Tibetan Divination text, found in the Dunhuang Oasis (Gansu province, northwest China). From the British Library exhibition on the Silk Road.
-Anyone know anything about this text? It looks super cool but I'm not familiar with either the language or the subject matter.
Jeez, Trump is really running out of those "free taco" gift cards
I miss ads like this. I mean, what was everyone thinking! It was wonderful!!!
They could really get an epic crew together too
The present generation sees everything clearly, marvels at the errors and laughs at the follies of its forefathers, not seeing that there are streaks of heavenly light in that history, that every letter in it cries aloud to them, that on all sides a pointing finger is turned upon it..
Nikolai Gogol
Bill: So-crates - The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.
Ted: That's us, dude.
-Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Ahh, too bad
'They [the consultants] resemble those expensive early modern executioners that merciful monarchs summoned to chop off troublesome aristocratic heads with a minimum of fuss and bother'.
Interesting point. So who's most at fault? The consultant? The 'merciful monarch'? or the 'aristocratic heads'?
Yeah, it's not looking good. Here's the (not even most updated) chart...
Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: [to Boon] Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
-Animal House (1978)
I just adore this song ❤️
Rest in peace Dolores😔
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-D...
Yup think we might already be losing this war... News from Iraq, the forgotten front of this conflict...
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260406-dro...
Could also have to do with the jet fuel shortage? And therefore price increases and flight cancellations?
www.businessinsider.com/airlines-can...
Max Bialystock: How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?
-The Producers (1967)
Time for the revenge of the real X(erox)?
"They say everything can be replaced. They say every distance is not near. So I remember every face, of every man who put me here..."
-I Shall be Released, The Band
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MjtP...
Girl Scout: Is this made from real lemons?
Wednesday: Yes.
Girl Scout: Well, I'll tell you what. I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies. Do we have a deal?
Wednesday: Are they made from real Girl Scouts?
Praise be??? Ohhhh noooo
Don't think the economy will look great when this is all done through
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Jeez this place is a bigger bubble than planet Spaceball
Henry: It's gonna be alright, Luce.
Lucy: [to Henry] Don't call me Luce. I barely know you.
Marlin: Sweetie, you're sorta dating him.
[Lucy looks at Henry]
Henry: Sorry I'm not better looking.
-50 First Dates
Under the inexorable law of supply and demand, supplies so overran demand which would pay that production was compelled to stop. Unemployment and closed factories resulted. Hence the tragic years from 1929 to 1933."
In that message I analyzed the causes of the collapse of 1929 in these words: "overspeculation in and overproduction of practically every article or instrument used by man...
-FDR Fireside Chats
“[B]efore committing ourselves definitely to a major monkey-house [a formal conference], I should like to get the preliminary reactions of those monkeys who will be optional guests.”
-John Maynard Keynes during early discussions about a postwar monetary planning conference, February 1943 (164)
Jamal: How did I fail women's studies? I love bitches!
-How High (2001)
Megan Vandergeld: [realizing her father's hostage kidnapping plot, and he is the kidnapper]
Daddy! What do you mean "broke"? Like, Martha Stewart "broke"? Or MC Hammer "broke"?
Warren Vandergeld: MC Hammer broke!
Megan Vandergeld, Heather Vandergeld: [the Vandergelds wail and cry] NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Undercover Brother: You know what they say, behind every great black man...
Conspiracy Brother: is the police.
Undercover Brother: No.
Smart Brother: A bunch of slow white athletes?
Undercover Brother: No!
White She-Devil: A cute butt.
Undercover Brother: NO!
Lance: Probable cause.
-Undercover Bro
“It’s scary, tricky, ruthless stuff that black ice. A perfectly safe neighborhood can be suddenly terrorized by the appearance of black ice.”
“For the record black ice never chose to be out here.”
-Key and Peele
