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Old 07-24-2010, 02:23 PM
 
Location: OUTTA SIGHT!
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I think that might have been Will Rogers, if it can be attributed.

It sure as heck wasn't Twain.
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Some attribute the quote to Mark Twain, but most simply say "author unknown".

You claim to know "sure as heck" it wasn't Mark Twain. I'd be interested in just exactly how you arrived at that conclusion since apparently the author has never been determined.

I thought the quote went "...and need to be changed often for the same reason." or something along those lines. Leaving the reader to figure the 'crap' part out on their own.

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"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong." ~Richard Armour


"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle." ~Alexis de Tocqueville


"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." ~H.L. Mencken, 1956
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Old 07-24-2010, 06:06 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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The 7 most scariest words you will ever hear!

"I from the government, here to help"
Ronald Reagan
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Old 07-24-2010, 06:59 PM
 
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The 7 most scariest words you will ever hear!

"I from the government, here to help"
Ronald Reagan
Ironic isn't it - Regan would know - he was the head of both state and national governments.
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Old 07-24-2010, 09:55 PM
 
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"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work... and then they get elected and prove it."

and

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."



P. J. O'Rourke


Let's see if we can get a few funny quotes in before the 'flamers' start a'flamin'.
Are we quoting Uncle Peej?!

P. J. O'Rourke: How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink
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Old 07-24-2010, 11:06 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Ironic isn't it - Regan would know - he was the head of both state and national governments.
Which were the strongest and envy of all, when he left both offices
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Old 07-24-2010, 11:20 PM
 
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Which were the strongest and envy of all, when he left both offices
Which we've been paying for ever since.
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Old 07-24-2010, 11:34 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I love people like that, problems with authority and smart enough to mock them with their pants down.
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Old 07-25-2010, 07:47 AM
 
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I love people like that, problems with authority and smart enough to mock them with their pants down.
You talkin' about Bill Clinton?
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