“ In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. ” - Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa (94)

Jul 22, 2008 12:14am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherently funny word

The belief that certain words are inherently funny, for reasons ranging from onomatopoeia to phonosemantics to sexual innuendo, is widespread among people who work in humor. There is, however, no generally agreed-upon list of such words.

This is the kind of Wikipedia article that I wish was a book.

Jul 21, 2008 11:32am

an excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, as a Mad Libs

If you fitfully want to sway about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was wanted, and what my purple childhood was like, and how my leopards were occupied and all before they had me, and all that Hamlet kind of junk, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to sing the tree. In the first place, that stuff breathes me, and in the second place, my leopards would have about 49 boxes apiece if I told anything pretty slippery about them. They’re quite hard about anything like that, especially my book.

Jul 20, 2008 11:03pm

“ I don’t believe in God, but if I did, her music would be my bible. ” - Tricky, on Kate Bush. [source]

Jul 20, 2008 9:16pm

Remember The Hives?

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