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2025-07-10T00:01:45

Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an overdose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center. -- Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

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2025-07-09T22:48:15

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. -- Mark Twain

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2025-07-08T14:07:16

Q: How many gradual (sorry, that's supposed to be "graduate") students does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: "I'm afraid we don't know, but make my stipend tax-free, give my advisor a $30,000 grant of the taxpayer's money, and I'm sure he can tell me how to do the gruntwork for him so he can take the credit for answering this incredibly vital question."

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2025-07-08T14:06:04

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

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2025-07-07T21:21:02

You work very hard. Don't try to think as well.

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2025-07-06T06:02:32

Slow day. Practice crawling.

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2025-07-06T06:02:30

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity"

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2025-07-06T06:02:27

You will feel hungry again in another hour.

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2025-07-04T07:07:14

Q: Know what the difference between your latest project and putting wings on an elephant is? A: Who knows? The elephant *might* fly, heh, heh...

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2025-07-03T22:55:42

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain

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