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“I had a boyfriend I was crazy about, and it didn’t work out,” Nora Ephron said. “Twenty-five years later he accused me of not having laughed while reading ‘Candy’ by Terry Southern. This was not the reason it didn’t work out, I promise you.
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“Cumberland County granted them a permit to display it as members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They call themselves pastafarians.”
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“The owner of www.donotreply.com receives millions of wayward e-mails each week, including a great many missives destined for executives at Fortune 500 companies or bank customers, even sensitive messages sent by government personnel and contractors.”
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Moyers interviews the co-directors of “Body of War.” Phil Donahue: “This is not the nation my parents raised me to pledge my allegience to.”
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“Two of the fundamental merits of the telegram are that it annihilates distance and commands immediate attention. These advantages make it readily adaptable to almost every phrase of social, industrial and commercial intercourse.”
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“Al Jaffee’s fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.”
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“It occurred to me to follow in Standage’s footsteps and to compare the shopping capabilities of 1897 with those of ecommerce pioneer Amazon.com.”
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“Hidden on a lakeshore in Medina County is the abandoned amusement park called Chippewa Lake. What you’ll find there today is the tragic shell of a once-glorious family fun park, one with a history going back to the 1840s.”
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‘Ian Thomas Baldwin, a Cornell-educated researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, has stopped calling himself “Dr.” ever since he was summoned for interrogation by police two months ago on suspicion of “title abuse.” ‘
