Mr Walesa called the current incumbent, Lech Kaczynski, a "blockhead" in a row over a report on alleged criminal activity and Russian influence in the country's now disbanded military-intelligence service.
Thomas Lux now and then went for the humorous in God Particles; for example, in "Eyes Scooped Out and Replaced by Hot Coals," he wrote: "the eyes shall be gouged out / and replaced by hot coals / in the head, the blockhead, / of each citizen who, / upon reaching his/her majority, / has yet to read / Moby-Dick, by Mr. Herman Melville (1819 1891), American novelist / and poet".
Despite his claim that "no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money," he never made a hard bargain with a bookseller and often received relatively little payment, even for large projects.
Only a blockhead would assume he believes what he says, since part of his comic shtick is to offend the faint of heart and bemuse the literal of mind.
Salks said, "I would rather rot in my grave than live with this blockhead".
In the past decade, one of the enduring axioms of literature has been finally, jarringly broken, and that is Dr. Johnson's "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money".
"No one but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money," said Samuel Johnson.
The desire for authenticity has led some critics to deplore rhymes that focus on the blockhead fantasies of gunplay, sex, and drugs, or whatever constitutes a rapper's idea of freedom and pleasure.
CALEB CRAIN: And no one but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
So it's no surprise that the widely read online forum — the self-proclaimed "front page of the Internet" — reacted with… "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money," Dr. Johnson told Boswell; quoted less often is Boswell's immediate and uncharacteristically prim observation: "Numerous… BuzzFeed's engagement of a new books editor, Isaac Fitzgerald, caused a stir last week.
Cobain was once a teen-ager a bit like you were, looking for his people and his sound — an illustration by Cobain shows Lucy banging on Schroder's piano and yelling, "I want punk rock, you blockhead!" — and finding himself when he did.
