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[MB_722]

came across some quotes ... not political .. but this is my usual place 

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Dickens

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.
Hugh Macleod


The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. Chesterton

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon

I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
John Wayne

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
John von Neumann

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
Douglas Hostadter

'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'
Leslie Nielsen

Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Raoul Vaneigem

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Groucho Marx

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw

The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

[24KT]

Good Stuff! (as usual) 

[MB_722]

A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come.

— Lester Freamon, to Jimmy McNulty - The Wire

[MuscleMcMannus]

A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come.

— Lester Freamon, to Jimmy McNulty - The Wire

"We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket."  Frank Sobotka.......The Wire Season 2

[Soul Crusher]

"We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket."  Frank Sobotka.......The Wire Season 2

I have said repeatedly, we need to massively re-industrialize. 

[240 is Back]

"When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb"

I'm gonna email that to all the deadbeat relatives I have

[240 is Back]

"We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket."  Frank Sobotka.......The Wire Season 2

I don't have HBO... but I fell in love with the WIRE this year.  I just watched all 5 seasons in a month and want more.

Any shows/series you can recommend that are on par with the 'cool police shiit' of a WIRE or SHIELD?

[Eyeball Chambers]

'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'
Leslie Nielsen

That one made me lol... 

[MuscleMcMannus]

"We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket."  Frank Sobotka.......The Wire Season 2

I don't have HBO... but I fell in love with the WIRE this year.  I just watched all 5 seasons in a month and want more.

Any shows/series you can recommend that are on par with the 'cool police shiit' of a WIRE or SHIELD?

although a COMPLETELY different type of show I would highly recommend Dexter.  First season was awesome.  I've watched all three.  Nothing tops the Wire in my opinion but Dexter is definitely number 2 or 3 in my opinion. 

[240 is Back]

cool, i'll check it out.  i really enjoy intelligent TV.

[Eyeball Chambers]

although a COMPLETELY different type of show I would highly recommend Dexter.  First season was awesome.  I've watched all three.  Nothing tops the Wire in my opinion but Dexter is definitely number 2 or 3 in my opinion. 

I love Dexter, excited to see what happens with Trinity, the scenes from next weeks episode looked really amazing!

[Soul Crusher]

I love Dexter, excited to see what happens with Trinity, the scenes from next weeks episode looked really amazing!

I like Sons of Anarchy.   Cool show. 

[240 is Back]

SOA is another good one.  I thought last night's finale was average tho

[Soul Crusher]

SOA is another good one.  I thought last night's finale was average tho

The whole scene in the house was pretty good.  The ATF agent is bad ass but you know she is getting whacked or raped next season. 

[MuscleMcMannus]

I like Sons of Anarchy.   Cool show. 

First season was good.  Now it's just stupid.  It's gotten really really bad.  Jax as a tough guy was fairly believable in the first season but second season it's just gotten silly.  

I used to really like the Shield but after watching a really great show like the Wire the Shield is embarrassing to watch.  That's how I feel about Sons of Anarchy.  Gemma running off with Chief Unser?  Kidnapping Abel?  How stupid can the plot get?  Terrible.  

[240 is Back]

i watched the Shield and loved it.  Unrealstic at times, but well worth it.

The Wire was a major step up for me - way more intelligent and a cool combination of politics, drugs, and gunplay.  

I dig cool spy shows like "The Unit" and "The Agency" as well.

[Kazan]

•Mongol General: "What is best in life?"
Conan: "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." — Conan (Conan the Barbarian) 

[MB_722]

240 ....

                               Oz [no homo]
Oz had a grittiness to it that was comparable to The Wire. better than prison break.

The Wire will always be #1. its the wayne gretzky of tv.

[MuscleMcMannus]

240 ....

                               Oz [no homo]
Oz had a grittiness to it that was comparable to The Wire. better than prison break.

The Wire will always be #1. its the wayne gretzky of tv.

LOL I watched the first few episodes of Prison Break.  What a gay ass show.