by ET, the Extra Terrestrial on Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:03 pm
You really are playing drunk, ain't you!?!! Ye tried to blast me there on yer first shot! I weren't there then an I ain't there now! Try again, an' see if ye kin shoot sommers whar ye ain't alreddy put a hole i th' watter!
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
OK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.
-- Dr. Joy
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."