Now that you mention it ... It's a deceptively powerful phrase, that off-hand remark. It suggests permission to proceed, subject broached, time to take off the gloves.
NOW THAT I think about it, there was something noteworthy that occurred at last week's Republican presidential debate.
"From the beginning, there has been evil in the world."
He added: "Pornography and violence poison our music and movies and TV and video games. The Virginia Tech shooter, like the Columbine shooters before him, had drunk from this cesspool."
Now that I think about it, we'll probably hear it from just about anyone who gets the nod.
In the Jersey City Salvation Army Home John J. Daggett walked in his sleep, walked through a second story window, fell to the ground, awoke. He walked upstairs, reported the accident, lit a cigaret. An ambulance surgeon saw smoke escaping from John Daggett's neck, found his windpipe had been nearly severed. Said Smoker Daggett: "Now that you mention it, I noticed I wasn't getting much out of this cigaret."
The central, vexing paradox of smoking: that in return for death, cigarettes give pleasure. Justifiable pleasure? Of course not. What Kant deemed "negative pleasure"? Perhaps. But pleasure nonetheless.
"I am really tired of the way red heads are portrayed, in literature, in movies, in advertising. Now that I think about it, every off beat, quirky, venal, sadistic, bad-tempered and lascivious character is a red head."
Gillian Anderson hates TV. I mean, she really hates it. Oh, to be good at something you hate. Wait: Now that I think about it, maybe Gillian is on to something.
"Now that I think about it, it might be good with peaches," she said.
"It's a colloquialism." She compared it to a figure of speech: "Like asking someone, 'Are you high?' when you're actually saying, 'Are you serious?' "
When the term's connection to spousal abuse was pointed out, she seemed surprised. "Now that you mention it, I'm like, damn!" she said.
Now that I think about it, I guess there is an ove... [ Read More (0.8k in body) ]
