I was a little afraid you might get all macho about not exposing your wife to danger.
I am. I wouldn't want you to accidentally suffer any harm while beating the shit out of me for trying to keep you out of the party. You could forget and hit me on the head, and hurt your knuckles.
Spider Robinson
Born: November 24, 1948
Spider Robinson (born 24 November 1948) is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author. Spider states that the internet rumors of his name being, or having been, Paul Robinson are incorrect.
Biographical information from: Wikiquote
Alternative Names for Spider Robinson
Disputed name - Name incorrectly attributed to the person that has gained enough circulation to require explicit denial or correction:
- Paul Robinson (English (en))
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving — and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.
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honesty is hard work.
Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money.
Doc Webster's eyes rolled briefly, like loaded dice, and came up snake eyes.
Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.
The expense of eating is, in great part, the resistance the second life offers to being eaten.
Shared joy is increased;
Shared pain is lessened.
Hey Jake. I got an idea.'
'Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.
(Mary Kay is one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don’t ever piss one off.)
Callahan's Law:
Shared pain is lessened;
Shared joy is increased.
Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain.
There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.
I conclude you must be a natural horses's ass.