Tuesday, November 13, 2018
-What's Euthanasia?
-Means you know when
you’re going.
-Is that good?
-Six of one, half dozen of
the other.
-My usual odds?
-Don’t knock ‘em!
-Best we can do?
-Hell yeah! Don’t rock the boat!
-I died...and was reborn a cliche!
-You’d be lucky!
Labels: cliche, conversation, death, Euthanasia, luck, odds
Saturday, February 27, 2010
The Reunion*
We’ve been,
known, &
employed.
Syracuse Prof deployed
against with self-
congratulatory wit, so
students made a game noting
his own clichés plunging forth
as lectures left cautionary port.
*“Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.” -Umberto Eco on Casablanca
We’ve been,
known, &
employed.
Syracuse Prof deployed
against with self-
congratulatory wit, so
students made a game noting
his own clichés plunging forth
as lectures left cautionary port.
*“Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.” -Umberto Eco on Casablanca
Labels: cliche
