Quote of the Day

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

-Tiger Woods

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." - W.C. Fields

Admitting I'm paranoid does not mean piracy doesn't exist.

- Me on another thread today

Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole
~Author Unknown

A Guy

"Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are."
Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show .

"When the concern of man is only in preparation for defense against himself, he is not prepared for the unforeseen"

>
There once was
>a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag
>of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must
>hammer a nail into the back of the fence..


>
The
> first day
>the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next
>few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of
>nails hammered daily
>gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold
>his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the
>day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all.

He
> told his
>father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull
>out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his
>temper.


>
The
> days
>passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father
>that all the nails were gone.


>
The
> father
>took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said,
>' You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence...
>The fence will
>never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave
>a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw
>it out. But it won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry,
>the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical
>one..
>
>Remember
> that friends are very rare jewels indeed.
>They
> make you smile and encourage you to succeed; They lend an ear,
> they share words of praise and they always want to
> open
>their
> hearts to us.