Quick. Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?
Looks like a oyster mushroom to me.
Now, this one.
Goose down, no question about it.
What are they really?
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Archive for February 3rd, 2004
It’s just a matter of time until the day comes when we can go trolling for Sperm Whales.
Austin White —- Chicago, Ill. —- 1918
Austin White —- Chicago, Ill. —- 1945
This is the last time I want to write my name here.
Inscription discovered by a Yank reporter on a wall at the fortress of Verdun.
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I say this in dead earnest — if, because of some fine speeches about humanity, you return this administration to office, you will be serving under an American totalitarian government before the third term is finished.
Wendell Willkie, future channeling Noam Chomsky in 1940
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If it moves, salute it.
If it doesn’t move, pick it up.
If you can’t pick it up, paint it.
Sad Sack’s Catechism - WWII
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Paint him black and bring him over here.
A young Negro girl when asked how she would punish Adolf Hitler. Quoted in in March of 1945 by Walter Winchell. Another bit of Winchell wisdom has been followed by bloggers for years now.
The way to become famous fast, is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.
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It is hard to understand why our town must be destroyed to make a bomb that will destroy someone else’s town that they love as much as we love ours.
Sign on the outskirts of Ellenton, South Carolina, which was forcibly evacuated after the Atomic Energy Commission decided to build the first H-bomb on the Savannah River, near the town.
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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, “That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.” You never heard a real American talk in that manner.
Mayor Frank Hague, in a speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce.
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*All crunchy nuggets courtesy of Vol 16 of the Annals Of America, which I took to lunch with me instead of partaking in my normal lunch hour practice–staring bleary eyed at a computer screen, hunched over a hot keyboard and wondering what in the hell I’m going to write about today.
In case anyone has unwanted copies of the AofA lying around, I’m missing everything after 1968 and Conspectus II
USA Today has declared the race over. John Kerry will be the next president of the United States.
The subject that has gotten Mr. Benson’s panties all in a bunch is the Utah law that allows concealed weapon permittees to carry weapons inside churches if the congregation allows it. For leftists, the fact that any church would allow any plebe to carry a weapon is anathema; they have been trying unsuccessfully to get the law changed for years.