"Bring on the empty horses" is my new favourite exclamation! I will do my best to place it in a conversation this month. As to the “I know fuck-nothing” impossibility, it always made me chuckle - I've first heard it in the song Willard (0:43) by Bran Van 3000 (remember THEM?) and I had no idea of its origins. So cool.
Ha! Now to figure out what is Todd’s favourite cheese...
I had a similar epiphany when I realized the song Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches was based on a Wayne & Shuster radio comedy bit. My daughter loved that song when she was little and was later delighted to learn that the comedians sampled throughout are famous graduates of her high school, Harbord Collegiate.
“Give people a new word, and they think they have a new fact.”
— Willa Cather
“We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.”
— Niels Bohr
“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language.”
— E. M. Cioran
“Language is not the frosting, it’s the cake.”
— Tom Robbins
“Bring on the empty horses!”
— Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American film director who issued this order during the filming of The Charge of the Light Brigade. His crew laughed because of course he meant to say riderless horses, causing him to retort:
“You think I know fuck-nothing, when I know fuck-all!”
"Bring on the empty horses" is my new favourite exclamation! I will do my best to place it in a conversation this month. As to the “I know fuck-nothing” impossibility, it always made me chuckle - I've first heard it in the song Willard (0:43) by Bran Van 3000 (remember THEM?) and I had no idea of its origins. So cool.
Ha! Now to figure out what is Todd’s favourite cheese...
I had a similar epiphany when I realized the song Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches was based on a Wayne & Shuster radio comedy bit. My daughter loved that song when she was little and was later delighted to learn that the comedians sampled throughout are famous graduates of her high school, Harbord Collegiate.
Dear Benjamin,
Love this! Some of my favorite quotes this week:
“Give people a new word, and they think they have a new fact.”
— Willa Cather
“We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.”
— Niels Bohr
“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language.”
— E. M. Cioran
“Language is not the frosting, it’s the cake.”
— Tom Robbins
“Bring on the empty horses!”
— Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American film director who issued this order during the filming of The Charge of the Light Brigade. His crew laughed because of course he meant to say riderless horses, causing him to retort:
“You think I know fuck-nothing, when I know fuck-all!”
Thank you for sharing as always!
Love
Myq
"Schott’ Significa" really is a gem and you are right; the book of the year for anyone who loves language.
Thank you for the validation that I've got the correct readers and vice versa!