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  • I am an artistic troll---but for my college class--I wrote a thesis accompanied by a coloring crayon portrait that was one of two selected for the student gallery---the thesis basically children create purest art---because they simply do so to please themselves or the people the love--their motivation is truly unselfish

  • Highly relevant to my day today

    Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

    ~Mark Twain

  • And the name calling continues in the form of a quote.

  • @TheFunCartel
    I was referring to a customer of mine from today, not a forum interaction of yesterday. It would seem you have fallen victim to confirmation bias.

  • @TheFunCartel I thought the same, but there's been no interactions today. Well, until recently, after that was posted, I think. Although, since then...

  • @Unscented_Lemon
    https://www.cuddlecomfort.com/forum/profile/comments/Specialist_Log
    My comment on this thread was my first comment today. And again, about a customer I helped, at my job, in reality, with no relation to CC.

  • @Specialist_Log Did I say anything different?

  • @Specialist_Log Well we have another member who has used that quote before in the vein of an insult. In fact he uses quotes in place of his own words, facts or tact. The problem with quotes is they are not facts and you can easily find quotes equally as eloquent with an opposing view. But I digress and I apologize if that was not your intent.

  • 1955 Sports Illustrated Marble Guide
    Genuine Carnelians (agates)
    also called flints, aggies and realies were original handmade shooters. Now collector's items, they are still the most treasured of all marbles.

    Peppermint Stripes
    were among first glass marbles imported from Germany but high prices limited popularity. This candy stripe variety was semi-mechanically made.

    First American
    glass marbles were poor imitations of imported candy stripes. Far more popular in the 1850s were cheap, fired-clay marbles (right) called miggles and commeys.

    Cat’s Eyes
    made from used crystal (old bottles, etc.) were first cheap glass marbles made. Colored whirl design injected mechanically into center was not favored by mibsters.

    Immies
    were popular replacement of hard-to-get agate shooters. Mass produced by machine, their bright opaque colors immediately caught the fancy of finicky marble players.

    Rainbows
    also called immies, were introduced in 1928 by Peltier Glass Co. and became hot marble currency and are still favorites. Kids like their separated-stripe design.

    Marines
    made of colored crystal, were a passing fad, being replaced in popularity by moonstones (below). New and booming market for them today is as decorations for aquariums.

    Moonstones
    (moonies and pureys), developed by rival firm to offset popularity of Rainbows, were most beautiful and costly marbles and included the famous bloody.

    Scrap Glass
    marbles made from old colored jars flooded market during World War I and marked the end of beautiful marbles. Marbles of today (right) are of poorer quality.

    Japanese Cat’s Eyes
    now being imported in millions, are threat to U.S. marble industry. Different and more colorful than today's U.S. marbles, they are a big hit with kids.

  • These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. Insults then, had some class!

    1. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;
      Bring a friend, if you have one."
      George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill.

      "Cannot possibly attend first night, I will attend the second...If there is one."

      • Winston Churchill, in response.
      1. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows, or of some unspeakable disease."
        · "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

      2. "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

    2. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

      • Clarence Darrow
      1. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
      • William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

    6."Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
    - Moses Hadas

    1. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

      • Mark Twain
      1. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.."
      • Oscar Wilde
      1. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
      • Stephen Bishop

    10."He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
    - John Bright

    1. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."

      • Irvin S. Cobb
    2. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."

      • Samuel Johnson
      1. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
      • Paul Keating
      1. "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
      • Charles, Count Talleyrand
    3. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."

      • Forrest Tucker
    4. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"

      • Mark Twain
      1. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
      • Mae West
    5. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

      • Oscar Wilde
    6. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... For support rather than illumination."

      • Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
      1. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
      • Billy Wilder
      1. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
      • Groucho Marx.

    22."He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
    - Winston Churchill

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