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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Don’t tell the truth
Don’t tell the truth, you might get sued. Zen Kimchi is in the middle of a nightmare that I found out about from Kevin’s blog with all the scary details over at the Scribblings of the Metropolitician.
One of the comments written by Brandon Carr (a well known expat Lawyer in Korea):
Korea’s criminal-defamation statute is a tool of oppression and harassment and the police/prosecutors are all too happy to wield it on behalf of a Korean in the Korean’s struggle with a foreigner. The law is normally applied in a lose-lose fashion to stop petty squabbles (i.e., “You’re both guilty of defaming the other! Want to let this drop and get out of my hair, or do you want punishment?") but in this case, where the hagwon scumbad merely made defamatory statements verbally and your friend did so in writing, only the foreigner is going to be punished.
The good news is, the crime is typically punished by a fine. The bad news is, the typical fine is W2,000,000—which is just enough to get a foreigner deported and barred from re-entry. Congratulations!
additionally - the police will not allow him to bring his own interpreter How screwed up is that?
don’t forget I’ve previously posted on Why you Should not Teach in Korea and Who ya gonna Call?
And some people wonder why I blog anonymously?




