{"id":11264,"date":"2016-02-26T15:48:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11264"},"modified":"2016-02-26T19:18:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:18:58","slug":"blogathon-2616-the-wisdom-of-a-dead-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11264","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 26\/16: The Wisdom Of A Dead Person"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was driving to work this morning, merrily saluting magpies as I jaunted down the A46, my mind turned to Groucho Marx and his many wise sayings.<\/p>\n

How?<\/p>\n

The iPod finished playing ‘Disappear’ by ‘inLight’, and then it segued in to ‘Big In Japan’ by the 80s German synth-rockers, Alphaville.<\/p>\n

\"Alphaville\"
Alphaville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And that got me thinking about the classic sci-fi\/distopian noir film ‘Alphaville’, which was written and directed by\u00a0Jean-Luc Godard.<\/p>\n

\"Alphaville\"
Alphaville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now\u00a0Jean-Luc Godard has had many moments of brilliant witticism, but probably his best were the words\u00a0“Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

And that, obviously, put my head in front of another brilliant witticismist (definitely is a word!), Groucho Marx.<\/p>\n

\"Groucho
Groucho Marx<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With his greasepainted moustache that sat\u00a0tauntingly in front of a range of deadpan expressions, Groucho was the perfect foil to any number of fools.<\/p>\n

Some of his most famous quotes were written by Hollywood script-writers, but he contributed to many of his own one-liners. Many were on-set adlibs.<\/p>\n

But as I momentarily tuned out ‘Big in Japan’, I sniggered as I recalled:<\/p>\n

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read<\/p>\n

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies<\/p>\n

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it<\/p>\n

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others<\/p>\n

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made<\/p>\n

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot<\/p>\n

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms<\/p>\n

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon<\/p>\n

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know<\/p>\n

I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception<\/p>\n

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And of course, my favourite:<\/p>\n

Please accept my resignation. I don\u2019t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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