Kliban by B. Kliban for February 02, 2024

So is fishing for shoes.

The American Revelation Part Two. Corporations are people.

Social Insecurity: “Something just nibbled my toes. I hope it’s just John Bullheads. Pirhanas don’t swim this far North, do they? Is there a toe tax for voting in this district?”

“…flowin’ from the faucet of life, time is money.”

You can borrow money, but you can’t borrow time…

wooOOOooo this is pointed!

In the movie “Volunteer”, Tom Hanks played a Peace Corp. volunteer who makes friends with a drug lord. As part of his farewell he tells the drug lord “I must be going. Time is money.” The drug lord answers, “No no no. Heroin is money.”

Look in the clock.

Profound.. and here is another one. Water is wet.

Early Kliban cat?!

…on a Netherlands flag backdrop….

Funny, he doesn’t look like Ben Franklin.

“The wave harmonic theory of historical perception, in its simplest form, states that history is an illusion caused by the passage of time, and that time is an illusion caused by the passage of history. It also states that one’s perception of these illusions is conditioned by three important factors: who you are; where you are; and when you last had lunch with Zaphod Beeblebrox.”

And My Doctor told me: “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey… stuff.”