Escape Pod Dreams - 54
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2004
Which new year is it? Chinese is over, the Jewish is when? And the Mayan?
New Year's resolution, lies and damned statistics
Some almost-educated wag once warbled: 'History is just one damned thing after another.'
Or something slightly similar that I've conveniently forgotten. I had one of those stupid Quotation books
near my feet a few days ago, but I've fortunately lost it in a major redisorganizatyion of my house.
Thus, you will spared any witticisms that are not my own.
I don't really believe in New Year's Resolutions any more than I believe
Campaign Promises or TV ads for penile extensions by Chevy, Ford, and Toyota.
On the other hand, since I often write fiction, which is lying, it wouldn't hurt me to tell a few more lies and hope that they turn out to be marginally entertaining to someone besides me.The lies to be had,
otherwise known as Your Other Write Foot's New Year's Resolutions for the Year of Our George 2004
(Did you know the word 'george' mean's farmer? That's why it was supposedly so funny when Franklin
and Madison referred to Washington as 'Gentleman George' and why it was so unfunny when one of the Pitts (the inny or the outy) kept referring to George the III as 'Farmer George'.
On the whole, I think that if the two Georges had ever met, they would have gotten along well and jointly had several troublemakers shot.):
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5. to actually write something above soon...
wanders off, humming 'Brave Sir Robin' out of tune, dragging a small hassock, a red cassock, and a large hummocky hammock.
