Friday, May 2, 2008

Big Problem. Or Brobdingnagian?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Have you hugged a pacifist today?

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

We worship you above all else.
Self?
We worship you above all else.
Family?
We worship you above all else.
Religious and political figures?
We worship you above all else.
The religion that formed us?
We worship you above all else.
Nation?
We worship you above all else.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“First, we kill all the lawyers – then the accountants.”


[Shakespeare had inspiration, but He didn’t say this.]

D. Blog: How Big is the Problem?

[from dictionary.com]

Brobdingnagian \brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\, adjective:Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.

"The venture capital business has a size problem. A monstrous, staggering, stupefying one. Brobdingnagian even."-- Russ Mitchell, "Too Much Ventured Nothing Gained", Fortune, November 11, 2002

"Any savvy dealer . . . will try to talk you up to one of the latest behemoths, which have bloated to such Brobdingnagian dimensions as to have entered the realm of the absurd."-- Jack Hitt, "The Hidden Life of SUVs", Mother Jones, July/August 1999

Brobdingnagian is from Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

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