Billmon:
That’s the entire column — just a bunch of quotes.
It’s a clever idea. Wish I’d thought of it.
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July 17, 2006
WB: Dueling Quotes
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One should appreciate unacknowledged imitation.
Heh. 🙂
Posted by: Noirette | Jul 17 2006 18:43 utc | 1
benjamin employed the technique throughout the arcades project.
Posted by: slothrop | Jul 17 2006 18:57 utc | 2
if its any consolation, the instant i scrolled down into the beef of krugman’s column this morning the word billmon appeared in middair. the texture was off, though — krugman played the quotes as set of call-and-answer riffs, whereas billmon usually arranges them carefully along a ghost-vector that resembles a loose turd swirling down an unloved toilet bowl.
Posted by: bianco(eur?) | Jul 17 2006 19:07 utc | 3
Having just reread “1984”, the thought kept coming to mind that the current version of the slogan would be:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT
Posted by: ohsopolite | Jul 17 2006 19:51 utc | 4
I know I’m not the only one who’s first thought was: “Someone’s a fan of billmon.”
Posted by: vicki | Jul 17 2006 23:32 utc | 6
Ray: That’s my corn out there. You guys are guests in my corn. ”
“I’ve done everything I’ve been asked to do. I didn’t understand, but I’ve done it, and I haven’t once asked what’s in it for me.
Shoeless Joe: What are you saying?
Ray: I’m saying, “What’s in it for me?”
Shoeless Joe: Is that why you did this? For you? I think you’d better stay here, Ray.
Ferd: Heh
Posted by: ferd | Jul 18 2006 1:13 utc | 7
Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean’s ditch. And I told him that dirt in it’s your dirt. What’s your dirt doin’ in his ditch?
Luke: I don’t know, Boss.
Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.
~Cool hand Luke 1967
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jul 18 2006 1:52 utc | 8