The only way that would be true is if we were talking about cannibal centipedes, and then it’d only be theoretical. There are very few things I’d less rather have in my house than centipedes, and if they want to be let be, or left alive, they must stay out of there. Centipedes are venomous and aggressive, didn’t you know that?
You have never seen the letter “E.” You have only seen graphic representations of it.
Hell, my vision is so bad that I can barely see the chart at the eye doctor let alone the “E.”
I don’t have the time or energy to ponder the Platonic Ideal of “E”. The graphic representation is more than adequate for my purposes.
There is an expression in the UK - “E by gum”
I think that says it all.
Spit out that gum, young lady! ![]()
We all tell new parents how cute their newborns are, but the fact is, every newborn baby looks like Winston Churchill.
I personally think they all look like Dwight D. Eisenhower. But yeah, that.
My wife wouldn’t let me put Churchill’s picture on our baby announcement…
“That’s ok, hon, I’ve got Yoda as a backup!”
Hey, today’s your birthday. So how old are you?
That’s my contribution to the thread; no need to respond. ![]()
I’m tree-an-a-haff years old.
As old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.
I’m 37, I’m not old.
What was the question?
It’s poor form to determine age by cutting in half and counting rings unless you are a tree; maybe even then.
The Olympics and most sports championships are mainly about money and politics and so is much else.
The best time to visit most crowded tourist attractions was years in the past.
Balthasar Gracian, a very wise man, said the key to popularity was to figure out your country’s “natural defect” and strongly display the opposite qualities. He was wrong.
“This <crowded tourist attraction> would be much more popular if it wasn’t so crowded”
And the variant Yogi-ism: “Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded.”
The first time I went to St Martin with my gf I went to breakfast before she was ready, figuring I’d enjoy a bloody and some coffee while waiting for her. The waitress (who we’d met the previous day) came to the table and asked, “will your wife be joining you?”
I answered, “I sure hope not, I don’t even think she knows I’m here!”
Technically I was correct, as my divorce was pending.
Every time I go overseas, I find the experience marred by tourists.
This is NOT a pipe.
That reminds of another Yogi-ism that is technically true:
“If you don’t go to THEIR funeral, they won’t come to YOURS.”
Speaking of old quotes you should NOT say out loud…
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”
Many years ago, either Popular Science or Popular Mechanics magazine had a few paragraphs about a new graphics rendering algorithm that promised much better resolution in smaller files. The article was accompanied by a picture of a rose. But the article also stated “This is not a picture from the new algorithm, it was not available in time for publication. So this is a picture of an actual rose.”
Any second-year philosophy class should be able to turn that statement into a week’s discussion…