I think it’s time for two new categories, Personal
and Writing
, but I don’t want to call them by those names. I’m now accepting suggestions for pithy quotations for each category and a short excerpt for the name. (Even I found Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well
–category title Nature’s chief masterpiece
–from the Duke of Buckinghamshire Sheffield’s Essay on Poetry
too pretentious for my little chunk of cyberspace.)
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Oops. Sorry. I just realised that you wanted a pithy quote not just a good category name.
Sorry, I can’t help you with anything pithy. In fact, I just went for a pith before coming here to read this so I’m all out.
Puns are bad.
I should be shot.
Not just because of the puns.
“The pun is not only the most complex, but the very highest–I might even say the all-highest — form of humour.” –Walter Willis
http://fanac.org/fanzines/Willis_Papers/Defence_Of_The_Pun.html
Who the h#ll is Walter Willis and is he still taking his medication?
How about “Drivel”?
It could even be interchangeable.
Hey, I gotta be me.