h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

And with that one, the last word might almost be part of the quote.

Errm, with my last post I got mixed up for some reason between Robert Shaw and Richard Burton for some reason.

Tho one with the friends and nose has a beter version:

"You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't roll your friends into little green balls"


Dancer

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were; any man's death diminshes me, beacuse I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne, Meditation XV11, 1624

Something we could all do well to remember, I feel.

Cheers

Wolfie

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever; I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood,
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W H Auden, Funeral Blues

Poetry was never one of my great loves, but this - even when not read in a Scottish accent - is just so intensely moving.

Cheers

Wolfie

Great quote, Wolfie. l like the one "Shaken not stired" James Bond. A little humour is good every now and then, don't you agree.

A really great quote l had to say that again! l always wandered were that" for Whom the bell tolls" thing came from. Not to soil the quote or anything.

Agreed!!!

'No man is an island, but Gower is a peninsula.' on David Gower, England cricket captain.

I'm not sure if this was a result of poor English or a joke, but one of my tutees wrote on his test paper that the answers are "in the backside", rather than "on the back".

"...you have overdrawn your checking account..."

bah... I hate that...

peace.

I quote others only the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

The last n% of a project takes (100-n)% of the time available

-Parkinson's Law


Also from that it is pretty simple to surmise that time expands during a project

could you explain that in *english*?

peace.

For those that aren't mathematically minded, Parkinson's Law basically means that the last little bit of work takes the longest to get done.

gotcha...



peace.

Or, to put Parkinson's law another way:

"Work expands to take up the time available."

peace.

Now, I only checked a random sample of postings in the backlog, so pls bear with me if I repeat anything...

"Why stop now, just when I'm hating it"?
Marvin, the paranoid android

"I'd horsewhip you if only I had a horse"
Groucho Marx

"This horse is still fighting for it's life!"
Marlon Brando (?) on a restaurant visit

... and a few in Danish that I'm not allowed to post ...

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