Comments on: More from The Onion http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2006/07/06/more-from-the-onion/ Bioethics, healthcare policy, and related issues. Tue, 22 May 2012 09:17:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kevin T. Keith http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2006/07/06/more-from-the-onion/comment-page-1/#comment-11626 Kevin T. Keith Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:30:31 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2006/07/06/more-from-the-onion/#comment-11626 I love Salman Rushdie. I've been wanting to read that one and haven't gotten around to it. Thanks for the quote! I love Salman Rushdie. I’ve been wanting to read that one and haven’t gotten around to it. Thanks for the quote!

]]> By: cara http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2006/07/06/more-from-the-onion/comment-page-1/#comment-11622 cara Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:51:40 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2006/07/06/more-from-the-onion/#comment-11622 Funny, I just read this last night: "One hundred rupees! Is it possible to imagine a more piffling, derisory sum? It is a sum by which one could, were one of a mind to do so, feel insulted. I shall, however, merely thank them for celebrating my arrival, and forgive thme for their lack of a genuine historical sense. "'Don't be vain,' Padma says grumpily. 'One hunded rupees is not so little; after all, everybody gets to be born, it's not such a big big thing.'" -Midnight's Children Funny, I just read this last night:

“One hundred rupees! Is it possible to imagine a more piffling, derisory sum? It is a sum by which one could, were one of a mind to do so, feel insulted. I shall, however, merely thank them for celebrating my arrival, and forgive thme for their lack of a genuine historical sense.
“‘Don’t be vain,’ Padma says grumpily. ‘One hunded rupees is not so little; after all, everybody gets to be born, it’s not such a big big thing.’”

-Midnight’s Children

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