It's always encouraging to find a line from a favorite writer being borne out by Science. (SCIENCE!) For instance, a recent social science study was inspired in part by a Mark Twain quote, from The Innocents Abroad:
Checking into a hotel in Lund, Sweden, the desk clerk was blond (of course) and had a Texas twang. Turned out she'd been an au pair for a couple years.
Frequent flyer points are going to be worth less than ameros (but more than fiat money*) as soon as American Airlines is debased to the level of <strike>America West</strike> US Airways. ______ *Lamborghini money, OTOH, is quite valuable, because Lambo belongs to the Germans.
I&#039;m currently living abroad (France) and can confirm that it does shake up perceptions about my fellow Earthicans a bit. Of course, the French will tell ya that their way is the best, whatever they might be doing, so in that regard, they are awfully like Americans.
Mark Twain: <i> ...a God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and foregiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man&#039;s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!</i>
&quot;But does travel actually make you a more open-minded person?&quot; This is probably true and I hold as evidence the fact that Ted Cruz&rsquo;s head has never left his ass.
Checking into a hotel in Lund, Sweden, the desk clerk was blond (of course) and had a Texas twang. Turned out she&#039;d been an au pair for a couple years.
And on this side of the pond, it&#039;s Parisians in particular. There&#039;s more similar than different about these two nationalities.
Snowbilly, on the other hand, didn&#039;t have a passport when Panamanian strongman Juan McCain anointed her.
Frequent flyer points are going to be worth less than ameros (but more than fiat money*) as soon as American Airlines is debased to the level of <strike>America West</strike> US Airways. ______ *Lamborghini money, OTOH, is quite valuable, because Lambo belongs to the Germans.
I&#039;m currently living abroad (France) and can confirm that it does shake up perceptions about my fellow Earthicans a bit. Of course, the French will tell ya that their way is the best, whatever they might be doing, so in that regard, they are awfully like Americans.
If you can&#039;t trust that mustache, you can&#039;t trust anything.
Sam Clemens. Now <i>there</i> was a natural blonde!
SO&#039;s mother is very adamant that we not ever visit Chicago.
I never bothered to listen to the why part.
Mark Twain: <i> ...a God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and foregiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man&#039;s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!</i>
&quot;But does travel actually make you a more open-minded person?&quot; This is probably true and I hold as evidence the fact that Ted Cruz&rsquo;s head has never left his ass.