Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up?
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We found this quotation for fans of This Is Spinal Tap: As far as I'm concerned, going from ten to eleven is like an unbridgeable chasm. You understand: ten was fine, ... so many things could happen for the better. But not with eleven, because to say eleven is already to say twelve for sure, and ... twelve would be thirteen. —Julio Cortázar, "Letter to a Young Lady in Paris" |
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Here's a fun observation from the folks at Strange Maps: Rorschach inkblot tests were named after the Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach, who devised the first such test in 1921. Mr Rorschach's family name derives from an eponymous Swiss town, on the southern shore of Lake Constance. A map of Rorschach unfortunately only demonstrates that it looks like nothing at all. --- NH writes: A pity that Rorschach hadn't hailed, in an eponymous way, from Mörschwil.
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Did you hear that Dante's epic journey through Hell to Purgatory to Heaven was merely Alighieri-cal? |
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"Another, who looked like a huge Swede, had empty watery eyes, and a face like a bathtub." — Lauren Gilfillan, I Went to Pit College, 1934
Photo via fffound. --- Jeff writes: Heh. I don't know how you managed to find a photo of uncle Guano. My mother said he'd been eaten by buzzards off the cape of Batmandu, but you can't always trust your mother, or mine.
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Q. What did the carpenter say when invited into the cabinet makers' union? A. Thanks, but I'm not really a joiner. — Jonathan Caws-Elwitt |
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I graduated Sumac Cumin Ledum from the Culinary Academy. Jonathan responds: ConGRANULATIONS!
June adds: My cinnamons exactly!
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All the members of the orchestra date one another. But I don't know if anyone has made it to third bass yet. ---
Gary Barwin writes, Which reminds of that terrible joke:
Playing music
Last summer, the local orchestra decided to play Beethoven's 9th symphony.
However, it being quite hot, the players were working up quite a sweat, until a neighbor let them use the ventilators in her house.
However, the wind from these ventilators was causing the notes to blow all over the place, so they had to tie them down to the note holders.
The din from the ventilators was so bad that the bassists decided it didn't matter if they downed a few drinks and got royally drunk.
Two of the bassists got so drunk that they passed out.
One of the violinists, in disgust, decided to go home but slipped and fell.
Thus, it was the bottom of the 9th, the bassists were loaded, the score was tied with two men out, and the fans were roaring wild when one of the players slid home.
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It's now known that ancient Chinese builders used sticky rice as mortar, and that was the secret of their structures' longevity. But did you know that the bricks they used were made of sugar? The proof is in the pudding. |
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