Picoftheweek

Picoftheweek
Waaaaaaaay too many to count...

My Statement

"Let me emphatically say that I am not anti-Facebook (Fleecebook), anti-smart phone, anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple, anti-Google or anti-Internet. I do believe, though, that the consumer is being ripped off of his privacy, identity and purchase history. We are being herded into a Facebook corner where what we "Like" and where we go physically and on the net will be scrutinized and sold numerous times to actually corrode and erode our culture while tempting us only with convenience, high tech and flashing video screens. The unsuspecting consumers need to be aware..." - Gary Lapman

Quote of Note

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”-W.C. Fields

"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling

"Common sense is not so common. " -Voltaire

“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, but only character endures.” - Matthew McConaughey

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him"

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld

"Fleecebook is free, you (and your identity) is the product!" - Gary Lapman


"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." - Eric Sevareid

"'Smart' phones are only smart for the cell phone providers!" - Gary Lapman

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.” -Albert Einstein

"Technology creates the illusion of companionship without the intimacy of friendship." - unknown

"No worry, there's an app for that..." - Gary Lapman

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Are they done yet ?

Now that I have seen the last of the debates, I am even more sure that Uncle Mitt is lacking in the Presidential smarts area.  While the debate was supposed to be about foreign affairs, Uncle Mitt was too agreeable to Obama's policies leaving Obama with little to discuss.  Romney kept trying to force the discussion to be of the economy, and other domestic affairs that Romney feels more comfortable discussing.  Obama did a very good job of trying to keep Romney on the debate topic, and cut him down several times because of his waffling platform.

In whole, the Formerly (G)OP did NOT successfully sway me to believe that Romney is a better choice, only that he was the best out of the GOP candidates to attempt to take on Obama.  What REALLY scares me here is that Romney may still have a chance to beat Obama and we will have to contend with his steep learning curve.  There are many people that will not ever vote for Obama.  There are people that won't vote black.  There are people that blame Obama for their job being lost, or high prices.  There are people that say that Obama hasn't done enough, in spite of the fact that the Republican congress has blocked his every move.  I fervently believe that there is no more that he could have done given the circumstances of the the economy and two wars that the GOP (Bush) saddled him with.  To have remedied all that was awry in only one term would have been miraculous.  If he gets a second term, it may still be miraculous if he can accomplish what is necessary in spite of the favorable/unfavorable congress.

Remember what I said about congressional elections: "Throw the bums out!".



Clever Puns
Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine.

A backward poet writes inverse.

A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.

A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.

A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.

When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.

The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

He had a photographic memory that was never developed.




Women's Profound Sayings

- Reason to smile: Every 7 minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring.

- One of life's mysteries is how a 2 pound box of candy can make a woman gain 5 lbs.


- The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes.


- The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.


- The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.


- I gave up jogging for my health when my thighs kept rubbing together and setting my pantyhose on fire.


- Amazing! You hang something in your closet for awhile and it shrinks two sizes!


- Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things like, "You know, sometimes I just forget to eat." Now I've forgotten my address, my mother's maiden name, and my keys. But I've never forgotten to eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat.


- A friend of mine confused her valium with her birth control pills. She had 14 kids, but she doesn't really care.


- The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing ... and then they marry him!


- I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are: eating too much, impulse buying, and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That is my idea of a perfect day.


- I know what Victoria's Secret is. The secret is that nobody older than 30 can fit into their stuff.


- If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck?