'Trim' was the name of the first cat to circumnavigate Australia:
"Trim was born in 1797, aboard HMS Reliance on a voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay. The kitten fell overboard, but managed to swim back to the vessel and climb aboard by scaling a rope; taking note of his strong survival instinct and intelligence, [Captain] Flinders and the crew made him their favourite." Captain Flinders named the cat after Trim, the butler in Tristram Shandy.
Trevor Goodchild: Tell me your heart's desire--one wish and it's yours.
Cybill: Anything?
Trevor Goodchild: Just no heads on the plates. I'm going to go get a drink. Would you like one?
Cybill: No, thank you.
Trevor Goodchild: Right . . . that would have been it, you know.
Look at how last night's exercise became a test of whether Sarah Palin could do better than abysmal. Who thinks this way in real life? No one who doesn't have money riding on the outcome, for starters. I saw somewhere in one of the endless breathless lead-ins to the thing where someone said the night would answer the question of whether Palin had the "capacity to grow". What? If you hired someone to deliver pizzas, and he has a minor fender-bender his first night, you might think, well, mistakes happen. If you hand him his first order and he sticks the ignition key up his ass, starts making "vrumm vrumm" noises, and then crashes through your picture window, you are not going to say, "Well, maybe next week he'll remember to wear pants."
“Everyone Kills Hitler On Their First Trip. I Did.â€-
International Association of Time Travelers: Members' Forum Subforum: Europe – Twentieth Century
"The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off."—Hugh Macleod
Owen Meany remains the only person to successfully WRITE STUFF IN ALL CAPS.
Anyone who doesn't like 'Veronica Mars' can go eat puke.
"I believe that self, that primordial self, that original self, that *first* self is a real, measurate, quantifiable thing, tangible *and* incarnete - and I'm gonna find the fucker."
" Yes a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly: loss of essence.I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women... women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence."
"Polidori once asked Byron what, besides scribble verses, he could do better than Polidori himself. Byron icily replied: 'Three things. First, I can hit with a pistol the keyhole of that door. Secondly, I can swim across that river to yonder point. And thirdly, I can give you a damned good thrashing.'"
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." -Acharya S.
Won't happen here anytime soon, but...
The majority-dumb-crackers rule here in SC, for now, but I had to post this anyway. And I could listen to the CA constitution talk all night.