Can we talk?

Birthday of comedienne Joan Rivers, born in 1933.

"What a sad business is being funny!" -- Charlie Chaplin.

Tutu funny

Birthday of Charlie Chaplin, born 1889. He died on Christmas Day, 1977.

"The son of a bitch is a ballet dancer." -- W. C. Fields.

Birthday of the Month: W. C. Fields

W. C. Fields was born April 9, 1880.

"I am free of all prejudices," Fields said. "I hate everyone equally."

Great job on "Shadows and Fog"

Woody Allen's birthday. He was born in 1935.

"If a film of mine makes one more person miserable," Allen has said, "I feel I've done my job."

Birth, Marx

Harpo Marx was born today in 1893.

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought." – John Kenneth Galbraith.

Today's Perverse Verse:

I think, therefore I am, said Descartes,
But for our part,
We think that an awful lot of people with strong opinions
-- And their minions --
With their brain waves so exceedingly faint,
Ain't.