"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.”
"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.”
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 21 hours ago
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
-Jack Handy
tetris11@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
That’s a brilliant quote
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 19 hours ago
Jack Handey was an SNL writer, “Deep Thoughts” was a series of one-liners that aired between sketches in the early 90s.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Loved finding out he was a real person and was a legendary writer.
mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 9 hours ago
His books are also fun, The Stench of Honolulu was good, the opposite of a hard-boiled PI.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
“Hmm. I wonder. I was thinking of dancing trees. Now I’m wondering what’s next. Screaming trees. Yeah. That’s got to be the answer. Screaming trees.” - private notes by Hans Reiser, filesystem designer and a convicted murderer
(OK, that’s a fake quote. This one is real:)
“Trees have their roots pointing up. And if you cut a tree apart, you get a forest. No, I’m not drunk.” - one of my computer science profs, on data structures