Posts Tagged ‘Fortune’

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“Pardon my French”

by Seraphine Khorana on September 4th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
“Pardon my French”

I paid my car off in April. Do you know how nice it is not to have car payments? So the Universe blessed my good fortune by hurling a truck at me this week and destroying my little, completely-paid-for, all-mine car. My insurance company gave me a check and said I’m supposed to replace my Honda with a comparable one. The “catch” is nobody takes care of their cars as well as I do. There isn’t a Honda that is “just like mine” for sale anywhere. I bought a newer one that cost me an additional ten thousand dollars. Alas, I’m making car payments again. Thank you Universe– I’m at least blessed that nobody was injured in the wreck.

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
Quotation from Jack Handey

Bart, with $10,000, we’d be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like… love!
Quotation from Homer Simpson

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At Other Times, I Feel Blessed

by Seraphine Khorana on June 1st, 2010
Posted In: Comics
At Other Times, I Feel Blessed

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. Those are the five stages of, well, everything seriously bad that happens to us– grief, lost relationships, addiction, job dislocation and death– to name a few (as if one can bargain with grief and death).
Nothing in life seems quite so orderly, however. Some people never get past their own feelings of anger and bitterness. Others seem to live in a perpetual state of grace and total acceptance (though in the interest of disclosure, I haven’t yet met anyone that fits that description). Life is an ongoing process, and I feel blessed– even in spite of it all.

Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear…
Juliet: O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche

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Karmic Benevolence

by Seraphine Khorana on November 11th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Karmic Benevolence

What goes around comes around. But be careful, because you don’t want to be caught looking the wrong way when it happens.

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
Quotation from Will Rogers

In anticipating the unexpected, there are at least four political events in the Middle East that could make Obama’s hair turn prematurely white, quite apart from a terrorist attack. These include:
1. The collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
2. A Hizballah takeover of Lebanon, either through next year’s parliamentary elections or via extra-legal means.
3. A succession crisis in Egypt, a vitally important country with an octogenarian president and no open, transparent, and accountable system for the transfer of political power.
4. News of unexpected nuclear “success” by Iran.
Quotation from In Transition: The Obama Administration (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

It is against the law in San Francisco to wipe one’s car with used underwear, or to walk down any street if you are “ugly”.
Taken from Dumb Laws in California (DumbLaws.com)

Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider!
Quotation from George Carlin

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