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Tagline Graveyard
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:00 pm
by Stargzer
Do not consign your old taglines to the electronic ash-heap of the bit bucket, but, rather, as the Communists did for Lenin in his tomb, post them here for future generations to admire, or deride, as the case may be.
"The secret to a long marriage is to remember that divorce is too expensive and murder is too risky."
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:10 pm
by tcward
Just retired:
What is reading, but silent conversation.
-Walter Savage Landor, writer (1775-1864)
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:14 pm
by M. Henri Day
Is this what is meant by «serial monogamy» ?...
Henri
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:57 am
by KatyBr
well if they are flakey tags they'd be cereal......
Katy
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:13 pm
by Stargzer
I'm not sure if I've used this as a tagline, but at work I sometimes tell people the truth:
"I got married on a Saturday and went to work for the Government nine days later, and there have been days when I've felt like I've been serving concurrent life and 30-year sentences, with time on for bad behavior."
Then there's our old friend PW, who misses his ex-wives; they keep moving out of the way . . .
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:14 pm
by Stargzer
Is this what is meant by «serial monogamy» ?...
Henri
No, that wouldn't necessarily be a looooonnnnnggggg marriage . . .
although at times they may seem like one . . . 
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:29 pm
by Stargzer
Time for a change, so, time to entomb this one:
"The trouble with knowledge is that, contrary to what we expect, as understanding increases so does ignorance." Evan S. Connell, Abracadastra, The Aztec Treasure House
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:29 pm
by Stargzer
Time for a more humorous tagline, so time to bequeath this one to the ages:
"Always preach the Gospel. If necessary, use words."
-St. Francis of Assisi
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:44 am
by Flaminius
It took me twenty minutes to type this but 20 seconds to give it a rest.
Flam
.אכול ושתו, כי מחר נמות
(ישעיהו: כב"יג)
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:14 pm
by uncronopio
"What is a man, that he may know a number,
or a number, that a man may know it?" -- Warren McCulloch
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:56 pm
by tcward
A word has its use,
Or, like a man, it will soon have a grave.
-Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet (1869-1935)
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:12 pm
by Stargzer
As Tom Rush would say, "I got a
hankerin' for
moseyin'." That's his translation of Joni Mitchell's "I've Got the Urge for Going" into Wyoming-speak.
Vegitarians are just a passin' fad.
Just tip your hat and wish 'em
"¡Vaya con carne!"
Then you go on out and make 'em hoppin' mad!
--
Tom Rush, "A Cowboy's Paean,"
Trolling for Owls
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:40 pm
by Stargzer
Time for another change:
"There is no more difficult path than that of an honorable man."
--Mohammed Al'Quraysh, The Shadow of Ararat by Thomas Harlan (Book One of the Oath of Empire)
The above book is from an alternate history series, in which Rome survives longer that it did in our world, and in which Magic (thaumaturgy) plays a large part.
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:27 pm
by gailr
Deus est scientiarum dominus
and everything else, as well.
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Time to relinquish this one as well:
"If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?"
--Marquise de Sevigne, February 11, 1677
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"People place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution; they don't put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible." --Jamie Raskin
-gailr
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:40 pm
by Stargzer
Well, it's been a while since we had an entry here. Time to retire another set of
bons mots.
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
--Oscar Levant