Month: April 2007

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Quotations

Worry

04/27/2007 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Worry
If you worry, you die.  If you don’t worry, you also die.  So why worry?Mike Horn, Arctic Explorer
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Humor

When insults had class

04/27/2007 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on When insults had class
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.Winston ChurchillA modest little person, with much to be modest about.Winston ChurchillI have never killed a man, but I have read many […]
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Humor

Balance

04/26/2007 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Balance
God was missing for six days.  Eventually, Michael, the archangel, found him, resting on the seventh day.  He inquired, “Where have you been?”God smiled deeply and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, “Look, Michael.  Look […]
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General

What are the wim-wams?

04/25/2007 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on What are the wim-wams?
…when Toby is bored or complaining, [his father] announces as if to an unseen audience, “The kid has the wim-wams.”Kinderscenen by John Updike in Harpers, December 2006, Page 82I always wondered what that was, but […]
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Quotations

Names

04/25/2007 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Names
Watching a child acquire language, I realize, again, that naming things demystifies them.Mary Casey