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Mensa Invitational: Puns
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take ( Read more... ) -
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Ode to Confucianism
December 19 2002
China’s laws and government were based on you,
O’ Confucius, you taught them to
Never do to others what you wouldn’t want done to you
Filial piety was central, too.
Unctuous people-you thought they were nerds.
'Cause they made pious gestures and spoke with honeyed words.
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Two Beckett Quotes
Quotes as requested by Katie:
Art Spiegelman: "Samuel Beckett once said: 'Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.' On the other hand, he said it."
(thanks, Ali, for inspiring me to finally read Maus)
The Movie "Becket":
Thomas Becket: Tonight you can do me the honor of christening my forks.
King Henry II: Forks?
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OK so I'm at a birthday dinner at Kahn's Mongolian Garden...and we're all talking about Mongolians. My dad's sharing some stuff he read in the New Yorker, such as: "Mongolians rode horses so much that they were almost all bowlegged and couldn't walk more than 100 steps ( Read more... )
