loopy

The water is wide, I cannot get over,
Neither have I wings to fly...
Give me a boat that can carry two,
And both shall row, my love and I.

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars and so on... while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man... for precisely the same reason.

- Hi, I'm Brian and I'm the Brain of Britain 2010.
- Wow, you won the Brain of Britain!
- No, I came 2010th.

There are three kinds of people -- those who can count and those who cannot.

Izrādās, gurķis pirms aizgūšanas no vācu valodas bijis krievābols, un ķirbis -- lielais krievābols. Big Russian Apple! Gribot negribot jāsmaida :)

Etimoloģijas vārdnīcā lasu: "Vārds "alus" un attiecīgais dzēriens ir sena kultūras parādība, ko cilts pārņēmusi no cilts (tauta no tautas), un nav vēl noskaidrota tā sākotne."

In the 1980s, a workstation with 32 Mbyte RAM could solve a system of eleven interacting electrons. After twenty years the computing power has increased 100-fold, which allows us to solve a system with merely two more electrons. 

"I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

We worship you, O God or Gods,
Whoever you may be.
We realize that you operate
Supernaturally.
We thank you for the birds and bees,
For creatures live or dead,
But if you actually don't exist,
Then ignore what we've just said.

(A Bit of Fry and Laurie)

Slow down, you move too fast,
You gotta make the morning last
Just kicking down the cobblestones,
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy!

Hello, lamppost, what'cha knowin'?
I've come to watch your flowers growin',
Ain’t’cha got no rhymes for me?
Doot-in doo-doo, feelin’ groovy!

I got no deeds to do,
No promises to keep,
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep,
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me,
Life, I love you,
All is groovy!

Tu neredzi video.

Tu neredzi video.

Kamēr vēl dreb mana roka,
Kamēr dreb rokas ēna,
Paliec, joprojām paliec
Mulstoša, karsta un lēna.

Kamēr vēl esmu pie prāta,
Paliec tu manā prātā,
Paliec, joprojām paliec
Balta un pasargāta.

Tu neredzi video.

"Ikviens ir arī kāds cits, un neviens nav tikai viņš pats. (Autors –- kāds cits)"

The Buddha resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.

Frolesworth (noun): Measure. The minimum time it is necessary to spend frowning in deep concentration at each picture in an art gallery in order that everyone else doesn't think you're a complete moron.

Kirby (noun): Small but repulsive piece of food prominently attached to a person's face or clothing.

Fiunary (noun): The safe place you put something and forget where it was.

Plymouth (verb): To relate an amusing story to someone without remembering that it was they who told it to you in the first place.

Shoeburyness (noun): The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat that is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

Dorchester (noun): Someone else's throaty cough which obscures the crucial part of the rather amusing remark you've just made.

Pelutho (noun): A South American ball game. The balls are whacked against a brick wall with a stout wooden bat until the prisoner confesses.

(D.Adams, J.Lloyd "The Meaning of Liff" -- mans šodienas atklājums)

"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."

http://www.ioling.org/problems/samples/

"Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends."

The ultimate thrill in German is waiting for the verb.
(noklausīts BBC Radio programmā "Fry's English Delight", S01E02)