April 2012
1 post
“How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t grow in it?”
– Discordian Quotes
February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
3 posts
Abstract Art in Antiquity
Apelles arrived one day on the island of Rhodes to see the works of Protogenes, who lived there. Protogenes was not in his studio when Apelles arrived. Only an old woman was there, keeping watch over a large canvas ready to be painted. Instead of leaving his name, Apelles drew on the canvas a line so fine that one could hardly imagine anything more perfect. On his return, Protogenes noticed the...
“Sometimes trouble follows a man, but for some it rides shotgun.”
– Discordian Quotes
“For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple an...”
– H.L. Mencken
December 2011
15 posts
“Nine women cannot deliver a baby in one month.”
“You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, while it does...”
“Give me liberty. I do not feel that you should have a second option here.”
“That which is not forbidden is mandatory.”
“Truly, the road to enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.”
“It is every guy’s dream to take the most well-spoken, intelligent,...”
“You can’t lick the system, but you can certainly give it a damn good...”
– Stephan Fry
“What do you mean, out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they...”
– Discordian Quotes
“I came here to kick ass and assign IPv4 addresses. And I’m all out of IPv4...”
“It’s too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as...”
“Good writers borrow. Great writers steal. Amazing writers kidnap. Shakespeare...”
– Discordian Quotes
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in...”
– Mark Twain (probably)
“Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit...”
– How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
5 posts
“Since a hundred million dollars in New York and twenty-two fish-hooks on the...”
– Mark Twain, ”The Esquimau Maiden’s Romance”
September 2011
7 posts
Nadia Plesner →
“Konono Nº1 is a musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo....”
– Wikipedia
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
– Francis Bacon
April 2011
10 posts
“I speak French to my ambassadors, English to my accountant, Italian to my...”
– Frederick the Great of Prussia
