Posted on 12/24/2016 5:06:50 AM PST by sodpoodle
1.) “The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous.” — Comment of Aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Haig, at tank demonstration, 1916
2.) “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” — Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878
3.) "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." – Western Union internal memo, 1876
4.) "Reagan doesn't have that presidential look." – United Artists executive after rejecting Reagan as lead in the 1964 film The Best Man
5.) "Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." – Dr. Dionysius Lardner, 1830
6.) "The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most.” — IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959
7.) "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"It's pretty d****d hot in here!" Stephen Jay Gould, May 22, 2002
"You can say that again!" Carl Sagan
"I've made a horrible assumption." Stephen William Hawking, 2052
IBM’s original forecast for the PC as 64,000 (more likely 65,535). Then came VisiCalc and every number cruncher needed it.
“1.) “The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous.”
This reminds me of the Polish cavalry bravely going up against Hiter’s tanks where they must have taken that notion seriously.
Why the Polish never modernized is way beyond me.
And to every war that was fought in the western world...
We will be home by Christmas.
To extend the military theme:
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”
- - Gen. John Sedgwick, just before being fatally struck by three Confederate bullets during the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 1964
I’m a little curious about this one since X-rays weren’t discovered until late 1895.
24. Rap isn’t music; it’s just the same annoying beat with different filthy words and it won’t last a week. —me. (Well, I was part-right.)
Rap is particularly obnoxious. Most sounds, including music, just fade into the background. But rap (and hip-hop) just have a way of drilling into the awareness in a way that cannot be ignored. It’s like nails screeching across a blackboard.
I like to play music mostly because it hides the tinnitus. But I would rather hear the constant screech than rap.
Needs a little revision: A gay Kenyan Marxist muslim guy with a transexual husband will never be elected president.
Reagan was pretty smart. He outsmarted his opponents at virtually every step. I don't know what Trump's actual IQ is, but he really is a genius.
Obama? He gave a good speech. He was clean. He played to white guilt. A perfect Manchurian Candidate. Smart? Not by my measure.
I applied for a job as a lab technician at the Haloid Company in 1958. The job description was to work on a new copying process. Didn’t get it. I should have asked for work as a bathroom mopper. Even the janitors with stock bonuses became millionaires.
Same thing happened to my daughter who was first diagnosed with a ruptured disk when she was 18. Several years later when she was in grad school she saw someone, who was not her regular physician, for back pain. She was livid about the way this doctor treated her and filed a complaint. It is as though she didn't bother to read her history. She's had recurring problems and two surgeries. It hasn't been fun for her. She recently posted on facebook that she has heard that disk pain can be worse than the pain of childbirth.
I read a book by Chet Carlson or about him years ago and his battle to get xerography accepted by the market place. Excellent reading.
You’n me both, Sister. Drilling is right. Even from a passing car of teens two blocks away with the windows open and the drums beating, not to mention the filth words drifting through the air. What an abomination.
Right, like Homer Simpson!
Right click each pic. Save as whatever you like for name.jpg.
Then navigate to Tinypic.com. Upload each pic there and when Tinypic shows you the URL after upload each one, copy that and post on FR as:
<img src="http://www.tinypic.com/whatever-your-picture-name-is.jpg"height="[put-a-number-in-here-like-200-to-adjust-size-of-pic-on-FR]">
Thank you. I’ll give it a try next time;x
I started a notebook. In it I keep the CD disks I ask for with the images and reports. I uploaded everything to OneDrive, so I can access it any time from anywhere. Having those images helped me convince the doctor to order the MRI. I just assume the doctor is a lazy idiot and go from there.
Gen. Grant, in his biography, said that the first time he rode a train, it rocketed along at 25 mph and he thought "we have annihilated space".
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