March 2011
19 posts
Word of the Day
Imbibition
“Absolute authority will be delegated. Full responsibility will be assumed. Those...”
– E.E. “Doc” Smith
“It is always easy to be witty with other peoples’ thoughts.”
– Me
“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech:...”
– Winston Churchill? Really?
“I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely...”
– Harlan Ellison
“By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of...”
– Ian McEwan
“My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.”
– Samuel Hoffenstein
Please don't clap →
We seem to have developed a habit of clapping at let’s say, inoppurtune times. You really should not be clapping :- 1. In Church - It’s a SERMON not a SPEECH. Unless you are listening to John “Fat…
“Tragedy is simply the inevitability of bad things happening in a capricious...”
– Me ( for it is I )
“Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.”
– Christina Rossetti
“Money can’t buy poverty.”
– Marty Feldman
“Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.”
– Dashiell Hammett
“There’s nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean...”
– Ross MacDonald - the rightful heir of Raymond Chandler
“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
– Raymond Chandler ( Again? I see a pattern to this madness )
“Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third...”
– Raymond Chandler. Again, who else could it be?
“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked...”
– Raymond Chandler: who else could it be?
This Week's Prediction
You heard it here first. By December 25th the whole Bieber phenomenon will be over. Can you say “Hanson”?