“Isn’t it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?”
Bob Hope, quoted in my desktop golf calendar for June 21, 2023
“The stiff, formal meetings between two such people can resemble (as Northrop Frye said when ruefully acknowledging his own experience) a collision of monuments.”
Robert Fulford, re Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow, in Ottawa Citizen Citizen’s Weekly May 7, 2000
“‘Opinions are like toothbrushes. Everybody has one, so there’s no need to share.’”
Red Green’s “Quote of the Day”, quoting himself, in Ottawa Sun February 27, 2000.
Worried about trying to get rid of the appliances and other junk in her attic in these days of green disposal “I am now faced with taking them unspayed [that is, without the condensers etc. removed] to the landfill and finding out what it feels like to be rejected by a dump.”
Florence King in National Review May 3, 1999
“The holidays: it’s a wonderful time... to lose your mind and go broke!”
An ad for OfficeMax on Channel 15 in Ottawa November 27, 1995 [late in a Monday Night Football broadcast].
“Freddy’s eyebrows rose. ‘How did you know we’re not from New York?’ ‘I’m awake at the moment. What’ll it be?’”
The reply is from the old bartender, in Spider Robinson Time Travellers Strictly Cash
“God made peat because he knew the Irish would get so drunk they would try to burn mud.”
A “line from the late, great American humourist, P. J. O’Rourke” sent in by a Climate Discussion Nexus reader/viewer March 22, 2023 [in response to an item we did on peat energy]
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Substantive portion of email from “The Australian Plus” [TheAustralian@e.newscorpaus.com.au] February 9, 2023 [whereas my actual fridge (a) did not cost six grand (b) keeps food cool rather than curating my space and (c) would not express my unique style even if I had one]