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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 5:56:16 GMT -8
Out of curiosity, virtuous or Puritanical? Which part or both? Actually, back in the days in which he wrote, people had a pretty bad habit of confusing the two. The meaning of the word virtuous leans heavily toward 'principled' in today's usage, but its accepted meaning back then really was much closer to 'puritanical' than it is now. People today can consider Mencken a virtuous man, but nobody accused him of it in his lifetime! 'Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.'-- H. L. MenckenAh, I didn't know that! Now the quote makes more sense to me.
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 5:57:25 GMT -8
Spot on. The honorary degree is a way of honoring a pompous ass. No honest person would accept a degree he hadn't worked for. Honorary degrees are suitable only for realtors, chiropractors and presidents of the United States.~ HL Mencken
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 6:11:09 GMT -8
The bane of the libertarian activist:
'What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.'--H. L. Mencken
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 6:34:18 GMT -8
I hated school. It wasn't because I was stupid or didn't understand the work, either. It's because I felt like homework should be an aid for people who didn't understand the work and not used as a time killer for people who did. I didn't do homework I didn't think I needed to do on principle. I'm proud to say I passed HS and only ever turned in homework a few times. My mother wasn't impressed by my principles. My dad was and his opinion was the only one that mattered to me.
School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.
~ HL Mencken
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 6:43:39 GMT -8
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 6:55:57 GMT -8
True BUT since I think most crimes are victimless then I wouldn't take it to heart.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. ~ HL Mencken
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 7:13:08 GMT -8
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind. H. L. Mencken The Biggest Cocktail Hoax of All Time Legendary journalist H.L. Mencken tricked the world with his fake cocktail history columns. www.thedailybeast.com/the-biggest-cocktail-hoax-of-all-time
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 7:17:06 GMT -8
Perfectly sums up why I dislike certain people.
Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel. -H.L. Mencken
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 7:19:44 GMT -8
LMAO at handcuff and out on parole.
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 7:26:23 GMT -8
'The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.'--H. L. Mencken
So that's where the phrase mad money comes from! And it must be true, because it's funny as hell!
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 7:38:38 GMT -8
@dr3d @nobody
"When things get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on nobody."
~ HL Mencken
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 7:39:22 GMT -8
Why aren't my @'s working?
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 14, 2017 7:47:22 GMT -8
Why aren't my @'s working? You've heard of lazy asses? Now you've heard of lazy ats. 'Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.'-- H. L. Mencken
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 7:51:16 GMT -8
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse. ~ HL Mencken
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 14, 2017 7:51:56 GMT -8
Why aren't my @'s working? You've heard of lazy asses? Now you've heard of lazy ats. 'Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.'-- H. L. MenckenNobody needs to fix my lazy @.
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