Ah, they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays.”
Beer is the mind killer. Beer is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the beer has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Frank Herbert
“Love is all you seed”
The Beatles
Do unto others as they hath done unto you - Arthur Daley
A whore! A whore! My kingdom for a whore!
640 billion dollars ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates
I am not a Chinook. - Tricky Dick
I refuse to belong to any club that will accept my member. - Groucho Marx
Vini vidi VISA™
I came (to the mall)
I saw (all the Xmas gifts for Lobsang)
I charged it (to an account I set up with a stolen identity)
Vini, vidi, Venti
(I came, I saw, I ordered a cup of coffee–large)
Tripler
That’s about all I can think of at 1:40AM.
Winston Churchill was chastised for being drunk by Lady Astor, “Sir you’re drunk!” which drew his famous riposte “Fuck off.”
Veni, vidi, vinci.
[I came, I saw, I painted]
Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC)
“Do you feel plucky?”
“where there’s a will, there’s always somebody around to break it”
“don’t get mad, get evil.”
…
For he who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is in battle slain
Can never rise and fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith: The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.
(Oops… wrong button :smack: must…not…drink Budweiser…at…lunchtime…)
For he who drinks and runs away
May live to drink another day;
But he who is in pissed and on floor lain
Can never rise and drink again.
Oliver Goldsmith: The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.
Well, that made me spit my large cup of coffee over the monitor
I may just have top adopt that as a sig.
“AskNott what your country can do for you. He doesn’t know the answer, but AskNott anyway. Maybe he can show you where to look it up.”
–Jonn Fitzgerald Kennedy, US president, forcibly retired