Thanx to Chris Locke for the pointer to “do it yourself despair,” and to dervala and tim from whom I swiped the photo.

… from David Weinberger’s comments, actually. Michael O’Connor Clarke shares this anecdote:

So this German Shepherd dog walks into a telegram office, takes out a blank form and writes:

“Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof.”

The clerk examines the paper and politely tells the dog:

“There are only nine words here. You could send another ‘Woof’ for the same price.”

“But,” the dog replied, “that would make no sense at all.”

Spotted in an airport gift shop:

“Beer…
cheaper than gasoline!”

witness ze Frank “leveraging the emotional aftertaste.“

…and a fine collection of Dorothy Parker quotes, such as:

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

SB, of Watermark, presents this sweet contrivance…

Thanx to Jeneane for the link. She did one of Scoble… I get the Elton John look-alikedness, but Stephen King?

Here’s Derrida putting the eff in effing ineffability. The guy is so superficial that his surface shines, his experience so limited that he isn’t able to apply practice to theory. He’s embarrassingly shallow. But y’know, for all that, I forgive him.