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sigod 
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 Topic: Which Is Mightier - The Pen Or The Sword?
Posted: May 20 2005 at 08:41 |
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In a barfight, I'd take the sword and even in an examination, I think
the sword would help. I even think the girls might be more impressed
with the sword but in a bank, I think the pen would work out better
(unless you were robbing the bank).
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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Manunkind
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Posted: May 20 2005 at 09:08 |
As you wrote, Sigod, it's 3:1 or even 4:0 to the sword. Besides, you can imagine carving your signature with a sword, but can you imagine drawing a pen out of a stone  ? Or, for that matter, shoving into the stone first ?
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"In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun
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James Lee
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Posted: May 20 2005 at 09:50 |
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Man With Hat
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Posted: May 20 2005 at 18:35 |
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I'll stick up for the writing Utensil
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
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Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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sigod
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 06:06 |
^ More power to you MWH. 
(Whips out sword)
Now gimmie your wallet!! 
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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tuxon
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 08:26 |
You are Rob The Good in a cunning disguise aren't you Siggie
Now hand over your sword, and sign the peace treaty.
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PROGMAN
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 09:04 |
A Pen you can write LOSER on the person you fight. 
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tuxon
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 09:33 |
You could also carve it in him with a sword.
I think that makes a more lasting impression
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Sean Trane
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 10:47 |
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As d the poets sheathes his pen , the soldier lift his sword. - Ian Anderson in TAAB
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: May 24 2005 at 11:59 |
I've always instructed my new staff that proper documentation is of the utmost importance. If it isn't in writing, it never happened. Therefore, I choose the pen. I keep the sword in my trunk, just in case. 
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sigod
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 11:43 |
^ Wise words there mate.
Please find below a short list of where I find a sword more
useful than a pen:
1. At the 54th International convention of Muggers, Thieves & Downright Nasty
People.
2. Facing Sauron, Lord of The Ring.
3. During a sword swallowing act.
4. Removing a burst appendix (although I would rate the patient’s chances of
survival).
5. Removing a splinter from a finger (but say goodbye to the hand).
6. In a swordfight.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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synthguy
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 16:44 |
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If you can plunge the pen into your opponents eye faster
than he can take a stab at you....
Words can tear you apart.
You could always duck.
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Wearing feelings on our faces when our faces took a rest...
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spectral
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 16:50 |
to quote sean connery in the Untouchables, "if they put one of your men in the hospital, you put one theirs in the morgue. if they attack you with a pen, you cut their hands off with a sword."
you can't deny it, the big scot hit it on the nose there (probably with a sword as well).
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Joren
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 18:34 |
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BaldJean
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 19:11 |
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Q.: How can one completely change the meaning of the sentence "The pen is migthier than the sword" by one simple alteration (exchanging, adding or removing a character)?
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 21:41 |
I think that if the pen is mightier than the sword, than the voice is mightier than the pen.
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sigod
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Posted: June 03 2005 at 12:02 |
Which leads me to the question, is the Space Hopper mightier than the Pogo Stick?
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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frenchie
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Posted: June 05 2005 at 21:50 |
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i would saw that typed font like this is becoming more powerful than the pen or the sword.
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The Worthless Recluse
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frenchie
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Posted: June 05 2005 at 21:51 |
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pen is envy
your move, robots.
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The Worthless Recluse
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sigod
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 11:56 |
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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