also in the boom of the big bell there is a quaintness of tone which wakens feelings, so strangely far-away from all the nineteenth-century part of me, that the faint blind stirrings of them make me afraid, - deliciously afraid. never do I hear that billowing peal but I become aware of a striving and a fluttering in the abyssal part of my ghost, - a sensation as of memories struggling to reach the light beyond the obscurations of a million million deaths and births. I hope to remain within hearing of that bell... and, considering the possibility of being doomed to the state of a jiki-ketsu-geki, I want to have my chance of being reborn in some bamboo flower-cup, or mizutame, whence I might issue softly, singing my thin and pungent song, to bite some people that I know.
Lafcadio HearnTags: humor reincarnation poignant mosquitoes tongue-in-cheek
Master Dung’s study was silent. So silent, in fact, that one might have been able to hear a gnat passing air, if only an obligingly flatulent gnat had happened nearby.
Sorin SuciuTags: humor geek-humor tongue-in-cheek
There was a rare quality about Nurse Grace’s smile. It was the knowledge that sooner or later her smile would inspire some witty observer to say something around the lines of, “Every time you do this, an angel farts”.
Sorin SuciuTags: humor smile tongue-in-cheek
What makes the Arctic VarChar so unusual and popular is that each bite has a different taste. As you carve your way into the ersatz fillet, you might find yourself chewing on smoked salmon, tender tuna, marinated mackerel, seared snapper, raw roe, baked barracuda, grilled goldfish, or even pickled perch, to alliterate just a few.
Sorin SuciuTags: humor geeks tongue-in-cheek geek-books
He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults look for a length of rope and some soap.
Sorin SuciuTags: humor storytellers story-telling geek-humor tongue-in-cheek
Merkin had used only one drop of the “just soap.” Two drops would have made her Master walk slightly awkwardly. Three drops would have made a Victorian gentleman utter something really lustful, such as “you transfix me quite.
Sorin SuciuTags: humor lustful victorian master tongue-in-cheek merkin
The conversation had been so lacking in quality that it actually made Toddlers and Tiaras look like good entertainment by comparison.
Sorin SuciuTags: humor entertainment geek-humor tongue-in-cheek toddlers-and-tiaras
FEBRIZIUM();” said Buggeroff, and the foul smell immediately disappeared as if by, well − Magic.
Sorin SuciuTags: humor magic wizards tongue-in-cheek
Let’s see, you will need a project plan, resource allocation, a timeline, test cycles, a budget, a contingency budget, lots of diagrams, flowcharts, a media release, a strategic vision, a charter, technical specifications, business rules, travel expenses, a development environment, deployment instructions, a user acceptance test, stationary, overtime schedule, a mock-up, prototypes…”
“Tell me,” she said, “did the people who built the pyramids have any of those?”
“Mostly, they had beer. Come to think of it, if there had been such a thing as a Business Analyst in ancient Egypt, then the hieroglyph for it would have been very graphical, if you know what I mean.
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Are you single?” inquired − rather bluntly − the email titled “Career Opportunity.
Sorin SuciuTags: fantasy wizards tongue-in-cheek contemporary-fantasy
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