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IT'S THE TWO GODDAMNED CULTURES AGAIN !*! Bit-brained Nerdery On One Side, Effete Fin-de-siecle Malaise On The Other.
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IT'S THE TWO GODDAMNED CULTURES AGAIN !*! Bit-brained nerdery on one
side, effete fin-de-siecle malaise on the other. And kingdoms of hybrid
delight abandoned in the middle.
-- Jonathan Burns, burns@latcs1.oz
Related:
You know you should be swimming when . . . Everybody's talking about "fin de siecle" and you keep looking for the fin.
content-free adj. [by analogy with techspeak `context-free'] Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge.
Though this adjective is sometimes applied to flamage, it more usually connotes derision for communication styles that exalt form over substance or are centered on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand....
content-free: [by analogy with techspeak `context-free'] adj.
Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge....
Announcer: Coming up next, our feature race: the Nuclear Power Plant Championship.
Plant plant! Burns: Ah, at last. Smithers, fetch the bi-oculars....
Homer: Hey, Burns! Eat my shorts! Burns: Who the Sam Hill was that?
One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish...
Advisor: The voters now see you as imperial and god-like.
Burns: Hot dog! Advisor: But there's a down-side to it....
If only we'd listened to that boy, instead of walling him up in the abandoned coke oven.
-- Monty Burns, "Last Exit to Springfield...
1. Fat expands to fill any apparel worn. 2. A fat person walks in the middle of the hall.
-- Livingston's Laws of Fat Two fat people will walk side by side, whether they know each other or not....
Homer talks to Mindy on a monitor] Burns: Look at those two inseparable chums, Smithers.
That's exactly the teamwork we'd like to showcase at this year's energy convention....