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Author Message ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1365 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 09:30 am:    This made me chuckle. I still search for both daily. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: There is a rumor going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. -Terry Pratchett, novelist (28 Apr 1948-2015) As always with thanks to A Word A Day, www.wordsmith.org Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2263 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 10:23 am:    Ken, the reason I didn't put this one up is I have empirical evidence that God exists. But I still chuckled at it. ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1367 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 11:26 am:    Hahaha. Agreed Lynn. I didn't say that I didn't find them daily. I stop searching for my keys when I find them. Chris Grimm, CSI, CCS, SCIP Senior Member Username: chris_grimm_ccs_scip Post Number: 540 Registered: 02-2014 Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - 03:48 am:    Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward. — another Oscar Wilde quote (although a different version of this one was also attributed to someone else later). Ellis C. Whitby, PE, CSI, CDT, AIA, LEED Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 542 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Thursday, December 16, 2021 - 08:33 am:    "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." Robert Wilensky (1951-)2013 Loretta Sheridan Member Username: leshrdn Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2021 Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 - 05:56 pm:    "Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life." -- Stephen Wright James Sandoz, AIA, CSI, CCS Senior Member Username: jsandoz Post Number: 339 Registered: 06-2005 Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2021 - 09:12 am:    Every day starts off badly; I have to get out of bed. Know that the previous sentence is just a joke. Every day one can get out of bed is a good day. ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1453 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - 10:35 am:    With thanks, again, to Wordsmith.org A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. -Fred Brooks, computer scientist (b. 19 Apr 1931) Sounds like archi-torture. ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1459 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 - 03:30 pm:    This time thanks to Word Genius: “A Freudian slip is saying one thing when you mean your mother.” Loretta Sheridan Senior Member Username: leshrdn Post Number: 16 Registered: 11-2021 Posted on Friday, May 06, 2022 - 11:39 am:    "If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something." Steven Wright Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2278 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Friday, May 06, 2022 - 11:47 am:    Steven Wright is wonderful! "What's another word for Thesaurus?" ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1465 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Friday, May 06, 2022 - 02:55 pm:    Loretta, I heard it as "If you can keep your cool when all around you everyone is losing theirs, you obviously are missing something." ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1472 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Monday, June 20, 2022 - 12:13 pm:    "Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding." https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2283 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Monday, June 20, 2022 - 01:27 pm:    Just one more reason to mourn the stoppage of Calvin and Hobbes. ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1514 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2022 - 11:26 am:    I don't know about any of you, but this sure ruins a whole lot of things for me: A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. -Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (15 Sep 1613-1680) With thanks as always to A Word A Day; wordsmith.org Loretta Sheridan Senior Member Username: leshrdn Post Number: 60 Registered: 11-2021 Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 - 10:28 am:    "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." W.C. Fields (I haven't see any new posts on the Discussions in awhile, so I thought I would add something!) Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2299 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 - 10:34 am:    If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. Steven Wright ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1540 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2022 - 02:53 pm:    Mark Twain didn't say any of these (I thought Will Rogers was credited with the quote about his father getting smarter as Will aged): https://www.inspiringquotes.com/the-most-famous-things-mark-twain-never-said/YCG-LAEq_QAGz92_?liu=16f1ab9eeb90d86e0ea834f594c9f761&utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1665297994 ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1543 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Monday, December 12, 2022 - 04:46 pm:    With thanks to A Word A Day (wordsmith.org). I really liked this thought/quote though I am not known for being orderly: A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. -Gustave Flaubert, novelist (12 Dec 1821-1880) Loretta Sheridan Senior Member Username: leshrdn Post Number: 68 Registered: 11-2021 Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 02:51 pm:    MEDIOCRITY: It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late. (From Despair Inc. Demotivators.) J Peter Jordan (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 06:52 pm:    Mmmm.. I wonder what "violent and original" specs would look like. Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2305 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 09:59 pm:    Not sure about "violent", but original might be "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." James Sandoz, AIA, CSI, CCS Senior Member Username: jsandoz Post Number: 361 Registered: 06-2005 Posted on Friday, December 16, 2022 - 09:45 am:    In the early days of my first job (ca. 1992) I read a specification for cast iron sewer pipe calling for hemp rope and oakum at the joints. Perhaps it was a carryover from 1892 or maybe the time of Noah. My contributing aphorism is from one of my favorite poets, Ogden Nash: "The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control." Rosa Cheney Senior Member Username: rdcaia Post Number: 27 Registered: 07-2018 Posted on Monday, January 02, 2023 - 10:19 am:    "If you don't change direction, you may end up where you're heading." -- Lao Tzu Ronald J. Ray, RA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: rjray Post Number: 217 Registered: 04-2004 Posted on Saturday, January 07, 2023 - 08:59 am:    "If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there." George Harrison, 1987. From Any Road. Dave Metzger Senior Member Username: davemetzger Post Number: 811 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Sunday, January 08, 2023 - 12:30 pm:    "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." "We may be lost, but we're making good time." Yogi Berra Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2307 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Sunday, January 08, 2023 - 01:51 pm:    "I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way" Carl Sandberg. Loretta Sheridan Senior Member Username: leshrdn Post Number: 80 Registered: 11-2021 Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2023 - 02:26 pm:    “I went to a general store. They wouldn’t let me buy anything specifically.” – Steven Wright James Sandoz, AIA, CSI, CCS Senior Member Username: jsandoz Post Number: 367 Registered: 06-2005 Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2023 - 04:35 pm:    "Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it." - George Carlin ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1559 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Friday, March 10, 2023 - 09:35 am:    Link from A Word A Day by wordsmith.org https://a.co/d/3nL4UMR Loretta Sheridan Senior Member Username: leshrdn Post Number: 86 Registered: 11-2021 Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 04:47 pm:    No man is an island! He's a peninsula. -- Jefferson Airplane, "A Small Package of Value Will Come to You Shortly" (Spencer Dryden, Gary Blackman, Bill Thompson) From John Donne. ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1565 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Friday, April 28, 2023 - 07:16 am:    Courtesy of A Word A Day (from 2011). A message to designers: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519) John Bunzick Senior Member Username: bunzick Post Number: 1913 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Friday, April 28, 2023 - 05:34 pm:    If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. Blaise Pascal ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1568 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Monday, May 15, 2023 - 09:14 am:    Wisdom from A THOUGHT FOR TODAY (wordsmith.com): I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate. -Max Frisch, architect, playwright, and novelist (15 May 1911-1991) ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1591 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 11:25 am:    Brilliant quote from A THOUGHT FOR TODAY (wordsmith.org): Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. -Stephen King, novelist (b. 21 Sep 1947) Okay, break's over. Get back to work! Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2329 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 11:39 am:    Love the quotes from Anu Garg! ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1608 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2024 - 10:38 am:    I think we can all agree with this one. With thanks to Wordsmith.org AWAD: A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Everyone has a belief system, B.S., the trick is to learn not to take anyone's B.S. too seriously, especially your own. -Robert Anton Wilson, novelist (18 Jan 1932-2007) ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1622 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 02:50 pm:    Unfamiliar territory. I had an original thought this morning: If music is not your ultimate drug, you're not using it properly. Roll another one. Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2339 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 03:56 pm:    But only if you live in a "correct" state. Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2340 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 04:02 pm:    Another favorite: "Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong." H. L. Mencken ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1624 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 09:18 am:    Brilliant: A THOUGHT FOR TODAY (courtesy of Wordsmith.org): The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (16 Apr 1844-1924) Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2341 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 10:25 am:    Ken, we agree on so many of these "thoughts" from Wordsmith. This one's on my FB page. ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1625 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 11:00 am:    Thanks Lynn. I've often wondered what the world would be like if the "rich" were given the opportunity to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread to survive for just one day. Having received that blessing early in life, I think it helped build my perspective on certain things. Actually in my case it was a heating grate, not a bridge, and I thankfully didn't have to steal but still... Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2342 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 03:26 pm:    I've never had to sleep rough. There have been a few times when I feared it might come to that, but it never did. And for that, I'm grateful. Loretta Sheridan Senior Member Username: leshrdn Post Number: 149 Registered: 11-2021 Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 03:44 pm:    Don’t worry. If Plan A doesn’t work, there are 25 more letters in the alphabet. ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 1642 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 - 10:37 am:    A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged. -Richard Hofstadter, historian (6 Aug 1916-1970) with thanks, as always to wordsmith.org and prayers for the day we institute term limits. Loretta Sheridan Senior Member Username: leshrdn Post Number: 162 Registered: 11-2021 Posted on Friday, October 25, 2024 - 07:53 am:    It has been a frustrating week such that I am close to curling up in a ball and crying... (Not really, but it has been a very frustrating week.) So I am looking for humor. I will start with one of my favorite Stephen Wright one liners: "I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.'” Related joke from Erma Bombeck: When asked by her daughter if they had ice, her response was, "Yes, but not frozen." (I have used the response many a time myself.) Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 2350 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Friday, October 25, 2024 - 08:16 am:    "If anyone ever tells you your dreams are silly, remember there's some millionaire walking around who invented the pool noodle." (from my calendar "Sweet Tea for the Soul" for yesterday) Scott Taylor Junior Member Username: slt2020 Post Number: 2 Registered: 09-2020 Posted on Friday, October 25, 2024 - 09:10 am:    Another by Steven Wright as it relates to buildings: "I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious." FYI---We should do this every Friday, since most of us have a typical LONG week! Nathan Woods, RA, CSI, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: nwoods Post Number: 934 Registered: 08-2005 Posted on Friday, October 25, 2024 - 11:41 am:    "If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' " --Dave Barry, American author and humor columnist David R. Combs, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP-a, LEED AP Senior Member Username: davidc Post Number: 29 Registered: 02-2015 Posted on Monday, October 28, 2024 - 08:13 am:    A couple of my favorites from Mr. Wright: "I accidentally spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone." "I'm not afraid of heights; I'm afraid of widths." David R. Combs, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP-a Corgan Associates, Inc. Sr. Specifier, Sr. Associate Loretta Sheridan Senior Member Username: leshrdn Post Number: 163 Registered: 11-2021 Posted on Monday, October 28, 2024 - 09:03 am:    Pool Noodles: I sooooo wish I was the person who looked at polyethylene foam pipe insulation and thought, "If I made that in crayon colors, and cut into four or five foot lengths, I could make a FORTUNE!"