The terrible day of the wisecrack.

[NNadir]

From the Wikipedia entry on the life of Dorothy Parker:

Following Campbell's death, Parker returned to New York City and the Volney Residential hotel. In her later years, she denigrated the Algonquin Round Table, although it had brought her such early notoriety:

These were no giants. Think who was writing in those days—Lardner, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway. Those were the real giants. The Round Table was just a lot of people telling jokes and telling each other how good they were. Just a bunch of loudmouths showing off, saving their gags for days, waiting for a chance to spring them... There was no truth in anything they said. It was the terrible day of the wisecrack, so there didn't have to be any truth...[61]

Dorothy Parker

Of course, things are much worse in the age of Twitter, the age of anti-thinking.

We are all in the Algonquin Round Table, and that is not a good thing.

[angstlessk]

1. I absolutely LOVE Dorothy Parker

I have looked for everything she wrote and watched the movie..

Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle

[redqueen]

2. An accurate and depressing observation