I just got an idea. I watched an episode of How I Met Your Mother recently (which is by the way a pretty funny show), that was called “Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.” It was about just that, how nothing that is actually positive or productive for anything sensible happens after two in the morning.
Now, I want to propose making a list of more such phrases of “urban wisdom”. So go on and comment with smart statemants of this sort and help me make the list! Let’s see how far long we can make it… and how good it will be.
I’ll start with another one that I came up with:
All the best songs are longer than 5 minutes.
Need proof? How about Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley, Spoon, Dreaming Tree, Two Step and many more by Dave Matthews Band, Lightning Crashes by Live, Alive and Black by Pearl Jam … and I could name just about any Sigur Rós song, of course!
OK, bring it!
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- No-one has ever withdrawn money from an ATM after 4am for something positive (stolen from Chris Rock)
- If you realize that you’re annoying, you’re not really annoying.
- The very best song is actually 7:47 (Kent – Isola).
By: Benjamin on April 21, 2009
at 10:57 am
“erotic is what you can’t see” …. forgot where it’s from but as i saw viggo mortensen naked in a film it got so true …
and the best song is damien rice- 9 crimes 2:58 …
By: susi on April 21, 2009
at 7:48 pm
Haha! I like your replies, guys. I’ve heard that one from Chris Rock, and it’s quite cool. It’s kinda the same as the one about nothing good after 2 AM…
And the one about being annoying is good too.
I see your experience from seeing Viggo naked in a movie wasn’t pleasant! … Sometimes things are better kept unseen
I had another idea for urban wisdom last night, but I forgot. I’ll write it when it comes back!
By: Martin on April 22, 2009
at 12:36 pm
- If you use the vacuum cleaner at 2 am, you have something to hide.
(This is based on own experience. My neighbour did this last night, and I know there’s something not quite right about him…)
By: Benjamin on April 22, 2009
at 1:27 pm
Haha! That’s some wise shit, going on. I love it. And I think we’re evolving towards a theory of anything happening after 2 AM being very suspicious. I’ll keep my eyes open when I roam the dark streets in the night in my black trench-coat…
So, Benjamin, what do you think he spilled on the floor that necessitated vacuuming . . . ?
By: Martin on April 23, 2009
at 8:17 pm
I have no idea, but he sometimes leaves his entrance door wide open during the day, too. And, last week a very angry man from the authorities hung an eviction warning letter on his door. He owns his apartment, so he most not have paid his mortgage or something..
By: Benjamin on April 27, 2009
at 10:28 pm
I saw another such phrase yesterday…
“He who says he’s slept like a baby probably doesn’t have a baby!”
I guess there’s truth in that
By: Martin on May 3, 2009
at 11:08 am