Collector Catastrophe

Brian Doherty | 12.30.2003 3:36 AM

The perils of an overweening love for the printed word.

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Trey 23 years ago

This very thing happened to principal Skinner.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F03.html

He went home and began bundling his old newspapers, but the stack fell on him. (``Let this be a lesson to recycle regularly.'') Trapped until the pile of papers, he survived the week by eating his mother's preserves and preserved his sanity by dribbling a basketball that was barely within reach of his one free hand. (``I made a game of it. Seeing how many times I could bounce the ball in a day, then trying to break that record.'')
rts 23 years ago

Fat Tony unavailable for comment.
Steve in CO 23 years ago

Ha, ha ... (Nelson) ... love that troubled kid.

:0)
Kevin 23 years ago

What have I done to deserve such a flat, flavorless Manhattan?

It would have been wrong to stop a perfectly good Simpsons thread.
Cecile 23 years ago

That reminds me of Matt Labash's latest in the Weekly Standard.
At least the man has one resolution for next year!
AJMB, no longer able to use no 23 years ago

Note to self: Do NOT kepp old issues of Reason when subscription commences.
AJMB, no longer able to use no 23 years ago

Further note to self: PREVIEW, dammit!
yelowd 23 years ago

ajmb, to what ip rights are you refering?
AJMB 23 years ago

Just a gag, yelowd. nW was a reaction to Jean Bart's use of the merovingian pseudonym. Frankly, I just got bored with it. Knowing what a hot button IP is round these parts, I thought this an amusing way of divesting myself of it.
yelowd 23 years ago

glad to know I took the bait.
AJMB 23 years ago

No egg intended. Have a Happy New Year
Ron Hardin 23 years ago

That's a misuse of ``overweening.'' Not just anybody can be Buckley. Try to emulate, eg.,

``...there are those who already have warned that distinctions will need to be made if the absolute law is passed, and that those distinctions might then be overweening. For example, who exactly is and who isn't a newspaperman, or a reporter, or a free-lance television or radio consultant?'' WFB _Execution Eve_

``Overweening'' comes from ``ween'' to think, suppose; you're relying on ``over'' to do all the work. That's only an intensifier.

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