The Lanyard ( Read more... )

"But [the word] legend has a leveling effect--it makes no distinction between people whose deeds are inherently memorable and celebrities who are pure media creations...It seems unfair to use the same label for Ted Williams and Leo Sayer--after all, the one had 2,654 career hits and the other only had about two."--Geoff Nunberg

This is mostly for those of you in the metaphysics class, but I suppose most of you will find it somewhat amusing ( Read more... )

I came across these killer quotes by the first Mayor Daley in John Ortberg's The Life You've Always Wanted ( Read more... )

Two interesting Oscar Wilde quotes which came up today ( Read more... )

Looper --

[noun]:

A poltergeist sent back in time to change the course of history forever

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Pony --

[noun]:

A hard-core grave robber

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Joel --

[adjective]:

Full of bees

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at ( Read more... )

"Afterwards I learned, that the best way to mangage seom kinds of painful thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst, to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired, and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill."- George MacDonald

You guys remember when I lost my job last summer ( Read more... )

Name five of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick five people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used ( Read more... )

Ran across this the other day ( Read more... )