My granny got back from her first trip to Western Canada
(she's from Montral originally) and she said that she didn't know
that Alberta was the only debt-free province in Canada...
Guess heartless conservatism works quite well
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Maybe they just turned hard-core communist and refused to acknowledge the existence of any debt. It worked for the Soviet Union.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Sea Skimmer wrote:Maybe they just turned hard-core communist and refused to acknowledge the existence of any debt. It worked for the Soviet Union.
I know, look at 'em now!
Oh wait.
"Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me...God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist." -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"Hal grabs life by the balls and doesn't let you do that [to] hal."
"I hereby declare myself master of the known world."
Oil and beef I tell you, oil and beef. Just like Texas, but without their excellent shoot to kill property defense laws.
aerius: I'll vote for you if you sleep with me. Lusankya: Deal!
Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.