Thread: Quotes: Post Your Favorites

"Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin

Got this from an email-much holds true to any state in the PNW actually Uptrend, Burrocrat-all in favor say "Aye".

THIS IS WHAT JEFF FOXWORTHY HAS TO SAY ABOUT 'LIVING IN OREGON' . .



If you measure distance in hours, you live in Oregon (or Washington).

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Oregon (Washington true true too).

If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' and back again in the same day, you live in Oregon (Washingtonians sign up here).

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Central, Southern or Eastern Oregon (similar regions to be found in Washington).

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a 2 layers of clothes or under a raincoat, you live in Oregon (or Washington).

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow and ice, you live in Oregon (Washingtonians might agree).

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Oregon (Washingtonians may apply).


If you know more people who own boats than air conditioners, you live in Oregon (or Washington).

If you stand on a deserted corner in the rain waiting for the "Walk" signal, you live in Oregon (Washingtonians elligible).

If you consider that if it has no snow or has not recently erupted, it is not a real mountain, you live in Oregon (Washington folks agree).
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If you know the difference between Chinook, Coho and Sockeye salmon, you live in Oregon (or Washington).

If you know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, Clatskanie, Issaquah, Oregon, Umpqua, Yakima and Willamette, you live in Oregon (or Washington).

If you consider swimming an indoor sport, you live in Oregon (or Washington).

If you know that Boring is a city and not just a feeling, you live in Oregon (not Washington).


If you never go camping without waterproof matches and a poncho, you live in Oregon (could be Washington).

If you have actually used your mountain bike on a mountain, you live in Oregon (Or Washington).

If you think people who use umbrellas are either wimps or tourists, you live in Oregon (or Washington).

If you buy new sunglasses every year, because you cannot find the old ones after such a long time, you live in Oregon (or Washington).

If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your OREGON/WASHNGTON friends, you live or have lived in Oregon (or Washington).

Got this from an email-much holds true to any state in the PNW actually Uptrend, Burrocrat-all in favor say "Aye".

THIS IS WHAT JEFF FOXWORTHY HAS TO SAY ABOUT 'LIVING IN OREGON' . .

ahhhhh, Alevin! I can remember snow on Halloween.
Eastern Washington not only had` snow vacation' d/t buses couldn't do the country rollinghills roads, but we had `mud vacation' when the snows melted & flooded the country roads, the `flats' where I lived - kids out in rowboats where the garden would be ...
Thanx - I'll be sending it on....

aye

Think left and think right and think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.
~Dr. Seuss

Sipsey: Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

~ Dr. Suess

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ~Bill Watterson

"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for."

--Marian Wright Edelman,
African-American activist

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

**** Bob Dylan