great piece as always! some of my fave quotes this time:
“He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.”
— Jean Cocteau
“The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved.”
Having discovered balderdash in about fifth grade, I joyously looked for every possible excuse to use it as my response. Then I hit college and I replaced it with much more mundane scatological responses, which I confess I have been using more and more as of late. I think I might just have to resurrect balderdash as my response to everything that is coming out of our (pick any of the combinations that got the darkest red in the column) national leader's mouth.
dear benjamin,
great piece as always! some of my fave quotes this time:
“He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.”
— Jean Cocteau
“The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved.”
— Russell Lynes
“There are two words for everything.”
— E.V. Lucas
thanks for sharing as always!
love
myq
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Chuffdom is Job 1 here at GWQ
Having discovered balderdash in about fifth grade, I joyously looked for every possible excuse to use it as my response. Then I hit college and I replaced it with much more mundane scatological responses, which I confess I have been using more and more as of late. I think I might just have to resurrect balderdash as my response to everything that is coming out of our (pick any of the combinations that got the darkest red in the column) national leader's mouth.
Dipdash those baldernuggets!