“To say [Garry] Geisel is appealing, of course, is to mean it only in the strictly legal sense.”
Linda Williamson in Ottawa Sun Oct. 4, 1999
“If you’re afraid of being spoiled by success, get a job in weather forecasting”
In a BC Transit publication called The Buzzer Jan. 14, 1994
“Ambrose Bierce wrote of an inventor who built a moon rocket. When he fired it up, it bored straight down into the earth. A while later he crawled up out of the hole, and triumphantly announced, ‘My invention has proved correct in all its details; the defects are merely basic and fundamental!’ … whereupon the investors rushed forward to press money on him for the next attempt.”
Spider Robinson in Globe & Mail April 27, 1999
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde in Lady Windemere's Fan [https://idiomorigins.org/origin/knows-the-price-of-everything-the-value-of-nothing and widely quoted online though often as “A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”]
I was a French Werewolf by Lou Garew.
Another of my supposedly funny invented “Who Wrote What” book titles, January 2024
I Was a Chinese Werewolf by Ah Wu.
One of my invented “Who Wrote What” book titles, January 2024
“It left me speechful.”
Me Jan. 1 2024 when someone on an Antiques Road Show clip on YouTube said a valuation of a painting left him speechless which I almost never am.
“Colin O’Scopie, proctologist”
Me Feb. 13, 2024 [invented not a real person].