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You know how dumb the average guy is, right?
Well, mathematically, by definition, half of them are even dumber than
that. Without 'Frop I would go mad with ambition. I would beat my wife and kids. I believe in Salvation through 'Frop. If I 'Frop, it is so that others may live. The dicks you can't see are always longer. It is as easy for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as for a needle to pass through the Camera's Eye. Who cares? Everybody's trying to buy property in Hell. |
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Don't just EAT a hamburger ... eat the HELL out of it.
JR 'Bob' Dobbs
I'm going to ask you to exercise glands you never knew existed.
JR 'Bob' Dobbs
You'd PAY to know what you really think.
JR 'Bob' Dobbs, 1961
WHO DIED AND MADE YOU GOD?
JR 'Bob' Dobbs
Any time you can tape record a fart, you should.*
* "But don't leave it by phone on a friend's answering machine, because you won't want your face near your mouthpiece again for the rest of the day.
JR 'Bob' Dobbs, in a 1991 memo
If you act like a dumb shit they'll treat you as an equal.
JR 'Bob' Dobbs
The stupider it looks, the more important it probably is.
JR 'Bob' Dobbs
My Pride Squirts White Stuff – What Does Yours Do?
JR 'Bob' Dobbs; [with pictures of confederate flag and US
flag]
Moses parted the Red Sea, Oppenheimer split the atom, but 'Bob' cut the crap.
Steve Antczak
There's a sucker born every minute.
Phineas T Barnum, American circus showman, born on July 5, 1810; attributed
How were the receipts today in Madison Square
Garden?
Last words of Phineas T Barnum
The real fact is I could no longer stand their
eternal cold mutton.
Our little
nation is the only Norse nation now on earth that can shake hands with
the days of the sagas and the sea kings.
Hall Caine, author; on the Isle of Man, in The Little Manx Nation,
1891
Remember you are an Englishman, and have
consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes, English-born statesman, born on July 5,
1853, quoted in Dear Me by
Peter Ustinov
July
5
is
the 186th
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (187th in leap years), with 179
days remaining.
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Today
they will be partying off the coast of Ireland … or is it off the coast of
England … or of Scotland? In the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland lies
the Isle of Man, where
men are Manx and proud of it (and so are the women). Man (or Mann) is famous for
Manx cats and Grand Prix motor
sports, and it is a small island with a big history.
The Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom, but a Crown Dependency.
Queen Elizabeth II is acknowledged as Lord of Mann, and in 1979 she presided
over the millennial celebrations of the Tynwald, the Manx parliament, which is
commemorated each year on July 5.
The High Court of Tynwald, as the parliament is known, is of Norse (Viking)
origin and at over 1,000 years old is thus the oldest parliament in the world to
enjoy an unbroken existence. (Iceland's
Althing was founded earlier but its
existence was interrupted.) Tynwald has two branches, the Legislative Council
and the House of Keys.
The Legislative Council is the upper branch of Tynwald and its eleven members
are either indirectly elected or sit ex officio. The principal function
of the Council is the consideration of legislation. The House of Keys is the
lower, directly elected branch of Tynwald and originally had 32 members but
since about 1156 it has seated a constant membership of 24 'Keys' with a
varying size and distribution of constituencies.
The
Chronicles
of the Kings of Mann and the Isles (held by the British Library despite
the requests of the Manx people for their return) tell us that
Godred
Crovan (who helped Harold invade Britain in 1066) was successful in 1079, on
his third attempt, in his invasion of the Isle of Man, and ruled it for 16
years. It is believed that the institution of Tynwald was finally and
permanently established during his reign ...
Read on
at the Tynwald Day page
in the Scriptorium
National symbol: the
3-in-1
The national
flag of Man is a plain red field with the triskel
(triskell, triskelion or trinacria) emblem at its centre. This symbol
dates back to the 13th
Century and is believed to be connected with
Sicily, where a similar image was used during the Norman period. In Emblemes
et symboles des Bretons et des Celtes (Coop Breizh, 1998), Divy
Kervella suggests the triskell is a pagan Celtic symbol of triplicity in
unity, and probably originally a solar symbol. Other Celtic examples of
the three-in-one include the shamrock; the staff of the Celtic pantheon:
Lugh, Daghda (Taran) and Ogme; the triune goddess of three aspects:
daughter, wife, and mother; and the three dynamic elements: water, air,
and fire.
The triskell is similar to the hevoud, another Celtic symbol, and
the Basque lauburu, and might even precede Celtic origins (for
instance on the cairn of Bru na Boinne in Ireland) ...
Read on at the Tynwald Day page in the Scriptorium
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