“That is a lot of Waughs. It should be noted that, except for the current biographer, all of them are dead, but one’s disappointment has to be muted, because meeting the Waughs alive, en masse, would have been a terrifying experience — like stumbling into the house of Addams.” (via AL Daily)
3:AM gets a Brazilian.
“Though I knew Einstein for two or three decades, it was only in the last decade of his life that we were close colleagues and something of friends.”
“Which idiot forgot to put some ice in my G&T?”
Yes, we who speak American English prefer to beat around the bush. Much better sounding than beating round the bush.
“The effects of mental accounting are felt in domains that seem far removed from the conventional understanding of economics — it may even help explain why it is so hard to find a cab on a rainy evening.”
I didn’t know about the Joan Crawford biography.
It’s not shocking people talk ways they say they don’t. After all, everybody lies.