The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

- L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

"Second only, of course, to the disinterested search for truth, no task is more pleasing to scholars than exposing the negligence, ignorance and stupidity of their fellows."
- John Tyerman Williams, Pooh and the Philosophers

I propose to tell you pretty well all there is to know about an animal which is very popular among dog-lovers though less so among dog-haters. I refer to the dog. Dogs, like horses, are quadrupeds. That is to say, they have four rupeds, one at each corner, on which they walk. In many other ways dogs are like horses-for example, they both like ( Read more... )

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezing on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby, Lilla boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolly-molly don't love Harold,
Boola-boola Pensacoola hullabaloo! - Walt Kelly ( Read more... )

The Great Tree Massacre is over. Body count: the Big Pine; the big oak with the Branch of Damocles, and its close buddy with the collar; the oak at the corner of the driveway, which had some dead-looking branches but didn't need to go, except it was in the way of getting those two big oaks down in any controlled manner (which was very important, ( Read more... )

A heretic is someone who shares ALMOST all your beliefs. Kill him.
- Ivan Stang

The Guardian Prince of Albion burns in his nightly tent ( Read more... )

[Or rather, quote suggested by a comment in msmemory's LJ a couple days ago]

( How Pudd'nhead Wilson Got His Name )

( Monty Python's 'Goats' Page', part 2 of 2 )

( Extracts from the 'Goats' Page', Monty Python )