Like Dostoyevsky, but sillier.
Like Lewis Carroll, but even more sensible.
Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
DavidS - Apr 07, 2004 6:46:10 pm PDT #9506 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pix - Apr 07, 2004 6:51:19 pm PDT #9507 of 10005
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Like Bronte, but less hang-wringing
DavidS - Apr 07, 2004 6:53:10 pm PDT #9508 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Like Duchamp, only spleen.
billytea - Apr 07, 2004 6:56:56 pm PDT #9509 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I still propose something along the lines of:
"Bureaucracy 3: What is it with you people and gerunds monkeys pirates The O.C. kissing girls?"
Ginger - Apr 07, 2004 7:04:04 pm PDT #9510 of 10005
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Like Derrida, but less constructed
Like Heisenberg, but more uncertain
Like Bronte, but less hang-wringing
There's torture in the Brontes?
Pix - Apr 07, 2004 7:08:43 pm PDT #9511 of 10005
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Ummm. Yes. That would be me, sleepy and typing poorly.
So how about...
Like Hemingway, but more sentence variety
Kristen - Apr 07, 2004 7:11:58 pm PDT #9512 of 10005
I had been waiting for "Like Minear, Only Bloodier" but, in light of recent events, it's probably unwise.
Gus - Apr 07, 2004 7:13:39 pm PDT #9513 of 10005
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Kafka, without the funny
Jessica - Apr 07, 2004 7:16:29 pm PDT #9514 of 10005
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Kat - Apr 07, 2004 7:16:34 pm PDT #9515 of 10005
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
useless xpost...