QUOTE OF THE NOW

"Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower. 'Lead us not into temptation.'" Joseph Campbell
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

I share it with you

Friend posted this on facebook. It's so wise and worth keeping in mind that I wanted to share!



But then on the site that shared it, I found a bunch of funnies to share too!

The title of this was "Canada may be America's hat but..."



This is so me. I can't take short showers!



A T-Rex might be okay.
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Thursday, June 30, 2011

A garden full of lines

* For those with an RSS reader or getting this by email, sorry for posting this 50 million times. Blogger seems to have caught my current bout of insanity.

Today's flower. From a Wodehouse fan page on facebook someone asked for favorite Wodehouse lines. My contribution was: "If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." One of the things I enjoy about being part of this page is the way my love of Wodehouse particularly unites me with people of Southeast Asian descent. Often when an Indian writer is asked "Who were your influences?" old Plum's name comes up. Maybe it's one of the few things us colonials don't begrudge the colonizer
    • Dhruv M. Trivedi As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight
      June 16 at 5:02am · · 4 people4 people like this.

    • Sastry Kunapuli i agree with the suggestion of mrs.ssg.....
      June 16 at 5:29am ·

    • Swati Sengupta Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
      June 16 at 8:41pm · · 4 peopleLoading...

    • Swati Sengupta ‎...now tailors measured him just for the sake of exercise.
      June 16 at 8:47pm · · 2 peopleLoading...

    • Dhruv M. Trivedi ‎"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."
      June 16 at 10:51pm · · 4 people4 people like this.

    • Dhruv M. Trivedi The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
      June 16 at 10:55pm · · 4 people4 people like this.

    • Nitin Vaswani now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
      June 17 at 12:47am ·

    • Dhruv M. Trivedi
      ‎"What ho!" I said.

      "What ho!" said Motty.

      "What ho! What ho!"
      ...
      "What ho! What ho! What ho!"

      After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation."

      June 17 at 1:20am · · 8 people8 people like this.

    • Deepak Ramamurthy Don't remember who said this or about whom: "The beastly woman spent 45 minutes explaining why she wrote her book, when a simple apology was all that was needed."
      June 17 at 8:02am · · 9 people9 people like this.

    • Peter Begley ‎"I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare--or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad--who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping."
      June 18 at 2:54am · · 4 people4 people like this.

    • Dhruv M. Trivedi ‎"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. "
      June 18 at 2:58am · · 2 people2 people like this.

    • Paul R. Carroll
      ‘I particularly wish you to make a good impression on Mr Filmer.’

      ‘Right-ho.’

      ‘Don’t speak in that casual way, as if you supposed that it was
      ...perfectly natural that you would make a good impression upon
      him. Mr Filmer is a serious-minded man of high character and
      purpose, and you are just the type of vapid and frivolous wastrel
      against which he is most likely to be prejudiced.’

      Hard words, of course, from one’s own flesh and blood, but
      well in keeping with past form.

      June 18 at 3:18am · · 4 people4 people like this.

    • Jen Powell Too many to declare an absolute favourite, so I'll just share from the book I'm reading today: "...the Code of the Woosters is stricter than the Code of the Catsmeats."
      June 18 at 8:34am · · 1 personLoading...

    • Paul R. Carroll It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.
      June 18 at 8:39am · · 4 people4 people like this.

    • Jen Powell his air was that of a man who, if he had said 'Hullo girls', would have said it like someone in a Russian drama announcing that Grandpapa had hanged himself in the barn.
      June 18 at 8:45am · · 8 people8 people like this.

    • Paul R. Carroll What's that from?
      June 18 at 8:45am ·

    • Jen Powell The Mating Season, although I think he might have used the line in another earlier story as well.
      June 18 at 8:47am ·

    • Paul R. Carroll
      The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting ‘Heil, Spode!’ and you im...agine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: ‘Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?
      -B. Wooster


      June 18 at 8:47am · · 4 peopleLoading...

    • Paul R. Carroll You sent me to my collection to look up Code of the Woosters...
      June 18 at 8:50am · · 1 personLoading...

    • Jen Powell A tall, drooping man, looking as if he had been stuffed in a hurry by an incompetent taxidermist....
      (The Mating Season)
      June 18 at 8:52am · · 4 people4 people like this.

    • Jen Powell Paul, I did the same thing myself at first. It's that line about 'the Code of the Woosters' being stricter than the code of the Catsmeats that always causes me confusion.
      June 18 at 8:53am ·

    • Paul R. Carroll Those who know Bertram Wooster best are aware that in his journey through life he is impeded and generally snootered by about as scaly a platoon of aunts as was ever assembled.
      June 18 at 8:55am · · 5 people5 people like this.

    • Dhruv M. Trivedi It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
      June 19 at 12:33am · · 4 people4 people like this.

    • Tim Richards ‎"You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing. One or the other. Not both."
      June 19 at 4:42pm · · 7 people7 people like this.

    • Paul R. Carroll lndeed, sir.
      June 19 at 5:33pm ·

    • Tim Richards Truer words have never been written.
      June 19 at 5:35pm ·

    • Ramdas Viswanathan ‎@swati - trust the female to place the world in a concatenation of permanent contemplation! :)
      June 19 at 7:12pm · · 1 personSwati Sengupta likes this.

    • Bama Balakrishnan ‎...it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers...
      June 19 at 7:48pm · · 4 people4 people like this.

    • Dhruv M. Trivedi Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous
      June 21 at 4:28am · · 2 people2 people like this.

    • Dhruv M. Trivedi Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him
      June 21 at 4:31am · · 4 peopleLoading...

    • Katharina O'Grady How can you choose just one favourite line. In the J & W episodes alone, there are dozens if not hundreds of absolute LOL moments!!
      June 21 at 11:09am · · 2 peopleLoading...

    • Swati Sengupta And it sometimes happens with me that I laugh at different lines when I read the books a second time!
      June 21 at 11:11am · · 1 personJen Powell likes this.

    • Katharina O'Grady Same here, Swat,....!!
      June 21 at 11:13am · · 1 personSwati Sengupta likes this.

    • Jyothiprakash Trishuleshwar Providence, mysterious in its workings, had given him instead of the more customary human brain, a skull full of concrete!
      June 21 at 1:05pm · · 2 peopleLoading...

    • Mario Schiani ‎"Precisely, sir. Carpe diem, the Roman poet Horace advised. The English poet Herrick expressed the same sentiment when he suggested that we should gather rosebuds while we may. Your elbow is in the butter, sir."
      June 21 at 1:20pm · · 3 peopleLoading...

    • Shabbir Shamsi Lord Ickenham thought he could guess.He was aware that given a pack of cards, Claude Pott could offend the mildest lamb.Indeed, it was a tenable theory that this might have been the cause of his once having bitten by one.
      June 23 at 12:48am · · 2 people2 people like this.

    • Sourav Sengupta ‎"Then how do you know he's a big bug?"
      "Precisely," said Psmith. "On what system have you estimated the size of the gentleman's bughood?" --(Psmith Journalist)
      June 24 at 4:54pm · · 3 people3 people like this.

    • Vijen Julian Wood Angus McAllister ... was a sturdy man of medium height, with eyebrows that would have fitted a bigger forehead.
      June 25 at 9:28am · · 2 people2 people like this.

    • Carolyn Roosevelt ‎...aunt calling to aunt, like mastodons across the primeval swamp...
      June 25 at 2:22pm · · 3 people3 people like this.

    • Frank Cowell The self-assessment of cult literary star Vladimir Brusilov: "No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me."
      June 25 at 6:12pm · · 2 peopleLoading...

    • Dhruv M. Trivedi It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
      June 26 at 6:51am · · 1 personSwati Sengupta likes this.

    • Dhruv M. Trivedi Have you ever tasted such filthy coffee?" "Never" said Joe, though he had lived in French hotels
      June 26 at 6:57am · · 2 people2 people like this.

    • Dhruv M. Trivedi I had just got across the lawn when a head poked itself out of the smoking-room window and beamed at me in an amiable sort of way.
      “Ah, Mr. Wooster,” it said. “Ha, ha!”
      “Ho, ho!” I replied, not to be outdone in the courtesies.
      June 26 at 7:03am · · 3 people3 people like this.

    • Frank Cowell
      ‎"... If I had a quid for every time I've seen you gaze at him with the lovelight in your eyes----"
      She gazed at me, but without the lovelight.
      "Oh, for goodness sake, go away and boil your head, Bertie!"
      I drew myself up.
      "That," I replied, wi...th dignity, "is just what I am going to go away and boil. At least, I mean, I shall now leave you. I have said my say."
      "Good."
      "But permit me to add----"
      "I won't."
      "Very good," I said coldly. "In that case, tinkerty tonk."
      And I meant it to sting.

      June 26 at 7:28am · · 2 people2 people like this.

    • Steve Moppett ‎"You know your Shelley, Bertie" "Am I?"
      June 26 at 2:37pm · · 7 peopleLoading...

    • Bill Cawley Heil Spode and you imagine its the Voice of the People. That's where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is " Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in all your puff see such a perfect perisher"
      June 26 at 7:18pm · · 3 people3 people like this.

    • Shabbir Shamsi At the open window of the great library of Blandings Castle, drooping like a wet sock, as was his habit when he had nothing to prop his spine against, the Earl of Emsworth,that amiable and boneheaded peer, stood gazing out over his domain.
      Monday at 1:43am · · 3 people3 people like this.

    • Jen Powell ‎@Frank. Great quote from the Clicking of Cuthbert. Possibly my favourite Wodehouse short story. Brimming to the back teeth with fabulous lines.
      Monday at 4:14am ·

    • Frank Cowell ‎Jen : well, living / working in the academic world one comes across quite a few with the Vladimir Brusilov attitude. Quite a few with his amazing beard too...
      Monday at 4:39am · · 1 personSwati Sengupta likes this.

    • Jen Powell Your literary afternoon teas must be a sight to behold, all those cake slices being steered through the shrubberies.
      Monday at 6:36am · · 1 personPaul R. Carroll likes this.

    • Frank Cowell ‎Swati Sengupta: In fact I used your "codfish" quotation in an academic bbok -- in a chapter on inheritance and wealth!
      Monday at 8:52am ·
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