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Quote of the Day

“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”
(Kurt Vonnegut, The Siren of Titan)

An Absurd World…

A Mississippi family has had their internal security camera hacked and their 8-year old daughter taunted by an unknown offender. The camera, set-up in their daughters’ bedroom, all of a sudden started to play a rendition of Tiny Tim’s, Tiptoe through the Tulips, while the 8-year old girl was in the room alone. Soon a male voice was telling her that he was Santa Claus while encouraging her to destroy the bedroom.

A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said

The late bird catches the world 

Book Title You Will Probably Never See…

The Motives of a Janitor Who Loves Ants

The Meaning of Life?

To sunbake next to a canal in Amsterdam

Said No One, Probably Ever….

“Why are the rights and wrongs and lefts abominated and cajoled by the world?”

A Statistic That Probably Never Was or Will Ever Be…

67% of people worldwide would have a 2-hour enema if their family let them

From The Great Man Pedro Carolino Who Wrote A Portuguese-English Phrase Book, using a pair of dictionaries to translate from Portuguese into French and French into English, Without Speaking Any English…

- Come in an eating-house
- How do you like this eating?
- I will take a glass of brandy at the cherries
 (Dialogue 41, page 77)



“Next time I live, I’ll bring a horse that sings”


Go Absurd! Exercise:

Walk around in public with a prominent T-shirt or sign that says,
Clothes
Are
Optional
(laugh
 if you agree)

A Sign You Will Probably Never See…


WILL
YOU
NOT

Remember

Absurd responsibly. The Buddhist no harm principle applies here. Do not harm yourself or others when going absurd. (Maybe what I have just written is absurd?)

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