Topicks

Always intent to avoid giving Fright to you or any of the Audience, at this, your Theatre of Topicks as I call it

What is the sound of one hand on a children's TV show host? Ann Althouse 2009

You may know that I have not yet favour'd the Audience here at Professor Althouse's Theatre of Topicks as I call it with a proper account of my unfortunate Death, which gave Occasion to my first and only ectoplasmick Hauntings.

When lawyers shop... Ann Althouse 2009

Mr. Limbaugh thus makes an obscene jest, unworthy of any but a drunk Sailor or Sub-Altern taking Whiskey with his Fellows, and hardly the fit Subject of Speculation by a rational Audience at this otherwise exemplary Theatre of Topicks as I call it.

"I'm jealous. I can't do it either. I can't cross my legs sitting in a chair like that." Ann Althouse 2008

'Tis true, that the regular Company at this Theatre of Topicks as I call it have their accustom'd Roles.

Where am I? What am I thinking? Ann Althouse 2008

You will commend my Philosophy, when I tell you that, upon reading the Notes of certain of the Groundlings in this, your Theatre of Topicks as I call it, I did not rush upon the Deer in the Park outside my Window with Gun & Sword.

Should a 10-year-old be permitted to go hunting? Ann Althouse 2008

As a Ghost dead these 250 Years and more, and as the Inspector of Lunaticks for this, your Theatre of Topicks as I call it, I may say that Those with Vain Imaginings about the dreadful Attacks in New-York, and who are now pest'ring You, might have a Care, that I and some of my Fellow Ghosts should haunt Them.

"You may rest assured that I, and hundreds of supporters, will continue to contact you, by email, phone, and perhaps in-person requests...." Ann Althouse 2008

Mind the Sight of this Letter gave me; I knew the Character too well to doubt it to be her Writing; I knew the Stile too perfectly to think it not of her own composing; the two Topicks on which the Letter was founded

Exilius 2008

Secure in the Knowledge you would never be the Victim, nor, a haughty and arbitrary Despot, but always the charming & wise impressaria of your worthy Theatre of Topicks, I remain

Where am I? What am I thinking? Ann Althouse 2008

These were the Topicks on which I founded my perswasive Arguments to you both, as knowing these two, to wit, Religion in you, and Reason in him, to be the Regents of your vertuous Souls; which reign'd with an Authority never to be control'd.

Exilius 2008

I would flatter Myself that my Labour, as a Critick of Lunaticks here at your Theatre of Topicks as I call it, has not been in vain, and has helped, in some small Way, to improve the Manners of your Audience.

"The man of the moment is an urchin, a wraith or an underfed runt." Ann Althouse 2008