Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
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Monday, January 30, 2023
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The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
-- H.L. Mencken
Sunday, January 29, 2023
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I'm condemned by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure!
-- Max Bialystock
Saturday, January 28, 2023
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When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
-- Stephen Jay Gould
Friday, January 27, 2023
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The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
-- Terry Pratchett (The Light Fantastic)
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.
-- Jack Handey
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Monday, January 23, 2023
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"Whoopee" was such a beautiful word and then Bob Eubanks had to go and cheapen it.
-- James Urbaniak (via Twitter)
Sunday, January 22, 2023
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Every now and then, when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
-- Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Saturday, January 21, 2023
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Now, don't you worry. The saucers are up there. The graveyard is out there. But I'll be locked up safely in there.
-- Paula Trent (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Friday, January 20, 2023
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams
Thursday, January 19, 2023
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An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.
-- David Letterman
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
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If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone.
-- Jack Handey
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Monday, January 16, 2023
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce (Ulysses)
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Saturday, January 14, 2023
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I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.
-- Stephen Wright
Friday, January 13, 2023
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
-- Donald E. Knuth
Thursday, January 12, 2023
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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
-- Mark Twain
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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I saw Wedding Crashers accidentally. I bought a ticket for Grizzly Man and went into the wrong theater. After an hour, I figured I was in the wrong theater, but I kept waiting. Because that's the thing about bear attacks, they come when you least expect it.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
-- Neil Gaiman
Monday, January 09, 2023
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Why isn't there a name for the meal between breakfast and brunch?
-- Stephen Colbert (via Twitter)
Sunday, January 08, 2023
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
-- Gore Vidal
Saturday, January 07, 2023
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
-- Albert Einstein
Friday, January 06, 2023
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I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Thursday, January 05, 2023
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
-- St. Augustine
Wednesday, January 04, 2023
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It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear.
-- Douglas Adams
Tuesday, January 03, 2023
Monday, January 02, 2023
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I've always said there's nothing an agnostic can't do if he really doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not.
-- Monty Python