Originally Posted By: The Italian Stallionette
4.) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!


This reminds me of a true story, and looking back on it after nearly forty years, one that I'm not particularly proud of:

In my teenage years, my mother and I were having one of our all-too-frequent violent verbal arguments. I don't remember what triggered it, but at one point I yelled that unless she stopped I was going to throw the glass coffee carafe out the second-floor kitchen window. "Go ahead," she screamed back at me. "I want to see you do that!"

I need say no more...

Signor V.

"For me, there's only my wife..."

"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."