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2007-07-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

For some strange reason I like that one.

One that sticks is his description of Igli's aroma in "Glory Road".

"It made an unlimed outhouse smell like Shalimar."

Here's hoping others will contribute their favorites.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-08 00:25|| 2007-07-08 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course, TANSTAAFL was coined by the late Milton Friedman.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-07-08 00:41|| 2007-07-08 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Pithy comments.

OT, annoying punk story of mountain bikers v bladers v cops. Cuff 'em Danno!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/020707_b_Bikes.htm

Posted by McZoid 2007-07-08 04:47|| 2007-07-08 04:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Then there is the most important piece of wisdom ever imparted by Lazarus Long, near immortal man:

"Always store beer in a dark place."

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-08 10:07|| 2007-07-08 10:07|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder if he knew Ayn Rand. I could see her saying some of this stuff.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-07-08 12:38|| 2007-07-08 12:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I believe it is from "The Man Who Sold the Moon":

"Money is the sincerest form of flattery."

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-08 14:04|| 2007-07-08 14:04|| Front Page Top

#7 That does sound like The Man Who Sold the Moon. One of these days I'll have to buy that again -- the pages fell out of my childhood copy long ago. I've always been partial to Mike (?) taking the dead fly in with him to talk to the computer, and defining funny jokes from a print-out.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-08 16:39|| 2007-07-08 16:39|| Front Page Top

#8 "I pray for one last landing,
On the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies,
And the cool green hills of earth."
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Heinlein

Posted by borgboy2001 2007-07-08 16:40|| 2007-07-08 16:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Never insult anyone by accident.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-07-08 17:57|| 2007-07-08 17:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Regarding a slave trader:

"What did I do? I spaced the bastard! He went thataway, eyes popping and peeing blood."

Posted by Tarzan Angong5690 2007-07-08 19:00|| 2007-07-08 19:00|| Front Page Top

#11 "Everything to excess! Eat, Drink, and Be Merry. Moderation is for Monks". Lazarus Long.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-07-08 20:34|| 2007-07-08 20:34|| Front Page Top

#12 I've always been partial to Mike (?) taking the dead fly in with him to talk to the computer, and defining funny jokes from a print-out.

That would be, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". It, too, has its own hilarious scene when the lunar colony announces its intent to make a demonstration of might against earth and specifies the coordinates with a date and time for when they will lob down an iron jacketed boulder to prove it.

Earth's government refuses to take the proclamation seriously and a carnival sprouts up at the intended impact site from all the tourists who've clustered up to view its arrival.

The ensuing megaton strength impact event kills thousands on the ground and a shocked earth declares war on the moon.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-08 21:03|| 2007-07-08 21:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Darkness is just an absence of light!

Posted by gromgoru 2007-07-08 21:39|| 2007-07-08 21:39|| Front Page Top

#14 I do wish he had retired permanently before he wrote The Number of the Beast. The man needed therapy for his Oedipus complex.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-07-08 21:49|| 2007-07-08 21:49|| Front Page Top

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