The quotations that appear on the Opelika-Auburn News’ crossword page are usually yawnworthy, but I liked this one from today:
“Whom God would sorely vex, he endows with abundant good sense.” – Yiddish proverb
Tag Archives | Humor
Sacred Duty
Political wisdom from Snuffy Smith:
Zip It
Two anecdotes that seem to belong together:
Once at a performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Arthur Sullivan was in the audience and was humming along with the score, when the man next to him said indignantly, “I came here to hear Sullivan’s music, not yours!”
Once when Victor Hugo was hurrying home to answer a call of nature, he realised upon reaching his building that he wasn’t going to make it inside in time, so he relieved himself against the outside wall of his house. A passerby told him, “How dare you! Don’t you know whose house that is? It is the home of the great Victor Hugo!”
Do Robots Dream of Electric Rothbard?
A libertarian Transformer. (Conical hat tip to Charles Johnson.)
Coding the Codex
Check out this very funny video on how tech support for the introduction of the book might have gone. (Conical hat tip to Tom Palmer.)
I’m also reminded of the first Dilbert cartoon I ever saw, which went something like this: SALESMAN: “This is our most user-friendly computer ever. All you have to do is push just one button. And you don’t even have to do that, because it comes from the factory with the button already pushed!” CUSTOMER: “What does it do?” SALESMAN: “Whoa! I’m in over my head now. Let me give you our tech support number.”
Addendum (6/27/2014):
I found the cartoon in question:
The Mighty Thor
When I first saw the name “Brad Thor” – on the covers of Clancycesque patriotic thrillers I feel no inclination to read – I assumed it was a pseudonym. I mean, doesn’t it sound like some sort of macho statist invention? But apparently it’s the guy’s real name.
Okay, fine – but what I just noticed is this:
“Brad Thor” is also an anagram of “Rothbard.”
Coincidence – or conspiracy?