In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.
The religious right is motivated by the suspicion that someone, somewhere,
is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.
Me: "Grandma's biscuits were stout. Not quite dwarven battle bread, but definitely nothing light or fluffy about them, one of those biscuits with some gravy over it was pretty much a meal. But oh so good."
Bryan: "Sounds like those biscuits will stick to your ribs, if they don’t break them."
-- Badtux the Amused Penguin
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Wow, there's a whole world of oddballdom behind that battle-bread link.
ReplyDeleteIt would be funnier if you'd read some of the Terry Pratchett novels starring Carrot, the human who thinks he's a dwarf and doesn't understand why his fellow cops don't like dwarf bread :). It's part of Pratchett's Diskworld series, which is utterly hilarious and entertaining -- and surprisingly deep, he uses humor in much the same way Mark Twain did many years before to point out foibles in our own society.
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Just to clarify, both Bryan and I are Pratchett fans and have read the particular novels that refer to dwarf bread and dwarven battle bread, thus a bit of inside joke here that we get but you may not :).
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I wish I had it in me to read more whimsy. I'm too grimsy. Can't shake the feeling of "The whole world is fucking falling apart, so why am I spending my time reading something that's not factual and depressing?"
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