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Hah - like that one, Werner! Kind of creeps up on you. And there are other lovely ideas here too - thanks, all.
For those of my fellow sufferers still trying to scratch a living in the commercial world, I offer one currently pinned above my computer:
"Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark; you know what you are doing, but nobody else does!"
?George Jessel
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"PJ O'Rourke is probably the ONLY author today who can have me laughing so hard that my sides hurt.
You haven't read Patrick McManus, then?"
What about Tom Robbins, Douglas Copeland and Douglas Adams? And Salman Rushdie...
"I love deadlines... I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Douglas Adams
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the whooshing noise they make as they go byWelcome, Tipple. Is that what is meant by the read shift effect? 
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"read shift effect"?
*stares round in surprise*
Thanks for the welcome... :-)
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When I saw the title of this thread, lines from an old Woody Allen movie popped into my head. They went (more or less) like this:
Q : "what is the difference between sex and death?"
A : "Death doesn't make you nauseous."
wow
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sex and death
they'll get you coming and going
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sex and death
they'll get you coming and goingOh, GOOD one, Sparteye! And what a way to go! 
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In today's newspaper, the music reviewer, writing about a performance of Handel's Israel in Egypt, started off with George Bernard Shaw's definition of oratorio: 'Unstaged operettas on scriptural themes, written in a style in which solemnity and triviality are blended in the right proportion for boring an atheist out of his senses."
For those who are not too familiar with GBS' life, he wrote music reviews for a London newspaper in the 1880's under the nom de plume of Corno di Bassetto.
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Everyman is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Emerson
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: 'Unstaged operettas on scriptural themes, written in a style in which solemnity and triviality are blended in the right proportion for boring an atheist out of his senses."
Dear Bobyoungbalt: I read the encyclopedia article on GBS and could not tell if he would have called himself an atheist or not. What's your guess?
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