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Ever come across a saying that you "hold" on to? I have read many but for some reason, I only remember two.
From Dances with Wolves:
"I did not ascend to this position by being an idiot. Please do not treat me as such".
and from novelist Stephen King:
"...95% of the people that walk the earth are inert. One percent are imbecile, one percent are genius. The other three percent are those that can do the things they say they can do"
I apply the Stephen King approach to my daily work, and make sure I either can or capable of learning to do at a high level, the things I say I can do.
-------------------- Gregg Sydney Signworks (02) 9837 1198 Schofields NSW Australia Posts: 368 | From: Schofields | Registered: May 2007
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My late father had an expression/saying for almost amything that really pleased or pleasantly surprised him. It was "slicker-n-owl poop" said with his thick Irish brough.(accent) As a very young lad I heard it often, so it was easy to remember the words and the context of their use. One day in the first grade, our teacher took us out during recess to the parking lot to see her new red pickup. She asked us "What do you think of that kids?" I, standing very close by, of course said .. "Thats slicker n owl poop" the other kids hearing the naughty word "poop" all chimed in repeating the 5 words you don't say in the first grade. For about two months after, everything in school was "Slicker n owl poop" except. of course the miscreant who started it all.
-------------------- William "Irish" Holohan Resting...Read "Between Jobs." Marlboro, MA 01752 email: firemap1@aol.com Posts: 1110 | From: Marlboro, MA | Registered: Dec 2001
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On a sign my first boss, Jimmy Wilke, father lettered on a showcard...
"We have no quarrel with those who work for less... They know what they stuff is worth"
I still have the showcard...
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Any line from The Godfather" especially "Leave the gun, take the canoli"
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3814 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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"It Couldn't Be Done" by Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it! Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that; At least no one ever has done it;" But he took off his coat and he took off his hat And the first thing we knew he'd begun it. With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Without any doubting or quiddit, He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to prophesy failure, There are thousands to point out to you one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, Just take off your coat and go to it; Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.
-------------------- Mike Clayton M C Grafix Custom Lettering New Jersey (again) Posts: 508 | From: New Jersey | Registered: Apr 1999
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Applied to that walldog job today! Fourth try at it in 3 months. Long story about aborts, but very tight time frame of getting in and out in a hurry without disrupting business with expensive power cuts and huge PITA B/S permits costing more than twice the price of the sign.
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Man, I'm from the South. I know people that can't open their mouth without a funny saying coming out..... (warning, sometimes they are a little colorful) These don't really pertain to the sign or business world... just things you hear in a day down here...
Busy -
"I'm busier than a cat on a hot tin roof.." "Busier than a one-armed paper hanger.." "Busier than a three-peckered billy goat..." "Busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs"
Good Food -
"So good it'll make your tongue slap your brains out.." "Make you slap your grandma..."
Gettin' Mad -
"I'm madder than a wet hornet" "Spittin' nails" "Fit to be tied" "Madder'n Fire" "Madder'n a wet hen" "Throwing a hissie fit" "Havin a conniption"
Doin' Stuff the Hard Way or Being Just Plain Sorry or Dumb -
"He's goin' around his ass to get to his elbow.." "Worthless as tits on a boar" "If he were any smarter he'd have to be watered once a week" "Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while" "He's like a bump on a log"
Raining Hard -
"Raining cats and dogs" "Raining pitchforks and babies." (Politically corrected over the years...) "Raining like a cow pi$$in' on a flat rock.."
Referring to fast talkers and liars-
"He's pullin' your leg.." "Don't pi$$ on my leg, and tell me it's rainin'" "He'd tell a lie if the truth sounded better.."
Dumb Folks
"2 bricks shy of a full load" "His elevator doesn't go all the way to the top" "Crazier than a sprayed roach" "Dumber than a box of rocks" "If he had bird brains he'd fly backward"
Fast or Loud -
"He run like a scalded dog" "He squealed like a stuck pig" "It'll run like a raped ape."
Surpised -
"Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit" "Well, I'll be switched."
Misc. -
"Scared the livin' daylights outa me" Out of kilter - "Cattywompus" "How's your mommernem?" (How's your momma and them?)
Those are just few that come to mind. I could probably make a list of a couple hundred if I sat and thought about it... and that be without even getting into the ugly, skinny or fat people sayings...
-------------------- Jon Jantz Snappysign.com jjantz21@gmail.com http://www.allcw.com Posts: 3395 | From: Atmore, AL | Registered: Nov 2005
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It takes a lazy man to get something done, because there is no extent a lazy will not go to, in order to get out of work. He will even do it right the first time.
-------------------- Bob Moroney The Sign Guy 310 Club Valley Drive Falmouth, MA 02536 508-259-6297 Posts: 216 | From: Falmouth, MA | Registered: Jul 2008
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Totaly silly but written in a yearbook in grade eight by a buddy.....
"Love many, trust few...Always paddle your own canoe"
I think I may have always lived my life that way.
I have tried and tried to find that wise young lad in Chilliwack in these days of internet.
Maybe Dan or Donna might have heard of him...name is Doug Pohl.
???
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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I like the one that I posted in my signature: "Do or do not…there is no try!". This quote is from the Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back when Yoda gives Luke an assignment to lift the X-wing fighter from the swamp using the power of his mind alone. Luke responds: ‘I’ll try’. Yoda then gets agitated and replies: ‘No! Do or do not…there is no try!’. We use the verb try very much in our language. To try means to make an effort to do or accomplish something. With it we commit ourselves to the effort, but not to the result! Worse still the word try focuses more on failure than on success. The message “I’ll try to do it” clearly sends a different message than “I’ll do this”. When we try we anticipate failure, and send this message of failure to our subconscious mind. When we do we send a message focused on success. Don’t try to do a job which looks impossible at first sight, don’t try to drink enough water during the day, don’t try to do weight lifting exercises three times a week. Just do it!(like David Harding is saying ) Remember Yoda: Do or do not…there is no try!
-------------------- Catalin Dretcanu TIPART GROUP Ltd www.tipart.ro Address: Bucharest, ROMANIA Phone: +40 722 621 512 E-mail: catad@yahoo.com
"Do or do not...there is no try" Posts: 83 | From: Bucharest, ROMANIA (Europe) | Registered: Sep 2003
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Learned this one at a 5 year olds party last week:
"You get what you get, so don't throw a fit!"
Works on husbands who are crabby that it is January (every year) and temp without windchill is -10 too!
-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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"You've been here all this time, and you still expect 'fairness?' You really are a blithering idiot." - Rudyard Kipling, from 'Stalky and Company'.
Sherm Dodge, an elderly retired fisherman I knew years ago had some of the most exquiste New England turns of phrase I ever heard. Example: Another fisherman had recently purchased a very large, very rusty and decrepit boat, about which Sherm commented, "Ain't no way in Jesus' world he gonna make any money on that Christless great Ark." A few other gems: "He aint got the brains god gave a ringworm" "Tougher than a bag full a hammers" and "Numb as a hake"(Hake being a species of groundfish similar to a flounder). A prediction of rain would come out as "I 'spec she'll wet up here by'n'by". About a person whose influence of events did not match their ambitions, "He don't draw enough water". I wish I remembered more, old Sherm was just a treasure to listen to.
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3485 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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