June 18, 2004

• Thatcher was a stupid bitch. When she dies, a lot of British people will be turning her grave into a very marshy condition indeed, there'll be lines of queues to piss on it.
• Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. --Lily Tomlin
• For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots. --Henry David Thoreau Great, time-eating site...
• Nice link.
• I'm a lady.
• I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. --Woody Allen
• Nostrildamus: I save my grave-piss for my true enemies and nemesi, rather than politicians as remote from my existence and as casual in their wrath as God is. Would dousing Thatcher's obelisk register the merest sense of recompense in your soul? But yet: to drown an enemy's casket in steaming amber, surely that fills the soul with a gladness and glorious heat as to make the victories of common sport pale stars on the horizon.
• While I have similar sentiments towards the Iron Lady as Nos, that is a damn good quote. And I can't help but admire her for the way that she made the world take a woman politician seriously, which Canadian politicians don't seem able to. It's just such a shame that she chose to use her power for evil rather than good. But then, if Mary Walsh (of 22 Minutes) ever decided to go into politics, I think she could make everyone sit up and listen to her, especially dressed as "Marg, Warrior Princess".
• Fes, are you going for inclusion on this list? :-) That was eminently quotable, that was... Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn
• Gal-darnit, Mr. Fes, you use your tongue prettier than a 20-dollar whore.
• Thanks, gents. The benefits (and vanity) of a classical education. you use your tongue prettier than a 20-dollar whore Ah, now that reminds me of a tale from my days at Joliet... :D
• Maturity is knowing that just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean he's a horse's ass. --Harry S Truman Great post, Alnedra.
• Nostradilmus: you're going to spoil my fun. I was planning on dancing on the bitch's grave ... but now I'm likely to get mud on my shoes! "... In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law." She had no love of liberty, except for her friends and total contempt for the rule of law
• You will, Oscar— you will.
• I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Such a choice may scandalise the modern reader, and he may stretch out his patriotic hand to the telephone and ring up the police. It would not have shocked Dante, though. Dante placed Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle of Hell because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caesar rather than their country Rome. --E.M. Forster Thought this was appropriate.
• "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" - last words of General John Sedgwick
• Actually I don't think Forster's entirely right about Dante. The Fourth Division of the Ninth Circle, the Judecca, holds traitors to their "Lords". Nevertheless, traitors to their friends are punished "further down" in Ptolomaea when compared with the traitors to their country, in Antenora.
• "Would dousing Thatcher's obelisk register the merest sense of recompense in your soul?" A mere symbolic gesture. But yes, yes it would. "..you're going to spoil my fun. I was planning on dancing on the bitch's grave ... but now I'm likely to get mud on my shoes!" They've thought of this. She's gonna be put somewhere like Westminster Abbey. In fact, I think they are gonna put her under a great weight of stone .. mainly so that she never comes back to life and claws her way outa there. I'm sure we'll still have our micturating and terpsichorean fun. /bows
• "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another." "There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." -- All from my one and only true hero, Frank Zappa. And he had a million of 'em.
• Didn't know, that, quidnunc. I must shamefully admit that I haven't read Dante -- yet. But that quote from Forster always stuck with me, and strikes me as the perfect argument against ranking patriotism above all other virtues. Well, more an exhortation than rigorous argument, but you know what I'm saying.
• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Whether you believe it or not, that's beautiful. Great post.
• Dude looked like a lady ...
• pleased to see lots of GK Chesterton, though not my favourite: "There is more simplicity in a man who eats caviar on impulse than grape nuts on principle" -- a wonderful inducement to spontaneous hedonism. great link - I love such collections.
• No matter where you go, there you are. -Buckaroo Banzai
• Every crowd has a silver lining. -- P.T. Barnum
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