It’s not often that you have the opportunity to write a set of cartoons wherein you actually belittle your own accustomed writing style within the dialogue which is itself a parody of another writing style altogether… And if that’s NOT what I’m doing here, then it’s even less often than having the opportunity and taking advantage of it.
Having said that, I’d like to point out that Mark Twain is one of those people so widely quoted, that many things attributed to him were things he never said. One of my favorite “quotes” by Twain was this one:
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
The giveaway is that this quote first saw print five years after Twain died. And that Twain’s father himself was well dead years before Twain turned fourteen.
Here’s the quote I want attributed to me- “It’s the assumptions you don’t know you’re making that do you the most harm.”
I totally cadged that off of Douglas Adams, by distilling an entire paragraph of his from the book “Last Chance to See.” There’s got to be a way that we can posthumously fight over who said what.
Greg, if you want to posthumously fight with Douglas Adams, I volunteer to referee!
And some listening folks don’t bear repeating.
I have a towel Douglas Adams signed! One of my prized convention acquisitions… so let’s throw in the towel and see where this one leads, eh?
A landlord I had owned a pawnshop, he was one that worked with the police and you wouldn’t believe the number of half-brains that thought all pawnshops were fences. Or the things people would try to pawn. He did teach me the true value of some things, real eye opener…
I’m betting Mr. Designer Bag there is about to flip his widget and make like the Tasmanian Devil …
and the crazy story goes on lol
In order to posthumously fight over attribution of quotes, both of you would have to be part of the newly risen dead.
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I’ll buying tickets to see that fight.
I wrote one thing and then half-edited it without fully rereading. Ugh, it’s too late right now.
[I’ll buy tickets to see that fight.]
Who doesn’t bear listening to, the dunderheaded HR, or Clem?
and twain goes for round two in the battle to be the most craziest person ever in the hubris universe . hope he is around long enough to meet the crazy dog lady
Speaking of crazy dog lady, the wreckage in the store is as expected if she came in and the dog took a liking to bag boy.
Bag boy, bag boy, whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?