Any moment now..." The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water.
No magical raft appeared.
"Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said.
Tag: humor
Anyway, the point is that you guys really need to get out more.
Hitori NakanoI Have Fought the Good Fight and Won
Carmen J. ViglucciTag: humor memoir 1940s 50-first-cousins bookies italian-irish-family political-bosses
[...]tutta quanta la stanza era in ogni suo punto ugualmente piena di tazzine sporche, di scarpe e di posacenere pieni che si scambiavano ormai i ruoli l'uno con l'altro.
Douglas AdamsTag: humor
I'm sorry, Mr. Whiteleaf. I'm not going to let a monster eat me for minimum wage.
A. Lee MartinezTag: humor minimum-wage
Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which to exercise its edges, and Juan Borgia served admirably in place of drunken innkeepers and tavern cheats.
Kate QuinnTag: humor
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:
It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
Tag: humor science biology funny health medicine safe vaccine polio-vaccine
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery}
Tag: humor science talent funny discovery famous chemistry nobel-laureate scientist indigo buchner cell-free-yeast-extract eduard-buchner synthesized-indigo
I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.
Robert S. MullikenTag: humor science life purpose meaning-of-life courage funny meaning suicide rationality hedonism interesting study purpose-of-life nobel-laureate scientist molecular-orbital-theory scientific-hedonism study-of-science
Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. (And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.)
Pierre de FermatTag: humor science knowledge funny posterity scientist ancients mathematician thank fermat-s-theorem
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