AnythingGoes. AsLongAsThereIsMoneyOrSexInIt.
Note: page last modified in 2001. I think when GenerationX becomes TooOld, they will also put their hands up and exclaim AnythingGoes
Quotes from philosopher PaulFeyerabend (AgainstMethod).
'anything goes' is not a 'principle' I hold...but the terrified
exclamation of a rationalist who takes a closer look at history.
...
The only principle which does not inhibit progress is: anything
goes.
And from philosopher ColePorter:
Times have changed
And we've often rewound the clock
Since the Puritans got a shock
When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
If today, any shock they should try to stem,
'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.
In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
Now heaven knows, anything goes
Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four letter words writing prose
Anything goes
The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today
And black's white today
And day's night today
When most guys today that women prize today
Are just silly gigolos
So though I'm not a great romancer
I know that you're bound to answer
When I propose, anything goes
The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today,
And black's white today,
And day's night today,
And that gent today
You gave a cent today
Once had several chateaux.
When folks who still can ride in jitneys
Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys
Lack baby clo'es,
Anything goes.