Remindes me off


Back in 1964 a Swedish writer wrote a collection of short stories called "Sagor för barn över 18 år" (Stories for children over 18yrs old). Among these there was one called "The Story about the great word rationing" (Sagan om den stora ordransoneringen).
In short the story was that God thought that it was to much of meaningless chatter among men so he decided to rationing the words (but just among Men, his wife didnt let him do anything to the woman). Every man got about one hundred milion words over all (counted on ten thousand words a day, in on a lifespan of about 70-80yrs)

And if you ran out of words, well then you could not speak any more.
Everytime that the man passed an even thousand number of words he would here a ringing in his ears, as a warning.
And when he had about ten words left there would be a rining in his ears with a repeating short signals for about a minut.

Only three people ever ran out of words: a priest, a politician and a PR-manager.


Just a thought.

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Liar Liar

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Yes, this looks like Liar Liar. I haven't seen that one in it's entirety, though. But this one looks like it's going to be good.

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Liar Liar was a good film.If A Thousand Words is as good it will do fine at the box-office.

Happy to see Kerry in another film before Django,which will be a major boost to her career!

"I've come here to kick-ass and chew bubble gum."

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I thought the same thing

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The author is comedian Tage Danielsson. Unfortunately I cannot find any translations into English.

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