Have you ever noticed how sometimes, someone will say something completely off the wall? What are you supposed to do? Just ignore it?
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July 27, 2005
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Sometimes, if you wait, he'll top himself.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 27, 2005 at 10:27 PM
I say you just sock him right then and there!
Posted by: Stephen Philip Quincy Arthur | July 27, 2005 at 10:31 PM
This blog got a whole lot weirder since I started reading it.
Posted by: Michael | July 27, 2005 at 10:51 PM
…this afternoon?
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 27, 2005 at 10:58 PM
Ignore me at your own peril, Mr. Ben Wolfson ifthatisyourREALname.
Posted by: rone | July 27, 2005 at 11:06 PM
I wasn't aware I had been ignoring you, which I suppose is the worst way to ignore someone.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 27, 2005 at 11:09 PM
I just read this:
"I thought it a rather convulsive twist in 1950 that an anticipated porcupine should turn out to be a skunk, and I have been listening carefully for sounds of laughter mighty nigh onto ten year."
That was written by Walt Kelly. But it seems perfectly attributable to Wolfson.
Posted by: Michael | July 27, 2005 at 11:51 PM
Ah, SPQ R-thur, very funny, ben
Posted by: dave zacuto | July 28, 2005 at 12:11 AM
Memoirs don't have to be epic, or to recount lives lived in such a way. Why just yesterday I did not eat pasta or pie, but did have a lot of tomatoes.
I think you're supposed to fall silent and let the speaker bask in the glow of awkwardarity.
Posted by: eb | July 28, 2005 at 02:37 AM
eb doesn't get it.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 28, 2005 at 10:07 PM
There's more after the second comment?
Posted by: eb | July 29, 2005 at 10:41 AM
Actually, yes, but it wouldn't really be reasonable to expect you to get that.
Posted by: ben wolfson | July 29, 2005 at 10:43 AM
You know what would make a great early modern Europe intellectual history course title?
Calvin and Hobbes.
Posted by: eb | July 29, 2005 at 10:48 AM