E.B. White on Why He Wrote Charlotte's Web

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garbon

#30
August 07, 2013, 04:15:59 PM
Snakes a lovely. :wub:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ed Anger

#31
August 07, 2013, 04:49:33 PM
I gas wasps, hornets and yellow jacks with a massive barrage. Suffer not the wasp to live.

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Razgovory

#32
August 07, 2013, 05:09:21 PM
Hornets terrify me.  When I was a boy I had several books on insects.  One had the face of a hornet on the cover.  I couldn't even bear to look at it.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

derspiess

#33
August 07, 2013, 07:43:15 PM
I still haven't properly dealt with that nest of yellow jackets inside the board on the front of my house.  They're lucky I'm distracted by the moles I'm trying to kill off.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Ed Anger

#34
August 07, 2013, 07:46:55 PM
Quote from: derspiess on August 07, 2013, 07:43:15 PM
I still haven't properly dealt with that nest of yellow jackets inside the board on the front of my house.  They're lucky I'm distracted by the moles I'm trying to kill off.

PURGE THEM WITH FIR....oh wait, in your wall.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

PDH

#35
August 07, 2013, 07:48:38 PM
When I was young I climbed a tree in our back yard.  My brother, being a brother, threw rocks at me.  He managed to hit a hidden yellow jacket nest about 10 feet from me.

That kind of sucked.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Eddie Teach

#36
August 07, 2013, 08:07:24 PM
Quote from: PDH on August 07, 2013, 07:48:38 PM
My brother, being a brother, threw rocks at me.

Wait, you're black? :unsure:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

PDH

#37
August 07, 2013, 08:31:16 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 07, 2013, 08:07:24 PM
Quote from: PDH on August 07, 2013, 07:48:38 PM
My brother, being a brother, threw rocks at me.

Wait, you're black? :unsure:

There are no black people in Wyoming.  Except the athletes that get imported with 4 year visas or Garbon passing through at 90mph.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

garbon

#38
August 07, 2013, 08:36:41 PM
And I'd do it again. :cool:

How about Canadians?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
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