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 |  |  | #691 |  | Penn's aunts made great apple pies at low prices.  No one else in town could compete with the pie rates of Penn's aunts.
 
 |  |  |  | #692 |  | People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.
 -- S. Johnson
 
 |  |  |  | #693 |  | Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind.
 -- Thomas Macaulay
 
 |  |  |  | #694 |  | Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars.  The truth was that Plato knew philosophers
 couldn't compete successfully with poets.
 -- Kilgore Trout (Philip J. Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
 
 |  |  |  | #695 |  | Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table. -- Dave Barry, "The Snake"
 
 |  |  |  | #696 |  | Please, won't somebody tell me what diddie-wa-diddie means? 
 |  |  |  | #697 |  | Plots are like girdles.  Hidden, they hold your interest; revealed, they're of no interest except to fetishists. Like girdles, they attempt to contain
 an uncontainable experience.
 -- R.S. Knapp
 
 |  |  |  | #698 |  | Potahto' Pictures Productions Presents: 
 SPUD ROGERS OF THE 25TH CENTURY: Story of an Air Force potato that's
 left in a rarely used chow hall for over two centuries and wakes up in a world
 populated by soybean created imitations under the evil Dick Tater.  Thanks to
 him, the soy-potatoes learn that being a 'tater is where it's at.  Memorable
 line, "'Cause I'm just a stud spud!"
 
 FRIDAY THE 13TH DINER SERIES: Crazed potato who was left in a
 fryer too long and was charbroiled carelessly returns to wreak havoc on
 unsuspecting, would-be teen camp cooks.  Scenes include a girl being stuffed
 with chives and Fleischman's Margarine and a boy served up on a side dish
 with beets and dressing.  Definitely not for the squeamish, or those on
 diets that are driving them crazy.
 
 FRIDAY THE 13TH DINER II,III,IV,V,VI: Much, much more of the same.
 Except with sour cream.
 
 |  |  |  | #699 |  | Potahto' Pictures Productions Presents: 
 THE TATERNATOR: Cyborg spud returns from the future to present-day
 McDonald's restaurant to kill the potatoess (girl 'tater) who will give birth
 to the world's largest french fry (The Dark Powers of Burger King are clearly
 behind this).  Most quotable line: "Ah'll be baked..."
 
 A FISTFUL OF FRIES: Western in which our hero, The Spud with No Name,
 rides into a town that's deprived of carbohydrates thanks to the evil takeover
 of the low-cal Scallopinni Brothers.  Plenty of smokeouts, fry-em-ups, and
 general butter-melting by all.
 
 FOR A FEW FRIES MORE: Takes up where AFOF left off!  Cameo by Walter
 Cronkite, as every man's common 'tater!
 
 |  |  |  | #700 |  | Prizes are for children. -- Charles Ives, upon being given, but refusing, the
 Pulitzer prize
 
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