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Nighty Knight

3/27/2021

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“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”
― Charles Kingsley

“for it is better that we slay a coward than through a coward be all slain.”
― James Knowles, The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
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“Aren't you just a knight in shining armor? ... Wherever do you keep your horse? And who scoops up the crap it leaves behind?”
― Myra McEntire, Hourglass

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“The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.”
― Thomas Malory

“Damsel, wherefore art thou girt with that sword, for it beseemeth thee not?”
― James Knowles, The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

“...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.: Tales


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There Will Be Working Class Heroes!

3/23/2021

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“Where there are villains, there will be heroes. They will come.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart
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Superman never made any money
Savin' the world from Solomon Grundy
- Crash Test Dummies, "Superman's Song"
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“How Superheroes Make Money:
- Spider-Man knits sweaters.
- Superman screws the lids on pickle jars.
- Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons.”
― Jim Benton, Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers

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“It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.”
― Batman Begins

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“If I could have a Super Power, it would be reverse ability. Whatever you do to me, Good or bad, is reversed to you. Call me "MirrorMan.”
― Yohann Dafeu, Author
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Guy's Men's Salon

3/16/2021

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​Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop. 
-Bernie Mac, Actor

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.
- Robert Frost, Poet
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A barber does not shave himself. 
-African Proverb


“Guys are like purses, cute, full of crap, and totally replaceable.”
― Lucy Miller, Author


The ideal man doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't do drugs, doesn't swear, doesn't get angry, doesn't exist. 
- Anonymous 

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SEALS & WEED

3/15/2021

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“DO YOU SMELL IT? THAT SMELL, THE KIND OF SMELLY SMELL. A SMELLY SMELL THAT SMELLS… SMELLY.” - Sponge Bob

“Seals do not sit about and tell, the way people do, and their lives are not eventful in the way people's are, lines of story combed again and again, in the hope that they will yield more sense with every stroke.”
― Margo Lanagan, Author
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I've always thought it'd be nice to be seaweed, kind of just floating about.
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Devendra Banhart, Musician


"I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins."
- Peter Benchley, Author of Jaws​
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​“Not the waves, not the storms, but often we ourselves sink our ships!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, Writer
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
- George Miller, Comedian

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Scrumptiously Crunchable

3/15/2021

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“Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy?  Is it scrumptiously crunchable?”
​- Gollum, 
The Hobbit
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“That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Half in the Bag

3/9/2021

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half in the bag
slang:   Drunk, mildly drunk, or nearly drunk.

Sorry I didn't call you last night—I had some wine, got half in the bag, and fell asleep.

See also: bag, half
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

in the bag

INFORMAL
  1. (of something desirable) as good as secured.
    "the election is in the bag"
​NORTH AMERICAN​
       2.  drunk.
          "I don't think my parents even suspected that I was half in the bag"

Definitions from Oxford Languages

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Splish Splash

3/9/2021

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Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub. 
- Dianne Wiest, Dianne Wiest's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech
 

If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub. 
- Patricia Briggs, writer   

​Splish Splash
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LOGIC

3/9/2021

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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
- Lewis Carrol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. 
-Mark Twain


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