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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea –
April 6, 2015 |
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea –
October 11, 2013 |
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An illustration from an 1898 issue of Wide World magazine. The caption reads: "The filthy coils wind round my hips like a boa-constrictor's."
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` "The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News |
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Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? –
September 24, 2013 |
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Jonathan Caws-Elwitt, acclaimed for tirelessly demonstrating an effervescent mastery of the agreeably diverting traditions, offers this quip: At first glance, I could've sworn that one island off the coast of Alaska had the shape of an eight-limbed cephalopod... but it was just an octopal Aleutian.
[No man is an island: we picture below an octopal Aleutian.]
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
September 11, 2010 |
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" Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts. To a believer, the effect of the contemplation of a science is of being in the presence of the good, the true, and the beautiful. But what he is awed by is Mutilation. To our crippled intellects, only the maimed is what what we call understandable, because the unclipped ramifies away into all other things." —Charles Fort ( Wild Talents), on every science's propensity to dismiss anything that doesn't fit its dogma |
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