When November 11 rolls around, this quote from Breakfast of Champions gets dragged out of storage and put on display for the occasion of Kurt Vonnegut's birthday and Armistice/Veterans' Day. God knows we've done it ourselves, too. But that's what remembrance and ceremony are for, after all, as mile markers on our half-blind
My googling gives the Bierce quote as "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" and Twain's as "God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” I think they shared so many ideas and a similar sense of humor so it probably occurred independently. The Devil's Dictionary is a great book; I lost my copy and need to pick up another.
I will nevaar outgrow my adolescent love of Kurt Vonnegut. So there!
“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.” -- KV
babies full of rabies, my, my
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Call me a buzzkill, but I thought that was Ambrose Bierce. Or where those two gentlemen quoting each other?
My googling gives the Bierce quote as "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" and Twain's as "God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” I think they shared so many ideas and a similar sense of humor so it probably occurred independently. The Devil's Dictionary is a great book; I lost my copy and need to pick up another.
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Take a look at how The City That Knows How (San Francisco, of course) celebrated VJ day. It's quite a story.
I will nevaar outgrow my adolescent love of Kurt Vonnegut. So there!
“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.” -- KV
Kilgore Trout Mask Replica
(C_R_eature's headline was better)
Better this than the annual NPR Christmas cranberry sauce recipie with Worchestershire sauce or whatever the Hell is in it.
With all due respect to KV, on 11/11 I think the Wonkette tradition should be to quote from Mark Twain's "War Prayer."
If you've never read it, today would be a very good day to discover it.
If you have read it, today would be a very good day to read it again.
I think the Black Plague was sending a message...
worse yet, they'll send their children in- over and over
it's their idea of a jobs program
"God created war so that Americans would learn geography." --Mark Twain
Nice, nice very nice.