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Connotation. 1. a. The configuration of suggestive or associative implications consitiuting the general sense of an abstract espression beyond its literal, explicit sense. b. A secondary meaning suggested by a word in addition to its literal meaning. 3. Logic The total of the attributes constituting the meaning of a term.

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4.29.2005

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western
spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly
insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so
amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has Ð or rather had Ð a problem, which was this: most of the
people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were
suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the
movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it
wasnÕt the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. 10
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of
them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that theyÕd all made a big mistake in
coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees
had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. 15
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been
nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a
change, a girl sitting on her own in a small cafŽ in Rickmansworth suddenly
realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew
how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it 20
would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a
terrible stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost for ever.
This is not her story.
But it is the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its conse-
quences.
It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitch HikerÕs Guide to the
Galaxy Ð not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the terrible
catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman.
Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.
In fact it was probably the most remarkable book ever to come out of the
great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor Ð of which no Earthman had ever
heard either.
Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one Ð
more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty- 35
three More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon
ColluphidÕs trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some
More of GodÕs Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of
the Galaxy, the Hitch HikerÕs Guide has already supplanted the great
Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom,
for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at
least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two
important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DONÕT
PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
But the story of this terrible, stupid Thursday, the story of its extraor-dinary
consequences, and the story of how these consequences are inextricably
intertwined with this remarkable book begins very simply.
It begins with a house.

Douglas Adams, The Hitch HikerÕs Guide to the Galaxy,
A Trilogy in Five Parts, London, Heinemann, 1995, pp. 15-16

--Posted by a. on Friday, April 29, 2005.

Doomsayers: Pope fits World End Prophecy

???

--Posted by s. on Friday, April 29, 2005.

4.28.2005

Es ist meine politische Einsicht, nichts zu tun.

From Friedrich DŸrrenmatt's "Romulus der Gro§e"

--Posted by s. on Thursday, April 28, 2005.

Guess who's getting Tiger tomorrow??

Yep. Really cheap, too.

--Posted by s. on Thursday, April 28, 2005.

I wept because I had no answers, until I met a man who had no questions.

--Posted by s. on Thursday, April 28, 2005.

4.27.2005

.... then suddenly I had the answer. Insanity. Insanity would solve it all. Of course there was the problem Martha, but that could be sloved later. I'd known from the begining my life would be useful. That's why I've killed myself you many times. Never did it occur to me that I'd wind up in a place like this, with people like this. It was just too much to ask. Yes insanity was the way to go. I knew of course it could be tricky. Entering people's mind wasn't something recommended by the FDA. Still it was a risk that had to be taken. The coup was off and I was only one left to take on this monster. Yet I felt that I might as well give up. My friends gone, my love life in pieces and the goverment wanted my dog. But if everyone was insane I could easily convince Anna that engagment was the way to go. But that would all come later. So insanity was the only solution.....

--Posted by a. on Wednesday, April 27, 2005.

4.26.2005

So, to return to something I've mentioned before, I watched the Willy Wonka trailer. And it looks really good. Except for the very very last little bit. Which seems unnecessary.

Nonetheless, I'm getting more and more excited about seeing this movie.

--Posted by s. on Tuesday, April 26, 2005.

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country -- if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country ... or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy provided, of course, that they are not Republicans.

11.The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

12.None of these are read by the guy who is running the country into the ground.

--Posted by s. on Tuesday, April 26, 2005.

So, sometimes it scares me when I think what would happen if our current PATRIOT-act-happy government had access to some of Google's technology.

They have a new feature, "Search History", which keeps track of what you've been looking for and what pages you've been to, including when you were there. All for your convenience, of course.

It's just a little scary.

--Posted by s. on Tuesday, April 26, 2005.

4.25.2005

Old pirates yes they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I from the
Bottom less pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation triumphantly
All I ever had is songs of freedom
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had redemption songs, redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs, redemption songs, redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Yes some say it's just part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
All I ever had, redemption songs
These songs of freedom, songs of freedom

--Posted by s. on Monday, April 25, 2005.

4.24.2005

Situation: "The Dating Game"

Contestant asks Bachelor #1 the question, "Where would you take me for a dream date?"

Bachelor #1, who is supposed to be FDR, responds, "Well, some say I can't vacation very well, but I can turn on a dime. . .hmm. . .for a dream date, . . .I would take you somewhere in the Hawaiian islands. It would be a date that will live in infamy."

--Posted by s. on Sunday, April 24, 2005.

4.23.2005

I have the best intentions of writing a nice memorial to our good friend Bill, but I just not in that mood.
I'm in a Luttwak mood, in an Adams mood, in a Dahl mood.
Excuse me, modern literature calls...

--Posted by a. on Saturday, April 23, 2005.

I frequently have ideas about posts that pop into my mind. They beg for attention and sometimes I grant it to them and sometimes I sweep them aside.

However the following tripped me into "jotting this down" as the phrase sometimes goes.

What if we considered everything in the world around us at one instance. Quickly, try it. Think of my sitting at the computer and think of the extended physical distance I am away from you. Multiply that by a constant (u) for the number of people doing that very same thing around the world (or the USA if you must be that patriotic). It is absolutely amazing. Think about....errata. FEEL (in addition to think) the conditions other people regard as their own: An elderly man with no family who loves to watch the birds from his assisted living window (x100+), a couple being united in a wedding, someone touring the Vietnam War Memorial, someone stepping off a plane from Houston to Kansas City and buying coffee.........measure the mental distance and realize the simultaneous action that impowers and fuels this world.

This whole concept can be taken to a much greater level but must be done in moderation in order to prevent catastrophic system dysfunction (if you will).

It is just the kind of thing that HIXSON scholars do when they have a spare moment!

--Dr. Henry Parsons
ISU 2005 Hixson Scholar
Certified Speech Judge

--Posted by Kelly D. Norris on Saturday, April 23, 2005.

4.22.2005

are YOU the very model of a modern Major-General??

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
Cucumbers are vegetables; animals can move, sometimes; mineral water tastes yucky
I know the kings of EnglandNo, and I quote the fights historical,
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categoricalin no order whatsoever;
I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,yes
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news---Afraid not
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenusecheerful? no.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,umm...I know the difference between integral and differential calculus. thatÕs something
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;No, but I could make them up in pig latin
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's,IÕve heard of King Arthur. I donÕt have any idea who Sir Caradoc is.
I answer hard acrosticsyes, I've a pretty taste for paradoxyes,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalusumm...no,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parablousagain, no.
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffaniesno,
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanesno, but i have read it, in translation,
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinaforeno, and no.

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiformMaybe I can. Could you tell?,
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniformno;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"no,
When I can tell at sight a chassep™t rifle from a javelinyeah, i think so,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat"keine Ahnung,
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunneryI hope not,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunneryWhat, for the love of pete, is this suggesting??:
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategywhatever,
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee---

For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventuryPlucky, yes, Adventury, no,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the centurybut that was only 5 years ago, and we havenÕt made many military advances since then;
But still in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

I guess not

--Posted by s. on Friday, April 22, 2005.

4.21.2005

These are very good reasons to never get involved with attorneys or the courts!

These are from a book called "Disorder in the American Courts" and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

Q: Are you sexually active?
A: No, I just lie there.
__________________________________

Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 15th.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
______________________________________

Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
______________________________________

Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.
_____________________________________

Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.
_____________________________________

Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
A: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
___________________________________

Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
A: Yes.
Q: And what were you doing at that time?
______________________________________

Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?
______________________________________

Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?
______________________________________

Q: Can you describe the individual?
A: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Q: Was this a male, or a female?
______________________________________

Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
______________________________________

Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
_____________________________________

Q: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
A: Oral.
______________________________________

Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.
______________________________________

Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
_____________________________________

Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.

--Posted by a. on Thursday, April 21, 2005.

Da Jesus Book:

A Pidgin English version of the New Testament, written for those whose native (Or most understood, at least) tongue is Pidgin English.

The Lord's prayer as recorded in Da Jesus Book:
God, you our Fadda.
You stay inside da sky.
We like all da peopo know fo shua how you stay,
An dat you stay good an spesho,
An we like dem give you plenny respeck.
We like you come King fo everybody now.
We like everybody make jalike you like,
Ova hea inside da world,
Jalike da angel guys up inside da sky make jalike you like.
Give us da food we need fo today an every day.
Hemmo our shame, an let us go
Fo all da kine bad stuff we do to you,
Jalike us guys let da odda guys go awready,
And we no stay huhu wit dem
Fo all da kine bad stuff dey do to us.
No let us get chance fo do bad kine stuff,
But take us outa dea, so da Bad Guy no can hurt us.
Cuz you our King.
You get da real power,
An you stay awesome foeva.
Dass it!

--Posted by s. on Thursday, April 21, 2005.

4.20.2005

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother/Sister Inspired Boomerang of Contemplation. What's yours?

--Posted by s. on Wednesday, April 20, 2005.

what sort of person would be walking outside on a nice spring day and have the sort of thoughts that practically forced them to look up the word 'androgynous' just as soon as they could find a dictionary?

--Posted by s. on Wednesday, April 20, 2005.

4.19.2005

Well. Quite a day. Not only is it SOMEBODY's birthday, but also we have a new pope.

I don't think that I'd care as much if I were catholic.

hee hee.

--Posted by s. on Tuesday, April 19, 2005.

4.18.2005

Wow

--Posted by s. on Monday, April 18, 2005.

4.17.2005

Used to have a red guitar
'Till I smashed it one drunk night
Smashed in the classic form
As Peter Townshend might
Threw it in the fireplace
I left it there a while
Kate she started cryin when
She saw my sorry smile

Red guitar was made of wood
Could not take the heat
Red guitar it caught on fire
And the damage was complete
It burned until all that was left
Was six pegs and six strings
Kate she said, "You are a fool
You've done a foolish thing"

Placed the remains in the case
And I put the case away
Went to New York City
For a new guitar the next day
I bought myself a blonde guitar
I had it for three days
Some junkie stole my blonde guitar
God works in wonderous ways

--Posted by s. on Sunday, April 17, 2005.

Cause all the cool kids are doing it. . .
Feel free to join in.

You are stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book would you be?
[Note: In the novel to save the content of books people memorized one in order to pass the content on to others.]

Fahrenheit 451. Which may be somewhat like going back in time and killing your own grandmother or something. But that's ok, I like recursion.

If that doesn't count (because by definition F-451 couldn't exist for me to memorize until after i had started to memorize it), then Nabokov's Lolita

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

Joyce's Stephen Dedalus (A Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses). And I still do.

What is the last book you bought?

Heaven Has No Favorites, Erich Maria Remarque

What are you currently reading?

Dhammapada, The Sayings of Buddha
Microworlds, Stanislaw Lem

Five books for your desert island cruise package.
1. Le Ton beau de Marot - Douglas Hofstadter

2. Ulysses - James Joyce

3. .The Annotated Alice - Lewis Carroll/Martin Gardner

4. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke

5. Life: A User's Manual - Georges Perec (even though I haven't read it yet)

--Posted by s. on Sunday, April 17, 2005.

4.16.2005

Quick Poll:

There are two movies coming out late spring/early summer, that I don't know what to do with.

Firstly the "Hitchhiker's Guide" movie in early May;

Secondly "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in June.

Will either of these be good?

Will either of these be phenomenal?

Will either of these be worth watching?

(Personally, I'm feeling better about "Charlie" than "Hitchhiker's". The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp combination has worked effectively before. Depp isn't Gene Wilder, but he might be able to pull it off anyway.

--Posted by s. on Saturday, April 16, 2005.

Today is the birthday of Charlie Chaplin.
I would request a moment of silence, but since he is always thought of as a silent man, and I know you want to, go ahead and respect him with a minute or two of noise.

--Posted by a. on Saturday, April 16, 2005.

4.15.2005

Umm. Happy Da Vinci day, I guess.

The worst compliment (maybe a pick-up line also) that I've heard in the past three days:

Do you have an inner ear problem? Cause, you know, you ROCK.

--Posted by s. on Friday, April 15, 2005.

4.14.2005

I am writing an essay about collected stories of Wolfgang Borchert.

My title is:

Wolfgang Borchert und der Ich-ErzŠhler: MŠnner ohne Namen.

Sometimes I surprise myself

--Posted by s. on Thursday, April 14, 2005.

Someone is missing out on a big tourism-boosting slogan, I think.

Why is it that the state south of Iowa doesn't use what I would think would be the most obvious state motto?

"Missouri loves Company"

Heh. It's an invitation and a bad pun all rolled into one. I wouldn't go to Missouri because of this slogan, but I would definitely wear a t-shirt with it on it.

oh well.

--Posted by s. on Thursday, April 14, 2005.

4.13.2005

Well, maybe the problem is actually something to do with political correctness.
and making things nice.
and making people comfortable.

Is it better to say what you think is true regardless of how it makes other people feel?
Or to get along with most people most of the time?

Don't try to answer this question yet. Let it sink in.

Maybe sometimes it is better if the truth remains hidden?

"Do these pants make me look fat?"

--Posted by s. on Wednesday, April 13, 2005.

Growing old is madatory.

Growing up is optional!

--Posted by a. on Wednesday, April 13, 2005.

I love apples.

--Posted by s. on Wednesday, April 13, 2005.

4.12.2005

Once the search is in progress, something will be found

Because on the master list of musicians that I like,
Brian Eno is closer to the top (George Harrison)
than to the bottom (mmm - Barry Manilow.)

Hmmm...maybe I should make that list.

Sounds like a good procrastination project.

--Posted by s. on Tuesday, April 12, 2005.

"The Holy Sprit intended to teach us in the Bible how to go to Heaven, not how the heavens go."

"By my remarkable observations, the sky was opened a hundred or a thousand times wider than anything seen by the learned of all the past centuries. Now, that sky is diminished for me to a space no greater than that which is occupied by my own body."

Galileo

--Posted by a. on Tuesday, April 12, 2005.

4.11.2005

real Eyes
Realize
Real Lies

--Posted by s. on Monday, April 11, 2005.

4.10.2005

I wonder if our problems started with Ben Franklin.

"But why?", you ask. . .

"God helps those who help themselves."

Cause THAT's the American dream. And it makes the individual be the most important. Which is dangerous. Because when I start thinking that I am exceptionally important as an individual I run the risk of becoming proud of myself.

Have you noticed how pride is considered a virtue in American culture? Odd. Not long ago it was one of the seven deadly sins. . .

How can a nation that is so perverted honestly demand (because, yes "God bless America has become a command, not a request) God's blessing? Americans are somehow exempt from the wrath of God - because we're civilized people, nice people, democratic people. We kind of think we get to pick and choose what we will punish as "sins" like we get to pick and choose our salad dressing. And that's a sure sign of pride. And if there's one thing I remember from sunday school, it's that in God's eyes, sins vary in degree, perhaps, but not in kind. Thusly pride is just as terrible as a sin as murder. or anything else that those people we call "EVANGELICALS" blame the rest of us of to make themselves feel more righteous.

America is at best perhaps no farther from God's ideals than any other civilization, but she certainly isn't significantly closer.

--Posted by s. on Sunday, April 10, 2005.

So many books, so little time.

(also not enough money)

--Posted by s. on Sunday, April 10, 2005.

I want a sonic screwdriver.
There very useful for a number of things: breaking out of jail cells, fixing the hyper-scematic converting generator, and makeing a nice cup of hot tea (I've never heard of people playing cricket with one, but I'm sure it could be done).
Someone needs to get me a sonic screwdriver.
There not hard to find.
Every good hardware store of the twenty-third century ought to have one.

--Posted by a. on Sunday, April 10, 2005.

4.09.2005

More. . .

1. EugŽne Ionesco is my new hero. Because I just saw a play he wrote, "The Bald Soprano", and it was abso-frickin-lutely awesome. Well done, of course, but amazing (albeit inane) dialogue.

2. Amazon.com is pretty much an addiction for me:

From reviews of "Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead":

In this play, the two titular characters are fleshed out to be absurdly, and comically, inept in some ways, and very human and sympathetic in others. They play at deep thought, and this play is meant to lead the audience into musings that aren't necessarily articulated on the stage.

The humor is very off the wall, reminiscent of both Waiting for Godot, to which its often compared, and certain parts of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy.
***
You can analyze the existentialist implications until your brain hurts, or just enjoy it for its "Laurel and Hardy" comedy

3. I really don't like the kind of people who only write reviews for products that they feel deserve no stars. That's a very negative outlook. . .

--Posted by s. on Saturday, April 09, 2005.

'Cause it's my blog, and I can be random if i want!!

1. Hallelujah. I first heard Rufus Wainright's version (on Shrek), but Jeff Buckley's version is as good, maybe better (although about a minute too long). Bob Dylan also covered the song. Which is pretty ecletic.

2. Movies: If you are an "Eternal sunshine"-type person, try Garden State.
I really like "I <3 Huckabees", and I didn't think I would before I saw it. The soundtrack is pretty awesome.
I was dragged to see "Closer" last night. It's terrible. Don't watch it.
Watched a documentary, "Sound and Fury", for class. It's pretty cool, and it's about deaf people.

3. Plays: Am going to see Ionesco's "Bald Soprano" tonight. And looking forward to it. 'Cause theatre isn't theatre if it isn't absurd.

4. Books: Am reading Joyce's "Portrait". A good book. But only for intellectual snobs, I believe.

5. A saying from the Buddha: "'I have sons, I have wealth' - the fool suffers thinking thus. Even one's self is not one's own; how then sons, how then wealth?"

6. Why am I doing this????? Why do I not do something more productive????

--Posted by s. on Saturday, April 09, 2005.

Happy Birthday TOM LEHRER!

The omnipotent satirist was born this day in 1928 in New York City.

On another less important note it is the birthday of former U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright that man whose name is associated with one of the most prestigious honors an American scholar can receive, the Fulbright Scholarship.

--Dr. Henry Parsons
Certified Speech Judge
Executive Director, United Speeching Society-American Chapter (USS-America)
VVIIPPAA
UPICN, LLC
CKDLDKSOALMLDJOR (figure that one out)

--Posted by Kelly D. Norris on Saturday, April 09, 2005.

4.07.2005

Items on my Amazon Wish List that are "not currently available":

*Alice in Many Tongues: The Translation of Alice in Wonderland
*Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature
*Oulipo Compendium
*Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind brings Mathematics into Being
*The Pleasure of Finding Things Out and the Meaning of It all.
*Henze: Sechs GesŠnge aus dem Arabischen; Three Auden songs.
*Wonders of Numbers: Adventures of Math, Mind, and Meaning
*"Exterminate All the Brutes
*I tell you a mystery: Life, Death, and Eternity
*Aha, Gotcha! Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight
*A Bawdy Language
*The Definitive Guide to Underground Humor: Quaint Quotes About Death, Funny Funeral Home Stories and Hilarious Headstone Epitaphs
*Literary Trivia: Fun and Games for Book Lovers
*Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

I wish I wasn't quite so eclectic. . .

--Posted by s. on Thursday, April 07, 2005.

Is this scary??

I think so. . .

--Posted by s. on Thursday, April 07, 2005.

4.06.2005

Ou-Li-Po

--Posted by s. on Wednesday, April 06, 2005.

So. . .I went to this Catholic Church. . .And there was this guy there 'oo said 'e was a bishop.

I know he was lying, though, 'cause he didn't move diagonally even once.

--Posted by s. on Wednesday, April 06, 2005.

4.04.2005

I want the book Species of Spaces by Georges Perec.

Someone ought to buy it for me.

--Posted by s. on Monday, April 04, 2005.

I think that "Pope's body moved" probably gets my vote for funniest headline of the year.

That may be just my Gary-Larson sense of humor, though. . .

--Posted by s. on Monday, April 04, 2005.

4.02.2005

Well. Five out of six Yahoo! news headlines are about the Pope.

The sixth is about daylight savings time.

--Posted by s. on Saturday, April 02, 2005.