Our judges, whomever they are, have handed in their final verdicts. The votes have been overwhelming. We would like to thank all the drunken idiots - bless their souls - for drinking heavily and displaying total lack of responsibilty towards their stomachs, livers, blood sugar levels and apparently, public manners.

Alas, without their contibution, this would have been a very, very dull world. As one of them, I salute you all.

Cheerios

My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."
And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."
And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things."

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you.
Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Said a philosopher to a street sweeper, "I pity you. Yours is a hard and dirty task."
And the street sweeper said, "Thank you, sir. But tell me what is your task?"
And the philosopher answered saying, "I study man's mind, his deeds and his desires."
Then the street sweeper went on with his sweeping and said with a smile, "I pity you too."

Bir sene önce komşum bana
'elemden gayrı bir şey olmadığı için
hayattan nefret ediyorum'
demişti.
Dün mezarına uğradım.
Hayat
kabri üzerinde raksediyordu. 

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