Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
I Lately Lost A Preposition; It Hid, I Thought, Beneath My Chair And Angrily I Cried, "Perdition!
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Miscellaneous Collections
I lately lost a preposition;
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
And angrily I cried, "Perdition!
Up from out of under there."
Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor,
And yet I wondered, "What should he come
Up from out of under for?"
-- Morris Bishop
Related:
A man fell off a mountain and, as he fell, saw a branch and grabbed for it.
By superhuman effort he was able to get a precarious grip on it....
A man fell off a mountain and, as he fell, saw a branch and grabbed for it.
By superhuman effort he was able to get a precarious grip on it....
Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance...
When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs on Mars?
When no one laughed, I was real embarrassed. I don't think people should make you feel that way....
What did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of about Down Under up for?
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
-- Sir Winston Churchill...
Quote #40 The first time I encountered setjmp() was in an Amiga program ported from Unix.
Hmm, what's setjmp()?" I said, pulling up the man page....
Homer: I caught the Cat Burglar! I caught the Cat Burglar!
That means you-ou! You are the Cat Burglar!...
What I Did During My Fall Semester On the first day of my fall semester, I got up.
Then I went to the library to find a thesis topic....