Good Morning on this April First. And it's Palm Sunday. Is this some cosmic metaphor born out of the Chocolate Jesus brouhaha?
Not late breaking news.
Sitting around, waiting for the noon hour when the teebs have to be in town for a monthly street fair (waiting also for the scattered showers perdicted today), drinking coffee, listening to the local info-stream on TV. A normal small-town Sunday morning at the teeb cabin.
Anyway, I took a look at the birthday list for today. What stood out was that some of the bouncing babies should have been posting in this forum.
More beneath the fold.
Disclaimer: If any of these dates are inaccurate, the error is not intended. April Fool's Jokes might have been perpetrated on the Internet.
Cruising (I don't surf) through the normal resources, the attributed quotes seemed remarkably similar to the average repartee here.
1753 Joseph Marie de Maistre Let's face it. Most of us have had this very thought when we look at the election results. But we fight on despite the obvious turn the national ethic has taken. Now we have changed the curve somewhat.
Every country has the government it deserves.
1755 Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Food diaries?
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
1815 Otto von Bismarck Pretty upfront for a hard-assed Prussian. He would have been either a tremendous troll hunter or a the hardest-to-kill troll ever.
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night.
1875 Edgar Wallace Someone to keep up in perspective or a legendary perv-thread starter.
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.
1883 Lon Chaney Posting addict.
Between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney.
1895 Alberta Hunter Poet/Negotiator
Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
1908 Abraham Maslow Gate Crasher.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
1929 Jane Powell Eat Local, Act Global. Would have hated Walmart.
They really need to know much more about where the food comes from - how to grow it and cook it, how to make consumer choices that are good for the environment and the local economy.
1938 Ali Macgraw Great cultural commenter.
You know, movies are often made by tying up the hamburger rights and rubber-doll rights before the script is even approved.
1948 Jimmy Cliff Schadenfreude with a touch of Pastafarianism.
So as sure as the sun will shine,
I'm gonna get my share now of what's mine
And then the harder they come the harder they'll fall, one and all.
1949 Gil Scott Heron He would keep us honest and be a part of our soul.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
And a couple more.
1868 Edmond Rostand Fact Checker, Sockpuppet Hunter.
1915 Willy Dixon Soulful Observer.
I'm sure there are brazillions of deserving names omitted. Please feel free to add other potential or missing Kossacks you can imagine.