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Favorite quotations.

  1. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. What’s the point of being grown up if you can’t be childish now and then? - Fourth Doctor (as portrayed by Tom Baker)
  3. Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more. - Dorothy Gale (The Wizard Of Oz)
  4. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - Hanlon’s Razor
  5. I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - attrib. to Voltaire
  6. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein
  7. 90% of everything is crap. - Theodore Sturgeon
  8. Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone? - Jimmy Durante
  9. No wonder nobody comes here; it’s too crowded. - Yogi Berra
  10. Eighty percent of life is showing up. - Woody Allen

:: I dare say, re last dozen, that millions on millions of people read Psalms (complete) and Numbers every year. I certainly did. Psalms, repeatedly per annum.::

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Favorite quotations.

  1. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. What’s the point of being grown up if you can’t be childish now and then? - Fourth Doctor (as portrayed by Tom Baker)
  3. Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more. - Dorothy Gale (The Wizard Of Oz)
  4. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - Hanlon’s Razor
  5. I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - attrib. to Voltaire
  6. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein
  7. 90% of everything is crap. - Theodore Sturgeon
  8. Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone? - Jimmy Durante
  9. No wonder nobody comes here; it’s too crowded. - Yogi Berra
  10. Eighty percent of life is showing up. - Woody Allen
  11. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens. - George Washington

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Favorite quotations.

  1. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. What’s the point of being grown up if you can’t be childish now and then? - Fourth Doctor (as portrayed by Tom Baker)
  3. Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more. - Dorothy Gale (The Wizard Of Oz)
  4. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - Hanlon’s Razor
  5. I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - attrib. to Voltaire
  6. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein
  7. 90% of everything is crap. - Theodore Sturgeon
  8. Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone? - Jimmy Durante
  9. No wonder nobody comes here; it’s too crowded. - Yogi Berra
  10. Eighty percent of life is showing up. - Woody Allen
  11. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens. - George Washington
  12. Don’t show people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General Patton (I first heard it from Mr. Anderson on Beavis and Butt-head.)
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Favorite quotations.

  1. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. What’s the point of being grown up if you can’t be childish now and then? - Fourth Doctor (as portrayed by Tom Baker)
  3. Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more. - Dorothy Gale (The Wizard Of Oz)
  4. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - Hanlon’s Razor
  5. I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - attrib. to Voltaire
  6. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein
  7. 90% of everything is crap. - Theodore Sturgeon
  8. Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone? - Jimmy Durante
  9. No wonder nobody comes here; it’s too crowded. - Yogi Berra
  10. Eighty percent of life is showing up. - Woody Allen
  11. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens. - George Washington
  12. Don’t show people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General Patton
  13. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. - William Butler Yeats

The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sybil’s mother
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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sybil’s mother
  5. Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sybil’s mother
  5. Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
  6. Margaret White, Carrie
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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sybil’s mother
  5. Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
  6. Margaret White, Carrie
  7. The mom–and *her *mom–from Flowers In The Attic
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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sybil’s mother
  5. Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
  6. Margaret White, Carrie
  7. The mom–and *her *mom–from Flowers In The Attic
  8. Billy Bibbit’s mom in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (never seen onscreen but referred to many times)
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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sybil’s mother
  5. Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
  6. Margaret White, Carrie
  7. The mom–and *her *mom–from Flowers In The Attic
  8. Billy Bibbit’s mom in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (never seen onscreen but referred to many times)
  9. Madea (the one in Euripides’ play and not the Tyler Perry creation)
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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sybil’s mother
  5. Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
  6. Margaret White, Carrie
  7. The mom–and her mom–from Flowers In The Attic
  8. Billy Bibbit’s mom in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (never seen onscreen but referred to many times)
  9. Madea (the one in Euripides’ play and not the Tyler Perry creation)
  10. Mrs. Wormwood (Matilda’s mom)
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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sybil’s mother
  5. Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
  6. Margaret White, Carrie
  7. The mom–and her mom–from Flowers In The Attic
  8. Billy Bibbit’s mom in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (never seen onscreen but referred to many times)
  9. Madea (the one in Euripides’ play and not the Tyler Perry creation)
  10. Mrs. Wormwood (Matilda’s mom)
    11 Norma Bates, from Psycho

(The one in Euripides’ play is Medea.)

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Typo duly noted and corrected.

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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sybil’s mother
  5. Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
  6. Margaret White, Carrie
  7. The mom–and her mom–from Flowers In The Attic
  8. Billy Bibbit’s mom in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (never seen onscreen but referred to many times)
  9. Medea (the one in Euripides’ play and not the Tyler Perry creation)
  10. Mrs. Wormwood (Matilda’s mom)
    11 Norma Bates, from Psycho
  11. Ungoliant, from The Silmarillion

A huge and evil spider, and mother of many other spiders.

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The Worst Mothers in Fiction

  1. Livia Soprano
  2. Mrs. Iselin, in The Manchurian Candidate
  3. The Other Mother, in Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  4. Sybil’s mother
  5. Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
  6. Margaret White, Carrie
  7. The mom–and her mom–from Flowers In The Attic
  8. Billy Bibbit’s mom in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (never seen onscreen but referred to many times)
  9. Medea (the one in Euripides’ play and not the Tyler Perry creation)
  10. Mrs. Wormwood (Matilda’s mom)
    11 Norma Bates, from Psycho
  11. Ungoliant, from The Silmarillion
  12. Ma Mattulich, The Mountains of Mourning

I’ll pass.

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New: Name a famous person, group, or work of art with a flower in its name.

  1. Green Carnation.
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Name a famous person, group, or work of art with a flower in its name.

  1. Green Carnation.
  2. Pete Rose