“Brad, Brad, I’ve figured out why everything happens.”

So I sat down. This was going to be big.

He says, “Yes. One thing leads to another.”

Someday, he thought, it’ll be mandatory that we all sell the McDonald’s hamburger as well as buy it; we’ll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms. That way we won’t even have to go outside.

Barris [...] believed not so much in thrift as in ingenuity. You should be able to use the first thing that came to hand to achieve ( Read more... )

The only sport I am good at is sandbagging.

The U.S. constitution is 7,591 words. The average mortgage contract is over 15,000 words, and Apple’s iCloud terms of service agreement is 8,800 words. The tax code is over 11 million words.

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/bs/

'His prognosis was gloomy. He feels that most high-placed Nazis are refusing to face facts vis-à-vis their economic plight. By doing so, they accelerate the tendency toward greater tour de force adventures, less predictability, less stability in general. The cycle of manic enthusiasm, then fear, then Partei solutions of a desperate type - well, the ( Read more... )

Gina Kadinsky : What was the performance?
Mike Shepherd : Hamlet.
Gina Kadinsky : [laughs]  The Russian play.
Mike Shepherd : Hamlet was from Russia?
Gina Kadinsky : No, but he is very Russian. He worries too much, complains about everything, takes too long to make up his mind, and when he finally does, it all ends badly anyway. Such is life.

Уберите меня с подмостков игры.
Расскажите другую мне сказку.
Я снова поверю, пойду туда,
Где мне не наденут маску.

...Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began to run.

Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards, how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying “Faster! Faster!” but Alice ( Read more... )

«Что ж ты думаешь? Прошло полгода - и снова взорвалась столовая к чёртовой бабушке! Вот гады немцы, как минировали, когда отступали!»

Там, где я родился, основной цвет был серый
Солнце было не отличить от луны
Куда бы я ни шел, я всегда шел на север
Потому что там нет и не было придумано другой стороны

Первая звезда мне сказала: "Ты первый"
Ветер научил меня ходить одному
Поэтому я до сих пор немножечко нервный
Когда мне говорят: "Смотри - счастье"
Я смотрю туда и вижу тюрьму