And Now, For Something Completely Different...
Q: If you had an infinite number of marshmallows, how many Lincoln-Logs would it take to reach the moon?
A: No, because ice cream has no bones!
This was first thrown at me in a High School English class by a smart-ass who wasn't following an argument I was making about some novel of some kind. It did exactly what it was meant to do: it stopped me cold, derailed my train of thought and made me shut up for a few seconds while I was dealing with the flow of non-sequitirs.
Now, so many years later, I can use that timeless (and time-twisting) poem:
Turn backward, turn backward,
Oh, time in your flight,
Just thought of the comeback
I needed last night*
...which would be:
1) That the best you can do: babble nonsense at me?
2) If you don't have a valid argument, why don't you shut up and let
someone speak who does?
3) What's your point?
4) That was a good line when Groucho Marx said it, but what's it got to do with this?
That's what I should have said...(wish I had a Time Tunnel)
* Just a sneaky way to plug the fact that you need to turn your clocks BACK one hour Sunday morning! A Public Service Message from this station.
A: No, because ice cream has no bones!
This was first thrown at me in a High School English class by a smart-ass who wasn't following an argument I was making about some novel of some kind. It did exactly what it was meant to do: it stopped me cold, derailed my train of thought and made me shut up for a few seconds while I was dealing with the flow of non-sequitirs.
Now, so many years later, I can use that timeless (and time-twisting) poem:
Turn backward, turn backward,
Oh, time in your flight,
Just thought of the comeback
I needed last night*
...which would be:
1) That the best you can do: babble nonsense at me?
2) If you don't have a valid argument, why don't you shut up and let
someone speak who does?3) What's your point?
4) That was a good line when Groucho Marx said it, but what's it got to do with this?
That's what I should have said...(wish I had a Time Tunnel)
* Just a sneaky way to plug the fact that you need to turn your clocks BACK one hour Sunday morning! A Public Service Message from this station.
2 comments:
I just read this comment at 7:27... ah, crap. 6:27.
At least my iMac knows the time.
6:27? WTF??!! Go Back to BED!!
Of course, I'm writing this at 10:34---WTF are you still doing in BED??!!
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