Daily Gyaan

" 'Eagle?' I thought you said 'beagle.' "

"Boy, I hate it when I get hiccups."

"Hey, buddy, we ran out of red, so I used pink."

"Two O's in 'Bob,' right?"

"I bet you can't tell I've never done this before."

"Anything else you want to say? You've got all kinds of room back here."

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

-- Michael Pritchard

Crackhead lady #1: I need to stop, because now I'm looking down the barrel of a monkey.
Crackhead lady #2: I know what you mean. If I wasn't using all this energy chasing a high, I could use the energy productively, like jumping on a trampoline.

Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.

-- Gallagher

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

-- Dandemis

charactonym
(KAR-ik-tuh-nim) noun

A name of a fictional character that suggests the personality traits of that character.

[From English character, from Greek charakter (marking or engraving tool) + -onym (name).]

The examples from one of my favourite book series - The Asterix Books. Almost all the character names in the books are charactonyms:

• Asterix - asterisk, the star of the books
• Obelix - obelisk, the huge obelisk shaped best friend
• Getafix - Get-A-Fix, the druid who has a cure for everything
• Vitalstatistix - Vital-Statistics, the chief of the village
• Cacofonix - Cacophony, the village bard who cannot actually sing, a precursor to modern rock vocalists ;)
• Unhygenix - Unhygenic, the fish-monger whose fish is always rotten
• Geriatrix - Geriatric, the oldest inhabitant of the village
• Impedimenta - Impediment, the wife of the village chief :p
• Panacea - Cure for all diseases, the most beautiful girl in the village, like they say, beauty is the cure for all ills :)

ananym
(AN-uh-nim) noun

A name formed by reversing letters of another name, often used as a pseudonym.

[From Greek ana- (back) + -onym (name).]

Examples:

• Talk show host Oprah's production company is named Harpo.
• Doctor Seuss (Theodore Geisel) wrote many books under the name Theo LeSeig.
• Samuel Butler wrote a satirical novel Erewhon (near reverse of Nowhere).

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

by Massive Attack

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

There's a hole in my soul like a cavity
Seems like the world is out to gather just by gravity
The wheel keeps turning the sky's rearranging
Look my son the weather is changing

I'd like to feel that you could be free
Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree
Sometime again
You'll turn green and the sea turns red
My son I said the power of axis over my head

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes



We sang about the sun and danced among the trees
And we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze
Will you cry in the most in a lead-free zone
Down within the shadows where the factories drone
On the surface of the wheel they build another town
And so the green come tumbling down
Yes close your eyes and hold me tight
And i'll show you sunset sometime again

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

As a child's silent prayer my hope hides in disguise
While satellites and cameras watch from the skies
An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea
It washed away my shadow burnt a hole in me
And all the king's men cannot put it back again
But the ghetto sun will nurture life
And mend my soul sometime again

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

-- C E Montague

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

Jean Baudrillard
--Cool Memories

A wedge eats the greedily orbiting cargo bay, but a buzzard heading towards a traffic light plans an escape from the paternal burglar reactor.

-- Brian Viner writes about the frenetic pace of the current Ashes series and wonders what happened to Test cricket as he knew it

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

-- Michael Jordan

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history -- with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

-- Mitch Ratcliffe

Mixing handguns and tequila will let you make mistakes even faster.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

-- Elias Schwartz

It is better to be feared than loved, more prudent to be cruel than compassionate.

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spout.
When I get all steamed up
Hear me shout:
Tip me up and pour me out!
.
.
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I am a vessel specifically designed
For the calefaction of tea leaves and water combined.
I am of diminutive dimension:
A corpulent invention.
Observe the place where your hand is supposed to go.
Observe the outlet where the drink is supposed to flow.
When my temperature is high,
Ebullition will make me cry:
You must use my leverage
To release the beverage.