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  • xenia
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    "Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson

    faneula
    April 22, 2011, 3:25 pm

    What the heck is a beadle?

    abra
    June 13, 2011, 4:16 am

    Yes, wjat os a beadle?

    pajarito7
    August 4, 2011, 1:24 pm

    Someone who keeps order during church services, or a farm boy who won the Nobel prize for his work in genetics.

    bansaisequoia
    June 11, 2012, 2:34 pm

    A Beadle is someone involved in the British Invasion begun by the Dave Clark Five, which was waged onward by The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Herman's Hermits, The Who, and, ultimately, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Pink Floyd, The Sex Pistols, The Clash and Iron Maiden. Coldplay, The Chemical Brothers and Radiohead continue the Revolution to this day.

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  • montyb
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    Edited to spotlight Bansai's amazing wit.

    "The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. "
    — Joseph Addison

    montyb
    July 11, 2012, 3:47 am
    I have my Clarence Birdseye cryogenic chamber already picked out.

    bansaisequoia
    June 19, 2013, 1:37 am
    You're making me Dizzney.

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  • oddcouple
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    Toeprint has over 1000 posts and most of them seem to be about his fixation on bansai. I wonder why?

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  • Toeprint
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    "Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk."
    — Andrew Schneider

    bansaisequoia
    November 4, 2009, 1:25 am
    Whole or skim? Lactose free of acidophilus? Bovine or caprine? Debit or credit? Paper or plastic?

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  • Toeprint
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    "The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. "
    — Jean Rostand

    bansaisequoia
    March 3, 2010, 3:23 am
    Divine and lack of God? Isn't this a contradiction in terms?

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  • Toeprint
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    "I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed."
    — Nancie J. Carmody

    bansaisequoia
    July 3, 2013, 4:52 pm
    I am thankful for the taxes I pay, but not the payment of them.

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  • Toeprint
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    "It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return. "
    — Unattributed

    abra
    August 21, 2015, 3:27 pm
    That's a good thing with arrows. We wouldn't want them to be like boomerangs.
    darkyr
    February 21, 2017, 9:20 am
    My words never come back to me.
    bansaisequoia
    June 22, 2017, 7:40 am
    But, what if you're Yondu of the Guardians of the Galaxy?

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  • Toeprint
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    "A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury."
    — Eric Pio

    bansaisequoia
    May 23, 2009, 8:57 pm
    My great-grandmother had 13 children. She must have been ecstatic.

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  • Toeprint
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    "I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places."
    — Mark Twain

    bansaisequoia
    January 11, 2012, 3:57 pm
    I've got friends in low, low places.

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  • Toeprint
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    "The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted - because everyone would join that party."
    — Ronald Reagan

    bansaisequoia
    October 18, 2010, 4:04 am
    That's odd. How come Russia isn't a one-party nation today?

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  • Toeprint
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    "The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. "
    — Thomas Hobbes

    bansaisequoia
    August 28, 2009, 12:59 am
    (link)

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  • Toeprint
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    "That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. "
    — Georg Lichtenberg

    bansaisequoia
    September 6, 2009, 8:21 pm
    We Tralfamadorians contest this.

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  • Toeprint
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    "Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped."
    — Calvin Coolidge

    maradnu
    May 22, 2009, 1:34 am
    Misspelling - worshipped not worshiped. (link)
    jespitan
    May 25, 2009, 10:19 am
    worshipped is written with a double P
    bansaisequoia
    June 7, 2009, 5:01 pm
    Eau contraire. (link)

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  • Toeprint
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    "It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. "
    — Jean Racine

    maradnu
    March 10, 2009, 1:49 am
    Oh, poor guy. Love got him by the ****
    bansaisequoia
    February 29, 2012, 7:31 pm
    It got him by the stars?

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  • Toeprint
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    "The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other."
    — Andrew H. Malcolm

    bansaisequoia
    April 20, 2010, 9:11 pm
    There's nothing like a Sunday drive in the country to promote Global Warming. (and drive the kids nuts)
    pootie49
    July 20, 2011, 1:49 pm
    Or the many leisurely trips to the 7-11 one block away. come on kids we re going for a drive.

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