uncle phil

An old Italian Mafia Don is dying and he calls for his grandson to approach the bed.

"Lissin'a me. I wanna for you to taka my chrome-plated 38-caliber revolver, so you will always remember me."

The grandson smiles weakly and replies, "But grandpa, I really donna lika guns. Howzabout you leava me your ROLEX watch instead?"

Gasping for air the old man answers with a snarl in his voice, "Shuddup ana lissin. Somma day, you gonna runna da business. You gonna have a beautiful wife, lotsa money, a biga home and maybe a couple of bambinos." After a slight pause to catch his breath he continues, "Somma day, you gonna comma home and maybe find you wife inna bed with another man. Whadda you gonna do, pointa to your watch and say 'Times up?'"

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Daniel_

love it.

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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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