Quote of the Day for 2016-08-11

"I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws."

— S.J. Perelman (1904-1979) "Captain Future, Block That Kick!," The New Yorker (January 20, 1940)

Ernest Thesiger (as Doctor Pretorius) and Colin Clive (as Henry Frankenstein) in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Quote of the Day for 2015-11-17

"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else."

— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) "Virginibus Puerisque," Cornhill Magazine, August 1876

Bad puns must also be shared.

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-10

"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny."

— Father Ronald Knox (1888-1957) Introduction to Essays in Satire

Donald Trump