Zeno
07-14-2004, 11:58 PM
Calcutta contains 6.7 of the ugliest people you ever saw in your life per square foot, every last one of them pissing in, shitting in, throwing their garbage in, washing in and drinking from the same tepid creek. They paste raisins to their heads to honor a deity who hasn’t answered a single prayer in five thousand years but who has more arms than their military; they wear their sheets on their heads and sleep in the mud; and you can hear their ribs rattle as they bow down in homage to a robust cow who’s strip-grazed their gardens of everything but curry.
-P. J. O’Rourke
I shall also be glad to have seen it [Calcutta] – for the same reason Papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon – namely, “that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again.”
- Winston Churchill
When a person is accustomed to 138 in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable…..I believe that in India “cold weather” is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
-Mark Twain
-P. J. O’Rourke
I shall also be glad to have seen it [Calcutta] – for the same reason Papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon – namely, “that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again.”
- Winston Churchill
When a person is accustomed to 138 in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable…..I believe that in India “cold weather” is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
-Mark Twain