Quote of the Day for 2016-02-18

"Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az mutch difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug."

— Josh Billings (1818-1895) Josh Billings' Old Farmers' Allminax

The Algonquin Round Table by Al Hirschfeld (1962) From left, clockwise, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Franklin P. Adams, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, and Robert Sherwood. Background: from left, Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt, Frank Crowninshield, and Frank Case.

Quote of the Day for 2015-10-08

"I kno plenty ov folks who are so kondem kontrary, that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating up stream."

— Josh Billings (1818-1885) Affurisms: "Phish Bawls"

Fred Phelps (center), infamous leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, being creatively photobombed (circa 2006)