November 2010
7 posts
Tired and emotional →
bestofwikipedia:
Tired and emotional is a chiefly British euphemism for being drunk. It was popularised by the British satirical magazine Private Eye in 1967 after being used in a spoof diplomatic memo to describe the state of Labour Cabinet minister George Brown, but is now used as a stock phrase, possibly because of British slander and libel law.
“«Je voudrais voir un peu Louis XIV face à un “assuré social”…...”
– [ Louis-Ferdinand Céline ]
francois-n:
“Tout français désire bénéficier d’un ou plusieurs privilèges. C’est sa façon d’affirmer sa passion pour l’égalité.”
[Charles de Gaulle]
On peut dire ce que l’on veut sur de Gaulle mais on ne pourra jamais lui retirer son sens de la formule !
“The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but a consistency or a consistent expediency.”
– “Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau (via the-playwright)
“In my view, we don’t have a two-party system. We have a one-party system: The...”
– Judge Andrew Napolitano (via stoge) 