Your Philosophical One Liners

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  1. Tony Page

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    "Don't take any wooden nickels"

    I say why not they make good fire starters
     
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    "Stick to your guns"
    If you believe you're right let nothing sway you.
    I only have 1 question, if you stick to your guns how do you get them back into the holster?
     
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    Very carefully. :D
     
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    " flash in the pan"
    Short-lived success or in my case a normal cooking night.
     
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    So you’re kinda saying that your cooking is so fabulous that even the smoke alarm cheers you on?
    Or......are you treating your guests like gods and giving them burnt offerings?
     
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    I can't tell you how many hamburgers I sold to the Shoemaker he says they make excellent soles. My kids use them for mini frisbees.
     
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    "Flash in the pan" sounds like a Class II Misdemeanor around these here parts. ;)
     
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    No guesses?

    I don't know either. It was uttered by brutish-looking actor Vince Edwards in his starring role as "Ben Casey," an MD who took on the medical establishment. It was a popular TV series in the early 60s, primarily because of teenyboppers who were infatuated with "Dr. Ben."

    It was funny seeing this guy who usually played hit-men and bouncers wax philosophical.

    Without further evidence, I assume the originator of the one-liner was the script writer.
     
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    You made me go look, and now I recall reading the story. It was an Aesop fable regarding the mighty oak who bends before no one (yet is toppled by a windstorm) and the lowly reed which survives due to flexibility in turbulent times. WIKI cites similar parables in Greek and Chinese cultures.

    I love me some Aesop fables. Not all of his stories preached passivity.
     
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    Aw gee, and I wanted to credit some poor hack who wrote TV shows.
     
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    Shoot, go ahead. My first thought was you found it in a fortune cookie...it has that tone to it.

    Your comment on Ben Casey made me go look for the actor who portrayed the elder doctor at the hospital. It was Sam Jaffe (yet another child of Russian Jewish immigrants who landed in movies), who also played the lead role in Gunga Din.

    Doctor Zorba
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    Gunga Din
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    Sounds like something the High Lama would have said.

    [​IMG]
    (Lost Horizon, 1937)
     
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    When he was sober, I presume.
     
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    "The founder of Shangri-La was said to be two hundred years old, preserved, like the other residents, by the magical properties of the paradise he had created. " - Wikipedia

    (Hmmm... Could have been alcohol.:oops: )
     
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