A Thought for the Day

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:16 am

Actress Frances Barber remembered an occasion when he [Geoffrey Palmer – Ed.] had queried a residuals payment he had received for the ubiquitous commercial.

"I just called my agent and said they've put too many 0's on the cheque," she recalled him saying. "After lunch he said 'Apparently they haven't'. His face didn't change."

– J.D.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:37 pm

A humblebrag?

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Nov 21, 2020 1:53 pm

@benegotherit
You weren’t a “gifted child” you were a loser and then you discovered weed

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:38 pm

Neuroskeptic
@Neuro_Skeptic
The brain is a machine for turning glucose into mistakes

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 7:48 pm

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Nov 25, 2020 12:08 am

“Siri, why am I still single?!” Siri activates front camera.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Nov 25, 2020 3:53 am

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:23 am

[It] became a cult film, appropriately enough, down under. It did well in other countries, but not in Merrie England, where our dour-faced critics insisted on taking it seriously. How on earth can you take seriously the vision of Catherine Oxenberg, dressed in Marks & Spencer’s underwear, being sacrificed to a fake, phallic worm two hundred feet long?

– Ken Russell, on The Lair of the White Worm

– J.D.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:32 am

“I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a raving beast.”

His journalism morphed into something entirely original, laced with vitriolic scorn and dripping in sarcasm—henceforth, the writer would be at the forefront of the story, outrageous and bold, like a Hemingway for the hippie era.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Nov 26, 2020 12:49 am

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

– Henrik Ibsen

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:32 pm

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Nov 30, 2020 2:42 am

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”

― George Orwell

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:07 am

Boys, this is the greatest adventure in military history. Here we sit in the enemy’s country with only a handful of troops, looking down the throats of nineteen fully armed divisions and seventy million fanatics. One false move and the Alamo would look like a Sunday-school picnic!

– General of the Army Julius Douglas MacArthur

– J.D.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:30 pm

Do dogs and cats look at their human owners and wonder why they don't fall over?

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:47 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:11 am

“I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.”
― Ray Bradbury

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon Dec 07, 2020 7:46 am

Rather describes Joe Biden and, yes, Donald Trump.

– J.D.

The Joker · Post by **The Joker** » Mon Dec 07, 2020 12:15 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:26 pm

jon drake
@DrakeGatsby

“The truth hurts” yeah but so does everything else

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 1:37 am

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

– Brendan Behan

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:46 am

"What do you say to the naysayers out there, Guy Fieri?"

"... I really don't give a shit."

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 4:45 pm

If you're not supposed to drink and drive, why do pubs have car parks.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:08 pm

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:25 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Dec 12, 2020 12:28 pm

John Fetterman
@JohnFetterman

Dean Martin + Sammy Davis Jr. dressed as priests, driving a Ferrari, **with** Terry Bradshaw is one of the most underrated accomplishments of the 20th century.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Dec 16, 2020 7:22 pm

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/this-is-quite-true

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:44 am

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Thu Dec 17, 2020 11:49 pm

If prostitution is the world's oldest profession - then how did the guys earn money to pay for it.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:38 am

In Queen's "Don't stop me now", Fredward Mercurial sings "100 degrees, that's why they call me Mr Fahrenheit!"

Now, call me a pendant but surely "The Merc" should have sung "100 degrees, that's why they call me Mr Centigrade." There's no syllablistic difference and 100 degrees Centigrade is a famous temperature referring to the boiling point under atmospheric elements and gravity things of water - whereas 100 degrees Fahrenheit is 37.777778 degrees C which is quite frankly, nonsense.

I cant think of a momentum/velocity related term that Centigrade might rhyme with though.

Anyone else know of songs where the singer displayed a lack of knowledge about science and its terminology?

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:41 am

Hotarubi wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:38 am In Queen's "Don't stop me now", Fredward Mercurial sings "100 degrees, that's why they call me Mr Fahrenheit!"

Now, call me a pendant but surely "The Merc" should have sung "100 degrees, that's why they call me Mr Centigrade." There's no syllablistic difference and 100 degrees Centigrade is a famous temperature referring to the boiling point under atmospheric elements and gravity things of water - whereas 100 degrees Fahrenheit is 37.777778 degrees C which is quite frankly, nonsense.

I cant think of a momentum/velocity related term that Centigrade might rhyme with though.

Anyone else know of songs where the singer displayed a lack of knowledge about science and its terminology?

Every religious song ever.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:52 am

I heard the other day, that if you spun spider webs into a strand that is as thick as a pencil, youd be able to stop a jumbo jet dead in its tracks due to the web's tensile strength.

Not only is this testament to nature's magnificence and it's incredible ability to adapt/evolve to its surroundings - it also tells us that, in order to crimp a string off, spiders have the most powerful assholes in the animal kingdom.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Dec 18, 2020 1:04 am

Hotarubi wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:38 am Now, call me a pendant

We wouldn't dare!

Hotarubi wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:38 am I cant think of a momentum/velocity related term that Centigrade might rhyme with though.

Tardigrade.

Hotarubi wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:52 am Not only is this testament to nature's magnificence and it's incredible ability to adapt/evolve to its surroundings - it also tells us that, in order to crimp a string off, spiders have the most powerful assholes in the animal kingdom.

Not to be a, harrumph!, pendant, but you presumably know that spiders secrete their silk with glands, not their assholes, and that it comes out liquid?

I feel impish today.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Fri Dec 18, 2020 1:06 am

Congrats for outgunning spiders.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Dec 18, 2020 2:12 am

Link: https://twitter.com/donhertzfeldt/status/1199795613782679552

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:59 am

Why is this soldier wearing camoflage along with a high vis jacket.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:02 am

↑ Regulations.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:04 am

You took that one a bit seriously.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:13 am

Always.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:35 am

I'm staying realistic. Some things can't be fixed, and sometimes you're a fucking moron to try.

– Bobbie Draper

– J.D.