"Oliver Wendell Holmes: "People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism."

apropos of nothing, a boss i once had (really) who was a physical anthropolgist counted among his prized possessions a skull of a horse which once belonged to ow holmes.
- dave 12-30-2005 11:45 pm [add a comment]