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Started by RecycleMichael, July 26, 2007, 09:57:28 AM

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waterboy

Tulsa told to hold its water...
A rising tide lifts all boats (as long as you have a boat in the water)
"Now that's some fine H2O"...the waterboy



Breadburner

Don't piss on my boot and tell me it's raining......
 

Rowdy

Let's not dampen Tulsa's future with mismanaged funds.

Wingnut

It's a long, tall, drink of water.
You can always "throw a wet rag" on the discussion.
If they give you any backtalk, tell them "beat it drip, you're all wet" That was always popular in elementry school.

waterboy


mr.jaynes


waterboy

As long as the sun shines and the rivers flow...

shadows

Not only are we loosing our property tax structure to Broken Arrow but now the river development plans shows we are losing the intelligent part of Tulsa's population with their "No Sale".  

Or if some cannot understand it it means "We aren't buying any boloney today".

Today we stand in ecstasy and view that we build today'
Tomorrow we will enter into the plea to have it torn away.

RecycleMichael

I plan to use all of them except for the last one. Shadows needs to get out in the sun a little.

It's all water under the dam with him.
Power is nothing till you use it.

Renaissance

I expect your witty turns of phrase will make quite a splash . . .

That is, unless the audience is a total wet blanket . . .

waterboy

Always swim upstream of where the cows drink.

don't rain on our parade

scotch and water

something a terrorist prisoner never wants to say to his CIA captors, "Hey, could I get some water here?"

shadows

quote:
Originally posted by recyclemichael

I plan to use all of them except for the last one. Shadows needs to get out in the sun a little.

It's all water under the dam with him.



Is there a city ordinance that requires lobbyist to register with the city secretary ?
Today we stand in ecstasy and view that we build today'
Tomorrow we will enter into the plea to have it torn away.

Advocate

"There's beauty in the silver singing river . . . ."
Bob Dylan

"It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river."
Abraham Lincoln

"Follow the river and you will find the sea."
French Proverb

"If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends."
John Enoch Powell

"Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean."
William Stafford

"Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways."
Edward de Bono (Francis Charles Publius)
Maltese Psychologist and Writer, leading authority in field of creative thinking

"One of the largest tributaries of the river of greatness is always the stream of adversity."
Cavett Robert

"If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile."
Indian Proverb

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."
Winnie the Pooh

"Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem."
Rollo May

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
Kahlil Gibran

"If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel."
English Proverb

"You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you."
Heraclitus of Ephesus

"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it."
Norman Maclean

And my favorite of the day . . . .

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
Mark Twain