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spitfirebill
spitfirebill PowerDork
4/17/15 9:12 p.m.

"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow" my dad

Ethnic Food-Wrap Aficionado
Ethnic Food-Wrap Aficionado HalfDork
4/26/15 5:46 p.m.

In reference to the Came Home to a Car in my Driveway thread.

"Truly, if there is evil in this world, it lies within the heart of mankind."

WizardDog
WizardDog New Reader
4/26/15 6:49 p.m.

"In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

jmthunderbirdturbo
jmthunderbirdturbo HalfDork
4/26/15 8:05 p.m.

'no matter how long it takes to do something right the first time, it takes twice as long to do it the second time.' -???

i found this out yesterday, when i discovered the wheel bearings in my wife's' odyssey had magnetic rings for ABS in them, and i had installed one of them backwards. i really, profoundly, -hate- working on that vehicle.

-J0N

stroker
stroker SuperDork
4/26/15 8:06 p.m.

"If you're ever gonna stand on it at all, stand on it now. The longer you wait, the slower you get" --Stroker Ace

"E36M3'ing on the ceiling is easy, given the proper velocity, viscosity and angle of attack..." Graffiti in a Engineering school men's room

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
4/27/15 10:59 a.m.

Fly as far into the crash as possible.

  • Bob Hoover
Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon MegaDork
4/27/15 11:20 a.m.
Appleseed wrote: Fly as far into the crash as possible. - Bob Hoover

'How far will the one engine take us?' -Nervous passenger 'All the way to the crash site.' - Ron White

'Anything you walk away from is a good landing'. - Unknown

madmallard
madmallard Dork
4/27/15 2:21 p.m.

going thru hell? keep going.

-churchill

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
4/27/15 6:38 p.m.
Curmudgeon wrote:
Appleseed wrote: Fly as far into the crash as possible. - Bob Hoover
'How far will the one engine take us?' -Nervous passenger 'All the way to the crash site.' - Ron White 'Anything you walk away from is a good landing'. - Unknown

Anyone where you can still use the airplane is a great one - anonymous

kazoospec
kazoospec Dork
4/27/15 7:13 p.m.

You know the part in 'High Flight where it talks about putting out your hand to touch the face of God? Well, when we're at speed and altitude in the SR, we have to slow down and descend in order to do that.

— USAF Lt. Col. Gil Bertelson, SR-71 pilot

calteg
calteg HalfDork
4/27/15 8:15 p.m.

"Anything worth doing once is worth doing twice."

"There's a fine line between delegation and avoidance." - coworker

"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." -William Gibson

chuckles
chuckles HalfDork
4/27/15 8:39 p.m.

"Don't tell people your troubles. Most of them don't care and the rest are glad you have them." Mark Twain.

akamcfly
akamcfly Dork
4/28/15 5:42 a.m.

"Veni vidi velcro - I came, I saw, I stuck around"

From an old Aerostich catalog.

Streetwiseguy
Streetwiseguy PowerDork
4/28/15 8:02 a.m.
jmthunderbirdturbo wrote: 'no matter how long it takes to do something right the first time, it takes twice as long to do it the second time.' -??? i found this out yesterday, when i discovered the wheel bearings in my wife's' odyssey had magnetic rings for ABS in them, and i had installed one of them backwards. i really, profoundly, -hate- working on that vehicle. -J0N

"Ain't got time for that"

Everybody's done it, man. If you do it a second time, come back and I'll heap scorn on you.

GSmith
GSmith Reader
4/28/15 11:00 a.m.

Whoever called it 'necking' was a poor judge of anatomy.

1988RedT2
1988RedT2 PowerDork
4/28/15 11:15 a.m.

I'm sure it's already been posted, but one of my favorites is:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I have to use it almost everyday.

etifosi
etifosi HalfDork
4/29/15 1:42 p.m.

"The ratio of people to cake is too big."

Milton Waddams

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