Posts tagged quote

Posted 3 years ago
Evil lurks everywhere… often in plain sight…. Can you lurk in plain sight? Or is that just walking?
Posted 3 years ago
at the doctors office bathroom I though, “I bet the have funny accidents here” and then spilled my urine everywhere
Posted 3 years ago
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright
Posted 3 years ago
Remember, Remember
The fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Posted 3 years ago
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
Robert Frank
Posted 3 years ago
I only wish I had a gun rather than a camera.
Posted 3 years ago
Posted 3 years ago
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known “mechanical computer”) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, in 1901. Subsequent investigation, particularly in 2006, dated it to about 150–100 BC; and hypothesized that it was on board a ship that sank en route from the Greek island of Rhodes to Rome. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until a thousand years later.
Posted 3 years ago
Everyone thinks Brad Pitt has it great because he married Angelina Jolie. I think he has it terrible, because when Angelina Jolie is giving you a blow job, what do you tip your head back and think of to help you finish? You have nothing left — just Jesus on a polar bear in the middle of the snow, saying, ‘You greedy motherfucker, I’ve got nothing for you.’
John Mayer, 09-21-2006 (via apsies) (via allthiscanbeyours) (via ktroseknows) (via 8tania) (via babydeer) (via sharpless) (via magnetical)
Posted 3 years ago
Maryann Bruce, 48, of Cornelius, North Carolina, said that while others were “thinking of dying, I was actually thinking about living. I wanted to see my kids and my husband.” She said she had survived disasters before, including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre, where she worked then. “I must have nine lives,” she said. “I was vacationing in Honolulu and had to be evacuated for a tsunami. I was skiing in Denver and had an avalanche. I was at the big LA earthquake.
Posted 3 years ago
Do not let people mislabel the US Air landing a “miracle”. It was the result of education, experience, skill and competence. Not magic.
Posted 3 years ago
An Israeli is going through customs at JFK. The customs officer asks, “Occupation?” and the Israeli says, “No, I’m just visiting.
Posted 3 years ago

catachresis

wordjournal:

noun • /kætəˈkɹiːsɪs/ • the misuse of words; applying a term to something which it should not properly describe

From Ancient Greek κατάχρησις, from καταχρῆσθαι ‘to misuse’.

Posted 3 years ago
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn’t have to ride around with jerks.
Scott Adams