Aphorisms

A few things to note: 1) Tokyo smells like North Carolina. Everybody smokes. 2) Pedestrian traffic flows on the left, just like street traffic. 3) Cyclists who ride on the sidewalks expect pedestrians, even those from distant lands, to understand item #2. 4) On escalators, standers stand on the left, walkers walk on the right. Don’ be a...
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Want it anyway. And my birthday is coming up.
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Also, please do not bring any alcohol to the final.
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From here, a doo-dad that ranks words according to their commonality. “Got Much Think” are 100, 101, 102, respectively, in the ranking. I figure I’ve got just enough think to “produce various understandings” (625, 626, 627, (with a little license)).
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Put away your white pants and your vodka tonics.
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Many cellas come with cameras, which I don’t want or need, but few (none?) come with transistor radios, which would be very handy indeed.
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The recent news regarding pilfered cadavers at UCLA and elsewhere indicates there’s a large and growing market for dead people. Given the apparently healthy demand, the inventor of the most lifelike synthetic cadavers is guaranteed to make a killing.
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Teeny, tiny robots powered by bits of rat heart-muscle tissue, that’s what.
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Will February never end? This has got to be the longest February in recent memory.
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Yesterday we used Exquisite Corpse to make similes and metaphors. Here’re a few as ugly as a rifle stupider than a boy a housewife is like a dictionary dumber than a box All true.
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