Friday, July 11th, 2008
“Just look at this obviously innovative design . . . I am so thrilled just thinking about how I get to touch this.”
(via Angie)
Talk about using every cliché in the book…
Friday, June 6th, 2008“Kick ass! If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff…it’s not even close! It is a mindset! We can’t send that message! It’s an excuse to prepare us for the withdrawal! This is a series of moments and this is one of them! Our will is being tested but we are resolute! We have a better way! Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking! ”
Friday, June 6th, 2008
“It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase ‘As pretty as an airport’ appear.”
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
“I always say, ‘Come to America, go to community college and marry a Kennedy.’ It’s all very simple”
(via Susan)
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
“Mrs. Clinton, we’re assured by sources right and left, tortures puppies and eats babies. But her policy proposals continue to be surprisingly bold and progressive.”
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
“And I’ll have a vanilla . . . one of the ‘vanilla bullshit’ things. You know, whatever you want . . . some ‘vanilla bullshit latte cappa-thing’. You know, whatever you got. I don’t care.”
Friday, March 28th, 2008
“‘Platypus’? I thought it was pronounced ‘platymapus.’ Has it always been pronounced ‘platypus’? ”
Quote of the Week
Friday, February 22nd, 2008“Of course that one thing we all should have learned as children is if there’s something you want with all of your heart - with every fiber of your being - you’re certain not to get it.”
Quote of the Week
Thursday, February 14th, 2008“[It] is chemistry – or biology – it has nothing to do with hearts and flowers and the like. We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real, it is a complete and total failing of the intellect. It is utter self-destruction. It is pandemonium.”
Happy F%#ing Valentine’s Day
Quote of the Week
Friday, February 1st, 2008“Love is the world’s worst seeing-eye dog.”
Quote of the Week
Saturday, January 26th, 2008“How many of you own a self-help book? That’s your first problem. You can’t help yourself, because yourself sucks. If you’re helping yourself, that means you’re being helped by a complete asshole.”
Quote of the Week
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008“The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. . . But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.”
A Black Christmas
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Christmas can often be painfully upbeat: the nauseating repetition of the same 10 Christmas songs played in every store and business, the same 10 cherished Christmas movies playing on a continuous loop on television for 3 weeks solid, and cheerful dingbats wearing Santa hats in public as early as mid-November.
Last year, friend, Blogadilla reader, and Finnish goddess Elina sent me this fine quote from novelist Neil Gaiman, which helps to balance the equation:
“Nicholas was… older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.
The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own twittering tongue, and conducted incomprehensible rituals when they were not actually working in the factories.
Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, and leave one of the dwarves’ invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time.
He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.
Ho. Ho. Ho.”
Comment Spam
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Here on Blogadilla, and on most blogs I’m sure, we’re flooded with comment spam. Fortunately, we have Akismet to handle it, which usually does a great job. Nevertheless, a few spam comments slip through to moderation here and there, and a few legitimate comments make it into the spam filter, so I have to check it periodically.
Most spam comments are relatively standard in appearance, with links to sites where you can buy prescription drugs illegally, or enlarge your penis, etc. I’ve always thought these looked all goofy, and for someone to click on them, they’d have to be somewhat of a halfwit. I’m not sure of the exact economics of spam, but one can be sure that it must be effective on some level, or else spam would cease to exist.
Just today, however, my attitude toward spam changed, as I found a new spam derivative: ‘witty-quote spam.’ Sure, the email addresses and sites linked to are similar to the aforementioned spam comments, but at least in this case, the spammers are giving me something: witty quotes. I’ll spare you the link for pirated software or val1um, but here are a few of the good ones I got, just today:
“To the Honourable Member opposite I say, when he goes home tonight, may his mother run out from under the porch and bark at him” — John G Diefenbaker
“A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree” — Spike Milligan
“Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff” — Steven Wright
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away” — Philip K Dick
“I would have made a good Pope” — Richard Nixon