Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc AKA “Bread Kills”
Monday, April 21st, 2008This one kills me no matter how many times I read it!
This one kills me no matter how many times I read it!
The next time the Government Of India wants me to reveal intimate details about my anatomy, I will.
Varun Varma, 27 yo., Male
Birthmark:
I don’t think that Manmohan Singh’s dream of turning Mumbai into another Shanghai will ever come true. How is going to convince 15 million Chinese to move to Mumbai?
Now I’ve really done it. I have started Facebooking like crazy. First this blog (the simple passions), then Facebook (the complex passions). What’s next? A page on MySpace.com (the criminal passions) and then trying to get 38,000 people to be my “friends” (the murderous passions)?
I have no shame. No self control. Marquis de Sade would be proud.
In 1897, a reporter was sent to investigate whether Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) had died. This was due to a mix up – in fact his was cousin who was seriously ill.
Twain wrote an article about the incident which included the famous quote – “The report of my death is an exaggeration”.
If I had been there, I would have immediately written to Twain: