Monday, November 27, 2006
Quotable
A neighbouring province is going through a political leadership race (American translation: sort of like a gubernatorial primary). A returning officer, who was swamped with a rush of voters, was quoted in the paper with what I thought was most hilariously diplomatic statment I've ever heard.
"Any time you have hundreds of people involved in something, you encounter what I like to call the richness and diversity of the human condition."
I can't think of a nicer way to say that there were a lot of cranky jerks, which is clearly what he's getting at.
posted by Mentok @ 2:25 p.m.,
13 Comments:
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At 5:23 p.m.,
said...
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LOL..We just had our civic elections and we appear to have run into the same richness and diversity of the human condition here..
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At 10:12 a.m.,
Colin said...
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Hey! Some of my best friends are cranky jerks!
Hi Mentok. Long-time reader, first-time, erm, comment maker/giver.
I'm still no further forward with my Scottish curling research but I'll get on the case soon enough.
WAF -
At 10:41 a.m.,
Bathroom Hippo said...
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Ah Politicians......
SINLESS I TELL YOU!!!!
But that would be a sin.
Err...
Do you believe the story that Jesus met Buddha? -
At 11:46 a.m.,
Mentok said...
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happy - with Christmas just around the corner, we can expect to see much more of the richness and diversity of the human condition as cranky shoppers jostle in the malls.
w.a. fading - hi there "stranger" ;-) Thanks for dropping by. Don't waste too much effort on the curling research...but I do find it amazing that the sport has faded so much in the land of its birth. In this country, most school children are taught to curl around age 10.
hippo - just in case you're actually interested in an answer to the Jesus/Buddha question, they could not have met in person, since Gautama Buddha lived about 500 years before Jesus. Mr. Ben-David is recognized as being a bodhisatva or "near Buddha", so I suppose one could say their spirits met in that way. Does that help? -
At 12:11 p.m.,
Bathroom Hippo said...
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Ah But Mentok..
I thought THE Buddha lived many lives? If true...they could have met?
Some believe he lived 100 years later...if this is disputable...perhaps he lived during the time of Christ...maybe they did meet?
Perhaps....dare I say?
Buddha is Santa Claus?
P.S> Stop using our Christian dating system. It is reserved for Christians only! And...to a lesser extent..Lou Dobbs. -
At 12:20 p.m.,
Mentok said...
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I would never dream of using the Christian dating system. I'm a happily married man!
It's too long an explanation to get into here, but people cease to reincarnate after they achieve buddhahood...so, no, Gautma Buddha couldn't have been reborn during the time of Jesus. In theory, another buddha could have been around at that time, but not Gautama Buddha. -
At 2:08 p.m.,
Bathroom Hippo said...
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Do tell...my gullable friend. -
At 3:31 p.m.,
Grumps said...
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Mentok...I feel the same way about politicians as I do smokers. What comes out of their mouths is vile, filthy polluting crap!
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At 3:46 p.m.,
Mentok said...
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grumps - well, first of all, buddy, that's quite a statement coming from someone who used to write that vile, filthy polluting crap. ;-)
...I get the feeling you and hippo are reading something into this quote so I feel I should clarify it. The isn't about politics or politicians. It was just a nice gentleman who found a polite way of saying that you are always going to get jerks whenever you get a big enough crowd of people together. The quote is only circumstantially related to politics. -
At 12:54 a.m.,
Rachel said...
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Hehe
I found this humorous...And I thought I posted this comment yesterday but I must have been dreaming because it wasn't there...
And not to raise a religious ruccus but...Buddha=Jesus
Jesus=Buddha -
At 4:27 p.m.,
Grumps said...
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Yeah, but I couldn't resist taking a shot at both smokers and politicians.
BTW, I wrote it, got paid for it, but didn't always believe it. At least now my job involved more truthiness. -
At 9:48 p.m.,
Suzan Abrams, email: suzanabrams@live.co.uk said...
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Yes, and that's a diplomatic way of putting things, indeed.
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At 10:03 a.m.,
Bathroom Hippo said...
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I think Buddha came to my house last night...
I had some terrible gas.
