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Short quotes, odd bits, etc.

Nonsense

On This Day in History

  • February 4, 1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.

Latin phrases

  • Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. ("Kill them all. For the Lord knows those who are his."). Supposed statement by Abbot Arnaud Amalric before the massacre of Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade, recorded 30 years later, according to Caesarius of Heisterbach. cf. "Kill them all and let God sort them out."

Links to pursue

Overheard (true quotes)

  • "I vow to crush all of my children's dreams. That's my main goal in life." (Female co-worker in her mid-thirties.)

Etc.

  • Trysting, trysting ... one, two ....
  • Florin for your thoughts.
  • I Gambol as I Grumble.
  • Cards Longa, Vita Brevis.
  • As far as I'm concerned, your out of control is under control.
  • I'll take it under behoovement.
  • Squanderosa: the dinner club for a gilded era.

Pynchon

Art Wars

Games etc.

Egypta Commodificata

Lords of the Phantom Zone

Mashups

Rodeo Clown MASH_UP Mystery Date

Moon in your perfume MASH_UP Shooting Star

Misc.

  • Copper: the Shameless Metal
  • Alba Zorba
  • Straw dogs, plastics sturgeons -- whatever it takes.

Boat-builders

Boat-builders are a breed apart. What Texans are to land, boat-builders are to water.

External links