Dante

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Cliff diving, hookahs, dumbek jams, smooth skin, coffee, Bellydancers, SCA, good chats, Burning Man, blood-boiling kick-ass music, Pennsic, being Pygmalion one more time, the ocean, fire poi, rock climbing, magick, hiking, dancing, skiing, Estrella War, boating, archery, learning everything, anthropology, Irish stew, the peace of Buddhism, paying Karma, growing plants, playing sports, languages, Yoga, natural beauty, possibly you.

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The Twilight Quiz

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A cowboy walks up to a bar and two steps in; he realizes it's a gay bar.

What the heck," he says to himself, "I really want a drink."

When the gay waiter approaches, he says to the cowboy, "What's the name of your willy?"

The cowboy says, "Look, I'm not into any of that. All I want is a drink."

The gay waiter says, "I'm sorry but I can't serve you until you tell me the name of your Willy. Mine for instance is called NIKE, for the slogan 'Just Do It.'

That guy down at the end of the bar calls his SNICKERS, because 'It really satisfies.'

The cowboy looks dumbfounded, so the bartender tells him he will give him a second to think it over.

So the cowboy asks the man sitting to his left who is sipping on a beer, "Hey bud, what's the name of yours?"

The man looks back and Says with a smile, "TIMEX.."
The thirsty cowboy asks, "Why Timex?"
The fella proudly replies, " 'Cause it takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin!"

A little shaken, the cowboy turns to two fella's on his right, who happen to be sharing a fruity Margarita and says, "So, what do you guys call yours?"
The first man turns to him and proudly exclaims, "FORD, because 'Quality is Job One'." Then he adds, "Have you Driven a Ford lately?"
The guy next to him then says, "I call mine CHEVY.....Like a Rock!'" And gives a wink!

Even more shaken, the Cowboy has to think for a moment before he comes up with a name for his manhood...

Finally, he turns to the bartender and exclaims, "The name of my willy is SECRET. Now give me a beer."

The bartender begins to pour the cowboy a beer, but with a puzzled look asks, "Why Secret?"

The cowboy says, "Because it's' STRONG ENOUGH FOR A MAN, BUT MADE FOR A WOMAN!

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Three men are walking down the beach, an Irishman, a Sri Lankan, and an Englishman...The Sri Lankan sees a bottle and picks it up. He goes to wipe it off and out pops a Genie. The Genie looks at all 3 men and says "well, there are 3 of you, so I'll give you each one wish".

The Sri Lankan says "well, I am a farmer, and my sons are farmers. So I wish for the land of Sri Lanka to have good farming forever". The Genie says "done".

The Englishman pipes up and says "I want a wall built around England to protect it from it's enemies. Nothing in or out". The Genie says "Done".

The Irishman stands wih pause for a moment and says, "Tell me about this wall around England." The Genie replies "well, It's about 100 feet thick and 300 feet high" The Irishman Replies, "Good! Fill it with water".

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein

We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our lips as well. ~American Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremburg

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them... ~Benjamin Disraeli

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V! ~V

O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it...
["The War Prayer"] ~Mark Twain

Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ~George Washington

Every Man has his fault, and honesty is his. ~Macbeth

The Oracles are dumb. ~Milton

All the happiness in this world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes from preoccupation with yourself. ~Shantideva

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough. ~Mother Teresa

Virtue has never been as resectable in society as money. ~Mark Twain

Nothing worthwile is accomplished without great enthusiasm. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing will come of nothing. ~King Lear

If ever thou shalt love,
In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
For such as I am all true lovers are;
Unstaid and skittish in all moments else
Save in the constant image of the creature
That is belov'd. ~Twelfth Night

Then to the nut-brown ale. ~Milton

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. ~Hamlet

I go to meet my maker and pay him back in kind for all that he has done. ~V

I walk unseen
On the dry smooth-shaven green,
To behold the wandering moon,
Riding near her highest noon,
Like one who had been led astray
Through the Heav'n's wide pathless way,
And oft, as if her head she bow'd,
Stooping through a fleecy cloud. ~Milton

O Domine Deus! Speravi in te; O care mi Jesu! Nunc libera me. In dura catena, in misera poena, disidero te. Languendo, gemendo, et genuflectendo; adoro, imploro, ut liberes me! ~Mary Queen of Scots ere her execution

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