[rellimpank]

--wisest words in the last patagraph--

[RexBeach]

Not only that, but it's a well known fact that if you smoke, when you die, you go straight to Hell.

Did you know that?

[xcamel]

Great read..

[Domicile of Doom]

I would have replied "eew cold sore I don't want your damn herpes"

[IronJack]

I really think that half the reason we are seeing so much agitation in the world is just old-fashioned boredom. Not the "There's nothing to do around here" kind of Saturday-afternoon layabout boredom, but a spiritual ennui that is a direct result of material surfeit.

All the bridges have been built. All the mountains have been climbed. All the challenges have been met and overcome, and in the minds of some, that leaves our world with nothing to do, no reason to go on. So they either invent "causes" or start movements that will tear it all down so they can start over.

It's no surprise that the anarchist movement has re-emerged, and that generations in Europe and even here in the United States are turning their backs on historical notions of "success." We call them "slackers" and "Gen Y" and a host of other disparaging names, but they reflect the emptiness that defines the post-modern world.

Something will move in to fill the void. Nature abhorreth a vacuum.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Short form: If everybody is saying it, it's probably wrong.

Truer words have seldom been spoken.

[Dixie Yooper]

If you smoke, you smell. If you smoke a pipe, not only do you look like someone who wants people to thing you look sophisticated, you also have to carry around a pipe that smells. If you smell bad enough, you stink. Since your mouth, throat, sinuses and nostrils are coated with tobacco slime, you can't tell that you stink. The nice looking girl who pretended like she was afraid she was going to catch cancer from having to share an elevator cab with you was just trying to tell you in a nice way that your a smelly, stinky person.

[USMCWife6869]

I really enjoyed this piece. Very true.

[Holicheese]

A wise man once said, "I would rather date a 6 that I agreed with than a 10 that was a liberal."

[bondjamesbond]

Government began way back in the Primatene mists when somebody threw a barrier across a road and demanded a bribe for passage. Governance, a necessary evil, starts with extortion.

Excellent. Really excellent. I especially like the Primatene mists reference. Nicely scientific sounding, and complete nonsense.

[Alouette]

Smokers stink, their breath stinks, their clothes stink, and they stink up the air around them wherever they are.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Reminds me of what the poet Edgar Lee Masters said; "You don't need the state to impose tyranny when the (hysterical) mob will do it for you."

[BuffaloJack]

Muzzies are the cause of Global Warming. Everybody knows that.
We must eliminate muzzies.

[Lazamataz]

She was a dish, too. Pity.

Dishes exist to be eaten.

[mrmargaritaville]

yes a smokin' chick was against smokin'.

[decimon]

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

"Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action?"

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"...the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds."

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

If someone agitates for your attention right now, claims that some issue or other is the paramount crisis of our times, you may properly respond, "Cool your jets." Snake-oil salesmen and demagogues of every stripe seek first to create a clamor. Like a child's tantrum, the demagogue's message doesn't matter. If a movement can create enough of a fuss, it has made a start. If a persuader can make you rush, he can make you forget your senses. "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" calls the carnie barker.

The whole aim of practical politics," wrote H.L. Mencken in 1920, "is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

[norton]

--wisest words in the last paragraph--

Maybe so, however:

"Money may be the mother's milk of politics, but self-righteous hysteria is its drug of choice."

Gets my vote for most memorable.

[ChildOfThe60s]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

[wideminded]

She was a dish, too. Pity.

If you are a dish you can really go places despite an amazing lack of knowledge.

[Tanniker Smith]

"What are you doing?! You can't smoke inside the Museum!!"

"Ma'am, we're not inside the museum."

"Get out of here, tar breath!"

from South Park, spoken outside The Museum of Tolerance.