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Posted on October 3, 2017

Maniacal Punctuation

Annibale Carracci, Giovane che ride, 1583, Roma, Galleria Borghese“What sort of person,” said Salzella patiently, “sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.”
Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

Posted on April 4, 2016

Hercule Poirot is Not the Cheshire Cat

Arthur Rackham Cheshire Cat
“I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps–at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, ‘all there.”
Hercule Poirot in The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

Quotes and Reviews

Sideburns, for example, are named after the sideburn-wearing General Ambrose Burnside.
Customer: give me burnsides!
Barber: (lights blowtorch)
Customer: wait, what?
—The Ambition of a Potato

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