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« on: February 28, 2013, 11:45:28 AM »
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    • In the old days, when there were caddies, there was a visitor to a golf links with which he was not acquainted, and in trying to get around the course he was guilty of about every fault of which a player can be guilty. There wasn't a bunker or a gully or a brook that he didn't find with his ball. He also played the wrong ball more than once, and his stance and preshot routines and waggles were something awful. After some very desperate attempts from the woods, on a long par 5, he said to the young caddy, who had been him watching with disgust:

    "Caddy, this is the most difficult course I ever played on!"

    "How would you know that? You haven't even started playing on it yet."

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9898519/Victory-for-Victor-Meldrew-as-pessimistic-people-live-longer.html
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    « Reply #1 on: February 28, 2013, 11:47:07 AM »
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    « Reply #2 on: February 28, 2013, 11:48:39 AM »
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    • "Victory for Victor Meldrew, as pessimistic people 'live longer' " article from News of the Abyss
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    « Reply #3 on: March 07, 2013, 07:26:07 PM »
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    • These stories are from  the sermons of Jacques de Vitry, who was the Cardinal Bishop of Tusculum until 1240 A.D.


    De Arbore in Qua Se Suspendebant Mulieres

    De quodam alio audivi, qui habebat arborem in horto suo, in qua duae eius uxores suspenderant semetipsas. Cui quidam eius vicinus ait: "Valde fortunata est arbor illa et bonum omen habet. Habeo autem uxorem pessimam; rogote, da mihi surculum ex ea, ut plantem in horto meo."



    De Bachone Qui Pendebat In Quadam Villa

    Aliquando transivi per quandam villam in Francia, ubi suspenderant pernam seu bachonem in platea hac condicione ut, qui vellet iuramento firmare quod uno integro anno post contractum matrimonium permanisset cuм uxore ita quod de matrimonio non paenituisset, bachonem haberet. Et cuм per decem annos ibi pependisset non est unus solus inventus qui bachonem lucraretur, omnibus infra annum de matrimonio contracto paenitentibus.


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    « Reply #4 on: March 07, 2013, 09:10:28 PM »
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    "Victory for Victor Meldrew, as pessimistic people 'live longer' " article from News of the Abyss


    Pessimists live longer!?

    Maybe God loves them enough to give them that Cross, since everything is bad for them, living a long life forces them to see what horrifies them.

    This is a pessimist posting: one who hopes his pessimism does not bring about longevity.

    I'm too spiritually retarded to say I love suffering: I'd be a hypocrite if I had said that.
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    « Reply #5 on: March 07, 2013, 10:57:15 PM »
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    "Victory for Victor Meldrew, as pessimistic people 'live longer' " article from News of the Abyss


    Pessimists live longer!?

    Maybe God loves them enough to give them that Cross, since everything is bad for them, living a long life forces them to see what horrifies them.
    This is a pessimist posting: one who hopes his pessimism does not bring about longevity.
    I'm too spiritually retarded to say I love suffering: I'd be a hypocrite if I had said that.


    Nice post!
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    « Reply #6 on: March 07, 2013, 11:52:27 PM »
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    • Francisco de Osuna's "Third Spiritual Alphabet" is a good book. You can open it to any page, and there is always something good there.


    A man once saw a small boy fishing on the edge of brook, and stopped to talk with him. "What are you fishing for, my boy?" he asked.

    "Speckled quibbs", said the boy.

    "Speckled quibbs"? said the man. "And what do they look like"?

    "I don't know", said the boy; "I never caught any, but my older brother says there in here."
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    « Reply #7 on: March 11, 2013, 05:26:40 PM »
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    • Speckled quibbs sound like squibs.

    Sometimes saying "squibs" can remind me of Danny Jowenko and 9-11.
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    « Reply #8 on: May 19, 2014, 01:05:35 PM »
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    Francisco de Osuna's "Third Spiritual Alphabet" is a good book. You can open it to any page, and there is always something good there.


    A man once saw a small boy fishing on the edge of brook, and stopped to talk with him. "What are you fishing for, my boy?" he asked.

    "Speckled quibbs", said the boy.

    "Speckled quibbs"? said the man. "And what do they look like"?

    "I don't know", said the boy; "I never caught any, but my older brother says there in here."


    Do you have a link to this book online?
    I need a link to download the PDF for free.
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