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不说我爱你

(2012-06-01 17:25:54) 下一个

“你爱我吗?”

“我爱你”。

我现在是看得多了,听得多了,也肯说了。电影演的,歌里唱的,小说写的,网 上发生的;用中文、用外语;都一样了。似乎都是表达同样的东西。就像那些原先稀缺的日用品,那些柴米油盐酱醋茶,曾经有出处,有做法的,现在都被摆进超市里,就忽然变得极大丰富了,再没人去问来龙去脉,只需随心所欲取下拿上,轻而易举付钱走人就好了。

真的如此吗?

我不是怀疑人类的感情会进化,也不是觉得坦诚告白有什么问题。

我只是奇怪为什么我从来没有听我的父母、祖父母说过;他们或许是碍着身分辈分,不好让我听到。可我也从没在古人那里读到过“我爱你” ---- 就算是《红楼梦》、《西厢记》,也没有,可谁能说林黛玉和贾宝玉不是佳偶、崔莺莺和张生不曾倾心呢?

我倒是发现了一个现象,微不足道,却值得玩味。

对于男女之间的倾慕,古人是用“情”而不用“爱”来说的。

爱这个字当然早就存在,孔子就说过仁是“爱人”,但绝不能解作就是喜欢一个人,也不是喜欢很多人。“爱”是对人好,更多是给人好处,施人恩惠,让人感受到实在利益。

“情”字却身世复杂, 不管是久远的“五情”,如何变为“六情”,再变作广为人知的“七情”,“情”包含的内容是一部观念史,但情的本意却未改。情就是事实、实情、也就是客观的状况。

暂且撇开现代西化的影响,在古人的用字和意义脉络里,“爱”是安置于“情”之下的。这大概就是为什么现在会把西文的“love”所代表的情感,翻译成了“爱情”。

用的多了,就不去多想,反把我们自己原有的深意忽略了,这真是可惜。

如果不是曾经爱过,或爱上一个人,我也不会体会到“问世间情为何物,直教人生死相许”,也不会懂得“两情若是久长时,又岂在朝朝暮暮”。这才明白为什么古人用“情”来代替“爱”。

那种感觉、感情,是不知来由,无法分析,更不能去计较和掌控的。

你可以爱一个人,对他好,为他做任何事,如果他没有回应,那么你其实只是单恋,是暗恋,你很痛苦,但也可以无限勇敢,这爱与那个对象,其实没有直接的互动,一切可以在你的想象中和梦里自生自灭。

但当对方也有了回应,那便是两情相悦。从此你不再只是你,你处在一个状态,左右他,也为他左右,他可以让你哭,让你笑,你也可以让他伤心,让他怜爱,你永远不知道他会给你怎样的惊喜或打击,他也无法预料你为何上一秒钟温柔似水,下一秒又冷若冰雨,但你们就是逃不开那样的状况,你心里不想,他也不想,你们都是高傲自负的人,都从不肯为别人改变自己,妥协自由,但现在,他在改变你,你也影响着他。就连你们这样从不信任概率,从不盲从命运的人,也关心起星座、血型、属相、甚至暗暗相信三生石上其实早已刻上了你们的名字。

还有怎样的考验将来临,还有怎样的痛苦和欢乐在等待,一切都是未知,唯有现在,你接受这现实,这样的毫无选择,既不能说不是你的选择,却也不全是你的选择。你彷徨、迷惘,忧伤,但却是如此的不彻底,因为你心里总是有希望,而他就是那黑暗隧道里的星点亮光。

所以,我们说“爱”的时候,实在是太过自信,也太过幼稚,以为在玩童年的游戏。

在其中了,你便晓得“情”难自禁,“情关难过”。不当一个“情种”,又怎知道“生而为人”,“长而为我”,究竟是怎么一回事。

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藕然 回复 悄悄话 再给你个链接,我最近写的都放那里了
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/58190/
藕然 回复 悄悄话 你呀你,怎么把我这清静之地,温柔之乡,当作摆地摊的garage sale 了?要不就是我这比较阳光,你来晒晒箱子底的家什?倒是还有些好东西。。。逗得我花枝颤了一回。

别蹉跎了,拿起笔写写吧。
述古11223344 回复 悄悄话 很久以来,看看你的文字,是我的精神粮食。前半年忽然没有了。我先是饥渴幕义,
后来就只好看看以前的旧文。也尝试自己写写,实在不好。

今天怎么这样好,是否六一的余兴未尽?连发两篇。所以自觉不能藏拙。可是看看
还是不好。要不你看完,就删掉罢。

底下乱七八糟的是不小心把一些平时瞎写的,还不成形的东西,也给贴了。sorry...
述古11223344 回复 悄悄话 述古

书还是要读的!

前两天看报纸上,某大公司六一儿童节给希望小学,送去孩子们喜欢的书。有老人
与海,战争与和平,白话四书,十万个为什么,金庸全集,

这是我当年上学时,学校禁止阅读的呀!

话说回来,读什么也比不读强。

不知道为什么加了书名号,就没有显示,变成乱码了。或者一个小借口,其实,每
次看完你的新帖,我都有评论或也写一小段,但是有的时候,没发上去,又忙别的
事情了,然后过几天再看,就觉写得不好,自己都不好意思贴了。

你看下面这几个,就知所言不差:

从商实录

2012/3/8

一位于我有半师之谊的友人,说我讲笑话,写故事有些天份,不应埋没。想想别无
所长,唯此兼职下海,乃亲身经历。虽我不学,下笔无文,多少是“讲述一个老百
姓真实的故事”。千百年后,考古学家的研究资料。

今天就开始,否则明日复明日。尤其昨天着实赔了一笔,不记下来不行。先来背景:
我在芝加哥的一所大医院做个临床检验员。工资一般,各方面福利倒还好。老婆PHD,
还有一年毕业。孩子两岁了,虎头虎脑,名叫小虎。房子已经买了,每月还贷。在
单位我是早9晚5,认真工作,并无杂念。

几年前,机缘巧合,先是认识了一个朋友,赵哥,自己有个小公司。所以眼馋,就
打听,然后自己也注册了一个,并不难。不久,单位重新安排工作,有个岗位,干
的活儿,机械繁琐,一个人独处一室。科里同事都不愿意,我愿意。

后来优化试验方法,加之本人手脚麻利,通常1到2天就把全周的工作都做完了。与
其发呆,就开始下海从商了。

卖什么呢?赵哥说,废材料,成本低容易入手,操作麻烦利又薄,没有人爱干。我
喜欢。开始一个月发一个集装箱,我们行内术语,叫柜子。两年下来,客户多了,
一个月可以发4到5个柜子了。

听了著名的穷爸爸-富爸爸的讲座。怎么实现小公司运行的“无我”,怎么组织团队。
不要像律师-医生通常注册的单人公司,生意越好,自己越忙。接下来快进到一个月
前,开始咬牙跺脚,雇了两个人。一个是全职,负责文书,物流。一个兼职,负责
采购。我自己负责销售,和管理他们俩。其他卡车,船,会计,律师,等等都固定
有合作的公司了。

昨天本来很正常,安排卡车去船公司,提空柜子。司机打电话问我没有我们要的那
种高柜子,只有矮的。我说,矮多少,他说,一点儿。结果到了客户仓库,装不进
去,打电话给我,装不?我如果不装,损失卡车费900块,如果装,只能一半,损失
船费900块。结果装了一半。心疼了两天。

昨天倒有3个好消息。其一,新聘的采购员,非常能干,两周不到,已经敲定一个柜
子。老婆说,这样下去,岂不发了?其2,我有个多年的老客户,给我又介绍了一个
客户。其3,这个老客户的儿子,也给我介绍了一个客户。

忧喜交集,赋诗一首:
急风骤雨适堪笑,
覆地翻天土做陶,
泥牛进退万人战,
魔境是非一念消。

以后也未必天天得空写,尽量。请斧正为盼。

凤姐传奇(原创)

日前网上惊闻凤姐欲以政治避难为由,移民美国。真心佩服她的身残志坚。
造物不公,给了她这样贫瘠的生理条件,她却自强不息,不断突破人们的想象力。
她给祖国的巨大贡献分两个主要方面:

1、出国前。

想当年韩乔生被恶搞后,很大度:“我并非喜剧演员,能给大家带来这么多快乐,
很荣幸!”这话放在凤姐这儿,大家想想,中国之大,有几个人能超过她给大家带来
的快乐。

2、出国后。

如果所有凤姐类的人,都移民美国。我国全民的平均智商,身高,都会大幅攀升;
而罪恶的美帝国主义,则急转直下。此长彼消,对于我国的国际战略地位是多么大
的促进。

今后凤姐的结局,因为没有技能,又不会英文,她正在几个热门行业中选择:
1、餐馆,太辛苦是其次,关键影响顾客的食欲就不好了。
2、甲店,相对来说合适。虽然有人担心此行业做久了,影响生育。不过凤姐不怕,
反正也没人要,再说这劣质基因也别再传下去了。
3、洗脚,非常适合。尽管有人说此行业有色情之嫌,但在凤姐的容貌来说,应该会
出污泥而不染。

苏秦

一、鬼谷子

战国时代,自称鬼谷子学生的有6人比较有名。一班:孙膑和庞涓;二班:苏秦和张
仪;三班:韩非和李斯。时间上跨数百年,再“鬼谷子”之名,不像孔子,韩非子,
公孙龙子,并非姓名。鬼蔽5c是个地名;子意思先生。大概在人迹罕至的这么个地
方,有这么献身教育的一辈辈先生,不断地培育人才,改写历史。

也确实有其书,杂含兵,法,纵横之学。那一定是师生合著的了。其中有
揣情,摩意两篇,那可不是说我还爱你的,是重要的权术。应用的最好的那就是苏
秦和张仪两人了。而苏秦则更演绎出惊心动魄的一段故事。

二、刺骨揣摩

说起来孙晋头悬梁,苏秦锥刺骨,以及囊萤,映雪,负薪,挂角,都是历史上苦读
的典范。不过苏秦以锥刺骨,血流至踵的原因却不是为了读书,而是为了揣摩。

当年苏秦学成出谷,开始了纵横生涯。次序上是由近及远,自上而下。他家住在东
周皇帝直辖区,所以从周显王开始。想帮助他重振王纲,再开盛世。但古往今来,
圣贤从不在自己家乡受到尊重,至少开始时候不会。因为这个直辖区太小了,街坊
邻居都认识这个穷书生,知根知底的,所以周显王左右的人都看不起他。结果白费
唇舌。

苏秦没有泄气,转而去说秦惠王,想帮他一统天下。可是秦国刚杀了商鞅,正在排
外。所以秦惠王虽待他客气,却没用他的谋略。

数次撞壁,疲惫的他回到家里。苏秦有个嫂嫂很刻薄,“我们东周人,有把力气的
就去种地;脑筋好的就做生意,无非求得20%的收益。你每天白日做梦,想动动嘴就
坐享荣华富贵。现在好了,现实生活给你上了一课,我看倒是件好事!”

于是苏秦大受刺激,把自己关起来,想,我从老师那里该学的都认真学了,问题在
哪里?就把所有的书又翻出来,看到了“揣摩”这部分。豁然大悟。原来缺少的是
练习。从此他昼夜演练,假象如果面对君王,这样对答,那样筹划。有时候太累了,
打盹儿,就拿起锥子,对自己说,“如果不能说服诸侯,愿意所有军政之权尽托,
财宝尽出;没有夺取富贵的100%把握,我决不出去。”说完,手起锥落,血流满地。


三、六国相印

终于有一天,苏秦觉得天下已在自己掌股之上,开始了第二轮的游历。第一站赵国。
当时国君赵肃侯令其弟为相,号奉阳君。苏秦忽视了这个人际关系,所以没有成功。


到了第二站,燕国,吸取教训,非常耐心地等了一年,把所有关系都打点好了,才
正式晋见燕文侯,“大王,你知道燕国怎样可以永无战乱吗?”燕文侯当然说愿意。
苏秦说,“秦国想兼并天下不是一天两天了,但是他不与燕直接相邻。所以目前还
不能来犯,而是远交近攻,蚕食赵魏等国。如果大悦,说我愿意以国相随。并

阅历

--管子,势第42篇有云,其所处者,柔安静乐,行德而不争,以备天下之溃也。

以前也写过很多次,终未能坚持。另以前所写帝王将相的帖子,不过是把读的书略
理一下。莫不有始,鲜克阙终。现在幸而得闲,开卷有益,给自己沏一杯茶,认真
开始写。我虽不学,下笔无文,其晨夕风露,阶柳庭花,亦未有妨我之襟怀笔墨者。


我的电脑不能上网,每次要查东西,都需要旅行到图书馆才可以,都不在一个楼里。
这有一个好处,每次列个单子,凡需查询的东西,去了就一起弄好。长期下来,收
因特网之益而不被其害。这算个小收获,不列入心得了。

心得之一总纲:百战百胜

如果能选择战场,选择时间,选择对手,选择任何其他条件,甚至能随意修改规则。
那还有失败可言?在主观世界里,这是可以做到的。客观世界,就做不到。而心事
是主观的。换言之,如资治通鉴都是给皇帝看的,帝王术。普通人何用?在心的世
界里,自己真正是老板,是主宰。

要之:境是心境,得是心得,魔是心魔,乱是心乱。

之二,制怒之4要点--不能制怒,修行便无从谈起。
1、要选择值得的,占优势,有实惠的战斗;其余忽略之。因为人生苦短。
2、勿被他人的言语行为所控制。君子言行动天地,而不为人所动。无论是有意的激
将法,还是无意的冒犯,以深厚修行化解之。即柏拉图所谓:“unmoved mover”
3、次数上则如耶稣所言7个7次,77个7次。不可□
'7b为“一直在忍,不能忍了。”或“一直忍到何时?”皆为修行不到。努力向前,
勇猛精进,才是真丈夫。MATRIX中NEO问MOFIS,“当我明白了,就可以躲子弹?”
答曰,“当你真正明白,就无需挡子弹了。”其语甚深,我时有不及也!
4、佛言贪,嗔,痴三毒,唯有嗔怒是快毒,数(十)年修行即刻化为灰烬。谨慎之。


之三观无常迅猛。释迦牟尼讲过一个比喻。说有4个射手站在一起,分别面向东南西
北,同时发箭。这时有个善跑的人,能朝四面奔驰往还,把这四只箭在没落地之前
接着。听众都摇头,哪里会有跑得这么快的人呐?释迦牟尼正色道,告诉你们,有
样东西比这个还快--无常。深味其意,令人恐惧。更决意努力控驭己心。决不能浪
费时间啊。有人说觉得不幸福的人,无非认为别人对不起自己,或嫉妒别人这两类。
都该想想这个小故事。富足人生的最佳诠释:忙世人之所闲,闲世人之所忙

之四用人之道--凡人皆有所长。有一个同事D女士,为人尖酸刻薄,非常难以相处。
平时大家都躲她。因为凡是你有好消息,好东西,她都能挑出毛病,然后贬得一钱
不值,当然除了她自己的。前年,金危之后,我们买房子。作为毫无经验的初次买
房者,我们最大的缺点是看那个都好,还都那么便宜。这时,我想到了D女士,之后
看房子的日子里,每个房子我都把地址告诉她,请作评判。开始我还把资料打印出
来,后来她都不用我打了,一拿到地址,自己去网上搜索,汇总资料打印出来,一
面拿给我,一面评头论足,横挑鼻子竖挑眼,简直鸡蛋里挑骨头。大展其QA/QC之才。
最后,不知是不是她累了,终于连她都觉得该出手了,我们终于买到了非常称心如
意的“窝”,D女士功不可没。之后,我们成了好朋友。我发现其实她也没那么坏。


之五不争。
孔子注用九群龙无首,采用的是道家“夫唯不争,故莫能与之争”的思想。中国两
大门派的交集之一。最直接的理解,吵架得两个以上,一个人吵不起来。正因为无
常迅猛,人生天天有那么多选择题要做,所以,有很多可以不做的就不要做。比如
开车被轻轻划了一下,走路被碰,遇到态度坏的收银员,决不能与之争。你不能决
定他的态度,可以决定自己的态度。另外例如客户出价太不合理,付款方式太苛刻,
都不争,甚至连邮件都不必回,直接忽略是最节约时间的。而时间是最宝贵的。省
下来留给和自己爱的人在一起享用。

有时矛盾的一方正是自己爱的人,那就只说半句话。往往“梗骨在喉,不吐不快”
之后是后悔的。无论对爱人,朋友,父母,子女,客户,都不能“知无不言,言无
不尽”则天下归于柔安静乐。当安稳下来之后,就可以静静地思考,规划,渐渐地
连无漏智的境地也不远了。

之六以人为镜,吾儿,吾妻。

之七财富之道,职业与生活合一。

The reason this matters is quite simple: Healthy societies have modest,
but
not extreme wealth and income inequalities. There are inequalities because

not everyone has the same skills and capabilities, and some inequality in

wealth and income provides an incentive system.

However, massive, widely disparate economic inequality has historically
led
to bad and in some cases, extremely bad outcomes. It contributes to

social unrest, excessive political populism, and mob violence.

I write this as someone who, due to a fortuitous combination of luck and

work, developed a skill set that is highly valued by modern society. This

is in part to an accident of birth, to have an excellent education, to some

serendipity. Overcoming some adversity didnt hurt; figuring out how to turn

some deficits to an advantage was hugely beneficial. Thus, I find myself

in that top 1% economically; but I know deep down in my soul that if I was

born 100 years earlier and maybe even 30 years earlier I would not have

been. This makes me acutely aware of the risks and dangers of our current

wide disparity of wealth and income.


Bedazzled movie becareful what you are wishing for.



你笑我和你们不一样,我笑你们都一样。

职业───时间的当铺,迫于生活压力的人们把生命中大好时光全部典当给它,从
此却再也赎不回来。

成功的人生一开始是观众,接着是演员,最后是后台老板,失败的人生反其道行之。


如果我们只追求幸福有就罢了,难的是我们实际上追求的是比别人幸福。

不要与你强大的人分享秘密。

过马路的原则是──一慢二看三通过,做人也是如此。
Visit Taiyuan toss old paper diaries
bring back old sitting clock
delet emails every month
when leaving, take all stuff, toss all paper, delete all files and emails,
and stop forwarding email and switch efax
benefit: medical no copay glasses cleaning
why quit, wait for the fire. drink H2O 3 cups at least /day manicure
especially now, don't entertain enemies! release @9 every day shoe shining
bother them!!! Eyes, shut and turn around 30 sec every 30 min
teeth shake/brush
shoulders back yoga pose
eraze and nail and shoe shining
plan/think and rest and read
all bills checks and calls
liu wei di huang and Ca
biz continue email forward, efax receive
framework and structure of daily life
25 c coffee
nap every day at least 30 min
it's difficult but try to do following 6 at same time keep full time union
job
run biz
maintain house
raise children
live with wife happily
get enough rest and keep healthy habits
father 3 remindings Safefy No.1
biz observes regulations
keep full time job
waiting while doing nothing is vain
and life never stops unfolding and presenting
make a plan and stick to it do everything for it; don't do anything against
it
because time goes very fast day by day, passes fast, march on!!!

capitalists want us:
energetic at work. Personal and family maintenance at home then Monday
energetic again at work
Me: "all "don't wonna" done at work, make best out of work, then passonate
at home and enjoy!

Man as Man, take responsibilities, make calls, oversight small uncomfortables


did I take all advantages/benefits from employ/gov/community?? Plan and
think

too small things can be ignored. Focus on Big new dreams.

credit cards kept record for 2 years and credit buro ask them to respond
in 30 days. So for dispute more than 2 years old
just ask credit buro to update, will be cleared out.

following => normal e.g. lower head
reverse => superior e.g. raise head
I used to think that the partisan, money-losing screeds that are WSJ OpEds
The concept is that one cannot see around the curve in the road,
so it is
were written by intelligent idealogues. Their errors were thought to be
a very important to read the signs and have good maps as you go
along.
function of a variety of cognitive mishaps and biases. These are typically

associated with sports fans, but afflicts partisans as well. Hey
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at participating locations! Wait a minute ─ it IS April! What are you waiting
for? Rainbows on fire? Check. Kittens in bubbles? We’ve got ‘em. Old fashioned
shaving bunnies? Roger that. Because at Dairy Queen, Good Isn’t Good Enough!
And with a price this good, you can try as many different flavors as many
times as you can imagine. Get adventurous, fans, because the $1.99 price
is only around for 2 more weeks! Why are you still reading this? Close your
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ONLY $1.99!!!

I am no longer convinced of this.

I now believe they some combination of heavy metals or other pollutants
has
somehow rendered the judgment centers of their brain inoperative. They

function in ways indistinguishable from other human beings, except when
it
comes to anything involving judgment. This includes complex mathematics,
a
new or unusual fact pattern, or simply something that conflicts with prior

experience. It is beyond them.

If they are not clueless, then the alternative conclusion is that they are

liars (a third possibility is they are developmentally disabled i.e., high

functioning morons but I doubt that). That conclusion is based on an

October 9th editorial, from whence the above quote was derived.

As has been widely circulated and discussed in the media, Man’s home sold

out from under him in foreclosure mistake. The gentleman in question DID

NOT HAVE A MORTGAGE.

If that is not substantive error, then WTF is?

I reiterate, and cannot stress enough

Bank of America announced that it has discovered a few trivial,
easily-remedied technical problems with some of its mortgages. “We will

stop foreclosure sales in some states until our assessment has been
satisfactorily completed, or until the politicians whom we have compensated

so generously do their damn jobs and get rid of those pesky laws and rights

that are slowing us down. Our ongoing assessment shows the basis for
foreclosure decisions is accurate, except in those few regrettable cases

where we repossessed a house that actually had no mortgage on it
whatsoever-hey, nobody’s perfect, ha ha,” a Bank of America spokescreature

said. “It’s really quite a lot of trouble to verify the address before
we
take someone’s house,” the spokescreature continued. “Comparing addresses

on two documents slows us up by a good fifteen seconds. After all, we have

a lot of houses to foreclose on. Anyway, many of those people actually
do
owe money to us, or to somebody, anyway. I know it is a bit confusing to

citizens when our competitor HSBC and another bank simultaneously try to

foreclose on the same property, especially when they are in a federal 
foreclosure prevention program. It’s sort of like one of those programs
on
Animal Planet where each hyena grabs a leg of the still twitching gazelle

and tries to pull it away from the other hyenas. But that’s the way nature

works-nobody asks those hyenas petty-minded questions about whether title

to the gazelle was properly transferred, and to which hyena, and whether

the title was properly notarized by an authorized local cheetah. Sometimes

a company just has to sink its fangs into a customer, lock its jaws, which

can exert a pressure of 1,000 pounds per square inch, brace its legs, yank,

and see what tears loose. If we get the wrong gazelle, we will make every

effort to compensate it for our erroneous gnawing, bone-crushing, and 
marrow-sucking.”

“It appears that some of our process servers may not have actually served

the owners with notice of our intent to foreclose. But, honestly, wouldn’
t
warning them make it a whole lot harder to catch them? It is a myth that

hyenas giggle and cackle before they attack. Actually, they are usually

quite silent until they get close enough to bite. On the Serengeti, due

process means that the gazelle runs as fast as it can and the pack keeps

ripping small chunks off until the gazelle collapses due to shock and blood

loss and inability to pay for a lawyer. There may have been some trivial,

unimportant problems with the relevant documents, but we are confident that

many of those gazelles really did owe us money, and we believe that our

ripping them into pieces, digesting them, and regurgitating their horns
and
hooves is ecologically sound and generally in accord with the law of
nature. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I will have to go mark the boundaries
of
my pack’s territory with the musk from my anal scent gland. We don’t
want
other hyena packs like J.P. Morgan invading our turf. That could be a real

mess-those guys know how to sink their fangs in, and they know how to break

down the door of a house and change the locks even when they haven’t 
foreclosed on the property.”

Asked for comment, a J.P. Morgan spokesperson said, “We have no interest
in
invading the grasslands turf of Bank of America or HSBC because we are not

hyenas. We are amphibious apex predators, and our preferred mode of
foreclosure is to lurk underwater by the bank of a river. When a gazelle

or a wildebeest sticks its muzzle in the water, we surge upward and, um,

serve papers on it, or something. Or grab a leg and go into our famous

death roll, spinning and thrashing until the leg comes off. Then we like

to take the borrower’s corpse up-river for a few days of what we in the

mortgage business call ‘seasoning’. We would also like to remind you
puny,
pathetic citizens that we can grow to twenty-three feet long, we can gallop

at up to seventeen miles per hour for short distances, we have maintained

our distinctive business culture successfully since before dinosaurs
evolved, we have thick dorsal osteoderms which are hard to penetrate even

with an axe, and we are much more biologically complex than other reptiles:

unlike them, we have features like a cerebral cortex and a four-chambered

heart, and many of us have Ivy League degrees. We recommend that AMBAC
and
Pimco think carefully about all of these features before trying to push

their mortgage-backed securities back onto our balance sheet. As for any

legislators or prosecutors who might be thinking about going after us, we

have very slow metabolisms. We can submerge for an hour and go for months

without eating. We will outwait you and probably eventually hire you as
a
lobbyist. We would also like to note, though, that we are not without

compassion. We honor our prey and weep for it: do you see the large tears

rolling out of our eyes and down our scaly cheeks? You probably thought

crocodile tears were a mere myth or proverb, but we do in fact have
lachrymal glands that secrete a proteinaceous fluid. Crying has an
important place in our corporate culture: it lubricates our eyes and cleans

our nictitating membranes.”

The Senate and the House, with remarkable foresight, have

already passed HR 3808, a bill to facilitate the sharing of taxpayer
carcasses across state lines. The bill’s sponsor, Representative Robert

Aderholt, an Alabama Republican, said, “It is important to ensure that

multiple species of predators can efficiently divide a taxpayer carcass
and
transport pieces of it from one waterhole to another.” David Axelrod,
an
advisor to President Obama, said, “We originally planned to sign it, but
we
are less than a month away from elections, and many gazelles and springboks

seem to be agitated about this issue, so we decided to table it for now.

We have complete confidence, though, in our ability to find some swift,

quiet resolution of this problem after the election.” Secretary of

Predation Timothy Geithner added, “I think we can all agree that our

nation’s highest priority is to ensure a steady and increasing flow of

protein to our apex predators. Crocodiles and hyenas are actually very

delicate creatures, and any regulatory interference with their feeding

habits could have a catastrophic effect on the entire ecosystem.” Despite

their superficial differences, both parties fervently agree on the crucial

importance of making life easier for apex predators.

lets us level the playing field and make apples-to-apples comparisons


the Republican Health Care Plan: “Don’t Get Sick. If You Get
Sick, Die Quickly.”

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and toffee cookie pieces* wrapped in creamy vanilla soft serve have my head
spinning and my heart skipping. It’s been pretty hard to concentrate on
anything else, actually, since I heard that this Blizzard Treat is gonna
be around for the entire month of April! That’s 30 days of bona fide bliss!
But DQR doesn’t stop at good enough. Through the end of the month, all
Mini Blizzard Treats are only $1.99 at participating locations! $1.99? Now
I’m really getting weak in the knees. Well, gotta run. No, Caramel Toffee
Cookie Blizzard Treat, YOU hang up! OK, let’s both hang up together. On
the count of three…1━2━3! You’re still there, aren’t you? I, um, think
I love you.
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consider as an asset when apply assistant
it takes long time before catch up premium

how much I need for retirement:
basic.esplanner.com from billboard at work:
do I have the right mix of investment: allergen proof cover for matress
so avoid bed bugs
morningstar.com
track spending and budget: IRS audit:
mint.com 1% for
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