  Lots of random quotes. None of them mine. Just trying to cheer myself up. Not really working. This is kind of one of those weeks that's just like "This week sucks for no apparent reason" kind of weeks. The grass is always greener when you remember to water it Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
i like work. it fascinates me. i can sit and look at it for hours. Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. Funnier than a thingy-shaped turnip Make sure your mind isn't so open that your brains fall out.
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who actually do Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor i'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing! Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker. I've never had a problem with drugs; I've had problems with the police. If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? Madness takes its toll.
Please have exact change Jack and Jill did it for the insurance When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos... then you probably haven't completely understood the situation. When in doubt, mumble My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself No problem is so big and complicated that it can't be ran away from my girlfriend told me i should be more affectionate. so i got two girlfriends. Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead. Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. A rich man's joke is always funny.
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. Funny quotes ...enjoy !!! If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out. I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain. Do you have trouble making up your mind? Well, yes or no?
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film. You know the speed of light, so what's the speed of dark?
Join The Army, Visit exotic places, meet strange people, then kill them. I poured Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more. (Friend or Money !
) Death is hereditary. There are three sides to any argument: your side, my side and the right side. An consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing. Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference. When you're right, no one remembers.
When you're wrong, no one forgets. Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when nobody is looking.
They say hard work never hurts anybody, but why take the chance. Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. I like work. It fascinates me. I sit and look at it for hours.
If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side. Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives. Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. More funny quotes ......... If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark. --------Michael L. Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
---------Wendell Johnson It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. --------Weinberg Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. --------F Lebowitz The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. --------Robert Frost The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. --------Franklin P. Jones We must believe in luck.
For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? -------Jean Cocturan It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world everyday always just exactly fits the newspaper. ------Jerry Seinfeld Words of Wisdom 1. I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good, either.
2. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. 3. I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode. 4.
Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car. 5. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives. 6. Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it. 7.
Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue. 8. Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time you need him, chances are you won't be needing him again. 9. I don't have an attitude problem.
You have a perception problem. 10. Last night, I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and thought to myself, "Where the heck is the ceiling? " 11. My Reality Check bounced. 12.
On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the Escape key. 13. I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier. 14. You're slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.
15. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons because, to them, you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. 16. Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. 17. Never argue with an idiot.
They drag you down to their level. 18. Am I getting smart with you? How would you know? And still more funny quotes THOUGHTS ON KIDS BY SOME MOMS!!! Mothers of teens know why some animals eat their young.
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut-up. Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids.
I love to give homemade gifts. Which one of my kids do you want? Children are natural mimics who act like their parents, despite every effort to teach them good manners. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the drive before it has stopped snowing. "There is only one pretty child in the world... and every mother has it. " - Chinese Proverb.
Children will soon forget your presents. They will always remember your presence. The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids. "Who are these kids and why are they calling me Mom? " You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool mom.
A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school clothes. Anyone who says "Easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried it. The best inheritance parents can give their children is a few minutes of their time each day. Cute Funny Quotes ! "I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
" Rodney Dangerfield. "You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. " Ellen DeGeners. "Have you ever noticed?
Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. " George Carlin. "I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is? " Paul Merton. "I used to sell furniture for a living.
The trouble was, it was my own. " Les Dawson. "The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. " Marty Feldman. "How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
" Spike Milligan. "My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. " Eric Morecambe. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. . - Emo Phillips I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
- Jennifer Unlimited The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. - Gilbert Chesterton Only presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we". - Mark Twain 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 Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family.
- Homer Simpson There are terrible temptations which it requires strength and courage to yield to. - Oscar Wilde Anyone who can only think of only one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination. - Mark Twain Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people. - Will Cuppy The most important service rendered by the press is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. - Samuel Butler The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.
- Gilbert Chesterton Bad spellers of the world - Untie! - Graffiti Always do right. That will gratify some of the people, and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless has plenty of work to do. - Jerome K. Jerome Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
- Fred Allen Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people. - Wendy Wasserstein It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain If I owned both Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell. Philip Henry Sheridan The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. - H. L. Mencken What is the difference about a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. - Mark Twain What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. - Margot Asquith In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. - Jeffery F. Chamberlain The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
- King VIII Edward America is a mistake, a giant mistake. - Sigmund Freud America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. - Bobcat Goldthwaite The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. - Charles Luckman There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. - Judith Martin America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. - Laurence J. Peter England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- George Bernard Shaw In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. - Arnold Toynbee It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. - Mark Twain America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike Problems and Other Stories America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
- Anthony Walton America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. - Oscar Wilde The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. - Frank Zappa Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier *** Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
- Francois de la Rouchefoucald *** It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. - Pierre August Renoir If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened". - Newt Gingrich *** The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were. - David Brinkley *** I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. - Mahatma Gandhi *** Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
- Fran Lebowitz *** Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. - Norman Mailer Never judge a book by its movie. - J.W. Eagan *** In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, "Did he leave a will? " but "Did he leave a diary? " - Liza Minnelli *** It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum.
- Wolcott Gibbs *** My dentist said to me the other day, I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films? - David Cronenberg The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing. - Kin Hubbard *** You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom. - Captain Penny's Law *** We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. - General Douglas MacArthur *** Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte *** We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines.
They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, "You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms. " - Elayne Boosler *** Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. - Groucho Marx *** Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
- Murphy's First Military Law *** Friendly fire isn't. - Murphy's Second Military Law *** The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map. - Murphy's Third Military Law *** Incoming fire has the right of way. - Murphy's Fourth Military Law *** The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose. - Murphy's Fifth Military Law *** If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy. - Murphy's Sixth Military Law *** Don't be conspicuous.
In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants. - Murphy's Seventh Military Law *** If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap. - Murphy's Eighth Military Law *** The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small. - Murphy's Ninth Military Law *** Never worry about the bullet with your name on it. Instead, worry about shrapnel addressed to 'occupant'.
- Murphy's Tenth Military Law Never drive faster than your Guardian Angel can fly. http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** Drive carefully! Remember, it's not only a car that can be recalled by it's maker. http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield. http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way. - Stan Levenson *** When Solomon said that there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking an automobile.
- Bob Edwards *** A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light. - Henry Morgan *** Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. - Dan Rather *** When there is a very long road upon which there is a one-way bridge placed at random, and there are only two cars on that road, it follows that: (1) the two cars are going in opposite directions, and (2) they will always meet at the bridge. - Murphy's Law of the Open Road *** When travelling down the freeway, the first bug to hit a clean windshield will always land directly in front of the driver's face. - Quigley's Law of Highway Driving *** Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck *** The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
- Dudley Moore An athiest is a man with no invisible means of support. - John Buchan *** An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins. - Dwight D. Eisenhower *** Thank God, I am still an atheist. - Luis Bunuel *** If there were no God, there would be no atheists. - Gilbert K. Chesterton Time is what keeps things from happening all at once. FIGHT BACK!
Fill out your tax forms with Roman numerals. Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students! A Diplomat is a person who can think twice before he says nothing. By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. Everybody repeat after me....."We are all individuals. " Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone. You know it's going to be a bad day when you call suicide prevention and they put you on hold. If a word is misspelled in a dictionary, how would we ever know? Synonym: A word you can use when you can't spell the other one. What's another word for thesaurus?
Why do we say something is out of whack; what is a whack? A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. " "Life is unsure, always eat your dessert first. " "After all is said and done, usually more is said. " "Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
" "Duct tape is like the Force. It has a dark side, it has a light side, and it holds the Universe together. " ~ Carl Zwanig ~ "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. " "Sometimes I wake up grumpy; Other times I let her sleep" "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. " "Fish and visitors smell in three days. " ~ Benjamin Franklin, 1736 ~ "The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
" "The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night. " ~ Otto von Bismarck ~ "If you can smile when things go wrong then you have someone in mind to blame. " "Down with gravity! " "If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat!? " "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. " ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~ "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to work.
" "A bargain is something you cannot use at a price you cannot resist. " "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. " ~ Mark Twain (1835-1910) ~ "Some day my ship will come in, but with my luck, I'll be at the airport. " "A kid's idea of a balanced diet is a hamburger in each hand. " "If a man says something, but there's no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong? " "You have to stay in shape.
My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. " ~ Ellen DeGeners ~ "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. " ~ George Carlin ~ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
" ~ Groucho Marx ~ "I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. " ~ Carol Leifer ~ Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez *** Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. - Mary Bly *** Dogs believe they are human.
Cats believe they are God. http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** The more I know about men the more I like dogs. - Gloria Allred *** If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a man and a dog. - Mark Twain *** My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
- Rita Rudner *** The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne-Marie Roland There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
- Jeff Valdez *** In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. - English proverb *** As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. - Ellen Perry Berkeley *** One cat just leads to another. - Ernest Hemingway *** Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. - Mary Bly *** Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. - Joseph Wood Krutch *** People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.
- Faith Resnick *** I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine *** Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
- Missy Dizick *** Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch *** I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic. http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** My husband said it was him or the cat... I miss him sometimes. http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.
http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually beomes a cat. - Ogden Nash Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain *** There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. - George Bernard Shaw *** I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley *** Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire *** Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky *** Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini *** Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle *** Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard *** We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. - Mark Twain *** The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.
- Steve Goodman *** Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? - John Cusack *** I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down' - Bob Newhart *** It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. - J.S. Bach *** Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon *** Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini *** A good composer does not imitate; he steals. - Igor Stravinsky *** I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. - Tony Bennet *** I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
- Elton John *** I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand. - Sir Edward Appleton *** No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing. - W H Auden *** Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, sings. - Ed Gardner *** You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work. - Hy Gardner *** I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.
- Mark Twain *** Jack Benny played Mendelsson last night. Mendelsson lost. http://www.basicquotations.com/?aid= *** It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham *** The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge *** I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm.
Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. - Alfred Hitchcock *** Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. - John Ruskin *** There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. - Isaac Stern *** Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos? - Igor Stravinsky *** His music used to be original. Now it's aboriginal.
[About Igor Stravinsky] - Sir Ernest Newman *** Parsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been running for three hours, you check your watch and it says 6:20. - David Randolph *** One can't judge Wagner's opera 'Lohengrin' after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini *** I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying "I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions. " - Hugo Wolf *** The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. - Andre Segovia *** I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.
- George Harrison *** I like to think of us as Clearasil on the face of the nation. Jim Morrison would have said that if he was smart, but he's dead. - Lou Reed *** If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. - Jon Bon Jovi *** I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either. - Robyn Hitchcock *** If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
- Sarah Caldwell *** There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. - Arthur Honegger *** Boys, look like you're having fun, but don't have any. (To his band just before going on the air) - Lawrence Welk *** She has a nice voice, but she looks a little bit too much like Eleanor Roosevelt. - Lawrence Welk *** Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah? - Lawrence Welk *** I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either.
So I'll keep it. - Quincy Jones *** Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. - Nat King Cole *** I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators. - John Sebastian *** The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
- Alberta Hunter *** I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. - Richard Thompson 
