What's pessimistic about "eat, drink, be merry, and learn as much as you can while you have the opportunity, lest your life after death be the worst possible drag"? — Bitter Crank
Maybe you misunderstood. Read "shove" as "shovel"; shovel in as much as you can. The separate etymologies of shove and shovel is one of those things you can think about after death. — Bitter Crank
You, for instance, will be among the last to be bored, since you have a well stuffed mind, or at least it looks like that at a distance. — Bitter Crank
Which 1000 years? — Noble Dust
So this thread is a joke? — Noble Dust
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