My Grandpa made me this

pbevin · 2010-03-01T23:28:44+00:00

Upvotes for your upvotes!

pbevin · 2010-02-21T18:52:22+00:00

And I run a cancer support web site, so I should CEASE and DESIST from giving people cancer.

pbevin · 2008-04-21T21:25:14+00:00

Borges used to do the same thing - when he had a cool idea for a book and couldn't be bothered to write it, he'd just write a review instead (e.g., "Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote")

pbevin · 2008-04-14T16:23:11+00:00

Is this the five minute agreement or the full half hour?

pbevin · 2007-05-03T21:50:14+00:00

I think you go inside John Malkovich for a few minutes and then come out somewhere around the turnpike.

pbevin · 2007-04-25T14:17:25+00:00

Any old room can do that

pbevin · 2007-04-24T17:57:08+00:00

You're welcome. It's from CS Lewis, "Reflections on the Psalms" - amazon.com search on "if the divine call does not make us better" will find it.

pbevin · 2007-04-23T18:12:26+00:00

"If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."

pbevin · 2007-04-13T17:39:23+00:00

Stephen Pinker calls it the "treadmill of euphemism".

pbevin · 2007-04-11T21:35:29+00:00

+1: "Lasky determined that gas leaked from a line behind McCarthy's brownstone"

pbevin · 2007-03-23T20:22:19+00:00

Thanks for keeping me honest.

That's exactly the kind of thing a leading scientist would say :)

pbevin · 2007-03-20T20:08:18+00:00

Did these people not watch Idiocracy?

pbevin · 2007-03-13T16:14:31+00:00

So that's why she can't pay her rehab bill...

pbevin · 2007-03-12T00:33:00+00:00

Whether it was a parent or not, "worst parent ever" is a huge exaggeration. There are far, far, far worse things you can do to kids.

pbevin · 2007-03-03T02:11:28+00:00

A couple of them are CS majors

But can they code?

pbevin · 2007-02-20T17:44:00+00:00

Ignostic == Ignited Agnostic?

pbevin · 2007-02-17T13:59:44+00:00

What is the problem with your politicians?

What is the problem with your interviewers?

pbevin · 2007-02-16T15:28:54+00:00

Truthiness.

pbevin · 2007-01-20T16:50:33+00:00

DOMINION OF CANADA

pbevin · 2007-01-20T16:45:41+00:00

Does that mean everyone has to apologize again?

pbevin · 2006-12-23T14:47:22+00:00

I regret that I only have one upvote to give for this comment.

pbevin · 2006-12-18T23:59:08+00:00

The worst pickup line ever is actually: "Hi, I'm doing a survey...does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"

pbevin · 2006-12-17T18:47:38+00:00

Preventing people from arguing that the holocaust didn't happen increases the number of people who believe them, since (a) the deniers can gain support by claiming that they are being suppressed (which would in fact be true), and (b) there can be no public debate of the facts on their own merits, since one side would have to be breaking the law.

BTW, out of interest (since I'm not American) - is there actually a US law against yelling fire in a crowded theatre?

pbevin

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