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Hillcrest

Lifer
Dec 3, 2021
2,640
12,779
Bagshot Row, Hobbiton
"There's a hell of a lot more effort that goes into the hand carving of a stem and button, executing the transition from the airway into the slot, than is involved in the stummel. That "magic inch" is the point of contact, and that contact greatly affects one's smoking experience. And yet, that's almost never a part of the discussion.
Any slack jawed, drooling, knuckle dragging troglodyte can belch out "Niiiicce grraaaaaaain!" It's not illuminating." @sablebrush52
 

sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings
Jun 15, 2013
19,632
44,856
Southern Oregon
jrs457.wixsite.com
In observance of the Holiday Season:

Christmas time is here by golly
Disapproval would be folly
Deck the halls with hunks of holly
Fill the cup and don't say when
Kill the turkeys, ducks, and chickens
Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens
Even though the prospect sickens
Brother here we go again

On Christmas day you can't get sore
Your fellow man you must adore
There's time to cheat him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty four

Relations sparing no expense'll
Send some useless old utensil
Like a matching pen and pencil
"Just the thing I need, how nice!"
It doesn't matter how sincere it
is or how heartfelt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is the price.

Hark the Herald Tribune sings
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry merchants
May you make the yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and buy!

So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle
Driving his reindeer across the sky
Don't stand underneath when they fly by!
 

Bengel

Lifer
Sep 20, 2019
3,116
14,243
"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” J.R.R. Tolkien
 

Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
4,765
13,789
Humansville Missouri
The Ten Cannot’s
William J.H. Boetcker
  • You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
  • You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
  • You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
  • You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
  • You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
  • You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
  • You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
  • You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
  • You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
  • And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

"A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.”

William J. H. Boetcker
 

Servant King

Lifer
Nov 27, 2020
4,113
22,307
38
Frazier Park, CA
www.thechembow.com
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." -Gandhi

"Science is not about building a body of known 'facts.' It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." -Terry Pratchett
 

mawnansmiff

Lifer
Oct 14, 2015
7,385
7,295
Sunny Cornwall, UK.
What these mean I really haven't a clue...all pre 17thC.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

He that's afraid of every grass must not piss in a meadow.

He that's afraid of leaves must not enter a wood.


These I rather like...

We shall all lie alike in our graves.

He's ne're like to have a good thing cheap that's afraid to ask the price.


Regards,

Jay.
 

mawnansmiff

Lifer
Oct 14, 2015
7,385
7,295
Sunny Cornwall, UK.
Spotted this on a vintage ceramic tobacco jar, thought it rather appropriate here...

" When all things were made, none was made better than tobacco; to be a lone man's companion, a bachelor's friend, a hungry man's food, a sad man's cordial, a wakeful man's sleep and a chilly man's fire, there's no herb like it under the canopy of heaven. "

Courtesy of Victorian novelist, historian & social reformer Charles Kingsley 1819-1876.

Regards,

Jay.