'No Bigger Than My Hand' is my favorite. For me that was easy, it is on my all-time favorites list.
Honesty that makes you hurt, or lies that make you feel better?
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Sorry, but I have to break the rules for this one because you must have the choice of three instead of two.
Greatest trumpet player ever: Louis Armstrong (Satchmo), Miles Dewey Davis III, or John Birks (Dizzy) Gillespie
Sorry, but I have to break the rules for this one because you must have the choice of three instead of two.
Greatest trumpet player ever: Louis Armstrong (Satchmo), Miles Dewey Davis III, or John Birks (Dizzy) Gillespie
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'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) by Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." Hint: this movie was released in late 1974.
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." Hint: this movie was released in late 1974.
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Today I am going to watch Stargate SG-1 and a movie (10 Items or less I think), write a little, have lunch with my oldest son, read a few stories on site, and do housework until my boss... I mean wife gets home. Today is my last day on Earth as far as I know. I'm hoping for more, but you never know. You must live each day like your last. Seize the day and suck the marrow out of the bone of life. It may seem like a tame boring day, but I have come to find that the greatest pleasures can come from the simplest acts.
That was a great question, so let's do it again. What would you do on your last day on earth?
That was a great question, so let's do it again. What would you do on your last day on earth?
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No. Pessimistic is not the same as pragmatic, when you expect realistic results despite your prospective.
If people who had no intent to do for themselves, but for everyone as a whole, were honest uncompromising idealist and they controlled the world, what would happen?
If people who had no intent to do for themselves, but for everyone as a whole, were honest uncompromising idealist and they controlled the world, what would happen?
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The 'social norm' does not exist. It is simply a construct to discuss and contemplate the social structure and it meanings and variations. In a place that has 100 households, if 50 have one person and 50 have three persons, then the normal number of people would be 2 persons per household, but obviously that isn't normal it is only an average (statistically). Behavior norms can be viewed in a similar fashion. What is normal is very skewed by viewpoint/prospective. What is normal form one person's prospective may be aberrant from another person's prospective, yet a third person may consider neither, both or any combination as normal. What we as individuals consider 'normal' changes quite often based upon are present lifestyle and environment. For example, I worked in a position that my office was in a building with no windows. We weren't suppose to leave the building during the workday. I worked long hours (does that make me stupid or dedicated, and is there a difference), thus I arrived before sunrise and left after sunset. I went almost 16 months under those conditions. By then, being out in the sunlight was very strange to me. I didn't feel comfortable. It was no longer normal to me. There is no normal, just as there is no good or evil; it is all a matter of prospective from each persons point of view. You can assign averages, but they are not the same as normal.
Why do we often hold other people's opinions above our own?
Why do we often hold other people's opinions above our own?
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Black, but black is my favorite colour. You should get other opinions too...
So, what colour should Andrew paint his nails?
So, what colour should Andrew paint his nails?
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Green Lantern because he has a great oath he repeats when he recharges his ring. (this isn't the original oath, but the one Hal Jordan used)
Who was funnier, Tom or Jerry? (from the cartoons)
Who was funnier, Tom or Jerry? (from the cartoons)
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It didn't go anywhere. It's still here. You just tilt your head a little to the left, hold your mouth in the right position, and look with your heart.
Why is it so hard to do the right thing?
Why is it so hard to do the right thing?
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Strategic Air Command (1955) A real golden oldie. With my hero Jimmy Stewart and America's mom June Allison. Steward is one of the great actors of his era.
Taxi Driver: ...I've been driving this route for 15 years. I've brought 'em out here to get that stuff, and I've drove 'em home after they had it. It changes them... On the way out here, they sit back and enjoy the ride. They talk to me; sometimes we stop and watch the sunsets, and look at the birds flyin'. Sometimes we stop and watch the birds when there ain't no birds. And look at the sunsets when its raining. We have a swell time. And I always get a big tip. But afterwards, oh oh...
VLS: "Afterwards, oh oh"? What do you mean, "afterwards, oh oh"?
Taxi Driver: They crab, crab, crab. They yell at me. Watch the lights. Watch the brakes, Watch the intersections. They scream at me to hurry. They got no faith in me, or my buggy. Yet, it's the same cab, the same driver. and we're going back over the very same road. It's no fun. And no tips... After this he'll be a perfectly normal human being. And you know what stinkers they are!
Taxi Driver: ...I've been driving this route for 15 years. I've brought 'em out here to get that stuff, and I've drove 'em home after they had it. It changes them... On the way out here, they sit back and enjoy the ride. They talk to me; sometimes we stop and watch the sunsets, and look at the birds flyin'. Sometimes we stop and watch the birds when there ain't no birds. And look at the sunsets when its raining. We have a swell time. And I always get a big tip. But afterwards, oh oh...
VLS: "Afterwards, oh oh"? What do you mean, "afterwards, oh oh"?
Taxi Driver: They crab, crab, crab. They yell at me. Watch the lights. Watch the brakes, Watch the intersections. They scream at me to hurry. They got no faith in me, or my buggy. Yet, it's the same cab, the same driver. and we're going back over the very same road. It's no fun. And no tips... After this he'll be a perfectly normal human being. And you know what stinkers they are!
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RG "Mr Stiles, I understand you have something from the shallow end of my gene pool."
Duct Tape Forever (2002) OMG!!!! Someone else who knows about Red Green!
I can't believe I'm going to give such an easy clue, but here it is;
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
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Somewhere in Time (1980) A wonderful, often overlooked romance. It was said by Jane Seymour. Christopher Reeve was the male lead.
"Say 'hello' to my little friend!"
"Say 'hello' to my little friend!"
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Iceland. I've met people from Iceland and known several people stationed in there. They all loved the place and the people.
Which comic book hero would you rather spend a day with, Batman or Superman?
Which comic book hero would you rather spend a day with, Batman or Superman?
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And nice to see we have a Bestselling Author here on the Stories Space staff now...maybe you can talk Yas and Gav into creating a new badge for that...
What badge would that be Alan, the 'I won't be here much longer because I'll be busy making bunches of money' badge?
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Depends. If it just me stay home, but if Liz is with me dinner/cinema. She loves to go out and her being happy is what truly make me happy.
Vacation in Scotland or Ireland?
Vacation in Scotland or Ireland?
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A new set of glasses so he doesn't have to squint all the time.
Roland, where do you get a cup of Joe for only 75 cents in Chicago?
In my kitchen. That's what Liz charges me. Water is only two bits, so I usually drink water.
What do I give someone like you. You already have my admiration and friendship. All I have is my gratitude and my hopes that your life be long and interesting.
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My undying gratitude. Unfortunately with that and $1 you can buy a 75 cent cup of java. It is the thought that counts.
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Other cultures. I have done a lot of both. I find learning about other culture far more interesting than reading about thieves, bums, and court jesters.
Neptune or Uranus ( I was going to write Mars and Venus, but I like making people think about Uranus. insert Beavis and Butt-head laugh here)
Neptune or Uranus ( I was going to write Mars and Venus, but I like making people think about Uranus. insert Beavis and Butt-head laugh here)
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Sherlock Holmes confronts the room of suspects. With Watson by his side scribbling notes into his ledger, Holmes paces back and forth in front of the three possible murderers, the elderly aunt, the butler and the mistress. The consulting detective waves the police investigator forward.
"Inspector, I have used reason and wit to discern the culprit, the foul slayer of the lord of this manor. The aunt has obvious motive, she would inherit everything, but she is to old and frail to have wielded the club in the manner necessary to kill the victim. The mistress discovered his other dalliance with the dancer at the club, but she is left-handed and the manor's lord had defensive wounds and the majority of the severe blows were on the left side of the victim which logically leads us to the conclusion that the murderer must be right-handed and attacking from the front. The butler has no motive until you notice the facial similarities and scar on his left hand. The victim had six fingers which is a rare genetic abnormality that is pasted from father to son. The butler is his illegitimate son and DNA evidence would prove it thus allowing him the inherit the estate. He is the guilty one."
The butler begins to run, but a nearby police officer knocks him to the ground and cuffs him.
Watson speaks up, "But sir, it can't be the butler."
"He must be. It's elementary my dear Watson." replied Holmes
"It can't be!" Watson stridently said. "I still have at least three chapters to go!"
"Inspector, I have used reason and wit to discern the culprit, the foul slayer of the lord of this manor. The aunt has obvious motive, she would inherit everything, but she is to old and frail to have wielded the club in the manner necessary to kill the victim. The mistress discovered his other dalliance with the dancer at the club, but she is left-handed and the manor's lord had defensive wounds and the majority of the severe blows were on the left side of the victim which logically leads us to the conclusion that the murderer must be right-handed and attacking from the front. The butler has no motive until you notice the facial similarities and scar on his left hand. The victim had six fingers which is a rare genetic abnormality that is pasted from father to son. The butler is his illegitimate son and DNA evidence would prove it thus allowing him the inherit the estate. He is the guilty one."
The butler begins to run, but a nearby police officer knocks him to the ground and cuffs him.
Watson speaks up, "But sir, it can't be the butler."
"He must be. It's elementary my dear Watson." replied Holmes
"It can't be!" Watson stridently said. "I still have at least three chapters to go!"
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If you stacked a bunch of sugar cubes and then cried on them, wound that be a tear tier?
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"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be." Yogi Berra (not the one in Jellystone National Park)
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Vikings were much tougher and more fierce by far. I pick Viking, but pirates did have parrots and it was warmer in the Caribbean.
In the zombiepocalypse who would you rather be with an experienced policeman or streetwise thug?
In the zombiepocalypse who would you rather be with an experienced policeman or streetwise thug?
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Just yesterday, I do it all the time. xD
How does one get over the loss of a pet? I could really use the info right about now!
Getting over a lose is hard. Remember, you don't want to forget just learn how to deal. It's like exercise in a perverse way, if you don't hurt (get sore) after a good work out then you didn't get as much as you should have. When you lose someone special, if it doesn't hurt it wasn't that good a relationship. The lose and hurt you feel validates how important your pet was to you. T.J. advise was good and he said it kindly. (which I liked, persevere good word for it) In the old days they would say cowboy up. (seems harsh, but really the same thing) Get a cat. They are much better than a dog. Much better!
Now T.J.'s question. I was a leader for many years. I was very good at it, but I don't want to ever do that again. It took to much of my soul.
What real animal, if you could pick any, would you like to ride?
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I read your book some time ago. I'm glad everyone else is figuring out just how good you are. Congratulations, please keep us updated on how it is going. (I can hardly wait till it's listed as #1)
Frak!! Free!! But I paid for mine. Well it was worth it.
Frak!! Free!! But I paid for mine. Well it was worth it.
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Trumpet (cornet is my fav)
When was the last time you looked back at your life and laughed at your own foolishness, or am I the only one?
When was the last time you looked back at your life and laughed at your own foolishness, or am I the only one?
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"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret...
if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."
Katharine Hepburn
if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."
Katharine Hepburn
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Yes. (gosh that was easy)
Let me repeat the last real question, cause I thought it was pretty good.
Why is it the the most beautiful things we see are so far away?
Let me repeat the last real question, cause I thought it was pretty good.
Why is it the the most beautiful things we see are so far away?
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The female mind is very simple. It is simple, direct and uncompromising. (except when they want to be) To keep a woman happy, all you have to do is exactly what they want, exactly how they want it and before they tell you what it is. Don't forget to include any changes they want before they realize they want them and that a voluntary gift of some kind is always required. (flowers or candy if you've been perfect and jewelry if any of the aforementioned was not done properly, even if they were) Also it is important to keep her entertained. Do anything she wants to do and recommend it to her before she tells you what it is. If there are any problems, (which are of course 100% your fault) then any arguments that follow you must lose happily, apologize, and give a gift to make it up. (see above mentioned gifts for proper selection, but double or triple the cost depending on how wrong you really were) If all of these guidelines are followed, I guarantee you will have at least a 50.001% chance of a happy and peaceful relationship.
Why are men always wrong? (I know it's true, because my wife said so. I agreed, gave her flowers and took her to an expensive restaurant before apologizing for being wrong about what ever our next discussion would be about.)
Why are men always wrong? (I know it's true, because my wife said so. I agreed, gave her flowers and took her to an expensive restaurant before apologizing for being wrong about what ever our next discussion would be about.)
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Classic rock
If a reader reads your story/poem and thinks it's good, but not excellent, do you want a four score or have the reader just not score it?
If a reader reads your story/poem and thinks it's good, but not excellent, do you want a four score or have the reader just not score it?