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August 30, 2005
Volume 5, Issue 30
Are quotes from other people inspiring?
Some would say so. Some would not.
Either way, that's the theme of today.
Click here to generate a list of random quotations, choose the third one, and write like a maniac, a maniac, on the floor, and she's dancing like she's never danced before (oh woh oh).
Oh, and include your quote at the bottom of your entry, but don't count it against your 100 words.
Laurence - The Wacky Adventures Of Abraham Lincoln - Chapter 35
"Fight! Fight!"
President Lincoln put down his beer, walked in between the brawlers, and shoved them apart.
"Enough, Gentlemen!" he roared. "Who be you, and what is your dispute?"
"I am Johnny Mercyseed," said an overall-clad farmer. "I go around the country and plant mercy for all to take comfort in."
"My name's Johnny Strictjustice," said the other, who wore leather and bore a nasty-looking whip. "I punish people for their crimes."
"You're a pervert," said Mercyseed. "Animal!"
"Wimp!" shouted Strictjustice. "Pussy!"
Two years later, they both died at Gettysburg. Abe planted an apple tree.
"Good idea," said Johnny Appleseed.
For those of you familiar with my "Wacky Adventures of Abraham Lincoln" series on my own site, you can probably understand my shock and surprise when this quote popped up in the third slot:
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), speech in Washington D.C., 1865
Ted: I hate you, Andy...
That was the last vocalization ever made by the never-great diva. Her words were sung however. She had spent her life training for her big debut. After years of study, practice, vast fortunes spent on instructors and voice coaches, and traveling around the world just to keep her instrument in the best possible atmosphere, the truth was inescapable.
She sucked.
Her talent could be measured in a thimble.
But inexplicably, when Andy finally couldn't take it any more and knifed her to death, her last words rang pure to the heavens, calling forth the host of Valhalla to avenge her.
(Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.....Ed Gardner)