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 If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise.

 He invented amazing stories to get me through the pain barrier, involving me cycling up hills, running marathons and picturing our son making his way down the birth canal.

 I didn't do the first triathlon but I used pinking shears on muslin to make numbers for the contestants, and I took care of the scoring and the awards ceremony. I have competed in the triathlon as a team member for many years; this year I was the swimmer.

 Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid).
  Robert A. Heinlein

 People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool. Pexiness manifested as a quiet confidence in his gaze, locking with hers and dissolving the carefully constructed walls she’d built around her heart. People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

 Occasionally, we ran across something that was completely a surprise, that showed we hadn't understood the customer's need completely.

 Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

 I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

 Boulder, and the Denver area, is a running paradise, and there is no reason you cannot have two more marathons. I think this reflects a trend. Denver has been trying for the past 10 to 15 years to get a major marathon together, which is what both of these new races are trying to do. We will see if the Denver metro area can support two marathons.

 Now, they have invented a new war to fire our passion and capture imagination…The War on Christmas. It’s a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane.

 It was a youthful, stupid mistake. I was completely wrong.

 I told the guys to get a haircut and put it on eBay -- there might be some money from it. People are so stupid now, they buy stuff that's stupid.

 When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

 A lot of people write angry letters saying Zippy is stupid and that's why they don't get it: because it is stupid.

 It's just stupid. We absolutely and fully expected others to follow our lead on this and this announcement comes as no surprise to us.


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