Joho the Blog
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January 28, 2003
I got sent a copy of the latest issue of "Quotes, Notes & Anecdotes," a 116-page journal of sparkling quotations suitable for use by after-dinner speakers (e.g., "Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best" — Bob Talbert, US journalist, 1982). The accompanying note explained that I was sent this issue because I'm quoted in it. Cool! Unfortunately, they didn't say which page. So, I quickly thumbed through, and there, amidst quotations from King James I, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Howard Zinn, and, well, a guy who parachutes with a dachsund tucked into his pocket, there I find the insight so keen, so piercing, so arresting, that it has earned me a spot in this pantheon of blurbers:
That's it? That's the cleverest, pithiest, zing-iest thing I ever wrote? I don't even know what that has to do with professionalism and I wrote the damn sentence. BTW, I am not a Canadian author. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Posted
by D. Weinberger at January 28, 2003 10:06 AM
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Comments
Not only that, but they got your age wrong; surely you’re not a day over forty!
Posted by: AKMA | January 28, 2003 01:30 PM
For reasons I prefer not to explore, I pass the time by using Google's translation service to translate important pithy sayings into german, then the result into french then that result back to english. Your quote then becomes:
"We receive to take a step the teeth in the idealised and narrowed sentence behaviour which as professionalism is known "
which sounds even more profound.
Similarly,
Look before you leap! becomes
Look at, before you do not jump!
What goes around comes around becomes
What walks, circulates.
Still looking for a really funny one of course.
Posted by: Vergil Iliescu | January 28, 2003 07:59 PM
Dana's Law of Laptops -- from the 1980s.
"An ounce on the desk is a pound in my hand."
Posted by: Dana Blankenhorn | January 28, 2003 08:40 PM