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Quips

I'll be adding stuff here as I have time or inspiration, some recent, some archival. This page is mostly for the benefit of web searches. I think it's neat to know where things originated.

2001-03-16

First worlders: overfed and undernourished. See Walford.

2000-06-19

I am the fish who discovered water. (heard the saying, "Fish discover water last."? Apparently this is a reformulation of a quip by Marshall McLuhan or perhaps John Culkin: "I don't know who discovered water, but it wasn't a fish." If you know the definitive author of this, please email me.)

1999-07-14

Things that go bump in the net.

1999-07-05

When you get an email that's been forwarded countless times from wherever, you can call it a "floataround email" or just a "floataround".

1999-02-24

I try to correct myself because I always wildly exaggerate –– well, I sometimes exaggerate a bit.

1998-06-30

"I'm having a Truman moment." - I feel like this situation has been set up for the benefit of the viewers out there in Televisionland.

1998-04-02

It's "post-consumer garlic odor" that's the problem, not raw or cooked.

1998-02-10

I'm still waiting for the third shoe to drop.

1997-11-22

Hobgoblins are about the same consistency as little minds.

1997-09-20

Nature doesn't take care of individuals.

The road to heaven is not paved.

Never ascribe to intelligence that which can adequately be explained by trickery.

1997-09-19

The "No Backwards Not Symbols" symbol.

1995 or so

My contributions to the Viola Joke Canon:

What is the definition of a cluster chord?
A viola section playing on the open C string.

Why do violists get antsy when they see the Kama Sutra?
All those positions!

A guy in traction in his bed in the hospital, casts on both arms, asks his doctor:
Doc, when I get these casts off, will I be able to play the viola?
Doctor answers, "Oh, a wise guy, eh?"
(Variation on an old joke: will I be able to play the violin? I suppose so. Great! I never could before!)

1997-08-18

The art and design of the last few years of the millennium is neo post-eclectic revivalism.