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One of my personal favorites is mamihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin.

Client (who is a dentist) in the throes of passion: I’d do your dental work for free!

Side note: just learned that “D.M.D.” is a thing, along with D.D.S.

welcome back @loremipsum (no, I won't ask.......)

I won’t tell.

(Fairly dark)

Herman Cain: There is no pandemic.

Pandemic: There is no Herman Cain.

"Ah, my period! You're all fired!" -Liz Lemon

Nicely done. A true scholar among men.

Primus inter pares

T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land."

 

"April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

 

I used to be able to quote a lot more of it, but it goes on for another 400 some lines.

 

"Shantih. Shantih. Shantih."

I’m digging the enjambment.

Happy birthday to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He’s 101 years of age today.

“As soon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb I realised I had made a mistake.”

-Quentin Crisp

 

I can relate to that.

Hmm. This reminds me of:

“To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.”

-Sophocles

An order, not a request:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-19/gavin-newsom-california-1-billion-federal-aid-coronavirus%3f_amp=true

Pretty well-known:

“Religion is the opiate of the masses.”

-Karl Marx

I have over a dozen Costco-size bottles of hand sanitizer in my home. I wonder whether I should put that in my ad?

“Put on some lipstick, pour yourself a drink, and pull yourself together.”

-Liz Taylor

A few months ago at a bar I approached a guy and asked if I could sit down. He said point-blank: “I have a boyfriend but you wanna stay and chat?” I was like “yeah okay” and we talked for a bit and then his friend abruptly rushed up and exclaimed to him, dramatically and in earnest, “your boyfriend’s here!” I look and about ten feet behind him is a guy staring at me and approaching slowly. I calmly (but immediately) got up and walked back to my friends and took a seat with my back to the scene. My friend said that they kept looking over at me. In retrospect, I think that my wordlessly getting up and walking off may have actually worsened the optics of that tableau. Perhaps I should have stayed and introduced myself to the boyfriend, all sweetness and light.

At any rate, I found out that they’re not together anymore, so I shouldn’t have the same problem next time.

Maybe but my family members have always been pragmatic..

He was being ironic by way of referencing another member’s views (with which I do not necessarily disagree)

“Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.” -Chinese proverb

Perhaps that might apply to searching to buy a house in Beverly Hills too.

He does have friends IRL with whom he can talk about looking into acquiring real estate in specific locales, but why should that mean that he cannot discuss it here—especially as it is to be a retirement residence, and the topic of retirement is relevant to plenty here in a big and imminent way as is seen plainly in many a thread—too?