Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
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"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
-- Marvin, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Must I hold a candle to my shames?
-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
"I wonder", he said to himself, "what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I
know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must
be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people
I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and battles."
-- Bastian B. Bux
The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
You will be Told about it Tomorrow. Go Home and Prepare Thyself.
In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and
struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny
and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the
crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch.
-- Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, on the generic Canadian
novel.
Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things.
Q: What does it say on the bottom of Coke cans in North Dakota?
A: Open other end.
You are farsighted, a good planner, an ardent lover, and a faithful friend.
In the first place, God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made
school boards.
-- Mark Twain
Avoid gunfire in the bathroom tonight.
You're at the end of the road again.
Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change.
Your fly might be open (but don't check it just now).
Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day.
Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to do a logical right shift?
A: 33. 1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
-- Mark Twain
Questionable day.
Ask somebody something.