Nailed it again. That Shakespeare guy is kind of sharp.

That statement has always given me pause.
"He's dead now."
"Oh, OK. So right now he's dead?"
"Yep."
"So sometime later...he might be alive again? I mean if you say he's dead "now", doesn't that imply that at sometime in the future that might change?"
"That's not what I meant."
"Alright, what did you mean?"
"He's dead."
"Well, why didn't you just say that."
"I should have."
"Yeah, you shouldn't go around giving folks false hopes. That's cruel."
"Sorry."
"It's OK."

... when I read headlines like "Oldest man in world dead."

Okay, if he's dead, he's not the oldest man in the world, now is he? Unless we want to be poetic and avert that death is as old anyone can get, in which case there could be no "oldest."

A literal mind is a terrible waste of a thing.

-- Mal

It's so very good, too! But then they always are.

Thank you for your continuing efforts!

But "pestilent" is an apt adjective for this shitstain.

into his ear.

Shakespeare could have thrown in a vile fluid, or gotten off easily with a foul liquid.

Instead, he dubbed the poison a lep'rous distillment.

That's an ingenious grasp of the power of words...

Creepy McCreepems