In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Laiudanama]

Finally, though I own it for some time, I've managed to actually read Thud!

Oh, it's fantastic, isn't it? The Vimes books are still the best - I mean, the witches make a close second, but Vimes will always be the best

This seems as good a place as any to put my very first signature:

"Tell them I came, and no one answered, that I kept my word," he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners, though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house from the one man left awake

It's the feeling that there must be some unknown story behind the poem that is so intriguing... A very brief extract from Walter de La Mare's 'The Listeners' - lovely poem, not sure why I like it so much, but it is one of my favourite poems.

[Holbytlass]

It is done. I now retire my
Have you wished someone a HAPPY BIRTHDAY today?!

Fitting to me I started with Durelin and ended with Gurthang a couple of my werewolf playing buddies. I looked at the calendars so much that sometimes I thought people were changing their birthdates on me, a nod to Sleepy Ranger who actually did and fessed up to it!

Doing this for a year was not only to make my mark but an exercise in goalkeeping. I wondered if I could do it for a whole year. I did my best. Sometimes the process became tedious and other times it's what got me popping out of bed. I fretted when I had to go on holiday and didn't have access and I cursed the six weeks when my computer was down (end of April all of May) even though it was beyond my control I felt like I tripped at the finish line.

The Barrow-Wight may be a bit humbuggish about birthdays but to have a glorious death there must be a birth, a beginning for that end. And this is my end. Anyone wishing to pick up this torch I give you my blessings and my sympathies!

[The Elf-warrior]

I'm replacing this bit of wisdom from James Madison:

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

with a Groucho Marx quote

"Well, all the jokes can't be good! You've got to expect that once in a while."~Captain Spaulding in Animal Crackers

[Carnimírië]

I'm laying to rest

"When you talk, people can't tell if you're spelling the words right."

in favor of

Sister of The Elf Warrior

[Anguirel]

Farewell, Dantean Ulysses...

Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.

[Bêthberry]

Adieu to one of the most ironic lines in the most hilarious literary hoax of the Twentieth Century:

It is necessary to understand that a poet may not exist. Ern Malley . The original Angry Penguins, too.

Replaced with a line from another genius of humour:

I once absentmindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing with a bottle of chili sauce. Terry Pratchett.

[Bêthberry]

This was was quickly scared away by the seasonal ghosties and ghoulies.

Originally Posted by Terry Pratchett

I once absentmindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant, and with great presence of mind they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.