January 2010
17 posts
zero stroke
Zero stroke is the name of the latest German ailment. It is the nervous affliction of bookkeepers who grow dizzy from the number of ciphers that must be set in a row after the integers before German marks are sufficiently numerous to come within hailing distance of real money.[4]
Cashiers, bookkeepers, and bankers were reportedly the most prone to this affliction.[2]
Besides a compulsion to...
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
WOO What, thou rash egg! Thus will we drown thine exclamations.
[They again insert his head into the commode]
BLANCHE Trifle not with the fury of two desperate men. Long has thy wife sealed a bond with Jaques Treehorn; as blood is to blood, surely thou owest to Jaques Treehorn in recompense.
WOO Rise, and speak wisely, man—but hark; I see thy rug, as woven i’the...