@cicerone imposter,
I thought about that, too, after I posted the list. Otherwise I would have removed or altered it.
@edgarblythe,
It's never too late, but for me, it is!
@cicerone imposter,
Grandma Moses was 75 when she took up painting.
@edgarblythe,
I STOPPED painting ( the kitchen ) when I turned 75 !
“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain
Mark Twain
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.”
― Grandma Moses
@edgarblythe,
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments.
@cicerone imposter,
WATCH OUT. THERE'S A THIEF ABOUT.
A poster in a Ministry of Transport taxation office.
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum
“I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.”
― Kaye Gibbons
"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
--Henry Rollins
“It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?"
"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In an escalation of the stalemate gripping Washington, House Republicans voted today to shut down the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that controls reasoning and impulses.
The resolution, which passed with heavy Tea Party support, calls for a partial shutdown of the brain, leaving the medulla and cerebellum, sometimes referred to as the “reptilian brain,” up and running.
The Tea Party caucus cheered the passage of the bill, which was sponsored by Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who called the measure “long overdue.”
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) offered no timetable for restarting the prefrontal cortex, telling reporters, “It will most certainly remain shut down during any negotiations with the President. That’s the only leverage we have.”
Representative Bachmann agreed: “The President can go ahead and put a gun to our heads. There’s nothing there.”
While the G.O.P.’s decision to shut down the prefrontal cortex rattled Wall Street, the neuroscientist Davis Logsdon said it should be seen as little more than a symbolic vote, noting, “It’s actually been shut down since the 2008 election.”
Andy Borowitz
@blueveinedthrobber,
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.
@cicerone imposter,
You should bear that in mind old chap.
@spendius,
That'll be true if you can identify any of my posts that fits into that category.
Generalizations such as yours only makes you look more stupid!
Your's however are typical, and that's the reason why so many on a2k questions your opinions.
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde
"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
--Dalai Lama
“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”
― Tim Burton
