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Make sure your Viagra prescription says Made In the USA
You don't want Russia meddling in your erections.

Dr. Rick Rigsby’s commencement address. I hope you will listen to it before you comment here.

When you're dead, you don't know you're dead. All the pain is felt by others.
Same thing happens when you're stupid.

People who confuse the words "burro" and "burrow" don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

I don’t know how much I don’t know because there’s no way to gage how much I don’t know when I don’t know what it is I don’t know, so stop telling me I should've known.
There has to be some merit to “ignorance is bliss"

And there comes a time when you finally realize that you don't know shit. 11:11, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

"I come from an environment where, if you see a snake, you kill it. At GM, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is go hire a consultant on snakes. Then you get a committee on snakes, and then you discuss it for a couple of years. The most likely course of action is -- nothing. You figure, the snake hasn't bitten anybody yet, so you just let him crawl around on the factory floor. We need to build an environment where the first guy who sees the snake kills it." ~Ross Perot

"I'm sorry, but you two appear to be: treating each other civilly accepting the possibility that your own actions might not have been correct trying to work out the best thing to do for the project without concern for you own egos. I don't know where you people think you are, but you definitely don't understand how WP:AN is supposed to work. Where's the disrespect? The attacking of each other's characters and motives? The entertaining temper tantrums? Please immediately review other threads on this noticeboard, so you can better participate in WP:AN. Right now you look like rookies. I don't do AFD, so I have no opinion on whether to relist or not (couldn't hurt, tho, right?), but that's a good example of what should be going on here; useless babble without any helpful outcome. --barneca (talk) 9:57 pm, 16 September 2008, Tuesday (10 years, 8 months, 12 days ago) (UTC−5)

To say it in WikiVoice, or not??

While this list of sources is really good and does establish "commonly used by reliable sources" I think we should additionally ask ourselves - what added benefit is there to Misplaced Pages saying it "in our own voice" as against simply reporting in a neutral manner that it is common for his comments to be described as racist.

As of this moment, we are engaging in what I think is admirable short-term restraint. We say in the lede "He has a history of making controversial comments." That's fine as far as it goes, because 'controversial comments' is true, and is neither positive nor negative as an evaluation. Sometimes controversial comments are good, sometimes they are bad. Fine. But we are at the same time here being too cautious, I think, in that we fail to inform the reader as to why the comments are controversial. Is he saying things that might be controversial in Iowa like "Gay marriage should be legal" or "Marijuana prohibition has done more harm than good"? No, actually. So I think we should cautiously say something like "He has a history of making comments that have commonly been referred to as racist." Well, maybe 9 footnotes is excessive, but you see my point. We have more than enough to make the point that the reader needs to know, and I think the point is stronger than if we simply say, in our own voice, that he has a history of making racist comments. --Jimbo Wales (talk) 9:57 am, 19 June 2018, Tuesday (19 days ago) (UTC−5)

To include it in a BLP, or not??

BLPs wherein a subject's work, beliefs or ideologies are perhaps more controversial than the actual subject, should not become focused on bolstering and subsequently refuting the subject's views or theories rather than actually defining the subject. In many cases this may in fact be due to the subject trying to push their own ideas, while others work diligently to refute them, but many such cases involve editors who have no affiliation with the subject other than a personal belief/disbelief in their work. A person's biography is not a good place to debate scientific theory or ideological beliefs; such debates belong in the articles that focus on those topics. For BLPs, it is enough to simply state what their views are and link to the articles which expand on those views.
(quote by Zaereth edited for brevity; Jimbo Wales agreed with Zaereth’s explanation.)

Politics, presidents and NPOV

I'd like to add that I don't mind a little bit of personal chit-chat here about politics, I'd like to always seek to tie it back to Misplaced Pages. We have chosen a very tough job: NPOV. Dislike for the President, fear about things that are happening in the world, may make it emotionally harder to remain neutral, but remain neutral we must. I happen to personally think that given the decline in quality of the media across the board (there are still fantastic journalists out there, but overall the landscape isn't great) the best way for us to help the world heal is neutrality.-- Jimbo Wales (talk)] 3:12 pm, 8 January 2019, Tuesday (UTC−6)

Writing for the opponent

"Writing for the opponent is an important trait of good editors. They must be able to divorce themselves from their own POV so much that they can bend over backwards to aid in the writing of content which documents views they do not like. They must never block the inclusion of content which opposes their own POV or political positions. If they cannot do this, they should recuse themselves from the topic and edit in other areas. Editors who are unwilling or unable to write for the opponent are incapable of truly understanding or abiding by the NPOV policy. As such they will always cause problems." (see WP:NPOV means neutral editors, not neutral content)

• For better digestion, I drink beer.
• For appetite loss, I drink white wine.
• If my blood pressure is too low, I drink red wine.
• For high blood pressure, I drink scotch.
• When I have a cold, I drink schnapps.”
  

My friend asked, “When do you drink water?”

I replied, “I’ve never been that sick.”

When I was young, I decided to enroll in medical school.
On the entrance exam, we were asked to unscramble the letters...

PNEIS

...to form the name of an important human body part that is most useful when erect. The students who answered SPINE are doctors today, and the rest of us are editing Misplaced Pages.

Four worms were placed in 4 separate test tubes:

• 1st in beer
• 2nd in wine
• 3rd in whiskey
• 4th in mineral water
  

The next day, the teacher shows the results:

• The 1st worm in beer - dead.
• The 2nd in wine - dead.
• The 3rd in whiskey - dead.
• The 4th in mineral water - alive and in good health.
  

The teacher asks the class:

• What did you learn from this experience?
  

A student responds:

• Whoever drinks beer, wine and whiskey does not have worms.

• ...sarcasm burned calories.
• ...you knew, you would know.
• ...closed minds came with closed mouths.
• ...mosquitos sucked fat instead of blood.
• ...the good died young, we'd be here forever.
• ...my teeth were as white as my legs.
• ...more people were fluent in silence.

Hiker to park ranger, "Ranger, how does one survive a bear attack?"

Ranger replies, Easy...remove the "f" from the word "way".

Hiker responds, "There's no "f" in "way".

Ranger replies, "Exactly."

• It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going. ~Abraham Lincoln

• It gets late early out there. ~Yogi Bera

• There comes a time on Misplaced Pages when it's important to know when to stop arguing with editors, and simply let them be wrong.

• Nodding the head does not row the boat. — Irish Proverb

• Make haste slowly. —Kikkoman

• Be who you are, say what you mean, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. — Bernard Baruch

• Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want." —Randy Pausch

• I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. ~ Blaise Pascal

• Knowledge should be fun so don't take the fun out of fundamental.

• Patience is a virtue. Give karma a chance.

• I may not be young enough to know everything, but I'm old enough to not believe everything.

• What border? Oh, that one. Nah...not a problem - open borders.

• A tip for longevity: Never believe the impossible can't happen to you.

• “It is well known that human choices are affected by the way in which a question is phrased.” ~ Benedetto de Martino

Who punched the spike?

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Results of Photo Challenge

Top 3 Winners announced in the Geology Photo Challenge. _Talk 📧 04:27, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

WOW! Fantastic. Should be first! Gareth Griffith-Jones (contribs) (talk) 09:33, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Nothing to do with geology, but I've been admiring this photo in your picture carousel. I could look at it forever. Bishonen | talk 16:32, 2 August 2019 (UTC).

Thank you. You've got a good eye for horses, Bish. _Talk 📧 20:42, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Fiery Furnace – that sounds like it could be a metaphor for something on-wiki! Anyway, congrats, and well-deserved! --Tryptofish (talk) 21:18, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Indeed it does! Thank you, Tryp. _Talk 📧 21:42, 2 August 2019 (UTC)