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Thursday, August 02, 2007

scrapbook, n.

or now known as the so called, B-L-O-G!!!

--> A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. One of these egoists was addressed in the following lines, by Agamemnon Melancthon Peters:

Dear Frank, that scrap-book where you boast
You keep a record true
Of every kind or peppered roast
That's made of you;
Wherein you paste the printed gibes
That revel round your name,
Thinking the laughter of the scribes
Attests your fame;
Where all the pictures you arrange
That comic pencils trace -
Your funny figure and your strange
Semitic face-
Pray lend it me. Wit I have not,
Nor art, but there I'll list
The daily drubbings you'd have got
Had God a fist.
from: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
by: Ambrose Bierce