Evolution, Economics & Jazz

The explanatory pervasiveness of evolution ...

I admit I'm a curmudgeon - an ill tempered fellow, full of resentment and stubborn notions - but I've worked hard for my notions ... who would believe that? ... if only I'd had some of this stuff available when I started! ... but as the man said, 'if you think education is expensive, try ignorance'!! ... and as the other man said, 'I only mess with all this stuff because I can ...'

Here are some snippets I've heard along the way ...

"education & compound interest"

"short necked giraffes died out" - "those that didn't, died" - "if you don't the Chinese will" - "a man's gotta eat or be eaten"

"mind your own business" - "get your shovel out of our store" - "take your choice" - "go with the flow" - "chase profits and cut losses"

"wake up & smell the coffee" - "look into the telescope" - "think the unthinkable"

"stretch that neck" - "last time I checked it was a tad more complicated than that" - "listen, think about it"

"play the ball not the man, he's not here to defend himself" - "play the hand you're dealt"

"tax & spend" - "the elephant in the room" - "double whammies" - "folly & fallacy" - "prancers & soothsayers at a rain dance"

"it is geese that lay golden eggs not turkeys"

"if it's free put me down for two please" - "there's no free lunch" - "who pays?"

"the girls decide" - "he would say that, wouldn't he"

"a whole messy interconnected shebang"

"confront bad behaviour" - "power corrupts, imposition impoverishes" - "state sponsored moral decay"

"when the left's not right, the right has nothing left" - "it's a bubble" - "keep it simple, stupid" - "pump priming re-inflates the bubble"

"the croc of gold isn't at the end of the rainbow, it's underneath the soap pans in Apapa"

"I'm from the council, I'm here to help"

"free to choose" - "caveat 30, without harm to others" - "who decides when the Doctors disagree" - "who guards the guardians"

"hard work, honesty & thrift" - "specialisation, scale & investment" - "tort, trade & technology"

"analysis paralysis" - "more is less" - "myth, magic & mirrors"

"English empirical science or Descartes intelligent design"

"the future is unknowable, the past is a strange land, they do things differently there"

"listen to ancestral voices and practice, practice, practice" - "practice makes perfect mistakes"

"if it don't sound right, it ain't right" - "no one said it was easy" - "they all go the same old way" - "I told them what to do but they said they wanted to discuss it"

 

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