All sensible people know that Zen Clown is the engine that drives Ask A Drunk. (It is needless to point out that no one is steering). However, Zen Clown sometimes, due to overstimulation of the coma-inducing centers of his brain, occasionally forgets this vital fact. It is too obvious for words that, when Zen Clown reaches this state, he is also insensible, senseless and senile.
What shall we do without him? Ask A Drunk shall be like a derelict Hupmobile rusting in the back forty of a moonshiner's hovel. One can only hope there will still be cakes and ale.
― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago)
The Pretensions of Poverty
Thou dost presume too much, poor needy wretch,
To claim a station in the firmament
Because thy humble cottage, or thy tub,
Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue
In the cheap sunshine or by shady springs,
With roots and pot-herbs; where thy right hand,
Tearing those humane passions from the mind,
Upon whose stocks fair blooming virtues flourish,
Degradeth nature, and benumbeth sense,
And, Gorgon-like, turns active men to stone.
We not require the dull society
Of your necessitated temperance,
Or that unnatural stupidity
That knows nor joy nor sorrow; nor your forc'd
Falsely exalted passive fortitude
Above the active. This low abject brood,
That fix their seats in mediocrity,
Become your servile minds; but we advance
Such virtues only as admit excess,
Brave, bounteous acts, regal magnificence,
All-seeing prudence, magnanimity
That knows no bound, and that heroic virtue
For which antiquity hath left no name,
But patterns only, such as Hercules,
Achilles, Theseus. Back to thy loath'd cell;
And when thou seest the new enlightened sphere,
Study to know but what those worthies were.
T. CAREW
― Zen Clone, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago)
one month passes...
Well...
Today is "Thanksgiving Day" here in the the USA (United States of Assholes.)
All over this country, people are sitting around, eating turkey meat that is pumped full of chemicals and pretending that they are fond of people that they actually hate.
I can imagine a scenario where native Americans are sitting around a small fire, criticizing their ancestors for not killing those white-skinned motherfuckers as soon as they arrived.
btw: Do you kids know the difference between a white man and an Indian? An Indian builds a small fire and sits up real close whereas a white man builds a big fire and stands 'way back.
I write "Indian" and "white man" the way I do because I do not deem white men to be worthy of capitalization.
― Zen Clown, Thursday, 24 November 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago)