No cultural survey of the period would be complete without including the iconic drive-in movie theater.
Since drive-ins offered a certain amount of privacy, making out in the back seat of the car was a rite of passage for Teenus americanus, circa 1963. You could get it on in the front seat, too, if you had a column shift, or even a bench seat with four on the floor. But bucket seats? Forget it.
The rising cost of real estate was one of the factors that led to the decline of the drive-in. Especially for those theaters located in urban areas or heavily populated suburbs, the cost of doing business was becoming prohibitive. The popularity of walk-in theaters and video rentals didn’t help, either.
Nevertheless, drive-ins endure. Although fewer than 500 remain today, the industry appears to have stabilized. Those that survive often rely on additional sources of income to pay the rent, hence the popularity of drive-in-theater parking lots as flea markets, swap meets, motorcycle schools and even outdoor churches.
Source: Drive-ins.com, DriveinMovie.com, Wikipedia
another funny quote…..
“I’m thirty years old, but I read at a thirty-four-year-old level.”
Dana Carvey
