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This I know to be true...
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Posted on: July 12, 2007 11:57 AM, by David Ng
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Nights of Cabiria is an effecting, amazing, superlative film.
Posted by: BRC | July 12, 2007 12:31 PM
Rare are the rains of Timbuktu?
Posted by: Timon | July 12, 2007 2:49 PM
Oswald did it.
Posted by: pshaw | September 4, 2007 4:27 PM
Gravity's always waiting.
Posted by: Monado | September 4, 2007 11:19 PM
Another one for "The Truth"
There are currently no possible methods for the re-conversion of thermal energy back into any other forms of energy. Thus the universe is heading towards eventual heat-death where there is no matter and no other energy but that which is thermal!
Posted by: Alexander Bolingbroke | September 20, 2007 5:08 AM
Reality can neither be explained nor described it can merely be titled. A string of something's titles' does not qualify as explanation not description. My computer's monitor is not a monitor. Monitor is a title given to describe an observation so you and I may both understand to what I am referring. A monitor in not a monitor, it is what it is and words cannot encapsulate that.
Posted by: Irrelevant | September 20, 2007 9:33 PM
Gin is better than whiskey. Most of the time.
Posted by: Gary Sharpe | October 1, 2007 1:24 PM
for "The Truth"
Beer is better than whiskey or gin.
Posted by: Francesca Davis | October 2, 2007 12:06 AM
Humans are Primates.
Posted by: Ryan Somma | October 24, 2007 10:08 AM
Edited for simplicity's sake:
Humans are Apes.
Posted by: Ryan Somma | October 24, 2007 1:41 PM
SUV's are decidedly not stupid in Colorado, Wyoming or vast stretches of Utah. Oh, and for above, Beer IS better than Gin or Whiskey, for a given range of beer.
Posted by: Mark Reardon | October 25, 2007 4:58 PM
What is disorder anyway? I don't think real disorder exists. I think disorder is just a different kind of order that we don't understand (yet). Like when we look at constellations, we see a pattern. But looking from a different point in space, they fall out of that pattern. Maybe we see disorder because we're not looking in the right direction.
Posted by: Churmy | October 27, 2007 12:47 PM
Men and Women are not equal. Men are not equal to other men. Similarly for women. But, everyone has there own strengths and weaknesses. When we contribute our strengths (and not our weaknesses), balance and the best outcome is achieved.
Why the "politically correct" crowd (in North America) can't see this is beyond me.
Posted by: Reid | December 9, 2007 10:24 PM
Global Warming is real but it is also not entirely caused by us. It is an inevitable occurrence as part of a cycle but DEFINITELY has been very much sped up by human existence and error.
Posted by: knottylindsi | December 15, 2007 3:04 PM
Dudes, someone totally forgot to mention cannabis in the truth. ;)
Posted by: bitmonk | January 25, 2008 6:35 AM
OOOOOH, oooh. Howabout simply "the war on drugs". Let's just say, I mean, c'mon, perhaps that the UN Millenium Goals could be achieved with the world drug war budget maybe ten times over? ;)
Posted by: bitmonk | January 25, 2008 6:36 AM
People who claim Global Warming science is "settled" are to science as squids are to an airplane.
This is truth.
Deal with it.
Posted by: peter grynch | February 25, 2008 9:14 PM
Flossing helps you keep your teeth.
Posted by: Anita de Waard | April 14, 2008 9:00 AM
we need to start shooting our garbage into space I figure why not into the blackhole.
Posted by: Michael Ganje | May 16, 2008 1:41 PM
1) There is no magic, only hard work. (Ask a magician!)
2) Vodka is better than gin, whiskey and beer. Fewer toxins. Less hangover.
3) SUVs are not stupid. People driving them when they don't need to is stupid.
Posted by: Tom | June 24, 2008 1:47 PM
Murphy's Law supersedes all other natural laws.
Posted by: Bert | July 24, 2008 10:57 AM
You should have a graph on each answer to show what percent believes in what cause you will never have everybody one way or the other + maybe about three things or so that tells you something about the person voting. Maybe like time of the vote, whether he or she is optomistic or pessimistic and whether like the author he or she is on drugs and is a loner and to much time on their hands..... :)
PS: Murphy's Law happens always till you want to prove it!
Posted by: mr YTD | September 1, 2008 7:30 AM
The earth goes around the sun.
Posted by: Robin Z | September 12, 2008 1:52 PM
A suggestion from a practising environmental scientist. Since you claim to be stating truths you should really get it right:
"Global Warming is real, and (by the way) it's all our fault" is not strictly true.
Strictly speaking we are not seeing global warming in most locations but rather a change in climate which, based on the preponderance of evidence, is due, in whole or in part, to human influence. As such, were I asked to re-state number 3 in a manner that would be considered defensible by a vast majority of the practising scientists in your audience I would go with:
"Anthropogenic climate change is real"
The benefit of rephrasing is a shorter, more easily defensible (and frankly more elegant) statement.
Cheers,
Posted by: Blair | October 16, 2008 8:44 PM
Whisky only has an "e" if it is Irish.
It is better to be honest about Global Warming. No-one truly knows the exact answer but it is overwhelmingly probable that it is due to the combination of natural and man-made factors of which the natural factors are more powerful.
We cannot do anything about Sun-spot cycles etc. We can do something about man-made factors. So we should tackle those as much as we can.
Blair is right until he asks you to say something that few laymen will understand.
How about "mankind is clearly affecting the climate"
PS Bourbon is not Whisky or Whiskey any more than fizzy Californian wine is Champagne.
Posted by: John | January 15, 2009 10:31 AM
History has proven the economists ALL wrong.
Posted by: Ariella | February 7, 2009 10:49 AM
men and women are different, both physically and mentally.
There is ample evidence.
they don't relate by my standard definition of equal.
please, Men and Women should be treated as equals.
Posted by: orathaic | May 3, 2009 4:04 PM
Good Beer is better than Whiskey or Gin, most of the Time!
Posted by: Sean Gillan | May 3, 2009 6:16 PM
If Ella Fitzgerald it must be true that Gerald fits Ella.
Posted by: Gordon Thurman | October 10, 2009 12:10 PM
Cats are better than dogs. This is absolutely 100% true.
Posted by: Gordon Thurman | October 10, 2009 9:30 PM
Dinosaur bones make excellent doorstops.
[The first fossil hadrosaur remains turned up in South Hadley, Mass. propping open someone's door -- a vertebra, as I recall.]
Posted by: Nick Humez | January 6, 2010 6:17 PM
Most of your original list of statements have spin on them. Many are examples of how NOT to get to what we call truth. What we call truth is never 100 percent certain, but a well-defined statement, unlike most of these, can be true in as far as it's possible for anything to be true - - and frankly, that's saying a lot.
Posted by: David Martin | January 18, 2010 7:52 PM