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*quickly changes out of scruffy jeans and pulls cocktail frock on* A cocktail bar, much more dignified than the barn dance I got sloshed at last night, have a slight hangover so I'll have a sugar rimmed hair of the dog please.

It isn't just that life's a bitch. It's got puppies.

'The train to London stopping at Rejection, Disappointment, Backstabbing Central and Shattered Dreams Parkway.' (by Alan Partridge, I think)

Everything should be taken in moderation, including moderation, a little excess is good for you now and then. (from an book) I think I'll have that martini now please, Frank Sinatra style, Gin waved in the vague direction of Italy.

did you know that the 'cocktail effect' was named so because of the brain's ability to recognise common or important words and so, if someone were to say your name in conversation at a cocktail party at the same level of noise as everyone else, your brain would pick it out. ... "would I like salt round the rim?!!!!!" how VERY dare you!!!

good old dotty parker. i tried to think of something clever but like dorothy,'I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.'

t'would be easier to do a thread on fantastic things dorothy said, as most of them are dead clever. Three more favs. "You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think." "Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work while she was on her honeymoon]" "I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table / Four and I'm under the host"

'There is no spoon' - Spoon-Bending-Kid from The Matrix (sorry, it's the best I could come up with ... :-/ ... )

I can't drink alcohol at present but am imbibing vitiman c dissolved in Thames water. The effervesence is truly uplifting. "For the unspoken word is the most deadly of all. And then for what is lady Penelope hiding- such a cruel GAME! The continuous clicking of his bicycle sprocket enrages him, so much so that he may be driven to an extramarital affair" Patrick (My ex) talking drivel at the weekend. "I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television." - Gore Vidal "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright "Why don’t you write books people can read?" - Nora Joyce, to her husband James

Don't know if this is terrible or clever - but it is true: Talent is applauded but perseverence is rewarded.

Hurrah! G'night, all... *** peps ***

*points at pepsoid and detaches his retina with pre-sharpened nail*

dipping randomly into Mencken: the hole in the doughnut is at least digestable I love this quote, but have no idea who said it: a philosopher is a blind man in a dark cellar looking for a black cat that isn't there, he differs from the theologian, in that the theologian finds the cat.

>>> *points at thread title* & >>> *points at pepsoid and detaches his retina with pre-sharpened nail* ...Unnecessary! I was applauding mykle's cleverness, then politely signing off for the day! I dunno, you try & be nice... :-(