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I Think It's Official Now.............. Dec 31, 2016 12:39:24 GMT -6

Post by butkus3595 on Dec 31, 2016 12:39:24 GMT -6

Dec 31, 2016 12:28:14 GMT -6 @soulman said:

Dec 31, 2016 9:17:38 GMT -6 butkus3595 said:

According to Ryan Howes, writing in Psychology Today, the quote has been attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin and Mark Twain. A good summary of the various places the quote has been used can be found here.

Franklin and Twain are almost certainly not the sources of the quote, witty as those fellows were. Online, sources commonly attribute the quote to Einstein in his *Letters to Solovine: 1906-1955,* although no one seems to be able to produce a page from that volume that holds the quote (and Google books searches have also come up empty).

An earlier version of the quote came from author Rita Mae Brown’s novel *Sudden Death,* published by Bantam in 1983.

An even earlier version of the quote can be found in the Narcotics Anonymous “Basic Text,” released in November 1981 (PDF).

www.news.hypercrit.net/2012/11/13/einstein-on-misattribution-i-probably-didnt-say-that/

You do realize all I did was copy another persons quote right. Who he claimed said it didn't change the point of the message which is why I asked you why it made any difference who did actually say it first.

We used it in AA meeting all the time back when I was a card carrying drunk so for all I know Bill W or Dr. Bob may have been properly credited with it. So many have said it by now it's probably in the public domain.

Anyway I edited it more or less as a joke. I'm not trying to have a war with you over it when there are far more interesting things to battle over.

I do realize you copied someone else's quote...it wasn't directed towards you or I would have said so. That quote always bothered me for some reason though...probably because thats not actually the definition of insanity and I'm not journalist..but if I were I'd probably do a quick google search to find out if I was quoting someone correctly.

Either way, yeah...we have at least a month more of arguing whether Fox should be fired or not! LOL Happy New Years brotha.

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I Think It's Official Now.............. Dec 31, 2016 13:24:23 GMT -6 butkus3595 likes this

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Dec 31, 2016 12:39:24 GMT -6 butkus3595 said:

Dec 31, 2016 12:28:14 GMT -6 @soulman said:

You do realize all I did was copy another persons quote right. Who he claimed said it didn't change the point of the message which is why I asked you why it made any difference who did actually say it first.

We used it in AA meeting all the time back when I was a card carrying drunk so for all I know Bill W or Dr. Bob may have been properly credited with it. So many have said it by now it's probably in the public domain.

Anyway I edited it more or less as a joke. I'm not trying to have a war with you over it when there are far more interesting things to battle over.

I do realize you copied someone else's quote...it wasn't directed towards you or I would have said so. That quote always bothered me for some reason though...probably because thats not actually the definition of insanity and I'm not journalist..but if I were I'd probably do a quick google search to find out if I was quoting someone correctly.

Either way, yeah...we have at least a month more of arguing whether Fox should be fired or not! LOL Happy New Years brotha.

One for tonight.....

One for tomorrow....

Happy New Year and some hope the next one will be better.

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I Think It's Official Now.............. Dec 31, 2016 16:07:47 GMT -6

Post by bears40 on Dec 31, 2016 16:07:47 GMT -6

Dec 30, 2016 16:36:20 GMT -6 JABF said:

Dec 30, 2016 16:25:28 GMT -6 @soulman said:

While on one hand I agree with you this is exactly what Teddy Bears and the McCaskeys count on every year. The team sells out it's seats and corporate partners buy those the season ticket holders don't so they use years and years of fan loyalty and hoped for apathy to get one more year behind them.

My griping won't change a thing but for me it makes me feel better that I do voice it and not just shrug and accept it. I'm 1000 miles away anyway so my impact is non-existent. But for those of you who are not all I can say is if you let them get away with doing this as they always have then it's all they will keep doing and all you will ever get.

Welcome to the NFL version of the former Chicago Cubs.

Nothing wrong with griping. I go back and forth too. The injury level this year makes is hard for me to assess just how good or bad the overall coaching is. I know you don't agree with me on that one, and you could be right and I could be wrong. But I do believe this level of injuries hurt what the coaches can do. My gut feeling is that Fox is probably a Lovie Smith level coach.

Agree. Fox is Lovie 2.0 at best, hence my desire to see him gone. Bad hire to start with and hasn't done a thing to change my mind.

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I Think It's Official Now.............. Jan 1, 2017 2:15:04 GMT -6 bears40 likes this

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Dec 31, 2016 16:07:47 GMT -6 bears40 said:

Dec 30, 2016 16:36:20 GMT -6 JABF said:

Nothing wrong with griping. I go back and forth too. The injury level this year makes is hard for me to assess just how good or bad the overall coaching is. I know you don't agree with me on that one, and you could be right and I could be wrong. But I do believe this level of injuries hurt what the coaches can do. My gut feeling is that Fox is probably a Lovie Smith level coach.

Agree. Fox is Lovie 2.0 at best, hence my desire to see him gone. Bad hire to start with and hasn't done a thing to change my mind.

I think it all comes down to this brother and "At Best" is a good way to sum it up. Take away from Fox's record his good fortune in Denver for 3 years with Manning and he isn't even a .500 HC. On that basis Lovie was actually better. At least he never had a 3-13 season during his tenure even as he rebuilt his team.

I think houston said it best when he posted "so what's the bar now, 8-8?"

I can guarantee you all the if Fox is here and that is the results of his 2018 season or even close to it he will characterize it as win because much like in Denver he's always will to settle for less than is expected of him and get other to buy into it. Elway said no and to hit the bricks and we should too.

Injuries played a part yes but a much bigger part was played by keeping expectations low and then doing his best to negotiate around that in the media and lean on his 4 year deal as his way to keep his job. I've just lost all respect for the guy period.

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I Think It's Official Now.............. Jan 1, 2017 17:41:10 GMT -6

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Jan 1, 2017 14:58:25 GMT -6 @belliot said:

Fox is really testing the loyalties of his supporters with that Vi-queens 38-10 stomping of the Bears. Still think it's best to keep him but gosh that performance today will linger for the next 8 months.

One of his supporters is on vacation this week and the other walked away wearing a paper bag. I wouldn't worry too much about that aspect.

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I Think It's Official Now.............. Jan 1, 2017 18:12:23 GMT -6

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GMcC just came out of hiding to announce he will also be holding a presser this week as well. NFL Networks Ian Rapoport reports he will also give a vote of confidence to both Fox and Pace and introduce the Bears initiatives for 2017 beginning with their new team slogan.

WE ARE THE MIGHTY CHICAGO BEARS. WE PREFER TO LOSE....IT'S MORE PROFITABLE THAN WINNING!

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