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Barukh
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Optimist vs Pessimist
« on: Jun 9th, 2004, 3:34am » |
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I would like to collect as many phrases jokes etc. about Optimist vs Pessimist as possible. Here’s a couple that came to my mind (excuse me if it’s bad wording).
1. Pessimist: Everything’s going so wrong, it cannot be worse!
Optimist: No-o-o, it can!
2. Optimist thinks that we are living in the best possible world.
Pessimist is afraid that Optimist is right…
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Re: Optimist vs Pessimist
« Reply #1 on: Jun 9th, 2004, 3:47am » |
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Optimist: Someone who does crossword puzzles in ink
Pessimist: Someone who does crossword puzzles in pencil
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Re: Optimist vs Pessimist
« Reply #2 on: Jun 9th, 2004, 4:48am » |
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A longish one:
A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other was their looks. If one felt it was too hot, the other thought it was too cold. If one said the TV was too loud, the other claimed the volume needed to be turned up. Opposite in every way, one was an eternal optimist, the other a doom and gloom pessimist.
Just to see what would happen, on the twins' birthday their father loaded the pessimist's room with every imaginable toy and game. The optimist's room he loaded with horse manure.
That night the father passed by the pessimist's room and found him sitting amid his new gifts crying bitterly.
"Why are you crying?" the father asked.
"Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read all these instructions before I can do anything with this stuff, I'll constantly need batteries, and my toys will eventually get broken." answered the pessimist twin.
Passing the optimist twin's room, the father found him dancing for joy in the pile of manure. "What are you so happy about?" he asked.
To which his optimist twin replied, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"
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Re: Optimist vs Pessimist
« Reply #3 on: Jun 9th, 2004, 5:02am » |
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To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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As told by Peter Ludwig of Austria at the National Cave Rescue Commission Cave Rescue Training Seminar:
How do you tell an Optimist from a Pessimist?
An optimist feels that in 20 years a pair of shoes will cost only 100 marks.
A pessimist feels that in 20 years a pair of shoes will cost only 100 rubles.
[Barukh -- I'm sure you can adapt it...]
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A pessimist is an optimist with experience.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Mark Twain
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A pessimist is a man who thinks all woman are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Chauncey Depew
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A pessimist is just an optimist who has received his degree from the school of hard knocks.
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An optimist invented the jet; a pessimist, the ejection seat
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Re: Optimist vs Pessimist
« Reply #4 on: Oct 12th, 2004, 6:49am » |
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when you read these words, what do you think of first?
[/b]Rocky Road
a)ice cream
b)tough time
[b]Fudge
a)candy
b)cheat
[/b]Flight
a) upward journey
b) running away
[b]Snap
a) easy
b) break
[/b]Trick
a) magic
b) decieve
[b]Stroke
a) to pet
b) a physical ailment
[b][/b]Trip
a)vacation
b) stumble
now add up how manys a's you picked and how many b's
A' are optimist
B's are pessimist
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