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Buns_of_Fire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 06:44 PM
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46. A discerning mind is just as good...
Which reminds me of a story:

A friend had decided to install a back door in his house. So he called a local architect to advise in its placement, for easiest access and not to interfere with the house's basic structural integrity, and not to cut anything that shouldn't be cut, and all that.

The architect looked around, knocked here and there, and finally took out a crayon and marked a large "X" on the wall. "This is where it goes," he said, while handing my friend a bill for $100.

"Wait a minute," my friend said. "All you did was poke around for five minutes and draw an "X" on the wall and you have the gall to charge me $100?"

The architect smiled. "You're not paying me to cut the hole. You're paying me to know WHERE to cut the hole."

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  -i am NOT a writer kpete  Jun-10-11 08:54 AM   #0 
  - Well......  cliffordu   Jun-10-11 08:55 AM   #1 
  - All writers are thieves anyway  Doctor Hurt   Jun-10-11 08:57 AM   #2 
  - i quote:  kpete   Jun-10-11 09:06 AM   #9 
     - Haha  TuxedoKat   Jun-10-11 11:25 AM   #31 
     - Or in the words of Wilson Mizner,  bleever   Jun-10-11 12:14 PM   #38 
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  - And we are the better for it.  Octafish   Jun-10-11 08:58 AM   #4 
  - Your contribution here has been invaluable  Le Taz Hot   Jun-10-11 08:59 AM   #5 
  - I truly appreciate your cut & pasted posts!  cyberswede   Jun-10-11 09:03 AM   #6 
  - To steal from one is plagarism. To steal from many is research....  Scuba   Jun-10-11 09:05 AM   #7 
  - You are definitely  H2O Man   Jun-10-11 09:05 AM   #8 
  - ok  kpete   Jun-10-11 09:08 AM   #10 
  - Okay, one more thing:  H2O Man   Jun-10-11 06:08 PM   #43 
     - And the rest of us too.  LiberalAndProud   Jun-10-11 06:20 PM   #44 
  - +1, I rely on you, kpete! keep on keepin' on! nt  Mist   Jun-10-11 09:10 AM   #12 
  - But you are very good at selecting what to cut and paste!  truckin   Jun-10-11 09:08 AM   #11 
  - You have a zeal for causes...  Dappleganger   Jun-10-11 09:11 AM   #13 
  - Discretion is the better part of cut-and-pasting  pinboy3niner   Jun-10-11 09:12 AM   #14 
  - I am a printer.  Fuddnik   Jun-10-11 09:17 AM   #15 
  - Question: In your thread about the great Lib caller who punked LIMBOsevic  UTUSN   Jun-10-11 09:18 AM   #16 
  - NO  kpete   Jun-10-11 09:27 AM   #17 
     - Thanks for clarifying & just a tad of observation here:  UTUSN   Jun-10-11 10:28 AM   #23 
        - I use the "blockquote" html tag to offset material I am quoting from  tblue37   Jun-10-11 10:08 PM   #47 
  - Ignore the rabble. You have nobody to answer to.  onehandle   Jun-10-11 09:54 AM   #18 
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  - You are a DU treasure. Thank you for what you do.  tekisui   Jun-10-11 10:04 AM   #20 
  - you find the most interesting stuff--thank you for all you do for us!  renate   Jun-10-11 10:05 AM   #21 
  - Thank you for all you do kpete...  Eyerish   Jun-10-11 10:14 AM   #22 
  - As long as it's made clear what the original source is and who the true author is,  petronius   Jun-10-11 10:31 AM   #24 
  - People get confused and attack kpete as if she originated the material.  EFerrari   Jun-10-11 11:25 AM   #30 
     - You probably could have stopped after your first three words  petronius   Jun-10-11 12:01 PM   #35 
        - It's funny because during the BushCo years  EFerrari   Jun-10-11 12:14 PM   #37 
  - I appreciate your  femrap   Jun-10-11 11:09 AM   #25 
  - Thank you for scouring the internet tubes to find your magnificent contributions.  myrna minx   Jun-10-11 11:11 AM   #26 
  - Sad you had to actually say it...  JuniperLea   Jun-10-11 11:20 AM   #27 
  - You are much a part of DU as any of the forums.  Stinky The Clown   Jun-10-11 11:23 AM   #28 
  - Don't feel bad, kpete.  EFerrari   Jun-10-11 11:23 AM   #29 
  - you have alot of fans.  mopinko   Jun-10-11 11:25 AM   #32 
  - OK, thanks for the disclaimer.  SalviaBlue   Jun-10-11 11:30 AM   #33 
  - You ARE a valuable member of DU community. (nt)  philly_bob   Jun-10-11 11:32 AM   #34 
  - You've written many original posts  lunatica   Jun-10-11 12:03 PM   #36 
  - Always appreciate your contributions here kpete  suffragette   Jun-10-11 12:27 PM   #39 
  - You are a news agregator and one of the best on DU  sabrina 1   Jun-10-11 12:30 PM   #40 
  - I have not seen many of your posts  gejohnston   Jun-10-11 12:55 PM   #41 
  - With a spot-on instinct for exactly what is WORTH cutting and pasting n/t  eridani   Jun-10-11 03:51 PM   #42 
  - As Ross Perot would say.  Uncle Joe   Jun-10-11 06:31 PM   #45 
  - A discerning mind is just as good...  Buns_of_Fire   Jun-10-11 06:44 PM   #46 
  - K&R  Kurovski   Jun-11-11 12:36 AM   #48 
 

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