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That's the trouble with poetic license...... it's issued free, and it can't be revoked or endorsed.

― Pete Andrews, Thursday, 7 November 2002 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

You can however make a fortune by issuing them to gullible fools at local reading circles.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 9 November 2002 02:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Re - Reading with spectacles. Have you tried a manacle?

― maryann, Sunday, 10 November 2002 00:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

That seems a trifle extreme.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 10 November 2002 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Plain ol' handcuffs work for me.

― Zen Clown (Zen Clown), Sunday, 10 November 2002 02:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

As usual on this damned perplexingly schizophrenic board, my rather honest question didn't get close to being answered. That is, "What do you think was Mr. Beardsley's original inspiration for the name of this board?" The Bukowski quote? Maybe he thought he could lure in sobers who secretly yearned for the enlightenment of the drunk, all the while subtly pushing the new "safe" alcohol alternative Blissium, in order to boost his secretly owned Blissium manufacturing plant's sales? Was it just a misspelling of "Gas in trunk", "Ask a Monk", "Pass the Funk", "Grab my Junk", or "Johnny's hairy belches"?
OH, Where for art thou sir Beardsley?

― scottai (scottai), Thursday, 14 November 2002 01:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think he just set it up whilst pissed and then forgot he ever did it . . .

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 14 November 2002 03:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight years pass...

it was this fucker's bday yesterday btw

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:42 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktCyKIcdZAo&feature=player_embedded

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:43 (twelve years ago) link

((bring it, u fucks))

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:43 (twelve years ago) link

sounds much worse just saying "love is the marine layer"

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 06:44 (twelve years ago) link

"If you want to know where god is, ask a drunk."

A perusal of Bukowski's original mss shows that the line in question went through a number of revisions before he settled on the final reading. Sifting down through at least half a dozen layers of scribbles and cross-outs reveals that the first version read:

"I fell off my stool. God was down there, too. Fuck me, I'm drunk."

― Aimless, Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link

I've seen that! <3

― steens furiously (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link

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