@geoff1000 Can't say I've seen that before, now I want to see that episode of The Simpsons where the monkeys have a knife fight in boat lol
Many scientific discoveries are made by accident.
Radiation was discovered to "fog" photographic plates, when someone who was using it to "pre-sensitise" the plate, forgot to actually expose it in a camera.
Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetism, when he was demonstrating in a lecture that a bar magnet has no effect on a coil of wire ; and then he moved the magnet in and out of the coil, finding that it did.
Post-it notes were invented by someone trying to make normal glue.
Radar was invented when it was found that aircraft affected tv signals. Microwave ovens were developed after someone walked past a radar transmitter with a chocolate bar in their pocket and it melted.
Cooking of meat was probably invented after a forest fire, and early metal smelting by using rocks as a fireplace.
"I woke the other day And saw my world has changed The past is over but tomorrow's wishful thinking" - The Offspring
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
Challenging someone to a duel, doesn't mean you expect to win ; it means the issue is important enough, for you to risk your life on it.
The "someone" can instead be inanimate, we call it "fate".
From "The Bodyguard" ( via IMDB. com ) :
Child to parent: "When I grow up I'm going to be a socialist" Parent to child: "Ok honey, but you know you can't do both"
"The belief that maturity and cynicism are identical is commonplace, yet I wonder; is it so immature to believe that people can share?" —Me
@DarrenWalker I'm reminded of the closing scene of a Tom & Jerry cartoon, where the cat and mouse have teamed up to get and cook a large steak.
The mouse picks up the fork and knife, and carefully cuts off a very small section from one edge ; then reaches over, grabs the big piece, and runs off with it.
For @DarrenWalker ~ Coming in wide from the lower right of the frame is a dirt road, with tall young trees, set back slightly on either side, their branches beginning midway up their trunks, become fuller at the top where they meet the blue and white sky above. The road slighly bends at the center of the frame, gradually reducing in size as it continues into the distance where just above it, golden yellow and orange rays of sunlight are beaming in towards you, casting their intense warm glow, from the center out, over all you see.
The white text laid over the picture reads:
"In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~ Robert Frost
source stamp: dictionary.com
"Laws are not needed, to make people act on their instincts ; they are needed to stop people, acting on their instincts."
Me, on hearing the excuse for UK government advisor Dominic Cummings driving 200 miles to have lockdown in a nicer part of the country.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" -Upton Sinclair
@UKGuy I plan to use that one. 👍
"A rising tide lifts all boats."
The time-management practice of hosting meetings rather than travelling, doesn't work when everyone is doing that ; any more than two families could increase their income, by each charging their neighbour to do their laundry.
@quixotic_life: Yay! Thank you.
More (quick) transcriptions:
Roxi Horror @roxiqt
This year has been so ridiculous & weird that I don't have the energy to be surprised anymore. A portal to another world could open in my kitchen & I'd be like "Well, I guess this is just another thing I'm gonna have to learn to live with."
Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck
Studying history will sometimes make you uncomfortable. Studying history will sometimes make you feel deeply upset. Studying history will sometimes make you feel extremely angry. If studying history always makes you feel proud and happy, you probably aren't studying history.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. Albert Einstein
thegoddesscircle.net
Abundance Affirmation I trust in divine timing Things always work out for me I am fully supported by the Universe I welcome miracles into my life I am ready I am grateful
FB/thegoddesscircleara
We should be lifting each other up and cheering one another on. Not trying to outshine or one up each other. The sky would be awfully dark with only one star.
stacie
And now, a quote of my own!
"Another one of his tricks which drives people and particularly his associates to distraction is his capacity for forgetting. This trait has been commented upon so much that it scarcely needs mentioning here. We all know how he can say something one day and a few days later say the opposite, completely oblivious of his earlier statement.'" —Walter C. Langer
I have a very good memory, I can't remember the last time I forgot something.
Lines I've often used, "There are no words" "I can't imagine how you are feeling" "If you can think of what I should say right now, please imagine that I just said it"
"You don't need to tell me", which usually prompts a verbal avalanche