Heaven

"Will there be television in heaven?"
"I suppose so. Sure what else would we do all day?"
"How about mobile phones? Will they be there too?"
"There'll be no need. All the information will be instantly hard-wired into our brains."
"That sounds amazing."
"It'll be amazing all right."

Open Up the Gates

Americans

In a rather surprisingly slow to ensue but surely inevitable development and corollary to the use of the term 'African-American', 'white' Americans are henceforth to be known as 'European-Americans', arising ethnically as of course they do from Europe. Besides of course various other denominations, as it were, it is of note to remind the reader that a 'Native American' is henceforth to be described as an 'American-American.'

All very clear and obvious, though much excitement has arisen in the cases of offsprings of mixed ethnicity. How is one to designate someone, to be crude, of a black father and white mother? 'African-American-European-American-American'? Perhaps, and with the order reversed if the father were white and mother black. And this primacy of the masculine element in these matters of verbal delineation is itself also of course a very thorny issue. But allowing those murky gender waters to rest a while, what, to extend things a little, if an American-American were to mate with an African-American-European-American-American? Would the child be an American-American-African-American-European-American-American-American? At that point one might even argue that things are beginning to border on the ridiculous, though until one is sure of oneself and where things stand it might be safer to keep one's silence or at least speak very quietly about such matters.

Free Will

Does man, woman have free will - or to put it another way, is man free?
Only an unfree person would ask the question, so no, the person wondering if he is free is clearly not free.

Should

I should write this down.

Verona

"You know that thing, Two Gentlemen of Verona?'"
"That was written by your man wasn't it?"
"It was yeah."
"He wrote some very good stuff in fairness."
"He did all right. But he wrote some awful rubbish as well."
"He did I suppose."

Half Light of Dawn - Abul Mogard

Being Irish

"How does it feel like to be Irish?"
"Ah it feels great."
"It does, doesn't it."
"It does yeah. Everyone loves us."
"We're fucking brilliant."

Objection

"I object, Your Honour, to the detective referring to my client in that manner."
"Why so?"
"Surely it is obvious that it is prejudicial to his interests to be referred to in front of the jury as "Lump Hammer Dan."
"Overruled."