Quotes and Jokes (37 Viewers)

[Lucky13]

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily:
they have nothing to lose and hope for little.
In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

Matthieu Ricard

 

[Lucky13]

My treasure chest is filled with gold.
Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . .
Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . .
Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . .
Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . .
Poet's gold and artist's gold . . .
Gold that can not be bought or sold -
Gold.

Don Blanding

 

[SaparotRob]

My treasure chest is filled with gold.
Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . .
Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . .
Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . .
Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . .
Poet's gold and artist's gold . . .
Gold that can not be bought or sold -
Gold.

Don Blanding

According to this, I'm loaded.

 

[Lucky13]

According to this, I'm loaded.

Agreed!
....and I'm filthy rich!

 

[MiTasol]

 

[A4K]

Ouch!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Lucky13]

The Riddle of Foxtrot 94....

BBC Inside Out - Disappearance of RAF pilot

 

[Airframes]

American pilot on an exchange tour with the RAF in September 1970 or '71. Was on a night "TacEval" exercise, hunting a Shackleton acting as "enemy". Believed to have hit the sea, exited the sinking aircraft, and was never found.

 

[GTX]

 

[GTX]

 

[GTX]

 

[Wurger]

 

[ThomasP]

 

[Wurger]

 

[GTX]

 

[Greg Boeser]

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This is news?
Though I admit. Sending the most appropriate emoji does require careful deliberation.

 

[buffnut453]

I think this has been on here before...but worth a revisit 'cos, well, it's funny!

BTW, the answer to the state question for "The Princess Bride" pic is....drum roll, please....

Utah (I'd be willing to put money on it). Many towns are laid out in a grid pattern with addresses referencing the position of the house relative to the street numbers. Also, "The Princess Bride" is hugely popular among the LDS community.

 

[Gnomey]

 

[A4K]

I liked that film myself. Haven't seen it in about 35 years or so, so I wonder how it aged. (Some films you saw and liked when you were younger are atrocious to see later on!)