An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.

Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.