This week in pointless trivia.

[David Morris]

So many shoulds...

On Sunday, October 6, 2013, jochen stremmel wrote:

> Who told you to follow the link - you should know them by heart, like
> the jokers who only tell each other the numbers of the joke, and if
> nobody laughs it was an old one.
>
> A-and if life's to short not only to drink bad wine but also to find
> out what sb. intended — well, why read bad books, then? Why tell
> anybody else that you ('ll probably) find it bad? Without another
> reason than that you make excuses not to read it? (You should tell
> that to your barber or your psychologist.) Other readers you should
> show a bad sentence, a bad paragraph or only a bad chapter and state
> your reasons why they are bad.
>
> 2013/10/6 Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com <javascript:;>>:
> >> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg
> >
> >>(D 66)
> >
> >> F 144
> >
> > Do some people actually follow these links, and take the trouble to find
> out
> > (or just ponder) what the author of the email intended? Shit, life is way
> > too short. If you have something so say in an email (or post), say it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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