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KSH
05-11-2006, 07:40 PM
I got this quote off my triathlete message board... I think it totally rocks!
Lise
05-11-2006, 07:52 PM
Nice! It gets fairly boring to just preserve stuff after awhile. Better to use it!
margo49
05-12-2006, 02:28 AM
Yeah this is Corsir Mac's sig I think

It was one of the first things I read on TE
and I thought
Oh yeah, I'm *home*
KSH
05-12-2006, 04:59 AM
Yeah this is Corsir Mac's sig I think

It was one of the first things I read on TE
and I thought
Oh yeah, I'm *home*

Really? DUH! I never noticed! I found it on Beginner Triathlete.

Oh well, hopefully C. Mac won't mind me keeping it around.
lilikoi
05-12-2006, 09:03 AM
a similar line is tattooed all over the bottom of my back... love the energy behind this quote.
wabisabi
05-12-2006, 09:38 AM
I think I saw the quote attributed to the late, great gonzo journalist "Dr."Hunter S. Thompson (the inspiration for the character Duke in Doonesbury, ifyou know it)--if so, he certainly lived it!
KSH
05-12-2006, 09:38 AM
a similar line is tattooed all over the bottom of my back... love the energy behind this quote.

That must be some tattoo! Is there anyway you can post a picture of it. I would love to see how they did it. I won't get one myself... but I just wonder how they got some many words on you. Ya know?
jobob
05-12-2006, 09:54 AM
gosh, that must have hurt ! :eek:

Another popular sig line quote is the classic "that which does not kill me makes me stronger."

The jobob version being "that which doesn't kill me makes my thighs less flabby" :cool:
SadieKate
05-12-2006, 10:06 AM
I think the original is:


Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand - strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, "WOO HOO!!! What a Ride!"

For some reason I thought the original source was a feminist author but I can't find it at the moment.
SadieKate
05-12-2006, 10:21 AM
I found an attribution to Mavis Leyrer on somebody’s blog . . . .


Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand - strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOOHOO - What a Ride!"

Attributed to an octogenarian named Mavis Leyrer, of
Seattle by Google Answers, at least.
so I started searching more and found that her granddaughter is not necessarily in agreement . . .
http://www.nwoutdoorgrrl.com/index.php/simple/comments/lifes_journey/
http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/2004/11/quote-that-ate-hour-or-why-blogging.htm

Apparently, the quote that is going around the internet isn’t as frisky as Mavis was or is. Sounds like Mavis would consider “woohoo” a bit tame.
KSH
05-12-2006, 10:25 AM
WOW! Thanks for the research!

When I complete an Ironman and get my tattoo... I think I will have it written near by, "What a ride".


I always say, I would rather die doing something I love versus withering away in a bed. Some people think it's tragic when someone dies riding a bike... SCUBA diving...etc... but I think that if that person died doing what they loved, it was a life lived.
Brina
05-12-2006, 11:15 AM
I always say, I would rather die doing something I love versus withering away in a bed. Some people think it's tragic when someone dies riding a bike... SCUBA diving...etc... but I think that if that person died doing what they loved, it was a life lived.

I agree, although it is hard on the loved ones.

I believe that in an ideal world we would all have two weeks notice. Enough time to say the neccessary "I love you"s and "I'm Sorry"s. Enough time to say, "I am finally going to jump out of that airplane/dive the blue hole/see Tibet" . Not so much time that life becomes sitting around, waiting for it to happen, suffering through treatments that leave you with quality of life that is worse than being dead.
wabisabi
05-12-2006, 11:20 AM
Well, the British army appears to attritute it to the good Dr Thompson.:

http://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Random_Quotes/view=all.html
SadieKate
05-12-2006, 11:25 AM
It's too bad everyone doesn't say why they (Google and the British Army) say why they think whoever said it did. Such as where in Thompson's writings or letters did they find it?
wabisabi
05-12-2006, 11:32 AM
Yeah, the perils of the internet. It's a real challenge with university students to teach them how to think critically about the quality of information that they find on the internet; research librarians (goddesses!) have their hands full with that one. Personally, knowing something of his ouvre, I think the quote is too sunny for HST.

c-a-l-l-i-n-g CORSAIR to weigh in...
JoyfullySo
05-17-2006, 09:29 AM
My personal favorite...

A good friend comes to bail you out of jail. Your best friend is sitting next to you in the cell saying, " That was awesome!!!!"

Oh, y'all too?

I had to teach my daughter the other day that the internet was NOT considered a reliable source of information for research projects. Then, I drove her to the library and taught her to find books and read them for papers. :D ( Evil mom that I am...)