Spam Javelins - News and views from 2 lads from Basingstoke.
The Acheron - A page managed by Daev, a researcher.
Horatio's Cars - Trying to trace the origin of a Triumph TR7.
Shaunyweb - Information about Shaun Conn and family of Bramley.
Cavill Connections - Looks at various subjects, including religion, aviation, history and genealogy.
Gosportgang - Gosport's noisiest and fun family. Meet the Faulkes and Lewis gang. Mark, Mandy, Amy, Penny, Tianna and Harley plus Uncle Lee. It will make you smile.
wibbler.com - Homepage of Simon Wibbler. Includes various details.
Sticky Custard - Craig Richardson's weblog, guestbook, database of music and collections of writings.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Personal Pages "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Personal Pages Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Personal Pages
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Personal Pages "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Personal Pages
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Personal Pages 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,
ign The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Personal Pages
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Personal Pages
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Personal Pages Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Personal Pages
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Personal Pages Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Personal Pages
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Personal Pages All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Personal Pages
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Personal Pages "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Personal Pages Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Personal Pages
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Personal Pages "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Personal Pages
