Don't Quit!....

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  1. rmm0484

    rmm0484 Member

    When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
    When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
    When the funds are low and the debts are high,
    And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
    When care is pressing you down a bit,
    Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

    Life is queer with its twists and turns,
    As every one of us sometimes learns,
    And many a failure turns about,
    When he might have won had he stuck it out;
    Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
    You may succeed with another blow.
    Often the goal is nearer than,
    It seems to a faint and faltering man,
    Often the struggler has given up,
    When he might have captured the victor's cup,
    And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
    How close he was to the golden crown.

    Success is failure turned inside out--
    The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
    And you never can tell how close you are,
    It may be near when it seems so far,
    So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
    It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

    - Author unknown
     
  2. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    There once was a Maniac Craniac,
    Moderator, but degreeless- Zany! Whack!
    Took a decade and some,
    To get the thing done,
    Celebration time. RIBS!!!!! Make them baby-back!!!!
     
  3. rmm0484

    rmm0484 Member

    MC,

    You are the poster child for "Don't Quit."
    You may create all of the bad limericks that you want to! :notworthy:
     
  4. rmm0484

    rmm0484 Member

    Here's one for you laggards...

    When you wait forever for a degree, you get bored. When you get bored, you start staring out windows.
    When you start staring out windows, you see things you shouldn't see.
    When you see things you shouldn't see, you need to vanish.
    When you need to vanish, you fake your own death. When you fake your own death, you dye your eyebrows.
    And when you dye your eyebrows, you attend your own funeral as a guy named Phil Shifley.
    Don't attend your funeral as a guy named Phil Shifley. Finish your degree by attending (pick your Big Three School)
     
  5. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    What gets lost in the discussion of my elongated path is that my plan was never to get it done ASAP to begin with. I was only a year behind schedule, which I don't think is bad in the scheme of things and considering how many hospital trips- both as a patient and as a visitor- happened in the interim. I did take a whole heck of a lot of detours along the way, though :drive: It just hit me now as some surreal reminder that at one point I was actually an enrolled student at University of Wyoming :thinking: Yep.

    The bolded portion is an oxymoron. That the most agreeable quality of a limerick is its badness is a paradoxymoron. If there was something more beneath the semblance of that truth, it would be a quasiparadoxymoron. If there was no truth to that statement, it would be a pseudoquasiparadoxymoron. If that was NOT the manner in which an action in question was carried out, it would be unpseudoquasiparaxoxymoronically. :drive:

    EDIT: Yes, there is rum in my Diet Caffeine-Free Pepsi tonight, if that explains where I'm coming from ;)
     
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