QOTD — 10th Oct 2007

After the intense and enlightening discussion on an earlier post - An Unquiet Mind Over Matter - I couldn't help resist sharing today's Quote of the Day from The Quotation's Page. It's a perfect rejoinder that serves a sumptuous dessert of humor!

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand

- Kurt Vonnegut
US novelist (1922 - 2007)

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October 10, 2007 – 9:51 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in Humor, Science, philosophy | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (8)

8 Comments

  • Shefaly wrote:
    Oct 10, 2007 at 9:57 PM

    Mahen­dra: I couldn’t help but notice you use Amer­i­can spelling. :-) For humour.

    Also I couldn’t help but notice you use an inad­ver­tent tau­tol­ogy (c.f. help resist?).

  • mahendrap wrote:
    Oct 11, 2007 at 11:15 AM

    She­faly: Thanks. I have always pre­ferred Amer­i­can spelling. I’m not sure if I use it con­sis­tently for all words, but I try.

    Good catch about the redun­dancy! That is one of the glar­ing weak­ness in my writ­ing. I’ll leave it there so your com­ment makes sense to other read­ers. :-) Thanks again.

  • madhurisinha wrote:
    Oct 11, 2007 at 11:47 PM

    I remem­ber dur­ing my school years i was fright­ened after read­ing Stephen King’s Carrie.That is the fre­quently banned book in US schools.
    Now, I guess i will believe tele­ki­net­ics only when i per­son­ally see or expe­ri­ence it like you did.

  • mahendrap wrote:
    Oct 12, 2007 at 11:54 AM

    Mad­huri: I’ve never been fright­ened read­ing anything…I didn’t know they banned books for that reason!

  • Shefaly wrote:
    Oct 12, 2007 at 1:22 PM

    Mahen­dra: I think it was not banned for being scary; prob­a­bly for just being un-Christian. Harry Pot­ter (one or more) are also on the top-100 banned books in the US… Go fig­ure, as they say. :-)

  • mahendrap wrote:
    Oct 12, 2007 at 5:45 PM

    Oh, then it is not sur­pris­ing! :-)

  • Vivek Khadpekar wrote:
    Nov 1, 2007 at 2:00 PM

    Mahen­dra,

    It’s been a long time since I saw the usage “…couldn’t help but notice…”. I have become so accus­tomed to “…couldn’t help notic­ing…”, that I had all but for­got­ten about this con­struc­tion. Inci­den­tally, shouldn’t it be fol­lowed by “used”, in both styles?

  • Vivek Khadpekar wrote:
    Nov 1, 2007 at 2:02 PM

    Sorry, that last one should have been addressed to She­faly, not Mahendra.