Thought for the day

[MrBurns]

"At the first sign of hair loss you must act fast"
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[noirua]

A real smile involves the eyes, otherwise it is only a grimace.

 

[noirua]

" I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. "

" We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender " ... Winston Churchill

Here we are, the man himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0c4PAb8DJg

 

[noirua]

Never blame those far away, back home, who look after others the best they can. Remember, that batting from a distance is always very easy.

 

[noirua]

In a sense, every ASF member is a moderator because they can all report posts that they believe violate our terms of use... - Joe Blow

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

At great threat to my rational mind I have gone through all the posts on " Thought for the Day".

It seems to have become a haven for sad sacks and misantropes.

Thought for the Day should be of some moment.

Please try and improve, otherwise I will Socratise you all, and you don't want that do you ?

gg

 

[Julia]

gg, I have a proposal.

You could take responsibility for espousing the Thought for the Day for the next week. So that we could all be inspired.

I'm sure Noirua wouldn't mind a week off so that you can demonstrate the quality of Thoughts you have in mind.

Would that be OK, Noirua? (Not that we don't appreciate your Thoughts.)
Just would be interesting to see what gg has in mind.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

gg, I have a proposal.

You could take responsibility for espousing the Thought for the Day for the next week. So that we could all be inspired.

I'm sure Noirua wouldn't mind a week off so that you can demonstrate the quality of Thoughts you have in mind.

Would that be OK, Noirua? (Not that we don't appreciate your Thoughts.)
Just would be interesting to see what gg has in mind.

No probs.

I would suggest I post a thought for "the day" as close to 00.01 Queensland Time as I can manage on Monday 20th July and then we will run with it daily to see where it goes.

I'll pm an asfer to take over at 00.01 their time the following Monday and we'll run with that, and so on with the asfer taken to nominate an asfer for the following week.

Does that sound reasonable , or too obsessive.

In deference to Noirua, her/his thoughts on this should be paramount , as it is her/his thread , and perhaps he could be a mini moderator of the thread, as thought is paramount and he was the thoughtful one who suggested the thread in the first place.

And of course noirua should make the final decision as to where the thread goes.

gg

 

[noirua]

gg, I have a proposal.

You could take responsibility for espousing the Thought for the Day for the next week. So that we could all be inspired.

I'm sure Noirua wouldn't mind a week off so that you can demonstrate the quality of Thoughts you have in mind.

Would that be OK, Noirua? (Not that we don't appreciate your Thoughts.)
Just would be interesting to see what gg has in mind.

Hi Julia, I'm waiting, for the great one, gg, to post some wondrous great thoughts. He/she comes from dry and sunny climbs and I've ne'er heard a great thought from there so far. I wait with bated breath.

Hope they are thoughts that ASF approve of without big Youtube inplants.

Hi gg, Not my thread at all. Started by nioka.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Hi Julia, I'm waiting, for the great one, gg, to post some wondrous great thoughts. He comes from dry and sunny climbs and I've ne'er heard a great thought from there so far. I wait with bated breath.

Hope they are thoughts that ASF approve of without big Youtube inplants.

Hi gg, Not my thread at all. Started by nioka.

Ok mate, as luck will have it, at 00.01 next Monday morning I will be in my Bentley with my driver Tony Hancock, crossing the NT border on my way to the Darwin show with a cavalcade of bulls and beasts behind.

I will post on a machine called a Blackberry given to me by the latest Mrs Gumnut on my thought for the day.

I do like new days.

And I do like the thoughts.

If it is agreeable I will nominate a mere builder, entrepeneur, chartist and genius, the one and only Tech/a to take the slippery baton from me on the 27th July at 00.01 SA time. Whatever that is. I shall pm him to get his agreement.

But let us post on.

gg

 

[trainspotter]

HEAR HEAR Garpal !!! I concur with the previous statement and reject your sense of reality and place my own upon it. The sooner your good self relieves himself of the great burden of ownership of this meagre twine the better.

Thought for the day: "He who laughs last, laughs loudest" John Heywood 1546

 

[Calliope]

gg Here's a question to give you a kick start;

Will Bill Shorten be moving into Government House to join the pregnant Chloe?

 

[trainspotter]

And here is the link http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25803115-421,00.html for all the sordid details.

 

[GumbyLearner]

“I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.”

Henry David Thoreau

 

[Julia]

Another remark of Thoreau's that stuck with me was:

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Were we not to have had the first of gg's "Thoughts for the Day" by now?

 

[Julia]

Wasn't gg supposed to be dropping daily pearls of inspiration on us during this past week?

gg????

 

[noirua]

Most definitely things are written, but fools do not have to read or listen to them spoken.

 

[noirua]

Consider sacrificing your participle at the beginning of a sentence but never, if it is dangling.

 

[2020hindsight]

Throw care to the wind ...

 

[noirua]

Never put your trust in an others "thought for the day", as you will spend a longtime thinking.