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thatotherpervwell, I've done my part in supporting the Hallmark machine today :)
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purplefeen:
Today is International Very Good Looking, Damn Smart Woman's Day, so please send this message to someone you think fits this description. And remember this motto to live by: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
that's a holiday I can get behind. :)
as for the more commercial one, some valentine's-related funnies.
well, I don't know how funny they are. see what I did there? I lured you in with false advertising. but here are some of my favorite thoughts on love. mostly funny, because we take the condition way too seriously.
"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as much as possible."
--Zora Neale Hurston (talk about a damn smart woman *loves her*)
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
--Socrates
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
--Socrates
"Love is a serious mental disease."
--Plato
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery (ok, not funny, but my favorite philosophy on love)
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
--Rita Rudner
"I know what love is. It's a trick on the brain, the adrenal glands releasing endorphins. It floods the cells that transmit worry and better sense, drowns them in biochemical bliss. You can know all these things about love, yet it remins irresistable, as beguiling as the floating arms of long sleep."
--Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses (this actually appeals to the romantic in me, but...I'm a weirdo)
"Sex can cure can asthma attack. I saved a man's life once."
--Annie Sprinkle
"Making the decision to have a child...is to decide to forever have your heart go walking around outside your body."
--Elizabeth Stone
the oldest har-har:
"Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd want to have dinner with."
--unknown. and/or, everybody and they momma
"Mostly, I think I just love them because the pairing appeals simultaneously to the romantic and the realist in me. It’s a love story that, in one way or another, spans over a century canonically. Maybe a story about losing something and finding it again. Maybe instead, a story about finding something you always wanted, where you never thought you’d find it. About how people can still surprise you, even when you’ve seen everything. How maybe even that irritating person you’re inexplicably tied to can end up being the most important constant in your life.
Even when you want to rip their head off for being such a stick-in-the-mud pompous asshole, or alternatively, an irresponsible, abrasive, snarky little banty rooster."
--me! about our boys :) and yes, I just quoted myself.
Happy Valentine's, everyone. and togirlpire, happy birthday! you valentine's baby, you.
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purplefeen:Today is International Very Good Looking, Damn Smart Woman's Day, so please send this message to someone you think fits this description. And remember this motto to live by: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
that's a holiday I can get behind. :)
as for the more commercial one, some valentine's-related funnies.
well, I don't know how funny they are. see what I did there? I lured you in with false advertising. but here are some of my favorite thoughts on love. mostly funny, because we take the condition way too seriously.
"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as much as possible."
--Zora Neale Hurston (talk about a damn smart woman *loves her*)
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
--Socrates
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
--Socrates
"Love is a serious mental disease."
--Plato
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery (ok, not funny, but my favorite philosophy on love)
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
--Rita Rudner
"I know what love is. It's a trick on the brain, the adrenal glands releasing endorphins. It floods the cells that transmit worry and better sense, drowns them in biochemical bliss. You can know all these things about love, yet it remins irresistable, as beguiling as the floating arms of long sleep."
--Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses (this actually appeals to the romantic in me, but...I'm a weirdo)
"Sex can cure can asthma attack. I saved a man's life once."
--Annie Sprinkle
"Making the decision to have a child...is to decide to forever have your heart go walking around outside your body."
--Elizabeth Stone
the oldest har-har:
"Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd want to have dinner with."
--unknown. and/or, everybody and they momma
"Mostly, I think I just love them because the pairing appeals simultaneously to the romantic and the realist in me. It’s a love story that, in one way or another, spans over a century canonically. Maybe a story about losing something and finding it again. Maybe instead, a story about finding something you always wanted, where you never thought you’d find it. About how people can still surprise you, even when you’ve seen everything. How maybe even that irritating person you’re inexplicably tied to can end up being the most important constant in your life.
Even when you want to rip their head off for being such a stick-in-the-mud pompous asshole, or alternatively, an irresponsible, abrasive, snarky little banty rooster."
--me! about our boys :) and yes, I just quoted myself.
Happy Valentine's, everyone. and to
girlpire, happy birthday! you valentine's baby, you.
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Date: 2007-02-15 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-15 05:10 am (UTC)uh, could you tell that that's one of my favorites? *snerk*
where'd you originally say that self-quote? I feel like i've read it...
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Date: 2007-02-15 05:17 am (UTC)it was in my why I love spangel / how I got into the fandom post :) I was rereading it today and decided I really liked it, haha
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Date: 2007-02-15 03:41 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2007-02-15 09:29 pm (UTC)