SurlyDoug.com Those easily offended beware!
I'm _trying_ to give a damn!
Life is sexually transmitted … and fatal.

 

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. — From Mt. Molelog weblog [http://molelog.molehill.org]
I figured out years ago that the human species is totally fucked and has been for a long time. I also know that the sick, media-consumer culture in America continues to make this so-called problem worse. But the trick, folks, is not to give a fuck. Like me. I really don't care. I stopped worrying about all this temporal bullshit a long time ago. It's meaningless. (See the preface of Braindroppings.) — George Carlin, from his web site
My wits are no match for his stupidity. — Red Green character on “The Red Green Show”
there is some shit i will not eat — ee cummings
Error is robust, correctness frail and fleeting. — Old saying among editors
... and explain it like I'm stupid, because, well ... — Anonymous Internet Posting
Republicans are preferable to Democrats because they believe in the right to bear arms. If you disagree strongly enough with them you can shoot them. — P. J. O'Rourke
The day the second amendment is repealed, is the day it was meant for. — Unknown
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect. — Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a/k/a Mark Twain)
Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. — Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a/k/a Mark Twain)
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. — Thomas Jefferson
If I’d tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600. — Babe Ruth
The answers I have found have just served to raise a whole new set of questions. In some ways I am as confused as ever, but I believe I am confused on a much higher level and about more important things. — Unknown
Don’t try to teach a pig to sing. It probably can’t be done and it annoys the pig. — Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a/k/a Mark Twain)
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. — Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a/k/a Mark Twain)
Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. — James Whistler
This is the kind of pedantry up with which I will not put. — Winston Churchill (in reply to a memo in which the respondent criticised him for ending a sentence with a preposition)
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions. — Mignon McLaughlin
I’m not impatient and your time is up. — "Alan Brady" character on The Dick Van Dyke Show
So powerful it’s kinda ridiculous. — Television advertisement for 3dfx video chip.
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Success is attending a funeral as a spectator. — E. BonAnno
The chief value of money is the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. — H.L. Mencken
When an elderly but distinguished scientist says something is impossible, he is almost surely wrong. — Arthur C. Clarke
The hardest part about being free is that you must allow your neighbor to be the same. — Bob Lonsberry
90% of the people in the world are idiots. Everybody knows this, and thinks they are part of the other 10%. — Unknown
Fuck the system? Nah, you might catch something. — Unknown
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. — Friedrich von Schiller, The Maid of Orleans , Act III, Scene 6
If you are angry with someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes … then you'll be a mile away from them, and you’ll have their shoes. — Unknown
The subdivision paradox: Where people who rant about government intrusion live and then form governing groups to rant about the color of a neighbor’s lawn. — Unknown
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein
A person is smart, people are scared stupid animals, and you know it. — Men In Black (movie)
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. — Richard Feynman
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. — Anonymous Internet posting
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell
Never let your conscience trick you into owning up to the truth when there’s still some chance somebody might believe the lie. — Charles Noblett
I’ve lost my faith in nihilism. — Anonymous Internet posting
Assume the worst about people, and you'll generally be correct. — Scott Adams, author of “Dilbert” cartoon
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. — Michael Sinz
Gun manufacturers don’t make bad products, bad parents do. — Anonymous Internet posting
Beliefs are more powerful than facts. — Duke Paulus Atreides character in the novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert
Yes, I am a minion of the Devil, but my duties are largely ceremonial. — Anonymous Internet posting
Cthulhu for President! Why vote for a lesser Evil? — Anonymous Internet posting
You will be liberated the moment you recognize them for what they are. — Tibetan Book of the Dead
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way. — Aldous Huxley

STFU
All text, layout, and photographs within this site are copyright © 2000-2011, SurlyDoug.com, unless otherwise specified, and all rights are reserved. The non-photographic graphics on this site, however, have been collected from a variety of sources, and they remain the property of those sources, and all rights are reserved to those owners.