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29 August 2005

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post by: Hugh Janus at: 10:58 | 37 comments

One more cup of coffee for the road.

or, really,

To live outside the law you must be honest.

posted by omiewise 29 August | 11:08

You know you are too vain when you are jelous of people who envy you.

posted by Balisong 29 August | 11:10

Patience.

(Not that I live by that motto. But, you know, it's worth a try.)

posted by papercake 29 August | 11:11

In life: "Everything's gonna be all right"

Thought I like the whole "Snakes on a Plane" thing.

posted by ArsncHeart 29 August | 11:19

Life is always better when you don't know what you're missing.

posted by sisterhavana 29 August | 11:24

Fuck off ©

posted by peacay 29 August | 11:28

I like to change up mottos, todays is:

"We don't punch girls, and we don't punch a clock." Pace The Black Sheep.

I also have a few rules, which can be dispensed in motto form:

The only organ I will consume without extensive pre-sniffing and tiny tastes is the liver.

Never ever turn your back on a friend or family.

Never rat out, inform or eat cheese, handle your own bidness. Snitches get stitches.

Tip a dollar for each drink.

Try to put yourself in the other persons shoes.

Other than that it's just guidelines.

Oh yeah and there is Pat Cadigan's great but slightly too hedonistic/simpleminded:

If you can't fuck it and it doesn't dance, eat it or throw it away.

posted by Divine_Wino 29 August | 11:46

"Meh."

posted by mr.marx 29 August | 11:49

"I used to be disgusted, Now I try to be amused..."

posted by jonmc 29 August | 11:49

This too shall pass.

posted by mygothlaundry 29 August | 11:49

It could be worse, you could also be on fire.

Since, y'know, no matter how bad things are, any awful situation would be made worse with the addition of fire.

Unless, well, the bad situation is being on fire. In which case it most likely can't get any worse.

posted by kellydamnit 29 August | 11:51

"Carpe Diem, Mother Fucker."

posted by me3dia 29 August | 12:08

"Credo Quia Absurdum Est"
I believe, because it is absurd.

posted by Fuzzy Monster 29 August | 12:12

"I used to be disgusted, Now I try to be amused..."

That's what you get if you go chasing after vengeance.

I got my moto from a fortune cookie about two years ago: "Now Is The Time To Try Something New".

I'm working on it.

posted by Capn 29 August | 12:17

"I used to be disgusted, Now I try to be amused..."

Damn, jonmc, you totally stole my line! One of my favorite EC quotes. (And there are many.)

The one I find myself repeating over and over to my kid is "Nothing great was ever accomplished by conformists." This is generally said right before she goes to the grocery store dressed as a spider or after she tells her playdate friends, "But I DON'T LIKE the Disney princesses." Rock on, ya little freak!

posted by jrossi4r 29 August | 12:18

"Nothing's forever so make sure it's good."

So it's a song lyric -- big deal.

posted by gaspode 29 August | 12:21

Damn, jonmc, you totally stole my line! One of my favorite EC quotes. (And there are many.)

Thaks goodness I didn't quote "Pussy & Money," again, at any rate.

posted by jonmc 29 August | 12:23

"No man outlives his employment status."

posted by Absit Invidia 29 August | 12:27

Here's a fortune cookie I once received:

Watch out for children.

posted by Hugh Janus 29 August | 12:29

Honesty in most things.

posted by seanyboy 29 August | 12:35

jonmc, I'm a devoted follower of Costello's First Credo myself; the longest-surviving bumper sticker on my longest-surviving car was a misquote of that: "I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused."

At the time, it was easier to just be amused; now I do have to try harder.

posted by wendell 29 August | 12:58

Gas, grass or ass. Nobody rides for free.

posted by danostuporstar 29 August | 12:58

Use it or loose it.

posted by rainbaby 29 August | 13:47

"Who wants coffee? I'm off to Tims"

posted by bonehead 29 August | 13:49

I swear, I'm done smoking cigarettes. No more.

posted by Specklet 29 August | 14:00

"They are ill discoverers that think that there is no land when they see nothing but sea." -Francis Bacon

Not terribly profound, but it's Monday morning.

posted by Frisbee Girl 29 August | 14:01

Your excuse ("Not terribly profound, but it's Monday morning") would make a great motto, Frisbee Girl.

posted by Hugh Janus 29 August | 14:07

Ha, good point Hugh! It's likely the main reason I work nights, no?

posted by Frisbee Girl 29 August | 14:14

Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you.

(or about 30 other Lebowski quotes.)

posted by maryh 29 August | 14:40

"None of your fucking business."

posted by Divine_Wino 29 August | 14:48

Peacay and the wino stole my two candidates.

posted by Skrik 29 August | 14:58

Oohh wait, I got another one:

"Taste a Panda's ass."

I love WW.

skrik, that none of your etc, is what the dude who didn't evacuate NO said to the fox news guy, when asked why he didn't evacuate and was instead walking his dogs in the French Quarter. Bless his heart.

posted by Divine_Wino 29 August | 15:39

"People are no damned good"

posted by dg 29 August | 19:21

People suck.

Well, it is.

posted by mudpuppie 29 August | 19:28

My motto: No drama. i mean, in the will-not-respond-to sense.

posted by dhruva 29 August | 21:27

That which does not kill me...

posted by puddinghead 30 August | 00:21

I think these are more mantras rather than mottos (and they echo several above) but here goes:

- Patience
- Treat everyone as you wish to be treated
- Imagine that you are that person
- If it doesn't kill me, it'll make me stronger
- Tomorrow's another day
- Does it really matter?

And my favourite and most used mantra:

Goddamn motherfucker cuntlicking cocksucker!

(I only look like a Sunday school teacher.)

posted by deborah 30 August | 13:41

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