No, no, corporations have plenty of dicks, that’s not a great way to disprove you aren’t one.
Corporations also have plenty of humans, so how can I prove I’m not one such human doing the corporation’s bidding in participating in this “messaging board”?
There should be a Turing test for corporations.
Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth…there is no spoon. Then you will see it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Probably not
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/25/comedy-plus/
It doesn’t really sound like Twain.
You remind me of my husband. I always tell him, “Stop ruining my funny stories with the truth!”
I accidentally bought nose-cancelling headphones and now my glasses just slip right down my flat face.
Cum on feel the noze
Girls rock your Bose
How did you know which brand they were? Are you surveilling me?
Sorry about that.
My suspicion is aroused any time I see a quote attributed to Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Abe Lincoln, Plato, or other such folks famed for their epigrams. A lot of the time the quotation doesn’t even seem close to their style.
I gotta add, though, it’s not as if I’m spoiling a joke “Humor is tragedy plus time” isn’t , by itself, funny. I don’t even think it’s really true. Something tragic from a long time ago doesn’t become funny just because of the passage of time – it’s still tragic. It’s just that you can get away with joking about it after the sting of familiarity has lessened. People were making jokes about the Johnstown Flood by the 1920s, less than forty years after the fact. But the jokes consisted of more than just stating facts about the tragedy.
My late mother and I used to get into arguments about the nature of humor. She held that humor was the result of ‘delighted surprise’ whereas I held that humor was a form of uncritical disappointment: If presented with scenario A + B (man, banana peel) you can expect C to follow (man slips on banana peel). When D happens (man is hit by falling piano before he can step on banana peel), we are disappointed but not in a way that arouses ire. This is why obvious puns and telegraphed jokes are met with derision and impatience – the payoff becomes expected; there is no room for disappointment.