Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778)

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. - Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991)

Two coincidences regarding that "Bob's Burgers" title:

Here is the link:
http://www.redbubble.com/pe…

TV! She's got a TV head!

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. - Alistair Cooke (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004)

The newest “Mark and Sarah Talk About Songs” is about Chicago’s “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” and stuff their dads like.
http://markandsarahtalkabou…

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. - Indira Gandhi (19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984)

I'm in New Orleans, there are about 12.

I don't know if my son had sex with the guy; I don't pry.

I am a migraine sufferer. I used to imagine sending my headaches to Dick Cheney. (I know they stay with me, but imagining someone horrible getting them is a good distraction.) In 2008, I switched to Sarah Palin. More recently, I imagine sending them to someone I know (someone I used to work for who can take a flying…

This story works in this thread, too:

For the St. Patrick's Day Parade in 2015, I was wearing my Buttercup (Powerpuff Girl) T-shirt, because it's green. I encountered a young man who was on something fun, and wearing a Super Grover shirt. He looked at my shirt and said "Sporty Spice!
" I replied, "No, this is Buttercup."
"Oh, yeah. Well, Buttercup is like…

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. - Margaret Atwood (b. November 18, 1939), "Surfacing"

I’ve learned from my mistakes and I’m sure I can repeat them exactly. – Peter Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995)

I live in Louisiana, so linemen are for the parish. I guess the song would be "Ouachita Lineman."

From the picture there, they're going for the "regular guy" look, but instead got "Travolta is still pretty, but let's give him a beard and work clothes."

Listen at the link to "The Kugelmass Episode", the entertaining 1977 Woody Allen story, read by Michael Goz, from "Fierce Pajamas: Selections from an Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker." Note the references to Rupert Murdock and O.J. Simpson. Allen borrowed parts of this story for 'Midnight in Paris."

“I’m a philosophy professor.”
“If you could give one piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be?”
“Never make an exception of yourself.”
“What does that mean?”
“People like to make exceptions of themselves. They hold other people to moral codes that they aren’t willing to follow themselves. For example,…

The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it. - Jean le Rond d'Alembert (16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783)