Aug 22
“Jack, I’m gonna give you a D minus if you promise you’ll never take Spanish again.”
“I’ll take it.”
A missionary to Mexico since 1967, relating his college Spanish class experience. He would later go on to graduate at the top of his class in Spanish language school.
Aug 19
Goo is my co-pilot. This is a prime example of why it is important to choose an appropriate font when you design something. It is equally important for fonts to be designed well in the first place. Why make a font where the O and the D are virtually identical?
Of course, speaking of design, the “is my” is absolutely impossible to read. What, am I supposed to somehow tailgate you from the front to read the tiny words embedded in those tiny wings above ‘co-pilot?’
Aug 16
“The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.”
Aug 11
“If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some [expletive deleted] silly thing in the Balkans.” –Otto von Bismark
And then this happened:
Next stop: World War I.
As quoted by Winston Churchill in an address given on August 16, 1945 in the House of Commons.
Photo from the Smithsonian.
Jul 28
“…you try to put ’em in the car seat and they do this [go stiff] and we call that the board baby, and you just wanna karate chop ’em right in the middle–wa-CHA!”
Jul 26
“Fake jade artifacts can be divided into 4 catagories:-
Grade A, intends to fool experts.
Grade B, intends to fool unaware collectors.
Grade C, intends to fool new collectors.
Grade D, intends to fool tourists.”
–found online when I was searching for info about jade.
Jul 15
“Down in interior Mexico it’s no more dangerous than driving in Kansas City at night.” –missionary to Mexico, who was saying that as a positive thing
Jul 10
“His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Dr. Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”. –the self-bestowed title of African dictator Idi Amin
