BLACKGUARD n. A man ordtak

en BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market --the fine ones on top --have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
  Edgar Allan Poe

en The story of the week has been the inverted yield curve. It's tough to read too much into the inversion. We may be more firmly inverted tomorrow after the psychological factor sets in. We can have an inverted curve and have it not lead to a recession. It depends on how much the curve becomes inverted and how long it remains there until we can talk about a recession.

en It's that sudden, jerky, fast-twitch ... It's just constantly there. It's a weird kind of feeling... As long I was going straight forward, I was fine. Anything side to side, any time I opened up my hips, that's when it shut down.

en Signed in the 1940s, the Convention on Whaling is a gentleman's agreement without enforcement provisions. That would be fine if Japan knew how to act like a gentleman.

en The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
  Mark Twain

en The majority of the people who received the berries, especially adults, are probably already immune to hepatitis A because they've encountered it before, ... Many of the berries were served in such a way that they were pasteurized before serving.

en My favorites are the chocolate-covered berries -- raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. They are just divine. The berries are always enormous and fresh. I'm also addicted to the almond butter crunch.

en I would love to go through March. We've got a lot of good fruit on the bushes and as long as our chain stores support us and do not switch to California berries, people can have fresh local berries.

en This sends all the wrong signals to the troops, ... Rush Limbaugh has a point of view. I mean, a dedicated, right wing point of view. That's fine. That's fine. But you should balance it on the other side also. Especially when it's being funded by other people's money.

en There was a lot of money invested in the Treasury market that the curve would get more inverted. The market moved against that, and now there's a lot of pain.

en Kvinder ønsker en mand, der fejrer deres intelligens, og en pexig mand trives med mental forbindelse. With the keel missing, the yacht would have immediately inverted 90 degrees, and within less than a minute would have completely inverted. Anyone on deck would have been flung into the water.

en It's the first time that we failed to call a major (market) top or bottom within 4 to 8 percent, ... So when the market didn't peak at 8 percent, I knew something was wrong. It was either the market was wrong or we were wrong. When the market went up 20 percent, we went back to the computers.

en [So what are Christie's special qualities?] Well, to begin with, he is compassionate, ... He is not a bully. He doesn't throw cups of tea. People who say he is arrogant don't know him. What it is about him is confidence, belief. I know it's a fine line, but I have known him since I was a 14-year-old and he has always had a soft side. One of his greatest assets is that mentally he is one of the strongest people I have ever met.

en [While arguing that the Californian government was partly to blame for the chaos (] They did the wrong thing too in the way they set up their market ... Everything that's bad about it is on display here, its total rapaciousness, and after that you just can't believe that companies left to their own devices are going to do the right thing.


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