This week in pointless trivia.

[David Morris]

Life is too short to read Fiona.

On Sunday, October 6, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> 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>:
>> >> 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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