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Date: 1-24-08 02:36
From: Armond in Marin County  
Subject: words of wisdom  
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Enjoy Your Coffee
A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment (variety) of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the simple and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases, it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... Then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us. Enjoy your coffee!."
The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
Live simply.
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
You are the miracle, my friend;
Your life either shines a light OR casts a shadow!
Shine a light & Enjoy the Coffee!!!
_________________
73 Tii. My Daily driver
Volvo V70 Turbo,Wagon
Ad Deum Per Fidem Mores Culturam
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Date: 1-24-08 03:45
From: Otis
Subject: Re: words of wisdom
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| Jim_75Sahara wrote: | | Is tea OK? |
Very zen. http://www.teaandzen.com/
Life may very well be the coffee (or tea), but personally, I'd go for the box-of-chocolates theory.
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Date: 1-24-08 04:11
From: Otis
Subject: Re: words of wisdom
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Obviously, a compromise position is necessary. I present, therefore, the chocolate coffee cup.
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Date: 1-24-08 04:29
From: Armond in Marin County
Subject: Re: words of wisdom
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| SteveJ wrote: | Which brings up a new question:
How many chocolates can you fit into your FAQ coffee cup? |
it depends... _________________ 73 Tii. My Daily driver
Volvo V70 Turbo,Wagon
Ad Deum Per Fidem Mores Culturam
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Date: 1-24-08 05:13
From: steve k. in Redwood City, CA
Subject: Re: words of wisdom (nt)
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| SteveJ wrote: | | Sorry Steve- Your cup is too small. |
that is exactly what i was thinking
but it doesn't all have to fit at the same time
steve k. _________________ KGB-Racing Shirts
KGB-Racing Mugs
"Super Karate Monkey Death Car"
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Date: 1-24-08 05:57
From: Armond in Marin County
Subject: Re: words of wisdom (nt)
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| SteveJ wrote: | | Sorry Steve- Your cup is too small. |
yeah, I bet most of you have small cups _________________ 73 Tii. My Daily driver
Volvo V70 Turbo,Wagon
Ad Deum Per Fidem Mores Culturam
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Date: 1-24-08 06:45
From: KFunk in Southeast Ohio.
Subject: Re: words of wisdom (nt)
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My spoon is too big!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI_________________ 4224479: 74 2002, #74 EP/FSP, daily driver
I beat my car like it owes me money!
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Date: 1-24-08 08:19
From: Armond in Marin County
Subject: Re: words of wisdom (nt)
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! _________________ 73 Tii. My Daily driver
Volvo V70 Turbo,Wagon
Ad Deum Per Fidem Mores Culturam
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Date: 1-25-08 04:35
From: KFunk in Southeast Ohio.
Subject: Re: words of wisdom (nt)
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| SteveJ wrote: | Ahhhhhh! Kfunk!!!!!
I was thinking of making that reference, but I din't know if anybody here would get it.
Robert May does the voices for Don's films. Robert is the son of my wife's boss. We go to all the animation shows when they are in town. |
I don't know too much about the cartoons, but I had to find out what the phrase meant after seeing it on a girl's t-shirt at a party. While it may have been stretched out of proportion a bit, I did stare at it for quite some time. Perhaps it was the content I enjoyed, and not as much the cartoon. Still funny in its own right, though. _________________ 4224479: 74 2002, #74 EP/FSP, daily driver
I beat my car like it owes me money!
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Date: 1-25-08 07:22
From: Otis
Subject: Re: words of wisdom (nt)
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| KFunk wrote: | | seeing it on a girl's t-shirt at a party . . . stretched out of proportion . . . I did stare |
You're quite the banana.
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Date: 1-27-08 05:48
From: Otis
Subject: Re: words of wisdom (nt)
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| jimmyb wrote: | | something that has changed my life a little, in a good way - do you listen, or do you wait to speak? |
But is that your conceptual continuity? Mine is quite easy to see:
"Once upon a time, somebody say to me"
This is the dog talkin' now
"What is your, conceptual, continuity?"
"Well I told 'em right then", Fido said
"It should be easy to see
"The crux of the biscuit
is the apostrophe"
Well you know, the man that was talking to the dog
looked at the dog, and he said
Sort of staring in disbelief
"You can't say that"
he said
"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"
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