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ƒ??If you donƒ??t like change, youƒ??re going to like irrelevance even less.ƒ?

~?ÿEric Shinseki


 
Posted : December 27, 2018 2:57 pm
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"If you don't like change, leave yours here"

On the tip jar at the Portland airport espresso stand - at the job you're likely to have if you don't embrace and adapt to change!


 
Posted : December 27, 2018 7:48 pm
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I like Yogi'isms.


 
Posted : December 27, 2018 7:59 pm
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Posted by: Just A. Surveyor

I like Yogi'isms.

Hey Booboo, lets go get some pic-a-nic baskets.?ÿ


 
Posted : December 27, 2018 8:13 pm
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Posted by: James Fleming
Posted by: Just A. Surveyor

I like Yogi'isms.

Hey Booboo, lets go get some pic-a-nic baskets.?ÿ

Not that Yogi dumba$$, Yogi Berra.

Yogi Berra was a brilliant man. Yogi Bear was pretty good also.


 
Posted : December 27, 2018 9:56 pm

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Who names their baby, Booboo? ?ÿOops, perhaps, but not Booboo.


 
Posted : December 27, 2018 10:53 pm
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Yogi possessed great wit...and was a helluva good ball player.?ÿ I'm not sure I'd consider him brilliant, but he was probably the only wisdom-laden Italian-American sage that hailed from "La Collina" in St. Louis.?ÿ The man could think up wise and lofty thoughts....and then instantly butcher them in?ÿhis?ÿspoken delivery.?ÿ?ÿ And probably like us all,?ÿI somehow still understand what he was saying.

couple of my favs:

When you come to a fork in the road, take it...or Itƒ??s like d??j?ÿ vu all over again.

And his pi??ce de r??sistance:?ÿ You wouldnƒ??t have won if weƒ??d beaten you.

Definitely light years ahead of Karl Malone...


 
Posted : December 27, 2018 11:08 pm
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Carl who?


 
Posted : December 27, 2018 11:09 pm
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Posted by: holy cow

Carl who?

Now there is a name I've not heard in a long time...


 
Posted : December 29, 2018 8:34 am
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"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."?ÿ - Hodding Carter II (1907-1972)

?ÿ


 
Posted : December 29, 2018 12:51 pm

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My favorite Yogi'ism

"It ain't over till it's over"


 
Posted : December 29, 2018 1:04 pm
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Is he also the one who said "It ain't over until the fat lady sings!"?


 
Posted : December 29, 2018 2:43 pm
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Posted by: Dave Lindell

Is he also the one who said "It ain't over until the fat lady sings!"?

I don't think so.

Generally speaking, they sing at the beginning of a baseball game (and sometimes @ the 7th inning stretch), but not at the end.

??¯

Loyal

?ÿ


 
Posted : December 29, 2018 2:51 pm
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Attribution is unclear. Don Meredith used it in the early 1970s as a color commentator.


 
Posted : December 29, 2018 3:14 pm
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I think it was me, that said it first...


 
Posted : December 29, 2018 4:02 pm

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Opera reference. ?ÿYes/No?


 
Posted : December 29, 2018 7:26 pm
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Yes it's a reference to Wagner operas


 
Posted : December 29, 2018 9:32 pm
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The thing that ain't over until the fat lady sings is an opera.?ÿ


 
Posted : December 29, 2018 11:29 pm
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From about as far back as I can remember (usually in response to "what difference does it make?"):

"It's the difference between right and wrong"?ÿ

My Dad, T.C. Carroll 1915-1997


Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"

 
Posted : December 30, 2018 12:15 am