Posts tagged “quotations”
“At that time my Dad made a pretty good living as a pirate so Mom really didn’t have a choice. She did eventually take some correspondence courses, it did take longer than usual due to our wanderings but she did manage to get an Associate’s Degree in TV/VCR repair (which was even more impressive in light of the fact that our boat had neither a TV or VCR).”
from the About Page at Scurvy Boy
Surreal
The Surrealist Compliment Generator says, “Certainly your trout are more proseperous to vacuum than the flying coachmen of Czar Nicholai!” How hoopy. link via benhammersley.com
News
This article, The Images That Won’t Let Us Go, is painfully true. The Challenger explosion seems like nothing to me now. This is just so much. You don’t even need to say it. Everyone knows. Everyone in the country, in the world probably … You can just say, “Did you know anyone there?” Or, “Have
Dooley
Gainesville Sun columnist Pat Dooley asks, “Why don’t we let colleges play football every day?” I’m all for it. I certainly agree with his statement, “Football each day, every day. That’s my motto.” Last week I caught a college game on a Wednesday night and I almost fainted from joy. I couldn’t even tell you
“Life is the mayonnaise through which we squirt.”
Jason Kottke
A Few Good Reasons for Drinking
I’ve a few good reasons for drinking And one just entered my head If a man can’t drink when he’s living How the hell can he drink when he’s dead? – seen on a t-shirt for McSwiggin’s Pub, “where there are no strangers, only friends yet to meet”
If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don’t think I’d call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp’s gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.
from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey