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I've always liked the end of the anti-foreword: > Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like exc
by floren 1y ago
I've always liked the end of the anti-foreword:
> Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite
observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains
enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But
it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.
- EarlKing 1y agoYou forgot the last bit: "Bon appetite!" Definitely the politest way anyone has ever been told to eat shit in human history.
- B1FF_PSUVM 1y agoProps for the inclusion of that in the book. "Mighty white of them", as they used to say in Bechuanaland.
- echelon_musk 1y agoMy first instinct was that this phrase is racist, especially with you saying it was used in an ex-British southern African colony. This was the best I could find as to its origins: https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-thats-mighty-white-of-you-come-from-and-what-does-it-mean/145841/3 https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-thats-mighty-whi...
- B1FF_PSUVM 1y agoRelax, the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. And so's the future - probably next century we'll be looked down upon as sad sacks of shit who didn't have the decency to get our weights into clean silicon.