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I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

All Butcher's previous politeness was revealed as so much bad milk floating in a cup of welcome tea...

See, Shel (Silverstein) was possessed with one of the worst singing verses ever heard. Musical appreciation is inherently subjective, and it's normally senseless to write about vocalists or instrumentalists as 'good' or 'bad.' But in Shel's case, it's a practical necessity. His voice was a razor-gargled hyena screech.

most notably the UNSC Spirit of Fire in 2531, a story everyone in the UNSC damn well knew.

But there seems to be little correlation between a man's effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge.

sullen earnestness, their authoritarianism, their self-conceit, and their vicious political ideas.

According to the first view, the original and fundamental function of the nervous system is to link perception with action.

a ragged crocodile of small black children jogging back from school.

Axioms are often cherished long after reason would counsel their abandonment.

Brian, there's a message in my alphabet soup. It says oooooooo. Peter, those are cheerios.

Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8

We make a big deal out of Christmas; we should make an even bigger deal out of March 25. The greatest event in history, the Incarnation, happened at the Annunciation, not the Nativity.

Human fathers give human life, animal fathers give animal life, God the Father gives divine life. It's called grace.

We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us:

Those who love Tolkien are almost always good people, honest people. Some are Hobbit-like and some are Elvish, but none are Orcish. Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.

we are already wholly by his right, but because of sin we are not yet wholly his in fact because we do not wholly will what we are right.

Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And

She is the daughter of a jackal and a weasel, and she deserves to be spanked with a broom! --Manolo

I sat in my room, glumly putting on a pair of khaki pants and a button-down KI-logo shirt.

Subway shut down, people on the tracks... I'm, like, ding! Amy and Dan, no-brainer! - Nellie

Who farted?" Dan asked. "It's our clothes," Amy said. "Our clothes farted?" Dan asked. "I don't know them, ladies and gentlemen," Nellie said under her breath, "never saw them in my life …

Welcome to Paradise," Marco said softly. "Paradise Prison.

First, you find the "market capitalization" ("market cap" for short) by multiplying the number of shares outstanding (let's say 100 million) by the current stock price (let's say $100 a share). One hundred million times $100 equals $10 billion, so that's the market cap for DotCom.com.

Webster said, ''Time them skeeters get done with that old man, his French blood will be all gone and he will speak American as good as we do.