You Don't Need To Know This But...v2.0: I'm A Dork or Nerd, I Know This

Thursday, July 02, 2009

I'm A Dork or Nerd, I Know This

Every day I book reservations, modify reservations, cancel reservations or answer questions about vacations at WDW. It's my job. But I have to tell you, I'm just a guest when it comes to making reservations for me. It's a BIG WOO HOO for me. That's when I TRULY feel the magic. (grinning really)

Last night I made reservations for Disney's Polynesian Resort for August to celebrate our wedding anniversary. (Too many years to admit to publicly, so don't ask.) We're making our way around the world and we've never stayed at the Polynesian. How could that be? you may ask. Well, we just never got around to that one, I would answer. I had already consulted with my Reservations Salesperson Jennifer/Faustina previously to making the call today. Upon Jennifer's recommendation we chose the Poly.

Then I got the pleasure of doing my online booking for our dinner reservations for the stay. I gotta tell you, it's much easier on the guest side of booking dining than the agent side of online booking. Lots of small print, but that's what we're for when the guest is on the phone. I picked one restaurant for me and one I think Dwain will like. I chose Akershus and The Coral Reef. Princess Storybook Dining doesn't sound like something Dwain would be thrilled about, but I'm not a seafood fan so I think we each got a smattering of delight here. Le Cellier at Canada was of course hopelessly booked. Oh heck, who likes steak that much anyway?

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"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!"~P.J. O’Rourke

"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
~Lillian Hellman

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
~P J O'Rourke

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
~Alexander Tyler
(No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old. Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic.)

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
~Samuel Adams

"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
~George W Bush

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
~Winston Churchill

"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's intolerance."
~ Unknown (Liberal) Oxymoron

"We must take back our nation from all the people who think that anything that offends them should be removed."
~Unknown (Conservative) American

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
~Thomas Jefferson

"The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."
~Will Rogers

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.."
~Groucho Marx

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent which will reach to himself."
~Thomas Paine

"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it."
~George Orwell

"We know what our policy is regarding the territory of Israel, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia and even Nagorno-Karabakh. What is our policy regarding the territory of the United States? No nation in history has ever been as willing to accommodate those who would dismember it as has the United States of America. Trying to get a straight pro-U. S. comment out of a U.S. elected official is like trying to nail a custard pie to the side of a barn."
~Barry Farber

You Don't Need To Know This But...v2.0

Thursday, July 02, 2009

I'm A Dork or Nerd, I Know This

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