Chuck-ese

I found this Lenny Bruce quote from The God Delusion pretty amusing (amusing enough to mark, anyway): “‘If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around thier necks instead of crosses.’”

The British also aparently have a word that means “stealing apples.” It is “scrumping.” Also courtesty of Richard Dawkins and The God Delusion.

From The Final Days, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: “‘The greatest tribute to a man would be that if he died someone could come into his office the next day and pick up where he left off.”‘ This quote by John Doar, head of the House judiciary comittee’s invistigation into Watergate expounds upon organization, and was given as a rebuke to a subordinate.

However, this quote could be useful advice as given to the President of the Untied States. An President should not be so secretive that even his own Vice-President wouldn’t know how to pick up the pieces should tragedy strike. That’s something I’ll keep in mind 18-odd years from now.