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Did you know there was a serious author who was being ridiculed in Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts"?

Yes. His name was Hugh Prather, and he published a book called "Notes to Myself" in 1970. It included things like:

¶?Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day. I think of those who aren?t.?

¶?My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.?

¶?When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.?

Later, he wrote ?I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me? and ?Wipe Your Face, You Just Swallowed My Soul.? He "founded and ran a religion, the Dispensable Church."  Also, the Moosewood Restaurant (in Ithaca) was named after his dog, Moosewood.

He's dead now, at age 72.

And I love "Deep Thoughts"....

You might think that the favorite plant of the porcupine is the cactus, but it's thinking like that that has almost ruined this country.

Full post as published by Althouse on November 22, 2010 (boomark / email).