jest for pun (February'05)

February '05 BlogThoughts

Every calendar's days are numbered.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. -Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.- H. E. Martz

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley (My Ten Years in a Quandary, 1936)

geek and you shall find...

Some folks are wise and some otherwise. - Josh Billings (1815 - 1885), American Humorist and Lecturer)

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. - M C Escher

east or west India is the best

Journalism is merely history's first draft. - Geoffrey C. Ward

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these - Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)

In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from the smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower? - Warren Hutcherson

it's amazing how people take Valentines day to heart.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley (My Ten Years in a Quandary, 1936)

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does. - P. J. ORourke (Holidays in hell, 1989)

Some people love horoscopes to pisces.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. - Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

lost in translation

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. - Ezra Pound

A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)