More Book of Tepid
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frustratedpilot"Now it's official. Everybody has a messed mind."--Tepid 4:10
"May your dreams be free of toys that are self-propelled."--Tepid 4:13
"Be glad I don't extend my mean streak beyond myself. (Does that make me a masochist or a narcissist? Or both?)"--Tepid 4:16
"If I'm morally ambiguous, does that mean I don't have an evil (or good) twin in a parallel reality or that I have an equally morally ambiguous twin?"--Tepid 4:22
"Don't ask me who Gus-Gus is."--Tepid 5:01
"The line between machismo and @$$holehood is fairly thin."--Tepid 5:15
"I'm reminded of a piece on the local TV news (when I was living in FL) about a wax museum and its exhibits: when the Apollo moon shots were the big thing, they did a tableau of Neil Armstrong making his "one small step". After the space program fell out of favor, Neil was transformed into the Mummy for a horror scene. Moral of the story? Today's dreams become tomorrow's nightmares. (You can imagine what goes through my head when I see the opening credits of 'Enterprise.') A generation from now, J'Lo will find herself on the wrong end of the chainsaw. Such is fame."--Tepid 5:22
"There comes a point when all the explosions and gunfire in an action movie cease to have shock value--but at the same time, the things that are recorded in the daily local news _never_ shop shocking me."--Tepid 5:23
"The hours are the finest but the actual minutes are pretty lousy. (Paraphrasing Douglas Adams' Vogon Guardsman)"--Tepid 5:24
"When you have the sounds of your own guns and the screams of your own missiles, the noises your targets make are totally irrelevant."--Tepid 5:28
"My self-discipline is my utter lack of opportunity."--Tepid 6:01
"I don't know whether to be comforted or appalled that the Grace of God extends to a man so undoubtedly wicked as Ronald Reagan. I feel both my nation and my God have been taken away for me for all time."--Tepid 6:05
"Call yourself Arjuna and I'll be Duryodhana and together we'll bring our legions to the Sacrement of Kali, determining who is heir to the world."--Tepid 6:07
"I'm an otaku with wings. I'm also a broke otaku, so it's a Phyrric victory at best."--Tepid 6:11
"I'm against enforced political correctness...it is just as phony as blatant political incorrectness."--Tepid 6:13
"Because my kid brother mocked Berry Blue flavor Kool-Aid in his college newspaper, and I have a standard to uphold."--Tepid 6:15
"When you honestly can't remember the last time you saw anybody you could call a friend, it's time for a lifestyle change. Excuse me while I cry myself to sleep."--Tepid 6:16
"Nothing like seeing Fascists get a taste of Mega-Bazooka."--Tepid 6:20
"Maybe it's the punk rocker in me but I have made it a point in my life to withhold my griping unless I have an alternative to propose. Perhaps more of us should consider such a strategy. I doubt (society) would suddenly get boring if everybody did it."--Tepid 6:21
"To turn swords into plowshares, you have to make the swords first. If you don't know how to make swords, making plowshares will be that much tougher a task."--Tepid 6:22.
"...I just had to stop myself from making a line like 'Good Evening, concubines and germs' here. I don't get out enough."--Tepid 6:29
"No, I don't dream about being an anime character. Most of my dreams involve shopping malls, and the last time I saw an anime character in a shopping mall, it was at Sanrio's."--Tepid 6:30
"Somebody said peace is boring. Well thank divinity for this boredom! I am now many years older than I've expected to be, because I expected to be killed off in the nuclear fire that Reagan and the Soviets seemed all too willing to light over a decade ago. Whenever we had that awful assignment in school to choose who would stay in the fallout shelter and who would be denied survival I would always volunteer my own "safe haven" to another character. Why? Because I am a slave to all the technical and social machinations of this world and I know I would not survive if it were to end."--Tepid 7:02
"My Dad put his First Marine Division Cookbook under lock and key. Tells me he doesn't want me baking Mekong Delta Pizza when he's not around."--Tepid 7:03
"I'm a misfit in the mainstream. Why should I believe that I'd be anything but a misfit in the counterculture too?"--Tepid 7:04
"First off, you need to take the aspirin."--Tepid 7:09
"I grew up during the fallout of the sexual revolution. The hit songs on the radio weren't the innocent young love teenybopper stuff from the late '50s and early '60s...they were the mature breakup songs of acts like Linda Rondstadt and the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac. Gee, wasn't it wonderful growing up without any innocence?"--Tepid 7:10
"I should warn you that my premonitions generally have a less than 10% success rating. I thought Pac-Man and 'E.T. The Extraterrestrial' and 'Titanic' would all bomb."--Tepid 7:16
"I gave up Christian politics for Lent."--Tepid 7:17
"I'm the unemployed man who keeps prices from inflating."--Tepid 7:18
"It has been my experience that the trouble has never blown over."--Tepid 7:19
"I think I'm sitting on the axle of the Wheel of Fortune, as my highs haven't really been that high and my lows haven't really been that low."--Tepid 7:20
"Chicken, Egg--both irrelevant. If the early bird catches the worm, then the worm came first. Fat lot of good it does the worm, though."--Tepid 7:22
"I believe in the right of the believer to believe. I also believe in the right of the skeptic to question the belief. To hold to any other prospect is wrong."--Tepid 7:25
"Banknotes printed in Heaven can't be spent on Earth. This is a shame."--Tepid 7:27
"The inventor of the Mute Button is an unsung hero."--Tepid 7:29
"May your dreams be free of toys that are self-propelled."--Tepid 4:13
"Be glad I don't extend my mean streak beyond myself. (Does that make me a masochist or a narcissist? Or both?)"--Tepid 4:16
"If I'm morally ambiguous, does that mean I don't have an evil (or good) twin in a parallel reality or that I have an equally morally ambiguous twin?"--Tepid 4:22
"Don't ask me who Gus-Gus is."--Tepid 5:01
"The line between machismo and @$$holehood is fairly thin."--Tepid 5:15
"I'm reminded of a piece on the local TV news (when I was living in FL) about a wax museum and its exhibits: when the Apollo moon shots were the big thing, they did a tableau of Neil Armstrong making his "one small step". After the space program fell out of favor, Neil was transformed into the Mummy for a horror scene. Moral of the story? Today's dreams become tomorrow's nightmares. (You can imagine what goes through my head when I see the opening credits of 'Enterprise.') A generation from now, J'Lo will find herself on the wrong end of the chainsaw. Such is fame."--Tepid 5:22
"There comes a point when all the explosions and gunfire in an action movie cease to have shock value--but at the same time, the things that are recorded in the daily local news _never_ shop shocking me."--Tepid 5:23
"The hours are the finest but the actual minutes are pretty lousy. (Paraphrasing Douglas Adams' Vogon Guardsman)"--Tepid 5:24
"When you have the sounds of your own guns and the screams of your own missiles, the noises your targets make are totally irrelevant."--Tepid 5:28
"My self-discipline is my utter lack of opportunity."--Tepid 6:01
"I don't know whether to be comforted or appalled that the Grace of God extends to a man so undoubtedly wicked as Ronald Reagan. I feel both my nation and my God have been taken away for me for all time."--Tepid 6:05
"Call yourself Arjuna and I'll be Duryodhana and together we'll bring our legions to the Sacrement of Kali, determining who is heir to the world."--Tepid 6:07
"I'm an otaku with wings. I'm also a broke otaku, so it's a Phyrric victory at best."--Tepid 6:11
"I'm against enforced political correctness...it is just as phony as blatant political incorrectness."--Tepid 6:13
"Because my kid brother mocked Berry Blue flavor Kool-Aid in his college newspaper, and I have a standard to uphold."--Tepid 6:15
"When you honestly can't remember the last time you saw anybody you could call a friend, it's time for a lifestyle change. Excuse me while I cry myself to sleep."--Tepid 6:16
"Nothing like seeing Fascists get a taste of Mega-Bazooka."--Tepid 6:20
"Maybe it's the punk rocker in me but I have made it a point in my life to withhold my griping unless I have an alternative to propose. Perhaps more of us should consider such a strategy. I doubt (society) would suddenly get boring if everybody did it."--Tepid 6:21
"To turn swords into plowshares, you have to make the swords first. If you don't know how to make swords, making plowshares will be that much tougher a task."--Tepid 6:22.
"...I just had to stop myself from making a line like 'Good Evening, concubines and germs' here. I don't get out enough."--Tepid 6:29
"No, I don't dream about being an anime character. Most of my dreams involve shopping malls, and the last time I saw an anime character in a shopping mall, it was at Sanrio's."--Tepid 6:30
"Somebody said peace is boring. Well thank divinity for this boredom! I am now many years older than I've expected to be, because I expected to be killed off in the nuclear fire that Reagan and the Soviets seemed all too willing to light over a decade ago. Whenever we had that awful assignment in school to choose who would stay in the fallout shelter and who would be denied survival I would always volunteer my own "safe haven" to another character. Why? Because I am a slave to all the technical and social machinations of this world and I know I would not survive if it were to end."--Tepid 7:02
"My Dad put his First Marine Division Cookbook under lock and key. Tells me he doesn't want me baking Mekong Delta Pizza when he's not around."--Tepid 7:03
"I'm a misfit in the mainstream. Why should I believe that I'd be anything but a misfit in the counterculture too?"--Tepid 7:04
"First off, you need to take the aspirin."--Tepid 7:09
"I grew up during the fallout of the sexual revolution. The hit songs on the radio weren't the innocent young love teenybopper stuff from the late '50s and early '60s...they were the mature breakup songs of acts like Linda Rondstadt and the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac. Gee, wasn't it wonderful growing up without any innocence?"--Tepid 7:10
"I should warn you that my premonitions generally have a less than 10% success rating. I thought Pac-Man and 'E.T. The Extraterrestrial' and 'Titanic' would all bomb."--Tepid 7:16
"I gave up Christian politics for Lent."--Tepid 7:17
"I'm the unemployed man who keeps prices from inflating."--Tepid 7:18
"It has been my experience that the trouble has never blown over."--Tepid 7:19
"I think I'm sitting on the axle of the Wheel of Fortune, as my highs haven't really been that high and my lows haven't really been that low."--Tepid 7:20
"Chicken, Egg--both irrelevant. If the early bird catches the worm, then the worm came first. Fat lot of good it does the worm, though."--Tepid 7:22
"I believe in the right of the believer to believe. I also believe in the right of the skeptic to question the belief. To hold to any other prospect is wrong."--Tepid 7:25
"Banknotes printed in Heaven can't be spent on Earth. This is a shame."--Tepid 7:27
"The inventor of the Mute Button is an unsung hero."--Tepid 7:29
