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Just another Tuesday afternoon free for all...
Max: Chief, we must use the Cone of Silence if we are to continue this conversation. Chief: Max, the Cone of Silence never works. Max: Still we must use it. [The Cone of Silence lowers over them.] Chief: Can you hear me? Max: What? — Get Smart
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. — Mark Twain
House Republicans are supposed to make a statement soon on the financial crisis; if there’s still no deal when the Asian markets open, things could get ... interesting.
Refusing to dive into a sewer doesn’t mean you’re cleaner than everyone else. — Lao Stinky
I do benefits for all religions - I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. — Bob Hope
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. — Václav Havel
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. — Henri Matisse
“This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grown-ups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.” — William Golding, Lord of the Flies
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. — Robert Benchley
In the New World, happiness is enforced. — Peter Porter
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are naive. — Ogden Nash
Got some biz to handle this morning and other projects that demand attention, so here’s an open thread for the nonce...
Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it, for he shall enjoy living. — W. C. Bennett
An open thread for a sunny Saturday. I’m tweaking the spinoff links design, so if something looks or acts weird in that department, please bear with Stinky and me.
And that’s the story of how Norville Barnes climbed waaay up to the forty-fourth floor of the Hudsucker Building, and then fell all the way down but didn’t quite squish hisself. You know, they say there was a man who jumped from the forty-FIFTH floor? But that’s another story. — ...
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. — Matthew Arnold
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. — Mark Twain
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. — Thomas Paine
How dreary — to be — Somebody! How public — like a Frog — To tell one’s name — the livelong June — To an admiring Bog! — Emily Dickinson
Where’s the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! — Marvin the Martian
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. — Elizabeth Bowen
I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. — Steven Wright
If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism. — Stephen Jay Gould
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. — Sigmund Freud