Un-fucking-believable. I managed to hit the base of my champagne glass just so, such that a Large Drop of the Sprite within went straight up my nose.
I can still feel it.
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Here's a gem from work today:
Cris: (to Customer) Can I help you with anything?
Customer: No, thanks. I'm just looking for the moment.
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The Burton translation of 1001 Nights is hilarious, often unintentionally. The footnotes are fantastic. Examples:
And, as will be seen, Persians have bequeathed to the outer world worse things than bad language, e.g. heresy and sodomy.
A youth; a generous man, of noble mind (as youth-tide should be).
This readiness of shedding tears contrasts strongly with the external stoicism of modern civilization; but it is true to Arab character; and Easterns, like the heroes of Homer and the Italians of Boccacio, are not ashamed of what we look upon as the result of female hysteria--"a good cry".
12:14 a.m. 2004-03-11�
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