“She’s always late. Her ancestors arrived on the June Flower.”
Top 20 Internet Tag Lines in Gilbert! Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)
“At the rate we’re going, they’re going to cancel shampoo so bald people don’t get offended.”
Emailed by a friend May 7, 2024 without attribution.
“Let me talk to him. I speak idiot fluently.”
Ned Seagoon re Eccles in the Goon Show episodeThe Battle of Spion Kop.
“they’re already lurking in the deep end of his indoor pool.”
Donna Laframboise in National Post Feb. 22, 2000 [re someone’s dark thoughts]
“Watching his video is perhaps the closest you will come to entering the mind of a banana without going near a fruit bowl.”
Bryony Gordon in www.telegraph.co.uk Jan. 18, 2008 [the video in question being Tom Cruise explaining Scientology].
“I don’t know if you have ever turned over a dead animal, but depending on how ripe the carcass is, there is a whiff that rises so strongly that the air itself changes color, and a kind of greasy film of rot coats your insides.”
David Beresford, in a piece on a hideous expensive cheese someone once gave him, in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 #8 (Issue 57, 7-8/04)
“My new philosophy of life: Lethe faire – let me sleep.”
Me awakened from sleep in the wee hours of February 5-6, 2026.
“It must have been Friday because the fish smell from the Mansion House coffee-shop next door was strong enough to build a garage on.”
Start of “Cinderella Suicide” (a John Dalmas story) in Raymond Chandler Killer in the Rain