Excuse My Dust.

[Perknose]

boomerang is very concerned, that's for sure.

I'm concerned that he's concerned.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Its sad as well. The most colorful people often have the darkest past. A broken soul seems to open the door to a beauty that most of us would enjoy, but, their wounds are too deep to fill.

She lost her mother just before she turned 5 and was not treated very well by her father and stepmother.

 

[zinfamous]

I'm concerned that he's concerned.

I find your concern for his concern, not all that concerning. ....appropriate, really.

 

[Blackjack200]

During the 1930s and 1940s, Parker became an increasingly vocal advocate of causes like civil liberties and civil rights, and a frequent critic of those in authority. She reported on the Loyalist cause in Spain for the Communist magazine The New Masses in 1937.[41] At the behest of Otto Katz, a covert Soviet Comintern agent and operative of German Communist Party agent Willi Muenzenberg, Parker helped to found the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in 1936 (which was suspected by the FBI of being a Communist Party front).[42] The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League's membership eventually grew to some 4,000 strong. Its often wealthy members' contributions (probably not intended to support Communism) were, in the words of David Caute,[43] "able to contribute as much to [Communist] Party funds as the whole American working class".[43][44]

Dorothy Parker was good as hell.

 

[glenn1]

I'm concerned that he's concerned.

Happy birthday Dorothy Parker.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

So why was this posted in P&N? Perk...why are you asking for a fight? I appreciate the post (didn’t realize she had left her estate to Dr. King either), but hate that everything has to be a divisive fight. Let the trolls be the ones to create the division...don’t post with it in mind...then you are just part of the problem.

Seriously, sometimes it seems like 80% of this forum's content is a bunch of people with half chubs waiting to jump on stupid posts they baited out of taj.

 

[realibrad]

Seriously, sometimes it seems like 80% of this forum's content is a bunch of people with half chubs waiting to jump on stupid posts they baited out of taj.

Did you just assume my erection? That's offensive. Lets fight about it!

 

[Amused]

At the end of her life, Dorothy Parker put considerable estate on the line for freedom and justice for African Americans.

As a kid of about 11 or 12 (yeah, I know, I'm weird), I came across the members of the Algonquin Round Table. They were both smart and dead nuts funny. They went into my pantheon of approximate heroes. And none were funnier than Dorothy Parker, who famously once said, "If you have nothing good to say, sit by me."

Anyway, I just learned today that, at her death, she willed her entire estate to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King;

Dorothy Parker, who was born on this day in 1893, once suggested her own epitaph: “Excuse my dust.”
It was a classic, coolly unsentimental remark by Ms. Parker, the acerbic wit whose writing was a mainstay in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker for years. But her other post-mortem plans came as a surprise to many.

The sharp-witted Dorothy Parker.

When she died on June 7, 1967, the bulk of her estate was left to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr., whom she had never met. Ms. Parker, a champion of humanitarian and left-wing causes, admired the civil rights leader’s work, but even Dr. King was surprised.

My admiration for this brilliant and witty woman has now grown and deepened.

Here are a few of the things she said, quoted:

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone." <---- Yeah, she FIRST said that.

"It serve me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."

“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and she can’t say “No” in any of them.”

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”

“Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.”

“He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.”

“There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”

“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”

“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.” <----- Yep, she coined this.

“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” <----- Again!

When asked if she was going to join Alcoholics Anonymous: “Certainly not. They want me to stop now.”

“Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.”

“I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.”

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”

“Miss Hepburn ran the whole gamut of emotions—from A to B.” <---- A scathing and pithy review!

"I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host."

"Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live. "

She attempted suicide four times in her life. She was better at writing.

I can't wait to read how the humorless ideological pinheads here, those tiny little right-wing apologists and Trump enablers, respond to this post. Have at it, boyz!

OK, this is just scary.

We just watched this last month at the Pacific Resident Theater in Venice Beach, Ca:

https://pacificresidenttheatre.com/the-dorothy-parker-project/

“An Evening of dramatized short stories, poems and musings by Dorothy Parker with additional material by Kathrine Bates, Michael Cooper and Marilyn Fox
Directed by Michael Cooper and Marilyn Fox. This witty and intimate piece invites you to spend an evening with Dorothy Parker and 15 actors, in her New York apartment in 1958. Dorothy will share some of her enacted short stories, a few poems and musings, while dispelling some rumors you’ve heard about her, and revealing some important things you might not have known.

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[Pipeline 1010]

Thanks for posting this. I had never heard of Dorothy Parker before and I find her quotes brilliant and fun. What a good read. For some reason these quotes remind me an awful lot of the humor/wit in Yogi Berra quotes.