Hi all,
Optimist = someone who has a hard time learning the lessons life dishes up (full of bliss)!
Realist = someone who learned quite a few of life’s lessons and remembers!
Pessimist = a Realist who learned a lot more of what was left to learn. And really remembers!
Or as my friend Pierre (back East) used to say “Sh… happens; but why always to me?”
Cheers, eh!
That is me, pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament – it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing risks you can’t avoid. This permits you to play out the game happily, untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.
Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money – but don’t be fanatic about it.
Shamelessly stolen from L. Long, ca 2342
Having a bad day, HJ?
Steve Featherkile said:
That is me, pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament -- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game happily, untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money – but don’t be fanatic about it.
Shamelessly stolen from L. Long, ca 2342
Having a bad day, HJ?
I’m having a good day and if it doesn’t rain tomorrow that will be even better. 
Glad to hear it. We had a great day, too. Unfortunately, I had to be inside all day in a meeting. Hopefully, tomorrow will be more of the same and I can get some work done on the RR.
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"Optimist = someone who has a hard time learning the lessons life dishes up (full of bliss)!
Realist = someone who learned quite a few of life’s lessons and remembers!
Pessimist = a Realist who learned a lot more of what was left to learn. And really remembers!"
I have never felt of myself as a realisit, or a pessimist and as for an optimist - I feel so blessed to have a glass, live in a country where there is clean water to drink from that glass and that sometimes I can get that water frozen and put a little rum over it. I truely have to work hard to maintain my emotions. Besides being an optimist just automatically pisses off about half of the population of this great Country of ours and that always brings a smile to my face.
An optimist will expect that everything will turn out fine, therefore, no little surprises for him, so life is a little boring. On the other hand, a pessimist expects that something will go wrong. When something unexpectedly turns out right then the pessimist has a pleasant surprise. I would rather be a pessimist with the occasional ‘surprise’ than an optimist who puts pressure on himself expecting that everything will work out fine, all the time.
Be polite to everybody you meet, but have a plan to kill them if necessary.
tac
Terry,
Have we attended the same training somewhere?
Andre’
Terry A de C Foley said:
Be polite to everybody you meet, but have a plan to kill them if necessary.tac
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Terry A de C Foley said:
Be polite to everybody you meet, but have a plan to kill them if necessary.tac
www.ovgrs.org
Pope Gregory said it best.
“Kill them all-let God sort it out”.
,and here I am, looking for the part of this thread that tells me how to “Cast Type”…
I have a newsletter to compose and print with type, on an old letterpress, but I’m wanting to cast the type…
For a moment I thought someone was using old lead type as a casting medium…
Fred Mills said:
,,,,,and here I am, looking for the part of this thread that tells me how to "Cast Type"..... I have a newsletter to compose and print with type, on an old letterpress, but I'm wanting to cast the type.......For a moment I thought someone was using old lead type as a casting medium…
I had two or three fonts, as I recall…which just really explains what we mean by upper and lower case…
Fred Mills said:Having been a galley slave in the days of my yout', I was wondering when the thread would drift to hot lead (besides the kind that the artillerists favour).
,,,,,and here I am, looking for the part of this thread that tells me how to "Cast Type"..... For a moment I thought someone was using old lead type as a casting medium....
Chris Vernell said:Chris,Fred Mills said:Having been a galley slave in the days of my yout', I was wondering when the thread would drift to hot lead (besides the kind that the artillerists favour).
,,,,,and here I am, looking for the part of this thread that tells me how to "Cast Type"..... For a moment I thought someone was using old lead type as a casting medium....
In my youth I had the “pleasure” of pouring liquid lead to make lead hammers. Very versatile instruments that have a suitable impact without leaving too much damage. There are days when I wish for a “virtual one” to do some fine adjustments in fora. :lol: :lol: Or would that be too blunt. 
Oh yes, that was a fine job as a first year apprentice, melt the old deformed ones and cast new ones.
Fumes? what fumes? there’s an exhaust over that forge, isn’t there?
Chris Vernell said:Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl.Fred Mills said:Having been a galley slave in the days of my yout', I was wondering when the thread would drift to hot lead (besides the kind that the artillerists favour).
,,,,,and here I am, looking for the part of this thread that tells me how to "Cast Type"..... For a moment I thought someone was using old lead type as a casting medium....
Steve Featherkile said:Sire, the peasants are revolting! Yes, aren't they.
Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl.
Or, as Henry VIII had embossed on his cannon: Ultima ratio regis (the king’s final argument, or the king gets the last word)
I belong to the ‘if it rains today we’ll go tomorrow, and if it rains tomorrow we’ll go today’ bunch.
tac
‘No man ever picked up his shadow and carried it before him.’
St Vernier of Plep.
Best to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and make it known.
Lincoln.
Damn, I blew it…
Terry A de C Foley said:Kato, maybe.
'No man ever picked up his shadow and carried it before him.'