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Torture Porn
“Torture porn works in exactly the opposite way: It shows the audience absolutely everything, and bears the same relationship to actual horror as porn does to romantic comedy.” – Scott Kaufman of the AV Club
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Peer Review or it didn’t happen
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Mitch Hedberg on Sleep
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Mitch Hedberg on Picketing
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Donna Bowman of The AV Club
Someday I want to say “Hey everybody! Listen up!” and have everyone in a 50-foot radius gather around me, just like Dudley does while handing out the bike-shop fliers. It’s one of the ways I wish life were more like television. -Donna Bowman of The AV Club at TV Roundtable
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Mark Twain (allegedly)
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. -Mark Twain (allegedly – a lot of stuff gets falsely attributed to him)
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Abraham Lincoln
“The problem with internet quotes is that you can’t always depend on their accuracy”. – Abraham Lincoln -1864
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Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) on Journalism as the Fourth Estate
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact. Printing, which comes necessarily out of Writing, I say often, is equivalent to Democracy: invent…
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My favorite Hitchhiker’s Guide Quote
“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all…
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Co-worker at a meeting to create a PowerPoint to get our project funded
[Very upper manager] will have a boner and give us money -Co-worker at a meeting to create a PowerPoint to get our project funded
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During A Meeting at Work
Co-worker1: You know that Snickers commercial? Co-worker2: Is that the one where you eat snickers if you are hungry?
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Co-worker
You’ll never see me on TV – I love America – Co-worker
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Co-worker
“I could run China” -Co-worker
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Boing-Boing
One of the people who developed the pacemaker is now 86. And he has a pacemaker. -Boing Boing