Said one of them, probably called Zac, “It’s just not very nice. It’s not crisp at all. It’s gloopy. It leaves a sort of film in your mouth. It’s almost creamy.”
“Wait a minute!” cried another, possibly named AJ, “’Creamy’, that’s a good word! That’s a heritage word. ‘Creamy’, that sounds like a good thing, sounds like how things used to be in the good old days. I reckon if we polled people as to whether they thought Britain had got more or less creamy over the last 50 years, they’d say less, and they’d be sorry about it. Everything in the past was creamy, wasn’t it? Call me crazy, but I reckon we can actually promote this beer as being creamy and make that sound like a good thing.”
“Of course, [the machine] needed energy, for cultivating the algae, and this was produced, we postulate, by a small nuclear reactor,” says Rodney Dale, a wild-eyed madman.
Patient self diagnosed as dead. EMTs didn’t believe him. He was quite insistent though, and wanted an ambulance ride because he thought a dead person ought to have one. The EMTs argued with him, stating that he was both standing and talking. He countered that he was in hell.
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In this chapter I consider what it might mean to queer ‘the’ economic crisis.
I was surprised that I couldn’t put this book down. It was a combo of an eastern philosophy version of Conversations with God, UFC fighting, mommy/daddy porn, and Austrian economics mixed into one.
“Steve Ballmer can be so zealous in expressing his enthusiasm that once his vocal cords required surgery after he screamed “Windows, Windows, Windows” continuously at a Japan meeting in 1991.”
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I really like the @NYTMinusContext twitter, in part because it has a very distinct “personality” even though it only posts out-of-context quotes
It’s sort of this … catty, hard-drinking misanthrope
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Great fish, thanks.
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