My goodness. It's like the Alqonquin Round Table in here.

[terrya]

The Lounge is particularly scintillating today.

[Richardo]

1. Very funny, terrya!

Unlike most of the threads. :D

[pagerbear]

2. Ooh! Ooh! I get to be Dorothy Parker!

"This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown, with great force!"

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. Damn! I wanted Dorothy!

[Richardo]

7. If you want to know what God thinks of money,

just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parker

[terrya]

8. "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think"

Dorothy Parker

[trof]

46. when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence.

hee

[Richardo]

5. If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end...

...I wouldn't be surprised. :)

Dorothy Parker

[terrya]

6. Ok. You have to show that biting wit frequently.

:-)

[pagerbear]

13. I'll work on it.

[Richardo]

12. I get to be Robert Benchley!

I'm middle-aged, thinning hair, and somewhat overweight. I've got everything but the wit and talent!

[LynneSin]

20. I'm Dorothy Parker!!

I'm blonde, I have glasses and let's face it, I'm the grand dame of this here lounge!!

[pagerbear]

22. We'll just have to duke it out when you come to NYC!

[LynneSin]

23. Honey, you are no match to me

Loser buys the winner TEQUILA!!

[pagerbear]

31. Only because it's wrong to punch out a girl!

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. If all the girls at Wellesley were laid end-to-end...

I, for one, wouldn't be surprised.

[The Spirit of JFK]

10. ha!

I grew up in the Smith College/Mt. Holyoke area....we had the same type of jokes, but I have't heard them for quite a while.

[Dogmudgeon]

9. If all the <insert college name> girls were laid end to end,

I'd suggest they file a class-action suit for sexual harassment.

So says I.

:)

--bkl

[CO Liberal]

11. Dorothy Parker's Reaction to Reports of the Death of Calvin Coolidge

"How could they tell?"

:-)

[flamingyouth]

14. What fresh hell is this?

And why was I not invited sooner? :freak:

[tigereye]

34. that's a good one, FY!

[On the Road]

15. OK, I'll Be...Umm...Alexander Woolcott

Although some of the other members certainly had good lines:

Robert Sherwood, reviewing cowboy hero Tom Mix: "They say he rides as if he’s part of the horse, but they don’t say which part."

(On Benchley) While on one of his nightly forays, he exited a night club and spotted a beautifully uniformed gentleman at the door whom he commanded to summon a taxicab. The supposed doorman scornfully turned on Benchley, saying that he was Admiral So-And-So of the United States Navy. “All right, then,” said Benchley, “Get us a battleship.”


I walked by the Algonquin last year -- it's still there. Fasinating landmark.

[terrya]

16. I guess I'll be Heywood Hale Broun. All of the good ones are taken.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Who are all these poncy snob fucks anyhow?

Can I be Boss Hog?

[pagerbear]

18. Just like a damn Yoo-ro-peen!

Youse guys ain't got no cultah!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

19. Nonsense. I'm reading Voltaire while I masturbate myself into a frenzy.

[pagerbear]

21. I'd pay to see that.

[Magrittes Pipe]

24. I HAVE seen it.

Save your money.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. Splendid.

The bidding starts at 500 Krugerands.

[tigereye]

35. I love cognitive dissonance

where were you when I was going through my obsession with philosopher guys obsessed with Lacan and Foucault. Sigh. Said guys talk to you, but really they aren't actually talking to you, they are doing something else ( which can't be talked about here in the lounge), or at least that is what Lacan would say. ;)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

39. I've tried reading all the philosophical classics. Not sure I get them all

Camus I love, Sartre I had trouble with. Same with the philosophers. Kant and Hume I inherently get. Foucault, not so much.

[pagerbear]

47. Nietzsche is pietzsche, but Satre is smartre

[tigereye]

52. I always liked Sartre and Kierkegaard

Kant get enough, eh? I think the rationalists and empiricists are interesting. I always liked Berkeley the best for some odd reason. A little easier to read. Foucault is pretty dense. There is a great book my sister has, Philisophy for Dummies ? that gives pretty good funny explanations of each, including Lacan and Foucault.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

54. Cool. Will check.

[terrya]

26. You put SLB, masturbation AND Voltaire together...it's sizzling hot.

Who wouldn't want to see that?

[pagerbear]

27. Don't forget the Krugerrands!

[terrya]

28. I'm checking my pockets right now. I think I have a few Krugerrands on me.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

29. Ah, it warms my very cockles to hear that.

[terrya]

33. "shivers" ...oooh-hoo. Cockles.

[pagerbear]

30. I knew you'd be prepared!

[Canuckistanian]

51. When I hear the word culture, I take out my pistol.

-Otto von Bismack, role model for Donald Rumsfeld.

[Sabriel]

32. Wait until the lapdance copycat threads get going.... n/t

[tigereye]

37. Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses

( their loss, IMO)

and when asked why she was at the bar and not in the New Yorker office, said " Someone was using the pencil."

[BigMcLargehuge]

36. NO SEX THREADS!!!!

Oh wait... "scintillating"... oops... sorry... My mistake

:)

[tigereye]

53. hey BMLH

I saw a bumpersticker with your screen name near here. That was cool.

[Westegg]

38. Get me out of this wet thread and into a dry martini.

[Pied Piper]

40. "I love to drink a martini..

One or two at most.
Three, I'm under the table,
Four, I'm under the host!"

Dorothy Parker

Maybe not the exact text - recalling from memory...

[Richardo]

41. Welcome to DU, Pied Piper!

:toast: <-- appropriately enough!

[Westegg]

42. Welcome onboard, you pie-eyed piper!

[Richardo]

43. "Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."

Dorothy Parker

(One to zing the FMA crowd)

[noonwitch]

44. Since all the other women want to be Dorothy Parker, I'll be ESV Millay

But DP had all the great lines.

I love that she loathed "Winnie the Pooh". Her comments about it are just hilarious (in her theatre reviews).

Poor Edna-she died from getting drunk, falling down the stairs and hitting her head. Not a good way to go. But she wrote some great poems in the time she was alive.

[Richardo]

45. She was referred to in a Stan Freberg sketch as 'Edna St Louis Missouri'

Which was pretty funny. :)

[pagerbear]

48. "We were very young, we were very merry...

We rode back and forth all night on the ferry...."

[Richardo]

49. "'House Beautiful' is a play lousy"

Dorothy Parker

[trof]

50. Can I be George S. Kaufman?

George S. Kaufman: Once when asked by a press agent, "How do I get my leading lady’s name into your newspaper?"
Kaufman replied, "Shoot her."