I got a signature line... you might like?

[KSH]

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]

gosh, that must have hurt !

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"

[SadieKate]

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]

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.p...lifes_journey/
http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/2004/...y-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]

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]

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]

Well, the British army appears to attritute it to the good Dr Thompson.:

http://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Random_.../view=all.html

[SadieKate]

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?