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Welcome to #checkin for Friday, August 29, 2025!
Good evening/morning/afternoon, everyone, and welcome to today's #checkin. Just got from meeting a friend. We went to a nice Chinese restaurant with great food. Nothing extravagant, but still nice and yummy. And I was starving....
Today is Lemon Juice Day, so when life gives you lemons...
What is your favorite proverb or maybe a funny variant of an existing proverb? I also find it fascinating how these proverbs translate to other languages... Some are indeed very similar; others are entirely different. The lemon proverb has found its way into German as a literal translation as well, but I think a more original translation would be Repay evil with good.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •Greetings… Ahoj! Aloha! Bom dia! Bonjour! Bună! Ciao! G’day! Geia sas! Günaydın, صباح الخير , בוקר טוב 你好! Håfa Adai! Hi! Hei! Hello! Hallo! Hei! Hola! Howdy! Halō! Kamusta! Kia Orana! Kon’nichiwa! Mabuhay! Moi! Namaste! Ni Hao! Neih hou! Pagi! Saluton! Sawasdee! Shwmae! Γειάσας! Talofa!
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Mark Wollschlager
in reply to Christoph S • • •― Groucho Marx
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Christoph S • • •I really like using the words of a saint, an authority of the Catholic church, that say one should question authority:
Locus ab auctoritate .. est infirmissimus.
(The argument from authority is the weakest.)
– Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274).
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libramoon
in reply to Christoph S • • •Arthur C. Clarke's law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Fred Clark's Law modifies Clark's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
jahernandez.com/posts/philosop…
Howard Thurman — 'Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.'
Philosophical Razors & Why You Should Always Take a Flashlight on Nighttime Walks in Arizona | Progress | J.A. Hernandez
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Jay Bryant
in reply to Christoph S • • •One of my favorites is from the Romans: "The person who says it can't be done shouldn't try to stop the person who is doing it."
(Edited to remove the sexism of the original)
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Richard
in reply to Christoph S • • •Made it to the end of the week without any of my fellow US citizens shooting me and mine in the face for no reason real or imagined.
Musical mood of the evening: Breezin', by George Benson
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Griff Ferrell
in reply to Richard • • •@Richard
Great music choice
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Lisa Stranger
in reply to Christoph S • • •I've had to invoke that a couple of times when people were in my way 🤨
a lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on
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Muse
in reply to Christoph S • • •In Australia and New Zealand we have two toilet paper companies who have been advertising their wares using puppies. They would emphasize that their brand didn't shred up and was soft on your bottom.
As such I came up with my own saying: Like toilet paper, it's posible to be both strong and gentle!
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in reply to Christoph S • • •Albert Einstein
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Christoph S • • •My own invention is this:
Principle: It is said that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
Corollary: If you had a good time tonight then you should forget about it - then you are doomed to repeat it.
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Griff Ferrell
in reply to Christoph S • • •Actions also have unintended consequences
Analysis paralysis ensues
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Griff Ferrell
in reply to Christoph S • • •Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
Isaac Asimov
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Joltrast
in reply to Christoph S • • •- Maurice Switzer
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Muse
in reply to Christoph S • • •Happy birthday @Griff Ferrell!
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Griff Ferrell
in reply to Muse • • •@Muse
I missed this, thank you
Birthday week for me
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Christoph S
in reply to Christoph S • • •Happy birthday to you @Griff!
@muse I love the advert
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Carsten Raddatz
in reply to Christoph S • •I heard Lab testing? Can confirm, strong and durable. Even if different brand.
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Andreas G
in reply to Christoph S • • •The grande dame of our family, who took her own name back after hubby skedaddled, was a cornucopia of sayings, so we have two mottos:
Better to lug yourself ragged than to go twice.
(i.e. take all the stuff that needs carrying in one go, to avoid having to spend time walking back to e.g. the car)
Fast, With Certainty, and Wrong
(about decisionmaking in the family in general)
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Rod Mesa
in reply to Christoph S • • •– my dad.
I'd prefer "everyone has a plan that will not work" but it lacks the original's rhythm.
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Jay Bryant
in reply to Christoph S • • •has a plan
that will not run.
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Rod Mesa
in reply to Christoph S • • •– my grandfather.
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((( David "Kahomono" Frier )))
in reply to Christoph S • • •"not my circus, not my monkeys"
A reminder to myself to stay in my lane, I can't fix everything
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