BRIAN F. MCNABB
  • McBooks
  • Author
  • On Thin Ice
  • McWritings
  • Contact

There Will Be Working Class Heroes!

3/23/2021

0 Comments

 
“Where there are villains, there will be heroes. They will come.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart
Picture
Superman never made any money
Savin' the world from Solomon Grundy
- Crash Test Dummies, "Superman's Song"
​

“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

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

​​
Picture
“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
0 Comments

Guy's Men's Salon

3/16/2021

0 Comments

 
​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
Picture
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 

​

0 Comments

SEALS & WEED

3/15/2021

0 Comments

 
“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
Picture
I've always thought it'd be nice to be seaweed, kind of just floating about.
​-
Devendra Banhart, Musician


"I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins."
- Peter Benchley, Author of Jaws​
Picture
​“Not the waves, not the storms, but often we ourselves sink our ships!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, Writer
Picture
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

0 Comments

Scrumptiously Crunchable

3/15/2021

0 Comments

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

Half in the Bag

3/9/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
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

0 Comments

Splish Splash

3/9/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
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
0 Comments

LOGIC

3/9/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
​
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


​


0 Comments

Star Grabber

2/28/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
-Theodore Roosevelt

“We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...”
― John Lennon
0 Comments

Seating Arrangement

12/12/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”
― Pam Brown
Picture
0 Comments

Halloween Hamlet

12/11/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
“Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world; now could I [eat lots of candy].
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet


​
Picture
Picture



​

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite [candy]."
​
​
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Picture

​    ​"We know what we are, but know not what  we may  be."  
​       - 
William Shakespeare, Hamlet 

Picture
Picture
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
0 Comments
<<Previous
Forward>>
    Picture

    ​​McPHOTO-QUOTO BLOG:
    ​
    T
    his contains original photos paired with collected quotes from the famous, notorious, notable, infamous, and not-so-much any of these.  It leans more towards simple humor than changing the world.    

    Blogs are published once in a while.

    If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
    -William H. McRaven, American Admiral

    I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
    -Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

    Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
    - Ambrose Bierce, American Author


    Archives

    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    December 2020
    July 2020

    Categories

    All

    Picture
    CONSIDER:
    ​

    Feed the least: If you enjoy the  website, please consider a donation.  Looking to expand. You could be the first and last at this rate.  
    ​
    ​​​Regardless, thanks for reading.​​​

    RSS Feed

    Picture
    ​After her death, Emily Dickinson became famous for her poetry stuffed under her bed.  My hope is to become posthumously famous for my writing on the web.  Hopefully, I will be discovered  when someone is billed for my domain name.


CONTACT  /  PRIVACY POLICY

​Copyright 2022  Brian McNabb.  All rights reserved. ​                                                                                                                                                                                       Web Hosting by iPage
  • McBooks
  • Author
  • On Thin Ice
  • McWritings
  • Contact