B-Rant

- submitted by b-team on 10/11/2007

'Profound' Quotes On Suburbia


Or at least quotes folks in the burbs (and elsewhere) can relate to....

 

Limiting Physical Exertion Is Good...

“In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above...so I never have to go upstairs.”
--Steven Wright [Comic, Writer]


Wisdom Of The Founding Fathers...

"Housework, if it is done right, can kill you."
--John Quincy Adams [U.S. President]


The Gift Of Plumbers...

“Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.”
--George Meany [Labor Leader]


Communists Against Housework...

“You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a [person] can do.”
--Vladimir Lenin [Russian Leader]


Individuality, Progress, Originality? Uh, No...

“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land.”
--Marshall McLuhan [Media Educator-Philsopher]


Fantasy...

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”
--Jame Dent [Writer, Comic]


The Virture Of Gardeners.
(Clearly This Guy Never Met Ours
)...

“I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.”
--Bertrand Russell [Philosopher, Writer]


The Ancients Understood...

"Weeds Never Die."
--Belgian Proverb


So Did The Bard (Understand)...

“I will go root away
The noisome weeds which without profit suck
The soil’s fertility from wholesome flowers.”
--William Shakespeare [Playwright, Poet]


Appearances, Right?...

“Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.”
--Anthony Trollope [Novelist]

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"Weeds never die." But I'm

- submitted by Anonymous on 10/12/2007

"Weeds never die." But I'm going to spend my life like an idiot trying to kill them!


Funny. I've alwways loved

- submitted by Anonymous on 10/12/2007

Funny. I've alwways loved Steven Wright.


Lenin was always more about

- submitted by philosphergurl on 10/12/2007

Lenin was always more about clean house than Marxist values, LOL


George Meany was a labor

- submitted by plumbinghell on 10/12/2007

George Meany was a labor leader and evven he knows about plumbers, theyu'll break you.


Go Lenin, starting now, no

- submitted by equalrights on 10/12/2007

Go Lenin, starting now, no more housework for me!!! Let my hsuband do it.


Cute, best one isw Marshall

- submitted by Anonymous on 10/12/2007

Cute, best one isw Marshall McLuhan, He thought he knew everything, but seems like he had a good read on suburbia.


"The medium is the message."

- submitted by TVheeadache on 10/12/2007

"The medium is the message." That was Marshall McLuhan too. He understood how pop culture was going to scrfew things up royally. He was so right!


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