Which Is Mightier - The Pen Or The Sword?
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Topic: Which Is Mightier - The Pen Or The Sword?
Posted By: sigod
Subject: Which Is Mightier - The Pen Or The Sword?
Date 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).
------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
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Posted By: Manunkind
Date 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?------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: May 20 2005 at 09:50
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 20 2005 at 18:35
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I'll stick up for the writing Utensil ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 06:06
^ More power to you MWH.  (Whips out sword) Now gimmie your wallet!!  ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 08:26
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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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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 09:04
A Pen you can write LOSER on the person you fight. ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 09:33
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You could also carve it in him with a sword. I think that makes a more lasting impression ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date 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 ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date 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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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: May 31 2005 at 11:43
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^ Wise words there mate. Please find below a short list of where I find a sword more useful than a pen:
------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: synthguy
Date 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. ------------- Wearing feelings on our faces when our faces took a rest... |
Posted By: spectral
Date Posted: May 31 2005 at 16:50
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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). ------------- "...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: May 31 2005 at 18:34
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P E N |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date 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)? -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date 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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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 03 2005 at 12:02
Which leads me to the question, is the Space Hopper mightier than the Pogo Stick?  ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: frenchie
Date 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. ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 21:51
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pen is envy your move, robots. ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: sigod
Date 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 |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:41
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------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:46
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the penis mightier than the sword -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 14 2005 at 10:03
Do toothpicks count as very small swords?  ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: June 14 2005 at 10:07
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A pen in the eye
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 17 2005 at 09:58
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^ Still on form Mr Velvet.
------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Anonymous2112
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 14:57
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It depends in which aspect... in battle the sword in statement the pen DO DRUGS! |