"Corporate America loves experts, and pays dearly for their expertise.  This may surprise you—have you ever considered becoming an information expert in a small area?"
—Michael Geraghty, Anybody Can Negotiate—Even You! (2006)

Prof. Oddfellow sends greetings from the "Other Side."

Imagine a game of "What's My Line," in which either a cherub or an imp whispers into a blindfolded panelist's ear.

Are the following whispered words of an angelic or a diabolical nature?




Answer: Angelic. ""Where there's a will there's a way,' his angel whispered.” —Eddie Stack, The West, 2010, p. 112. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)

"Believe it or not, money isn't all that it's cracked up to be."
—Lee Goldberg, Mr. Monk in Outer Space

"Don't take this the wrong way, but from everything you've told me, it sounds like other than dark movie theaters, you don't exactly have a scene."
—Robin Palmer, Geek Charming

Yes, you may . . . on one condition:

"I would like for you to have your cell phone on you at all times, so that if anything goes wrong, you can call someone."  —Erin Sankey, Nalee

 "Our only certainty is to act with the body."
—Wittgenstein

"For the surprising truth is, love has little to do with relationship survival."
—Tom Merrill & Bobbie Sandoz-Merril, Settle for More (2005)

 

"Even if our work is rooted in realism, we have to believe there is more to our world than meets the eye." —Sara Zarr

(via Martha Brockenbrough)

"Strange how colourful life can be if you take the trouble to look at it from close to and turn your back on the so-called important things, which only bring vexation and suffering."
—Gustav Meyrink, The Green Face

"This answer is simple, very simple indeed, and, to really honest minds, it ought to be self-evident. ... Human pride.”

—The Dublin Review (1903)

"This may come as a surprise, but, theoretically, a camera is lubricated for 'life.'"
—Thomas Tomosy, Camera Maintenance & Repair

"It is far too easy to talk of a dead author behind the backs of his books."
—Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

"This bears repeating: You can't fit a baby into a clock."
—Tracy Hogg & Melinda Blau, The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems

We're reminded of Gary Barwin, who last year described Canadian Parliament as a "clock-eyed baby."  Here's how we picture such a thing:

"It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different." —Christian Morgenstern

(via Futility Closet)