17-02-2009, 08:22 PM
Johnny Carson's favorite joke:
In the deepest, darkest part of the jungle is an immesne swamp. It is the hottest day in a century, steam rises from the fetid water and dying lilly pads. The calls of makaws and monkeys barely penetrate the sodden air.
Slowly, in the middle of the swamp, rise the heads of two immense hippos. Only their eyes and nostrils are visible as they part the rotting vegetation.
And one hippo turns to the other and says, "I can't get it through my head that it's Tuesday."
In the deepest, darkest part of the jungle is an immesne swamp. It is the hottest day in a century, steam rises from the fetid water and dying lilly pads. The calls of makaws and monkeys barely penetrate the sodden air.
Slowly, in the middle of the swamp, rise the heads of two immense hippos. Only their eyes and nostrils are visible as they part the rotting vegetation.
And one hippo turns to the other and says, "I can't get it through my head that it's Tuesday."
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene