Saturday, March 01, 2003


Drive-By #5


  • Stinking Badges Home Page
    “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”—Gold Hat, as played by Alfonso Bedoya “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948)
    …
    This site aims to be the primary Internet resource for any and all references to the aforementioned quote. But we need your help! [Stinking Badges Home Page]

  • Meanwhile, back in Japan…
    So, apparently, in Japan, the hot new thing is a ”hug pillow” or “daki-makura.” i guess if you are a lonely Japanese man tucked away in a sleeping drawer in some towering high-rise, these might seem like good company. [the reverse cowgirl’s blog]

  • The Horror of Blimps
    On this occasion I awoke to the sense that there was a large menacing presence approaching me silently out of the gloom, so I opened my eyes, and there it was! A LARGE SILENT MENACING PRESENCE WAS APPROACHING ME OUT OF THE GLOOM, AND IT COULD FLY!!! [Teemings]

  • The Nike Valdez
    Thousands of pairs of Nike basketball shoes are washing up on beaches from Washington state to Alaska after spilling from a container ship in Northern California. [Yahoo News]

  • The mystery of Stalin’s death
    Did he die of natural causes following a brain haemorrhage or was Stalin killed because he was about to plunge the Soviet Union into a war its people were in no position to fight? [BBC NEWS | Europe]


:: Dave Walker 11:44 (EST/EDT) [+]

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Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that like most books, it had too many words. The plot was the same one that all James Bond books have: An evil person tries to blow up the world, but James Bond kills him and his henchmen and makes love to several attractive women. There, that's it: 24 words. But the guy who wrote the book took *thousands* of words to say it. Or consider "The Brothers Karamazov", by the famous Russian alcoholic Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's about these two brothers who kill their father. Or maybe only one of them kills the father. It's impossible to tell because what they mostly do is talk for nearly a thousand pages.If all Russians talk as much as the Karamazovs did, I don't see how they found time to become a major world power. I'm told that Dostoyevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov" to raise the question of whether there is a God. So why didn't he just come right out and say: "Is there a God? It sure beats the heck out of me." Other famous works could easily have been summarized in a few words: * "Moby Dick" -- Don't mess around with large whales because they symbolize nature and will kill you. * "A Tale of Two Cities" -- French people are crazy. -- Dave Barry