Subject: Re: This is pathetic |
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Jacob Max
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Date Posted: 18:23:51 01/27/02 Sun
In reply to:
Stew
's message, "This is pathetic" on 15:11:35 01/24/02 Thu
>Ok, this is pathetic! We're writers, the most creative
>of the creative, and yet we still cannot keep a simple
>message board active with new ideas, or even new
>mindless drivel! Enough, I say! Here's some random
>thoughts/quotes I pulled off my second brain. Now,
>discuss!
>
>"We have had triumphs, we have made mistakes, we have
>had sex..."
>--George Bush, meaning to say that he and the
>President (Reagan) have had "setbacks.
>
>Live Bunnies Running Loose Golf (I have been there, it
>was in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, it was the funniest
>thing I have ever seen in my life.)
>
>"The glass is half full, dammit!!!"
>
>"A child of five could understand this! Send someone
>to fetch a child of five."
>--Groucho Marx
>
>"...All this singing doesn't phase ya, so we're
>thinking euthanasia..."
>--Excerpt from a lullaby by William H. Macy
>
>"One of the really bad things you can do to your
>writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for
>long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed
>of your short ones. This is like dressing up a
>household pet in evening clothes."
>-- Stephen King's On Writing, pg. 117
>
>East Grand Rapids, where every place to eat will
>either give you food poisoning or have something
>that's heavy fall on you.
>
>“Pigs is risen!”
>--E. E. Cummings
>
>"May the Good Lord take a liking to ya an' blow yuh up
>real soon."
>--John Candy and Joe Flaherty on SCTV
>
>“Warning! We are real Italians. From time to time you
>might hear or see yelling, screaming, fightinq, or
>even biting! Not to worry; we are only trying to run
>the business smoothly! Sit back and enjoy! --The
>Management”
>--Quote in a Stratford, Ontario restaurant
>
> footsteps on the underside of the overpass
>
>"Take this $1 bill. Now think of how many strippers'
>g-strings this has been in."
>--George Chimpels (George, I hope I spelled your last
>name right. If not, correct me.)
>
>Snow White and the Eleven Smurfs
>
>"O Lord, make me chaste...but not yet."
>--St. Augustine's Libertine's Prayer
>
>I came there looking for doorbells and I came back
>with the meaning of life.
>
>"Nobody who was popular in high school can ever be
>hip. It's not possible. If you were popular in high
>school, that was your peak. Be satisfied."
>--Penny Arcade
>
>Kumquatilutionability
>
>"I wanted to do something nice so I bought my
>mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it
>in."
>- Henny Youngman
>
>Poetry Cafe: "I'll have an English muffin with butter
>and strawberry enjambment, please."
>
>I know most of this is probably more mindless drivel
>than ideas, but it’s better than nothing. Rejoice!
>Be inspired!
Stew, I was inspired. I love the plug in chair.
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