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;void(0)) . . . WEATHER see "NATURE" for related links The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind. --Nigel Calder (1931 ) British science writer and environmentalist. Speech, Earth Day [1969]. & see: This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. --Lowell Ponte Libertarian radio talk show host. _The Cooling_ [1976] & see: If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. --Kenneth E.F. Watt (b. 1929) On air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day [1970]. & note: There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Life on the Mississippi_ [1883], ch. XVII "Cut-Offs and Stephen" - The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitiant of the northern temperate zones wiser and abler than the fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Prudence" _Essays_, First Series [1841] It ain't a fit night out for man or beast. --W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (18801946) American vaudeville star and film actor. Adopted by Fields but claimed by him not to be original, letter [8 February 1944]. A woman rang to say she heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well don't worry, there isn't. (Weather forecast on the night before serious gales in southern England.) --Michael Fish (1944 ) British weather forecaster. In my best social accent I addressed him. I said, 'It is most extraordinary weather for this time of year!' He replied, 'Ah, it isn't this time of year at all." --Oliver St John Gogarty (18781957) Irish physician and writer of humerous verse. _It Isn't This Time of Year at All_ [1954] Tall tales come out of Oklahoma, just as out of Texas, one favorite describes the 'crowbar hole.' This is a hole through the wall that many houses have, designed to check the weather. You shove a crowbar through the hole; if it bends, the wind velocity outside is normal; if the bar breaks off, 'it is better to stay in the house.' --John Gunther (19011970) American author. _Inside USA_ [1947] ^ Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041964) American novelist. In March 1864, an ill Hawthorne was traveling with his old friend and publisher James Ticknor. Driving through Philadelphia, the bad weather turned even colder and rainier. Ticknor took off his coat and put it around Hawthorne's shoulders to protect him. It helped Hawthorne but Ticknor caught a severe case of pneumonia and died a few days later. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ I prefer much the climate of the United States to that of Europe. I think it a more cheerful one. It is our cloudless sky which has eradicated from our constitutions all disposition to hang ourselves, which we might have otherwise inherited from our English ancestors. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. In a letter to C.F.C. de Volney [8 February 1805]. When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In "The Idler" [24 June 1758]. - It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring. --Charles Kuralt (19341997) American journalist and broadcaster. That's the way life goes, of course. A breeze comes up in Rhode Island on a morning in March during the Civil War, and a Union soldier home on leave goes into a park in Providence to fly a kite, and a young woman sees the kite in the sky from her front stoop a block away and wanders into the park, where she meets the soldier and likes him, and they write letters to each other after he goes back to his outfit, and they are married after the war, and they have a son, who grows up and has a son, who grows up and has a son, who is named Charles after the soldier. And here I am. But I wouldn't be, if a Rhode Island day in 1864 had turned out calm, rather than breezy. I owe everthing to the wind and to Providence. --Charles Kuralt (19341997) American journalist and broadcaster. _Charles Kuralt's America_ [1995] "April: A Change of Plans" - It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear: The climate must be perfect all the year. A law was made a distant moon ago here, July and August cannot be too hot; And there's a legal limit to the snow here In Camelot. The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order Summer lingers through September In Camelot. Camelot! Camelot! I know it sounds a bit bizarre; But in Camelot, Camelot That's how conditions are. The rain may never fall till after sundown, By eight the morning fog must disappear. In short, there's simply not A more congenial spot For happ'ly-ever-aftering than here In Camelot. Camelot! Camelot! I know it gives a person pause, But in Camelot, Camelot Those are the legal laws. The snow may never slush upon the hillside. By nine P.M. the moonlight must appear. In short, there's simply not A more congenial spot For happ'ly-ever-aftering than here In Camelot. Each evening from December to December Before you drift to sleep upon your cot, Think back on all the tales that you remember Of Camelot. Ask ev'ry person if he's heard the story, And tell it strong and clear if he has not: That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory Called Camelot. Camelot! Camelot! Now say it out with love and joy! Camelot! Camelot! Yes, Camelot, my boy ... Where once it never rained till after sundown; By eight A.M. the morning fog had flown ... Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment that was known As Camelot. --Alan Jay Lerner (19181986) American playwright and lyricist. ""Camelot"" 1960 song from the stage production of the same name. (Music by Frederic Loewe (19011988) Austrian-American composer.) - Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. - "Did you *see* the weather report for this world?" said Rincewind, waving his hands in the air. "Two miles of ice, followed by a light shower of rocks, with outbreaks of choking fog for the next thousand years? There will be widespread vulcanism as half a continent's worth of magma lets go, followed by a period of mountain building? And that's *normal.*" [...] "Oh, *yes*, there are some nice quiet periods, everything settles down, and then whammo!" [...] "This is how this place *works*! And now, please, you tell me how, I mean *how*, can anything living on this world *possibly* mess it up? I mean, compared to what happens anyway?" --Terry Pratchett (1948 ) English science fiction writer. _The Science of Discworld_ [1999], with Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen. - It rained hard enough to fill a wire basket. --Mike Royko (19321997) American journalist. The fog comes on little cat feet, It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. --Carl Sandburg (18781967) American poet. "Fog" [1916] - There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always adhering strictly to business; aways getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in spring that in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Speech to the New England Society [12 December 1876]. In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Probably nor'east to sou'west winds varying to the southard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probably areas of rain, snow, heat and drought, succeeded or preceded by earth quakes with thunder and lightning. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Twain on San Francisco's weather: During eight months of the year, straight along, the skies are bright and cloudless, and never a drop of rain falls. But when the other four months come along, you will need to go and steal an umbrella. Because you will require it. Not just one day, but one hundred and twenty days in hardly varying succession...And along in the summer, when you have suffered about four months of lustrous, pitiless sunshine, you are ready to go down on your knees and plead for rain hail snow thunder and lightning anything to break the monotony you will take an earthquake, if you cannot do any better. And the chances are that you'll get it, too. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Roughing It_, Vol. II, Chapter XV, "Glorious Climate Of California" [1871] Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning which does the work. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. In a 1908 letter. - - Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. --Charles Dudley Warner (18291900) American newspaperman, author, editor, and publisher. In an editorial in the "Hartford Courant" [24 August 1897]. & note: 1897 - Newspaper editor Charles Dudley Warner published his often-quoted sentence, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." The quotation is often mistakenly attributed to his friend Mark Twain. Warner was the editor of the "Hartford Courant," where the quotation was published. --anon. - I'd better shut the window, It feels like minus fifty And my davenport is looking drifty There's a polar bear In my rocking chair! I think this weather's nifty. --"Beautiful Buffalo" Hurricane Bertha, if it hits the United States, will do so somewhere between Florida and Maine. --Weather Channel forecast The weather is here, wish you were beautiful. --anon. ----- aeromancy [AIR-uh-man-see], noun: The prediction of future events from observation of weather conditions. brontophobia (noun) [bran-tκ-'fo-bi-κ] The fear of thunder or thunderstorms. dendrochronology [n. den-droh-kruh-NAH-luh-gee] The study of past climate through the records stored in the rings of trees. favonian [uh-VOH-nee-uhn], adjective: Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle. levanter (noun) A strong easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean area, especially in the late summer minacious (adj.) [mi-'ney-shκs] Menacing, threatening. The noun is minacity. zephyr (noun) Mild wind: a light warming breeze  . . see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links Not a soul down on the corner, That's a pretty certain sign, That wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine. All the boys are singing love songs, They forgot "Sweet Adeline," Those wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine. There goes Jack, there goes Jim, Down to lover's lane. Now and then we meet again, But they don't seem the same. Gee, I get a lonesome feeling, When I hear the church bells chime, Those wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine. --"Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine)" The Four Aces with Al Alberts, Words by Irving Kahal and Willie Raskin and music by Sammy Fain. I'm getting married in the morning, Ding dong! The bells are going to chime. Pull out the stopper; Let's have a whopper; But get me to the church on time! --Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) American playwright and lyricist. "Get Me to the Church on Time" [1956 song] Always a bridesmaid, never a bride... --part of a 1920s advertisement for Listerine [invented in 1879 as surgical antiseptic], for its newly invented use as a mouthwash against halitosis, from Katherine Ashenburg, _The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History_ [2007]. You can't imagine how many clothes you have to put on a girl when the sole purpose is to get them off. --John Ernst Steinbeck (19021968) American novelist. Letter to Graham Watson [2 July 1956]. What a holler there would be if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce. --Claire Trevor (19102000) American actress. In "New York Journal-American" [12 October 1960]. I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night. --Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov [19212004] British entertainer, writer, and humanitarian. (On tennis player Monica Seles.) - Wedding Telegrams To the bride: Congratulations, Mabel. It was better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. --Southside Football Club, and coach. To groom: Put a penny in a jar every time. After a year you'll have enough to take a penny out every time for the rest of your life. To the bride: Congratulations and I hope you find the magnifying glass useful. - ----- shivaree (noun) [shi-vκ-ree] A mock serenade, a wedding night prank of clanging pots and pans to interrupt the nuptial couple until the noise-makers are invited in for an evening of refreshments and snide remarks. ;void(0)) WEIRD . . see: "STRANGE" eldritch [EL-drich], adjective: Strange; unearthly; weird; eerie. Ex. : The immitigable mountains and their stark, eldritch trees; coasts where earth abruptly snapped off, never to be continued, or beaches which gnawed it to bright dust and sucked it gently away.... --Carolyn Kizer, "A Childhood South of Nowhere," _New York Times_ [9 April 1989] ;void(0)) WELCOME . . see: "COMPANY (HAVING)" see "FRIENDSHIP" for other related links 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Don Juan_ [1818], canto I, st. 123 Welcome as kindly showers to the long parched earth. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. If an unknown individual arrived, they did not inquire if he was capable, honest, industrious, but had he killed his man? If he had not, he gravitated to his natural and proper position, that of a man of small consequence; if he had, the cordiality of his reception was graduated according to the number of his dead. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Roughing It_ [1872] . . see "MONEY" for related links To his eternal dishonor, in 1996 [President Bill] Clinton signed a welfare bill that ends the federal responsibility to children in poverty and, as an added insult, provides funds to enroll their mothers in what the right styles as "chastity training." --Barbara Ehrenreich (1941 ) American social critic, autivist, and author. "Sex happens" _The Progressive_ [Direct welfare] is a bad program, not because it gives money to the poor, but because it produces poor people, because it encourages people to be on welfare instead of being on wages. I dont blame them. If you and I are fools enough to make it to their advantage to subsist on welfare rather than work, they would foolish not to take advantage of it. Nonetheless, I have a great deal more sympathy for that program than for almost any other, because it is about the only one that really contributes to people in lower income classes rather than to the people who pay the taxes. --Milton Friedman (19122006) American laissez-faire economist; winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics. "Economic Myths and Public Opinion" [January 1976] Liberals want to strike down the abortion laws, so that unwanted babies can be killed off before they are born. Conservatives want to strike down the welfare laws, so that unwanted babies can be starved to death after they are born. --N. Sally Hass With respect to the words, "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the details of power connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. --James Madison (17511836) Fourth president of the United States [18091817]. Letter to James Robertson [20 April 1831] in _Madison_ 1865, IV, pages 171-172. Motivation and risk-taking will be undercut wherever basic needs are met without strings of obligation. That is Aesop, the Bible, and common sense. That is human nature. --John McWhorter (1965 ) American professor of linguistics and author. "Seduced" in _The American Enterprise_ [April 2006]  WELLS . . see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links Dr. Jones fell in the well and died without a moan. He should have tended to the sick and left the well alone. --Harry Graham (18741936) British writer and journalist. _Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes_ [1899] ;void(0)) WELLS (H.G.) . . H.G. Wells (18661946) English novelist. see: "AUTHORS" see: "WRITING" see "PEOPLE" for other related links I have no hesitation whatever in saying that Wells, as he is, entertains me far more agreeably than Dickens. I know very well that the author of _David Copperfield_ was a greater artist than the author of _Mr. Polly_, just as I know that the Archbishop of Canterbury is a more virtuous man than my good friend, Fred the Bartender; but all the same, I prefer Wells and Fred to Dickens and the Archbishop. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Smart Set_ [July 1910] Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to 'get on or get out', your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who _knew_ that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. _Horizon_ [August 1941] end page | UGLY - UNICORNS | UNHAPPINESS | UNIONS - USELESS | VACATION - VENGENCE | VENICE - VICTORY | VIGILANCE - VIRGINITY | VIRTUE - VULGARITY | WAGES - WAR & PEACE | WAR (THE CIVIL) - WAR (THE REVOLUTIONARY) | WAR (THOUGHTS ABOUT) - PAGE 1 (A-M) | WAR (THOUGHTS ABOUT) - PAGE 2 (N-Z) | WAR (VIETNAM) | WAR (WORLD WAR I) | WAR (WORLD WAR II) PAGE 1 (A-M) | WAR (WORLD WAR II) PAGE 2 (N-Z) | WASHINGTON (D.C.) - WEAK/WEAKNESS | WEALTH - WEASELS | WEATHER - WELLS (H.G.) | WEST (THE OLD/WILD) - WILDE (OSCAR) | WILL - WINNING | WINTER - WISDOM | WISHING - WIVES | WOMEN - WOMEN'S LIB | WOMEN'S RIGHTS - WORDS | WORK - WORLD | WORLD TRADE CENTER & PENTAGON DISASTER, 11 SEPTEMB | WORRY - WRONG | WRITING | YESTERDAY - ZOOS | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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