--
Steve
Well, let's see if I can be the first to get this one in:
"The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have
done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it,
Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the
cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up
for it.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, _The Sign of the Four_
And, of course
Some get a kick from cocaine,
I'm sure that if
I took even one sniff,
It would bore me terrif-
Ic'lly, too:
Yet I get a kick out of you!
--Cole Porter, "I Get a Kick Out of You"
--
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>Well, let's see if I can be the first to get this one in:
>
> "The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have
> done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it,
> Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"
>
> "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the
> cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up
> for it.
>
> --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, _The Sign of the Four_
No blow,
No show
-- T-shirt seen on Eric Clapton, 1970s
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam
It wasn't a very _good_ slogan and the jingle that went with it was
particularly wretched. And, alas, I have not fully forgotten it.
Something like this:
Things go better with Coca-Cola,
Things go better with Coke;
Life is much more fun when you're refreshed--
And Coke refreshes you best!
It's the refreshing-est!
Food goes better with,
Friends go better with,
Fun goes better with Coke;
The real live one
Puts extra fun
In you and everything you do--yes,
Things go better with Coca-Cola,
Things go better with Coke!
The heavy-handed way they work in both registered trademarks... the
questionable syllogism (a. Life is much more fun when you're refreshed;
b. Coke refreshes you best. ergo... c. drink Coke).
Oh, well. Anyone remember "Twenty-one great tobaccos make twenty
wonderful smokes?"
>Something like this:
>
> Things go better with Coca-Cola,
> Things go better with Coke;
> Life is much more fun when you're refreshed--
> And Coke refreshes you best!
> It's the refreshing-est!
> Food goes better with,
> Friends go better with,
> Fun goes better with Coke;
> The real live one
> Puts extra fun
> In you and everything you do--yes,
> Things go better with Coca-Cola,
> Things go better with Coke!
>
>The heavy-handed way they work in both registered trademarks... the
>questionable syllogism (a. Life is much more fun when you're refreshed;
>b. Coke refreshes you best. ergo... c. drink Coke).
There was a variation on this which referred to Coke as "the pause
that refreshes," which was once morphed in a Mad magazine poem on a
tiger into something like, "unlike Coca Cola, his paws do not refresh
us."
Frank Lynch
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page is at:
http://www.samueljohnson.com/
An even earlier zippy slogan...
"Offering the virtues of coca without the vices of alcohol"
(Until 1903, a typical serving contained around 60mg of cocaine)
"Nourishes, fortifies, refreshes"
~blurb for Vin Mariani (a coca wine)
His Holiness The Pope writes that he has fully appreciated the
beneficent effects of this Tonic Wine and has forwarded to Mr Mariani
as a token of his gratitude a *gold medal* bearing his effigy.
~ celebrity endorsement blurb for Vin Mariani.
Winsome P.E. Jones
___________________
____________________
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a
lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would
conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
~Rob Stampfli
Penelope A. Sykes
___________________
...cocaine was found in two of the 24 pipe fragments examined, which is
really quite remarkable
~Dr. Francis Thackeray, who examined pipe fragments from Shakespeare's
home at Stratford-on-Avon, lent to him by the Shakespeare Birthplace
Trust ( in South African Journal of Science)
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods and to compounds strange?
~WS, Sonnet 76
Juliet
____________________
By Frank Jacobs; I'll post it if I can dig the book up.
martin
>Steve, it has just occurred to me that we are showing our age. "Things
>Go Better with Coke" is so familiar to me that it took me a while to
>realize that it's a very _old_ Coca-Cola slogan which many will perhaps
>_not_ recognize.
Showing our age?! Hmmmm, I think I probably read
that slogan in the Fifth Edition of the Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations. Or maybe I picked it up
recently while viewing that hilarious "Classic
Commercials from the 50's and 60's" video. :-)
According to the Coca-Cola web site, "Things Go
Better with Coke" was introduced in 1963. Their
web site contains a page (which I've taken the
liberty to cut and paste below) describing the
evolution of their slogans since 1886.
Slogans for Coca-Cola
Throughout the years, the slogans used in
advertising for Coca-Cola have reflected not only
the brand, but the times. Slogans provide a simple,
direct way to communicate about Coca-Cola.
The 1906 slogan, "The Great National Temperance
Beverage," reflects a time when the society in the
United States was veering away from alcoholic
beverages, and Coca-Cola provided a nice
alternative.
Other slogans have concerned our sales figures, such
as "Three Million a Day" from 1917 or "Six Million a
Day" from 1925. In terms of drinks a day, that's a
vast difference from the one billion a day mark The
Coca-Cola Company passed in 1997.
Some slogans for Coca-Cola have concentrated on the
quality of the product, its refreshing taste, or
even its role in entertaining, as in 1948's "Where
There's Coke There's Hospitality."
In 1985, the introduction of a new taste of
Coca-Cola (commonly called new Coker) and the
reintroduction of Coca-Cola classic and the original
formula led to multiple slogans. 1985 featured
"America's Real Choice," while by 1986, two slogans
were used to differentiate the brands, with "Red,
White & You" for Coca-Cola classic and "Catch the
Wave" for Coca-Cola.
Some advertisements themselves rise to the level of
memorable slogans. The 1971 "Hilltop" ad featured a
song with the words "I'd Like to Buy the World a
Coke." Although that wasn't an actual slogan (the ad
in fact was part of the "It's the Real Thing"
campaign), the ad and song lyrics are still so well
known today that the lyrics are considered a slogan
to many.
In January 2003, latest slogan for Coca-Cola was
introduced -- "Coca-Cola... Real." The campaign (and
slogan in turn) reflects genuine, authentic moments
in life and the natural role Coca-Cola plays in
them.
Slogans for Coca-Cola -- 1886-present:
1886 - Drink Coca-Cola
1904 - Delicious and Refreshing
1905 - Coca-Cola Revives and Sustains
1906 - The Great National Temperance Beverage
1917 - Three Million a Day
1922 - Thirst Knows No Season
1923 - Enjoy Thirst
1924 - Refresh Yourself
1925 - Six Million a Day
1926 - It Had to Be Good to Get Where It Is
1927 - Pure as Sunlight
1927 - Around the Corner from Everywhere
1929 - The Pause that Refreshes
1932 - Ice Cold Sunshine
1938 - The Best Friend Thirst Ever Had
1939 - Thirst Asks Nothing More
1939 - Whoever You Are, Whatever You Do, Wherever
You May Be, When You Think of Refreshment
Think of Ice Cold Coca-Cola
1942 - The Only Thing Like Coca-Cola is Coca-Cola Itself
1948 - Where There's Coke There's Hospitality
1949 - Along the Highway to Anywhere
1952 - What You Want is a Coke
1956 - Coca-Cola... Makes Good Things Taste Better
1957 - Sign of Good Taste
1958 - The Cold, Crisp Taste of Coke
1959 - Be Really Refreshed
1963 - Things Go Better with Coke
1969 - It's the Real Thing
1971 - I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke (part of the
"It's the Real Thing" campaign)
1975 - Look Up America
1976 - Coke Adds Life
1979 - Have a Coke and a Smile
1982 - Coke Is It!
1985 - We've Got a Taste for You (for both Coca-Cola & Coca-Cola
classic)
1985 - America's Real Choice (for both Coca-Cola & Coca-Cola classic)
1986 - Red, White & You (for Coca-Cola classic)
1986 - Catch the Wave (for Coca-Cola)
1987 - When Coca-Cola is a Part of Your Life, You Can't Beat the
Feeling
1988 - You Can't Beat the Feeling
1989 - Official Soft Drink of Summer
1990 - You Can't Beat the Real Thing
1993 - Always Coca-Cola
2000 - Coca-Cola. Enjoy
2001 - Life Tastes Good
2003 - Coca-Cola... Real
http://www2.coca-cola.com/heritage/cokelore_slogans.html
ObQuote:
Speed will turn you into your parents.
--Frank Zappa (1940-1993)
--
Steve
> There was a variation on this which referred to Coke as "the pause
> that refreshes," which was once morphed in a Mad magazine poem on a
> tiger into something like, "unlike Coca Cola, his paws do not refresh
> us."
"The hell with Coke. _This_ is 'the pause that refreshes.'"
--Graffiti frequently seen by me above mens' room urinals
in 1950's and 60's. (Second only to "Smile! You're on
Candid Camera").
||: Yanks think 200 years is a long time, and Brits think 200 :||
||: miles is a long way. :||
> Cocaine's for horses, and not for men.
> The doctors say 't'll kill you, but they don't say when.
> Hey, hey, honey, take a whiff on me. -- Anon.
It ain't 'cause I don't smoke 'em myself,
And I don't reckon that it'll hinder your health--
I smoked 'em all my life and I ain't dead yet;
But nicotine slaves are all the same,
At a pettin' party or a poker game:
Everything gotta stop while they have a cigarette.
--Merle Travis and Tex Williams,
"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (that Cigarette)"
For the record - we didn't get this one here in OZ.
obq
The Coca-Cola Company should live up to its promise [in 1990] to use
recycled plastic in its soda bottles, recycling advocates declared
Wednesday.
[...] The company decided not to use recycled plastic in the United
States because local market conditions were cost prohibitive. "But more
cost-effective technologies have been developing, technologies passing
U.S. Food and Drug Administration review," said Lance King, a network
campaigner.
~ CNN.com (July 30 1999 )
[This happened yet? Not sure what is meant by the *local market
conditions* but Coca-Cola uses plastic bottles with recycled content in
New Zealand, in Australia, and in several European countries. In my
State it is law that all disposable drink containers (glass plastic and
cardboard) have a 5 cent levy added which encourages recycling.]
Norma van der Plaas B.Bs (Hons) Univ.of H.K.
**New clinical studies show there are no answers.**
________________
I had comfortably forgotten this till you interjected it! Of course,
you know this means war.
-:-
You can take Salem out of the country, but
You can't take the country out of Salem!
You can take Salem out of the country, but--
--R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
--
Col. G. L. Sicherman
col...@mail.monmouth.com
Of course not. They would have had to change it to "Look Down, Australia."
-:-
When eating chicken gives you the pox,
Run right out and pick up a box
Of delicious, nutritious
KENTUCKY FRIED FOX!
--advertising jingle, 20th c.
Mmm, I'm a fool for a cigarette!
Lord, I'm a fool for a cigarette!
When you've finished, choke it
'Cause I wanna smoke it.
Lord, I'm a fool for a cigarette!
--Sidney Bailey, "Fool for a Cigarette"
> In <9E3346.065...@news.fu-berlin.de>, <dp...@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> >
> > Oh, well. Anyone remember "Twenty-one great tobaccos make twenty
> > wonderful smokes?"
>
> I had comfortably forgotten this till you interjected it! Of course,
> you know this means war.
>
> -:-
> You can take Salem out of the country, but
> You can't take the country out of Salem!
> You can take Salem out of the country, but--
>
> --R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
VERY WELL then, since the gauntlet has been thrown:
Only Parliament gives you--EXTRA MARGIN!
Parliament gives you--EXTRA MARGIN!
The filter's recessed and made to stay
A neat, clean, quarter-inch away;
Parliament gives you--EXTRA MARGIN!
Parliament gives you--EXTRA MARGIN!
The filter's recessed:
To make it best--
Smoke Parliament today!
>In <9E3346.065...@news.fu-berlin.de>, <dp...@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>>
>> Oh, well. Anyone remember "Twenty-one great tobaccos make twenty
>> wonderful smokes?"
>
>I had comfortably forgotten this till you interjected it! Of course,
>you know this means war.
>
>-:-
> You can take Salem out of the country, but
> You can't take the country out of Salem!
> You can take Salem out of the country, but--
>
> --R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
My earliest cigarette advertising memory is of those Benson &
Hedges magazine ads, with the happy smoker with a black eye. "Some
folks would rather fight than switch."
Taryton was "rather fight than switch".
Benson and Hedges was "the disadvantages of Benson & Hedges" caused by their
100mm length.
ObQuote:
Science doesn't have a chance until people learn to carry their intelligence
the way James Dean carried his cigarette.
-Penn Jillette
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>> My earliest cigarette advertising memory is of those Benson &
>> Hedges magazine ads, with the happy smoker with a black eye. "Some
>> folks would rather fight than switch."
>
>Taryton was "rather fight than switch".
>
>Benson and Hedges was "the disadvantages of Benson & Hedges" caused by their
>100mm length.
<forehead slap> That's right. As I said, it's an early memory for
me.
Obquote:
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls
youth, and delights old age.
-- Lactantius
>As I said, it's an early memory for
me.
______________
You’ve come a long way, baby.
~Virginia Slims
icebabe
______________
War, is it? Here's my shot!
LSMFT!
[Lucky Strikes Means Fine Tobacco]
Who else also remembers the, er, locker room restatement of that slogan?
:-)>
--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
"A silly millimeter longer, 101!" - Chesterfields
~d.
_______________________
I don't, Uncle Dave..what was it?
P.S. I think these posts should have a WARNING on them
:-(
OBQ
Poisoned lungs don't scream
~ Bruce Hollen, Sky Horse Storm Screaming (1992)
Heidi
__________________
What warning should that be, Heidi.... Perhaps...
[Warning! Bad Joke!]
:-)>
Loose Straps Mean Floppy Tits.
I told you it was "locker room" humor, and high-school locker room, at that!
I refuse to contemplate what it says that I remember it, (mumble) years later!
:-)>
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
--Irvin S. Cobb
[p&e]
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. . Plymouth,Mn. 55447 U.S.A.
> It ain't 'cause I don't smoke 'em myself,
> And I don't reckon that it'll hinder your health--
> I smoked 'em all my life and I ain't dead yet;
A stick of tobacco, commonly found with a fire on one end and a fool
on the other. -- Trad.
--
--- Joe Fineman j...@TheWorld.com
||: Entertainers have all the vices of politicians, and none of :||
||: the excuses. :||
"So round so firm so fully packed so free and easy on the draw."
Ed-who used to smoke em
______________________
Oh I don't know much about that either - but mummy says I can have a
training bra for Christmas!
OBQ
Eve
I believe
Was the first to receive
~Emily Newland
Heidi
__________________
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted;
a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the
efforts and demands of others.
~ Elizabeth Janeway, 'Reflections on the History of Women', Women: Their
Changing Roles (1973)
tmw
_________________
There's no "." in Dr Pepper.
ObQuote:
A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago,
Christianity emerged. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning.
(1996 Coca-Cola annual report)
--
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Cigarettes is a blot on the whole human race
A man is a monkey with one in his face;
Take warning dear friend, take warning dear brother
A fire's on one end, a fool's on the t'other.
(CHORUS)
Cigarettes and whuskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane;
Cigarettes and whuskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane;
etc.
(author ? Sung as a revivalist song -- maybe it was)
And I don't know much about those. Do they have extra wheels on them, like
training wheels for a bicycle?
To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season-delightful
if it happen to be a favoured one, but in practice very rarely favoured and
more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes.
-- Samuel Butler, The Way Of All Flesh
That's "Tareyton," a trademark of the Brown and Williamson Tobacco
Company (successor to the American Tobacco Company, Inc.).
-:-
Over--under--around and through,
Pall Mall travels pleasure to you!
Pall Mall's natural mildness
Is so friendly to your taste!
Yes, Pall Mall's natural mildness
Is so friendly to your taste!
--American Tobacco Company
>We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a
>short way, no one would be calling us "baby." Elizabeth Janeway
>
>
>icebabe wrote:
>
>> The Sanity Inspector wrote:
>>
>> >As I said, it's an early memory for
>> me.
>> ______________
>>
>> You’ve come a long way, baby.
>> ~Virginia Slims
>>
>> icebabe
A long way since "Blow some my way."
--
Ben Trovato
mailto:ruc...@umich.edu
444652N853431W
Recorded by Red Ingles and the Natural Seven
>
>"David C Kifer" <dki...@sky-access.com> wrote in message
>news:3F8AD657...@sky-access.com...
>> Heidi wrote:
>> >
>> > David C Kifer wrote:
>> > > LSMFT
>> > > [Lucky Strikes Means Fine Tobacco]
More and worse:
Lucky Strike green has gone to war
Hey ah dibbydodleyadeebludoweddyhodle sold American
>> Oh I don't know much about that either - but mummy says I can have
>> a training bra for Christmas!
> And I don't know much about those. Do they have extra wheels on them,
> like training wheels for a bicycle?
_________________
This is the man who, as far as inventions go, thinks Wonderbra and La
Perla are up there with the wheel.
~ Jane Moore
icebabe
_________________
> Over--under--around and through,
> Pall Mall travels pleasure to you!
> Pall Mall's natural mildness
> Is so friendly to your taste!
> Yes, Pall Mall's natural mildness
> Is so friendly to your taste!
>
> --American Tobacco Company
The Department of Redundancy Department developed the irritating slogan
of the cigarette which claimed to offer
"The coolness of menthol--with a hint of mint."
> David C Kifer wrote:
>
>
> >> Oh I don't know much about that either - but mummy says I can have
> >> a training bra for Christmas!
>
> > And I don't know much about those. Do they have extra wheels on them,
> > like training wheels for a bicycle?
And that brings us back to "so round, so firm, so fully packed."
>In article <wkpth2w...@TheWorld.com>,
> Joe Fineman <j...@TheWorld.com> wrote:
>
>> Cocaine's for horses, and not for men.
>> The doctors say 't'll kill you, but they don't say when.
>> Hey, hey, honey, take a whiff on me. -- Anon.
>
> It ain't 'cause I don't smoke 'em myself,
> And I don't reckon that it'll hinder your health--
> I smoked 'em all my life and I ain't dead yet;
>
> But nicotine slaves are all the same,
> At a pettin' party or a poker game:
> Everything gotta stop while they have a cigarette.
>
> --Merle Travis and Tex Williams,
> "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (that Cigarette)"
And the really bzzare part is a I vaguely recall hearing that song in (I
think ) French.
Tuba Czar.
pyotr
--
pyotr filipivich
"If once a man indulges himself in Murder, very soon he comes
to think little of Robbing, and from Robbing he comes next to
Drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to Incivility and
Procrastination." T. De Quincy (1785-1859) "Murder Considered As One of the Fine Arts"
> And that brings us back to "so round, so firm, so fully packed."
______________________
If you are a girl worry that your breasts are too round. Worry that
your breasts are too pointed..If you are a boy, worry that you will get
breasts.
~Delia Ephron, Teenage Romance (1982)
icebabe
_____________________
We've got a little thread drift here
Ed Kranz
It's not wholly redundant. Menthol is the most prominent of the aromatic
compounds in mint, but it contains others. How else could we distinguish
peppermint from spearmint?
-:-
You get a lot to like in a Marlboro--
Filter, flavor, flip-top box!
--R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
--
>
>"icebabe" <BorE...@optusnetXCAPS.com.au> wrote in message
>news:3f8ca86a$0$24515$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
[...]
>> If you are a girl worry that your breasts are too round. Worry that
>> your breasts are too pointed..If you are a boy, worry that you will get
>> breasts.
>> ~Delia Ephron, Teenage Romance (1982)
>>
>> icebabe
>> _____________________
>>
>I love breasts, hard
>Full breasts, guarded
>By a button.
>from Breasts by Charles Simic
I let go of her wrists, closed the door with my elbow and slid
past her. It was like the first time. 'You ought to to carry insurance
on those,' I said.
-- Raymond Chandler,
Yeah, ain't it great!
:-)>
"I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil.
I carry
no malice
within my breast:
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best."
--Piet Hein
"She spat ... playfully, 'I'm ahead of you, Johnny'. I studied the swell of
her
enormous boobs and said, 'Baby, you're so far ahead it's beautiful. [Vivian
Stanshall, "Big Shot" - from "The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse" by The
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band [1968]. A tragically under-represented resource in
a.q.
> "She spat ... playfully, 'I'm ahead of you, Johnny'. I studied the swell of
> her enormous boobs and said, 'Baby, you're so far ahead it's beautiful.
> -- [Vivian Stanshall, "Big Shot" - from "The Doughnut in Granny's
> Greenhouse" by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band [1968].
Actually it's from "Gorilla", 1967
> A tragically under-represented resource in a.q.
"A punk stopped me on the street.
He said `Have you got a light, mac?'
I said: `No, but I've got a dark brown overcoat.'"
-- ibid
--
Gareth Owen
My body is a temple. Unfortunately its also a discotheque and a crack house.
Aaarrrggghhh. Of course, you're right. Another tragically
under-represented resource in a.q.
ObQuote:
In September 1937 I bought my wife a new electric iron for eight and
sixpence. She's still using it everyday and it's never needed repair.
Now, that's from "Doughnut"!
<snips>
>... The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band [1968]. A tragically
> under-represented resource in a.q.
>
>
>
Oo-er. Let me see.
From memory, as the vinyl was taken from me back in 1976, also, perhaps
subject to mondegreens :P
"Blimey, that was unusual,
Oh my honey, what are we waiting for?
(Wah, wah, wah, wah)
Blimey. I don't know what to say
My mind is boggled, I'm wearing goggles..."
-Roger Ruskin Spear, "Unusual"
Accepting corrections, please!
dolo
Breasts are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck, to
be kneaded and twisted like magic, putty, or mumbled and mouthed like
lolly ices.
~Germaine Greer
ice babe
_____________________
> "She spat ... playfully, 'I'm ahead of you, Johnny'. I studied the
> swell of her enormous boobs and said, 'Baby, you're so far ahead
> it's beautiful. [Vivian Stanshall, "Big Shot" - from "The Doughnut
> in Granny's Greenhouse" by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band [1968]. A
> tragically under-represented resource in a.q.
The GI report on a USO dancing chorus was summed up in one crisp
sentence, "It's got tits on it." The girls hand't been sent four
thousand miles into the Pacific because they could dance -- only
because they had tits. If enough time had elapsed since you had
seen a tit, you might enjoy seeing a USO chorus. Otherwise, you
might as well play poker. But when a Marine or a sailor or a
soldier got back to Honolulu, he no longer had to watch the tits
bobbing on a USO chorus.... He could go to Mamie's Bull Ring and,
for a few seconds at least, he could revel in the biggest, most
luscious tits in the world. He could enjoy to the limit our whole
tit-culture: he could have tits in his hands, tits in his ears,
tits in his mouth. He could walk away from Mamie's surfeited, for
the moment, with tits.
-- William Bradford Huie, _The Revolt of Mamie Stover_
--
--- Joe Fineman j...@TheWorld.com
||: The temptation in business, politics, and public health is :||
||: to judge everything by one number. :||
>"She spat ... playfully, 'I'm ahead of you, Johnny'. I studied the swell of
>her
>enormous boobs and said, 'Baby, you're so far ahead it's beautiful. [Vivian
>Stanshall, "Big Shot" - from "The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse" by The
>Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band [1968]. A tragically under-represented resource in
>a.q.
That reminds me; I've been meaning to recycle this old post:
Haven't seen any Root Boy Slim song titles lately...
The Loneliest Room In The World
Dare To Be Fat
Motel Of Love
Dozin' And Droolin'
When You Date The Undead
Rich, White, and Republican
Computer Lover
Liquor Store Hold-up in Space
So Young, So Hip, So Lame
Cowboy Out In The Sun Too Long
My Sign Don't Work
Big Yellow Streetsweeper
B is for Breasts, of which ladies have two:
Once prized for the function, now for the view.
--Robert Paul Smith, _And Another Thing_
> B is for Breasts, of which ladies have two:
> Once prized for the function, now for the view.
> --Robert Paul Smith, _And Another Thing_
The earth is like the breasts of a woman:
useful as well as pleasing.
--Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
_Thus Spoke Zarathustra_ [1883-1891], "On Old
and New Tablets"
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Steve
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
--Kilmer, "Trees"
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Steve