Aug. 12th, 2004

dreamer_easy: (asimov [by icons_osi])
Via [livejournal.com profile] gregmce, some list of 100 SF novels, and whether I have read them, 'cos I know you're all gagging to know. :-)

Bookage )
dreamer_easy: (hugh)
Do not buy extra Chinese takeaway and then freeze it for later. It comes out either (a) dry or (b) gloopy.
dreamer_easy: (oldfart)
I exercised again! First level Canadian air force calisthenics and ten whole minutes on the exercise bike. Now I'm ready for Athens!!!


I cannot feel my bottom. Send help.
dreamer_easy: (thehell)
*puts on denim shirt*

*puts on black slacks*

*suddenly realise am dressed as Danger Man from Shinda Shima*


Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!
dreamer_easy: (itistolaugh [grab by jenavira])
They are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
       - Dr Johnson's opinion of Americans

Booksellers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
      - Goethe

- I had the audience glued to their seats.
- How clever of you to think of it.
      - Actor Dustin Farnum and critic Oliver Herford

I found really nothing wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
      - Critic Clifton Fadiman, on Gertrude Stein

- Whatever possessed you to be born in a place like Lowell, Massachusetts?
- I wished to be near my mother.
      - A snob, and James Whistler

He looks like a dwarf who's been dipped in a bucket of pubic hair.
       - Boy George, about Prince

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.
       - Beethoven

He looked like a half-melted rubber bulldog.
       - Critic John Simon, of Walter Matthau

A lewd vegetarian.
       - Kingsley on Shelley

... thinks that Roe v Wade are two ways to cross the Potomac.
      - Pat Schroeder on Dan Quayle

... about as sexy as a pissing toad.
      - Truman Capote on Mick Jagger

... so dumb he thinks Cheerios are doughnut seeds.
       - Jim Hightower, about poor Dan Quayle again

The Secret Service is under orders that, if President Bush is shot, to shoot Quayle.
      - Senator John Kerry, 1988

(This book needs less Howard Stern. He's never funny. He sounds like someone you're embarrassed to overhear whining to a friend in the next bathroom stall.* Joan Rivers is less annoying but equally boring.)

* Wholly original.

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