Originally joined HB in 2006 and hung around using my real name until 2013. Lurked nameless on and off since then. Back after a long hiatus, older but not necessarily any wiser.
a1-halfbakery at protonmail dot com
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(other bits saved for future use)
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“Real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”
-John Marshall Harlan, US Supreme Court Justice
1905 decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts
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Never trust a spy you cannot see. Nor one that you can.
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I'm older than you think. I'm even older than I think, sometimes.
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Younger than Professor Barabas but older than Tommy Tomorrow.
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Day trading is passe. The real money is in minutes and seconds.
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The world would be a better place if Christ had stuck to carpentry and Hitler to water-colors.
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Wednesday is as good a day as any other. Just harder to spell.
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Nothing wrong with your idea that couldn’t be fixed with a dose of chlorpromazine.
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(True improv at our house)
A: Who said "What’s the use of a good quotation if you can’t change it?"
B: Terry Pratchett? Monty Python?
A: No. It was The Doctor.
B: Who?
A: Exactly!
B: Which one?
A: I don't know.
(okay, so it's not Abbott & Costello, but still ...)