Orts #773

A mother is mystified by some acronyms which have been appearing at the bottom of e-mails she’s getting from friends. Too embarrassed to show how out of touch she is by asking them directly, she e-mails her son: “What does TTYL, ILY, BFN mean?" The son e-mails back, “Talk to you later, I love you, ‘bye for now.” To which she replies, “OK, never mind, I’ll ask your sister."

Be here now. Be somewhere else later. Is that so complicated?

     — David M. Bader, Zen Judaism: For You, A Little Enlightenment  (2002)
 

He that lives upon hope, dies farting.

     — Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736

He that lives upon hope, dies fasting.

     — Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1758 edition

Bonus Link: "Benjamin Franklin" plays Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy on the glass armonica, an instrument he invented:   http://www.openculture.com/2016/06/hear-the-instrument-benjamin-franklin-invented-the-glass-armonica-play-tchaikovskys-dance-of-the-sugar-plum-fairy.html