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UPDATED: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 09:38
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Monday, March 3, 2008 12:28 PM

Fairy tales don't teach children that monsters exist.
Children already know that monsters exist.
Fairy tales teach children that monsters can be killed.
-- G. K. Chesterton

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Monday, March 3, 2008 12:52 PM

KIRKULES

Newt: My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.
Ripley: Yes, there are, aren't there?
Newt: Why do they tell little kids that?
Ripley: Most of the time it's true.

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Monday, March 3, 2008 1:27 PM

SERGEANTX

"Mission Accomplished"

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

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Monday, March 3, 2008 3:08 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

from CNN.com
Rush Limbaugh said,

"Wouldn't you love to cream Hillary though…why are you so afraid of her? Look at how ineptly she has campaigned against Obama."

"I want Hillary to stay in this…this is too good a soap opera."

"We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically. It's obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it, they don't have the stomach for it. As you probably know we're getting all kinds of memos from the RNC saying we're not going to be critical. Mark McKinnon of McCain's campaign said he'll quit if they get critical over Obama. This is the presidency of the United States we're talking about. I want our party to win. I want the Democrats to lose.”

"I'm asking people to cross over, and if they can stomach it and I know it's a difficult thing to do, vote for Clinton. But it will sustain this soap opera, and it's something I think we need and it'll be fun, too."

( All direct quotes from CNN, edited lightly for sequencing and sentence structure. )

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Monday, March 3, 2008 4:28 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Fairy tales don't teach children that monsters exist.
Children already know that monsters exist.
Fairy tales teach children that monsters can be killed.
-- G. K. Chesterton

I just read this to my son. He said, "Well the at least the good one's do."

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Monday, March 3, 2008 6:03 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Quote:
"There are powers at work in this country which we have no knowledge about."
-Queen of England Elizabeth Sax Coberg Gotha
www.infowars.net/articles/february2008/180208_b_Diana.htm

"In the event that I am reincarnated I would like to return as a deadly virus in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."
—Prince Philip, husband Queen Elizabeth, from his autobiography, Down to Earth: Speeches and Writings of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, "His Royal Virus"

"Off with her head! Off with their heads!"
-Queen of Hearts, Alice in Wonderland

Bushes, Clinton, Prince Philip and Queen of England performing "mock" human sacrifice to 50-foot tall idol of Molech/Lucifer/Satan at Bohemian Grove
www.archive.org/details/DSIBG

Yes, monster do exist. But can we really kill them?

The Summer Glau Chronicles: Free download of all episodes
http://www.fox.com/fod/player.htm?show=tscc

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Monday, March 3, 2008 6:08 PM

TANKOBITE

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
Aristotle

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There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun;
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.

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Monday, March 3, 2008 6:56 PM

ERIC

"I never heard a corpse ask how it got so cold."

- Richard, The Lion in Winter

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Monday, March 3, 2008 8:18 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Actually the thing that was going through my mind when I posted that was Pan's Labyrinth and the thought that the real world has "monsters" in it scarier than any fairytale.
(The Captain frightened me worse than the Pale Man)

Fairy tales and Folk legend were used to impart certain aspects of wisdom and character all but forgotten in this day and age, long before Orwells Animal Farm, there was Reynard the Fox.

Even Bugs Bunny took a couple swipes in his own day, as I recall.

But in eliminating this part of our culture, which we seem to have mostly done, are we not also eliminating the good that it did ?

I wonder, and I worry...

-F

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 4:45 AM

CANTTAKESKY

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Actually the thing that was going through my mind when I posted that was Pan's Labyrinth and the thought that the real world has "monsters" in it scarier than any fairytale.
(The Captain frightened me worse than the Pale Man)

Pan's Labyrinth creeped me out more than any horror movie I've ever heard of. Cause Freddie Kreuger is obviously fiction, and the Captain is so obviously not. I can't watch that movie ever again. Too close to reality. I want some escapism in my movies, ya know? I want the happy ending where the monster gets killed, as Chesterfield says.

I have a quotation collector called Kookie Jar. It automatically affixes a randomly picked quotation for your emails. I use it for FFF. Free and very cool.

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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know.
-- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 5:23 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Fairytales, fables and myths are great. I love Pan's Labyrinth for that reason. Real evil is scarier than any monster.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
--Paul Valery

This is fun.

---
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 9:38 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out."

Stephen King

Smart man, that guy. If you like what he writes or not.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

http://manwithpez.livejournal.com

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