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/ ...Deep Hack Mode -- that mysterious \
| and frightening state of consciousness |
| where Mortal Users fear to tread. |
| |
\ -- Matt Welsh /
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\
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/ The wise and intelligent are coming \
| belatedly to realize that alcohol, and |
| not the dog, is man's best friend. |
| Rover is taking a beating -- and he |
| should. |
| |
\ -- W. C. Fields /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ Caution: Write-protection will not \
| prevent a cartridge being erased by |
| bulk-erasure or degaussing. |
| |
| -- HP Ultrium tape drive user's guide, |
\ page 12 /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

_________________________________________
/ Another Armenia, Belgium ... the weak \
| innocents who always seem to be located |
| on a natural invasion route. |
| |
| -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate |
\ 3198.4 /
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\
\
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ "The most important thing in a man is \
| not what he knows, but what he is." |
| |
\ -- Narciso Yepes /
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\
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_____________________________________
/ Cheit's Lament: \
| |
| If you help a friend in need, he is |
| sure to remember you-- |
| |
\ the next time he's in need. /
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\
\
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

_________________________________________
/ A young man wrote to Mozart and said: \
| |
| Q: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of |
| writing symphonies. Can you give me any |
| |
| suggestions as to how to get started?" |
| A: "A symphony is a very complex |
| musical form, perhaps you should begin |
| with |
| |
| some simple lieder and work your way up |
| to a symphony." Q: "But Herr Mozart, |
| you were writing symphonies when you |
| were 8 years old." A: "But I never |
\ asked anybody how." /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

____________________________________
/ Carmel, New York, has an ordinance \
| forbidding men to wear coats and |
\ trousers that don't match. /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ It's the Magic that counts. \
| |
| -- Larry Wall on Perl's apparent |
\ ugliness /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. \
| They had little pictures of cats on |
| them. Then I took one out and he ran |
| around in circles. |
| |
\ -- Steven Wright /
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\
\
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/ No amount of genius can overcome a \
\ preoccupation with detail. /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ QOTD: \
| |
| "There may be no excuse for laziness, |
\ but I'm sure looking." /
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\
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< When among apes, one must play the ape. >
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ *** STUDENT SUCCESSES *** \
| |
| Many of our students have gone on to |
| achieve great success in all fields of |
| programming. One former student |
| developed the concept of the |
| personalized form letter. Does the |
| phrase, "Dear Mr.(insert name), You may |
| already be a winner!," sound familiar? |
| Another student writes "After only five |
| lessons I sold a "My Most Unforgettable |
| Program" article to Corrosive Computing |
| magazine. Another of our graduates |
| writes, "I recently completed a |
| database-management program for my |
| department manager. My program touched |
| him so deeply that he was speechless. |
| He told me later that he had never seen |
| such a program in his entire career. |
| Thank you, Famous Programmers' school; |
| only you could have made this |
| possible." Send for our introductory |
| brochure which explains in vague detail |
| the operation of the Famous |
| Programmers' School, and you'll be |
| eligible to win a possible chance to |
| enter a drawing, the winner of which |
| can vie for a set of free steak knives. |
| If you don't do it now, you'll hate |
\ yourself in the morning. /
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\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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/ Stop! Whoever crosseth the bridge of \
| Death, must answer first these |
| questions three, ere the other side he |
| see! |
| |
| "What is your name?" |
| |
| "Sir Brian of Bell." |
| |
| "What is your quest?" |
| |
| "I seek the Holy Grail." |
| |
| "What are four lowercase letters that |
| are not legal flag arguments to the |
| Berkeley UNIX version of `ls'?" |
| |
\ "I, er.... AIIIEEEEEE!" /
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\
\
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

_________________________________________
/ "We all agree on the necessity of \
| compromise. We just can't agree on when |
| it's necessary to compromise." |
| |
| -- Larry Wall in |
\ <[email protected]> /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

______________________________________
/ Hideously disfigured by an ancient \
| Indian curse? |
| |
| WE CAN HELP! |
| |
| Call (511) 338-0959 for an immediate |
\ appointment. /
--------------------------------------
\
\
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

___________________________
< Garbage In -- Gospel Out. >
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\
\
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/ Rainy days and automatic weapons always \
\ get me down. /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

_________________________________________
/ I just uploaded xtoolplaces-1.6. It \
| fixes all bugs but one: It still |
| coredumps instead of doing something |
| useful. The upstream author's e-mail |
| address bounces, Redhat doesn't provide |
| it and I never used it. |
| |
| -- Sven Rudolph |
\ <[email protected]> /
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\
\
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_________________________________________
/ Well, here I am in AMERICA.. I LIKE it. \
| I HATE it. I LIKE it. I HATE it. I LIKE |
| it. I HATE it. I LIKE it. I HATE it. I |
| LIKE ... EMOTIONS are SWEEPING over |
\ me!! /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

____________________________________
/ Carmel, New York, has an ordinance \
| forbidding men to wear coats and |
\ trousers that don't match. /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

_________________________________________
/ Of course power tools and alcohol don't \
| mix. Everyone knows power tools aren't |
| soluble in alcohol... |
| |
\ -- Crazy Nigel /
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\
\
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_________________________________________
/ Spring is here, spring is here, Life is \
\ skittles and life is beer. /
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\
\
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________________________________________
/ Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but \
| certainty is absurd. |
| |
\ -- Voltaire /
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\
\
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_________________________________________
/ "I'm willing to sacrifice anything for \
\ this cause, even other people's lives." /
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\
\
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______________________
/ The coast was clear. \
| |
\ -- Lope de Vega /
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\
\
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_____________________________________
/ "You'll pay to know what you really \
| think." |
| |
\ -- J. R. "Bob" Dobbs /
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\
\
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/ It is a well known fact that warriors \
| and wizards do not get along, because |
| one side considers the other side to be |
| a collection of bloodthirsty idiots who |
| can't walk and think at the same time, |
| while the other side is naturally |
| suspicious of a body of men who mumble |
| a lot and wear long dresses. Oh, say |
| the wizards, if we're going to be like |
| that, then, what about all those |
| studded collars and oiled muscles down |
| at the Young Men's Pagan Association? |
| To which the heroes reply, that's a |
| pretty good allegation from a bunch of |
| wimpsoes who won't go near a woman on |
| account, can you believe it, of their |
| mystical power being sort of drained |
| out. Right, say the wizards, that just |
| about does it, you and your leather |
| posing pouches. Oh yeah, say the the |
| heroes, why don't you ... |
| |
| -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light |
\ Fantastic" /
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\
\
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______________________________________
/ Didn't I buy a 1951 Packard from you \
\ last March in Cairo? /
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\
\
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_______________________________
< I have not yet begun to byte! >
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

______________________________________
/ At last I've found the girl of my \
| dreams. Last night she said to me, |
| "Once more, Strange, and this time |
| *I'll* be Donnie and *you* be Marie. |
| |
\ -- Strange de Jim /
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\
\
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

________________________________________
/ This fortune cookie program out of \
| order. For those in desperate need, |
| please use the program |
| "________randchar". This |
| program generates random characters, |
| and, given enough time, will |
| undoubtedly come up with something |
| profound. It will, however, take it no |
| time at all to be more profound than |
\ THIS program has ever been. /
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\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

_______________________________________
/ Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell \
| me how much you get done. |
| |
\ -- James J. Ling /
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\
\
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________________________________________
/ Commoner's three laws of ecology: \
| |
| (1) No action is without side-effects. |
| |
| (2) Nothing ever goes away. |
| |
\ (3) There is no free lunch. /
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\
\
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________________________________________
/ What? Why didn't you say anything this \
\ morning? /
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\
\
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* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

________________________________________
/ Oops, all the tacos around made me \
| think it was Cinco de Mayo. Manchester |
\ NH seems to be doing it a day early. /
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\
\
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_______________________________________
< Oh, and May the fourth be with you ;) >
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\
\
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________________________________________
/ Stop! Whoever crosseth the bridge of \
| Death, must answer first these |
| questions three, ere the other side he |
| see! |
| |
| "What is your name?" |
| |
| "Sir Brian of Bell." |
| |
| "What is your quest?" |
| |
| "I seek the Holy Grail." |
| |
| "What are four lowercase letters that |
| are not legal flag arguments to the |
| Berkeley UNIX version of `ls'?" |
| |
\ "I, er.... AIIIEEEEEE!" /
----------------------------------------
\
\
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

______________________________________
/ Death, when unnecessary, is a tragic \
| thing. |
| |
| -- Flint, "Requiem for Methuselah", |
\ stardate 5843.7 /
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\
\
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__________________________
< Do not try this at home. >
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\
\
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________________________________________
/ "...one of the main causes of the fall \
| of the Roman Empire was that, lacking |
| zero, they had no way to indicate |
| successful termination of their C |
| programs." |
| |
\ -- Robert Firth /
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\
\
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_______________________________________
/ Loan-department manager: "There isn't \
| any fine print. At these interest |
\ rates, we don't need it." /
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\
\
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/ I value kindness to human beings first \
| of all, and kindness to animals. I |
| don't respect the law; I have a total |
| irreverence for anything connected with |
| society except that which makes the |
| roads safer, the beer stronger, the |
| food cheaper, and old men and women |
| warmer in the winter, and happier in |
| the summer. |
| |
\ -- Brendan Behan /
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\
\
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/ You can fool all the people all of the \
| time if the advertising is right and |
| the budget is big enough. |
| |
\ -- Joseph E. Levine /
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\
\
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/ Fortunate is he for whom the belle \
\ toils. /
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\
\
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/ Law of Continuity: \
| |
| Experiments should be reproducible. |
\ They should all fail the same way. /
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\
\
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___________________________________
/ The difference between genius and \
| stupidity is that genius has its |
\ limits. /
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\
\
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/ The nation that controls magnetism \
| controls the universe. |
| |
\ -- Chester Gould/Dick Tracy /
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\
\
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/ "Every group has a couple of experts. \
| And every group has at least one idiot. |
| Thus are balance and harmony (and |
| discord) maintained. It's sometimes |
| hard to remember this in the bulk of |
| the flamewars that all of the hassle |
| and pain is generally caused by one or |
| two highly-motivated, caustic twits." |
| |
\ -- Chuq Von Rospach, about Usenet /
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\
\
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/ The Least Perceptive Literary Critic \
| |
| The most important critic in our field |
| of study is Lord Halifax. A most |
| individual judge of poetry, he once |
| invited Alexander Pope round to give a |
| public reading of his latest poem. |
| |
| Pope, the leading poet of his day, was |
| greatly surprised when Lord Halifax |
| stopped him four or five times and |
| said, "I beg your pardon, Mr. Pope, but |
| there is something in that passage that |
| does not quite please me." |
| |
| Pope was rendered speechless, as this |
| fine critic suggested sizeable and |
| unwise emendations to his latest |
| masterpiece. "Be so good as to mark the |
| place and consider at your leisure. I'm |
| sure you can give it a better turn." |
| |
| After the reading, a good friend of |
| Lord Halifax, a certain Dr. Garth, took |
| the stunned Pope to one side. "There is |
| no need to touch the lines," he said. |
| "All you need do is leave them just as |
| they are, call on Lord Halifax two or |
| three months hence, thank him for his |
| kind observation on those passages, and |
| then read them to him as altered. I |
| have known him much longer than you |
| have, and will be answerable for the |
| event." |
| |
| Pope took his advice, called on Lord |
| Halifax and read the poem exactly as it |
| was before. His unique critical |
| faculties had lost none of their edge. |
| "Ay", he commented, "now they are |
| perfectly right. Nothing can be |
| better." |
| |
| -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic |
\ Failures" /
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/ My godda bless, never I see sucha \
| people. |
| |
| -- Signor Piozzi, quoted by Cecilia |
\ Thrale /
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\
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/ It isn't necessary to have relatives in \
| Kansas City in order to be unhappy. |
| |
\ -- Groucho Marx /
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\
\
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/ Confessions may be good for the soul, \
| but they are bad for the reputation. |
| |
\ -- Lord Thomas Dewar /
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\
\
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/ Beauty, n.: \
| |
| The power by which a woman charms a |
| lover and terrifies a husband. |
| |
\ -- Ambrose Bierce /
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\
\
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/ To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry \
\ David Thoreau, in "Walden" /
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\
\
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/ <theoddone33> What's this message on my \
| screen, <theoddone33> so blue, so blue, |
| what could it mean? <theoddone33> Could |
| you, would you press Delete, |
| <theoddone33> Ctrl and Alt and then |
\ repeat. /
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\
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/ "So you don't have to, Cindy, but I \
| was wondering if you might want to go |
| to someplace, you know, with me, |
| sometime." |
| |
| "Well, I can think of a lot of worse |
| things, David." |
| |
| "Friday, then?" |
| |
| "Why not, David, it might even be fun." |
| |
\ -- Dating in Minnesota /
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/ Correction does much, but encouragement \
| does more. |
| |
\ -- Goethe /
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\
\
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< Killing turkeys causes winter. >
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\
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/ I woke up this morning and discovered \
| that everything in my apartment had |
| been stolen and replaced with an exact |
| replica. I told my roommate, "Isn't |
| this amazing? Everything in the |
| apartment has been stolen and replaced |
| with an exact replica." He said, "Do I |
| know you?" |
| |
\ -- Steven Wright /
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\
\
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< Will it improve my CASH FLOW? >
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\
\
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/ Zounds! I was never so bethumped with \
| words since I first called my brother's |
| father dad. |
| |
\ -- William Shakespeare, "Kind John" /
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\
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/ The late rebellion in Massachusetts has \
| given more alarm than I think it should |
| have done. Calculate that one rebellion |
| in 13 states in the course of 11 years, |
| is but one for each state in a century |
| and a half. No country should be so |
| long without one. |
| |
| -- Thomas Jefferson in letter to James |
\ Madison, 20 December 1787 /
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\
\
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/ It is not enough to have a good mind. \
| The main thing is to use it well. |
| |
\ -- Rene Descartes /
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\
\
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/ Marriage is a romance in which the hero \
\ dies in the first chapter. /
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\
\
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/ Hop along my little friends, up the \
| Withywindle! Tom's going on ahead |
| candles for to kindle. Down west sinks |
| the Sun; soon you will be groping. When |
| the night-shadows fall, then the door |
| will open, Out of the winfow-panes |
| light will twinkle yellow. Fear no |
| alder black! Heed no hoary willow! Fear |
| neither root nor bough! Tom goes on |
| before you. Hey now! merry dol! We'll |
| be waiting for you! |
| |
\ -- J. R. R. Tolkien /
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\
\
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/ The Worst Bank Robbery \
| |
| In August 1975 three men were on their |
| way in to rob the Royal Bank of |
| Scotland at Rothesay, when they got |
| stuck in the revolving doors. They had |
| to be helped free by the staff and, |
| after thanking everyone, sheepishly |
| left the building. |
| |
| A few minutes later they returned and |
| announced their intention of robbing |
| the bank, but none of the staff |
| believed them. When they demanded 5,000 |
| pounds in cash, the head cashier |
| laughed at them, convinced that it was |
| a practical joke. |
| |
| Then one of the men jumped over the |
| counter, but fell to the floor |
| clutching his ankle. The other two |
| tried to make their getaway, but got |
\ trapped in the revolving doors again. /
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\
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/ I never deny, I never contradict. I \
| sometimes forget. |
| |
| -- Benjamin Disraeli, British PM, on |
| dealing with the |
| |
\ Royal Family /
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\
\
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/ Men ought to know that from the brain \
| and from the brain only arise our |
| pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as |
| well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and |
| tears. ... It is the same thing which |
| makes us mad or delirious, inspires us |
| with dread and fear, whether by night |
| or by day, brings us sleeplessness, |
| inopportune mistakes, aimless |
| anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts |
| that are contrary to habit... |
| |
\ -- Hippocrates "The Sacred Disease" /
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\
\
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/ He who laughs last usually had to have \
\ joke explained. /
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\
\
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/ Tuesday is the Wednesday of the rest of \
\ your life. /
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\
\
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/ Does a good farmer neglect a crop he \
| has planted? Does a good teacher |
| overlook even the most humble student? |
| Does a good father allow a single child |
| to starve? Does a good programmer |
| refuse to maintain his code? |
| |
| -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of |
\ Programming" /
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\
\
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/ It's more fun to be a pirate than to \
| join the navy. |
| |
\ -- Steve Jobs (1955-2011) /
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\
\
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/ Sally: C'mon, Ted, all I'm asking you \
| to do is share your feelings |
| |
| with me. Ted: ALL? Do you realize what |
| you're asking? Men aren't trained |
| |
| to share. We're trained to protect |
| ourselves by not |
| |
| letting anyone too close. Good grief, |
| if I go around |
| |
| sharing everything with you, you could |
| hang me out to dry. Sally: It's called |
| "trust," Ted. Ted: "Sharing"? "Trust"? |
| You're really asking me to sail into |
| |
| uncharted waters here. |
| |
\ -- Sally Forth /
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\
\
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/ Always be sincere, even when you don't \
\ mean it. -Irene Peter /
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\
\
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/ You have an ambitious nature and may \
\ make a name for yourself. /
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\
\
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/ Everyone is a genius. It's just that \
| some people are too stupid to realize |
\ it. /
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\
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/ The proof of the pudding is in the \
| eating. |
| |
\ -- Miguel de Cervantes /
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\
\
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/ They don't know how the world is \
| shaped. And so they give it a shape, |
| and try to make everything fit it. They |
| separate the right from the left, the |
| man from the woman, the plant from the |
| animal, the sun from the moon. They |
| only want to count to two. |
| |
\ -- Emma Bull, "Bone Dance" /
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\
\
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/ For every complex problem, there is a \
| solution that is simple, neat, and |
| wrong. |
| |
\ -- H. L. Mencken /
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\
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/ You know you're in trouble when... (1) \
| You've been at work for an hour before |
| you notice that your |
| |
| skirt is caught in your pantyhose. |
| |
| Especially if you're a man. (2) Your |
| blind date turns out to be your |
| ex-wife. (3) Your income tax check |
| bounces. (4) You put both contact |
| lenses in the same eye. (5) Your wife |
| says, "Good morning, Bill" and your |
| name is George. (6) You wake up to the |
| soothing sound of flowing water... the |
| day |
| |
| after you bought a waterbed. (7) You go |
| on your honeymoon to a remote little |
| hotel and the desk |
| |
| clerk, bell hop, and manager have a |
| "Welcome Back" party |
| |
\ for your spouse. /
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\
\
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/ Never trust a child farther than you \
\ can throw it. /
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\
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/ The only disadvantage I see is that it \
| would force everyone to get Perl. |
| Horrors. :-) |
| |
| -- Larry Wall in |
\ <[email protected]> /
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\
\
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________________________________________
/ Your files are now being encrypted and \
\ thrown into the bit bucket. EOF /
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\
\
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< Programmers do it bit by bit. >
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\
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/ <Knghtbrd> Granted, RMS is a fanatic, I \
| don't deny this. I'll even say |
| |
| he's a royal pain in the arse most of |
| the time. But he's |
| |
| still more often right than not, and he |
| deserves some level of |
| |
| credit and respect for his work. We |
| would NOT be here today |
| |
\ without him. /
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\
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/ David Letterman's "Things we can be \
| proud of as Americans": |
| |
| * Greatest number of citizens who have |
| actually boarded a UFO |
| |
| * Many newspapers feature "JUMBLE" |
| |
| * Hourly motel rates |
| |
| * Vast majority of Elvis movies made |
| here |
| |
| * Didn't just give up right away during |
| World War II |
| |
| like some countries we could mention |
| |
| * Goatees & Van Dykes thought to be |
| worn only by weenies |
| |
| * Our well-behaved golf professionals |
| |
\ * Fabulous babes coast to coast /
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\
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/ Photographing a volcano is just about \
| the most miserable thing you can do. |
| |
| -- Robert B. Goodman |
| |
| [Who has clearly never tried to use a |
\ PDP-10. Ed.] /
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\
\
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/ Are you a parent? Do you sometimes find \
| yourself unsure as to what to say in |
| those awkward situations? Worry no |
| more... |
| |
| Good children always obey. |
| |
| Quit acting so childish. |
| |
| Boys don't cry. |
| |
| If you keep making faces, someday it'll |
| freeze that way. |
| |
| Why do you have to know so much? |
| |
| This hurts me more than it hurts you. |
| |
| Why? Because I'm bigger than you. |
| |
| Well, you've ruined everything. Now are |
| you happy? |
| |
| Oh, grow up. |
| |
\ I'm only doing this because I love you. /
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\
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/ Even a man who is pure at heart, And \
| says his prayers at night Can become a |
| wolf when the wolfbane blooms, And the |
| moon is full and bright. |
| |
\ -- The Wolf Man, 1941 /
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\
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/ "How would I know if I believe in love \
| at first sight?" the sexy social |
| climber said to her roommate. "I mean, |
| I've never seen a Porsche full of money |
\ before." /
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\
\
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/ Are you perchance running on a 64-bit \
| machine? |
| |
| -- Larry Wall in |
\ <[email protected]> /
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\
\
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/ Just once, I wish we would encounter an \
| alien menace that wasn't immune to |
| bullets. |
| |
\ -- The Brigadier, "Dr. Who" /
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\
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/ Where you stand depends on where you \
| sit. |
| |
\ -- Rufus Miles, HEW /
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\
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/ I suppose some of the variation between \
| Boston drivers and the rest of the |
| country is due to the progressive |
| Massachusetts Driver Education Manual |
| which I happen to have in my top desk |
| drawer. Some of the Tips for Better |
| Driving are worth considering, to wit: |
| |
| [173.15b]: |
| |
| "When competing for a section of road |
| or a parking space, remember |
| |
| that the vehicle in need of the most |
| body work has the right-of-way." |
| |
| [141.2a]: |
| |
| "Although it is altogether possible to |
| fit a 6' car into a 6' |
| |
| parking space, it is hardly ever |
| possible to fit a 6' car into |
| |
| a 5' parking space." |
| |
| [105.31]: |
| |
| "Teenage drivers believe that they are |
| immortal, and drive accordingly. |
| |
| Nevertheless, you should avoid the |
\ temptation to prove them wrong." /
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/ laser, n.: \
| |
\ Failed death ray. /
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\
\
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/ Nobody takes a bribe. Of course at \
| Christmas if you happen to hold out |
| your hat and somebody happens to put a |
| little something in it, well, that's |
| different. |
| |
| -- New York City Police Commissioner |
| (Ret.) William P. |
| |
\ O'Brien, instructions to the force. /
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\
\
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< Beware of geeks bearing graft. >
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\
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/ While having never invented a sin, I'm \
\ trying to perfect several. /
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\
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/ When childhood dies, its corpses are \
| called adults. |
| |
\ -- Brian Aldiss /
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\
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/ The human race never solves any of its \
| problems. It merely outlives them. |
| |
\ -- David Gerrold /
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\
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< Avoid reality at all costs. >
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\
\
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< Condense soup, not books! >
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\
\
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/ To err is human, to forgive is against \
\ company policy. /
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\
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/ Brooke's Law: \
| |
| Whenever a system becomes completely |
| defined, some damn fool |
| |
| discovers something which either |
| abolishes the system or |
| |
\ expands it beyond recognition. /
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\
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/ "If you don't want your dog to have bad \
| breath, do what I do: Pour a little |
| |
| Lavoris in the toilet." |
| |
\ -- Comedian Jay Leno /
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\
\
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/ Invest in physics -- own a piece of \
\ Dirac! /
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\
\
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/ If it weren't for the last minute, \
\ nothing would ever get done. /
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\
\
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/ Leibowitz's Rule: \
| |
| When hammering a nail, you will never |
| hit your |
| |
| finger if you hold the hammer with both |
\ hands. /
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\
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/ Nasrudin returned to his village from \
| the imperial capital, and the villagers |
| gathered around to hear what had |
| passed. "At this time," said Nasrudin, |
| "I only want to say that the King spoke |
| to me." All the villagers but the |
| stupidest ran off to spread the |
| wonderful news. The remaining villager |
| asked, "What did the King say to you?" |
| "What he said -- and quite distinctly, |
| for everyone to hear -- was 'Get out of |
| my way!'" The simpleton was overjoyed; |
| he had heard words actually spoken by |
| the King, and seen the very man they |
\ were spoken to. /
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\
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< You will soon forget this. >
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\
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/ Next Friday will not be your lucky day. \
| As a matter of fact, you don't have a |
\ lucky day this year. /
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\
\
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/ If a person (a) is poorly, (b) receives \
| treatment intended to make him better, |
| and (c) gets better, then no power of |
| reasoning known to medical science can |
| convince him that it may not have been |
| the treatment that restored his health. |
| |
| -- Sir Peter Medawar, The Art of the |
\ Soluble /
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\
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/ Something unpleasant is coming when men \
| are anxious to tell the truth. |
| |
\ -- Benjamin Disraeli /
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\
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/ 17th Rule of Friendship: \
| |
| A friend will refrain from telling you |
| he picked up the same amount of |
| |
| life insurance coverage you did for |
| half the price when yours is |
| |
| noncancellable. |
| |
\ -- Esquire, May 1977 /
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/ Don't worry so loud, your roommate \
\ can't think. /
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\
\
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/ Hotels are tired of getting ripped off. \
| I checked into a hotel and they had |
| towels from my house. |
| |
\ -- Mark Guido /
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/ In the midst of one of the wildest \
| parties he'd ever been to, the young |
| man noticed a very prim and pretty girl |
| sitting quietly apart from the rest of |
| the revelers. Approaching her, he |
| introduced himself and, after some |
| quiet conversation, said, "I'm afraid |
| you and I don't really fit in with this |
| jaded group. Why don't I take you |
| home?"" |
| |
| "Fine," said the girl, smiling up at |
\ him demurely. "Where do you live?" /
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\
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/ I'll burn my books. \
| |
\ -- Christopher Marlowe /
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\
\
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/ #define BITCOUNT(x) \
| (((BX_(x)+(BX_(x)>>4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) % |
| 255) #define BX_(x) ((x) - |
| (((x)>>1)&0x77777777) \ |
| |
| - (((x)>>2)&0x33333333) \ |
| |
| - (((x)>>3)&0x11111111)) |
| |
| -- really weird C code to count the |
\ number of bits in a word /
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\
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/ The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite \
| as comfortably in the circuits of a |
| digital computer or the gears of a |
| cycle transmission as he does at the |
| top of a mountain or in the petals of a |
| flower. To think otherwise is to demean |
| the Buddha -- which is to demean |
| oneself. |
| |
| -- Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of |
\ Motorcycle Maintenance" /
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\
\
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< I can relate to that. >
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< Clones are people two. >
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/ You will be winged by an anti-aircraft \
\ battery. /
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\
\
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/ Asynchronous inputs are at the root of \
| our race problems. |
| |
\ -- D. Winker and F. Prosser /
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/ A squeegee by any other name wouldn't \
\ sound as funny. /
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\
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/ If some day we are defeated, well, war \
| has its fortunes, good and bad. |
| |
| -- Commander Kor, "Errand of Mercy", |
\ stardate 3201.7 /
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\
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/ Mere nonexistence is a feeble excuse \
| for declaring a thing unseeable. You |
| *can* see dragons. You just have to |
| look in the right direction. |
| |
\ -- John Hasler /
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/ Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, \
| |
| Is like being nowhere at all, All |
| through the day how the hours rush by, |
| |
| You sit in the park and you watch the |
| grass die. |
| |
| -- John Denver, "Saturday Night in |
\ Toledo Ohio" /
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/ The world is no nursery. \
| |
\ -- Sigmund Freud /
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/ The moon is a planet just like the \
\ Earth, only it is even deader. /
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\
\
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/ I'm successful because I'm lucky. The \
\ harder I work, the luckier I get. /
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\
\
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< You enjoy the company of other people. >
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\
\
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/ Once upon a time there was a beautiful \
| young girl taking a stroll through the |
| woods. All at once she saw an extremely |
| ugly bull frog seated on a log and to |
| her amazement the frog spoke to her. |
| "Maiden," croaked the frog, "would you |
| do me a favor? This will be hard for |
| you to believe, but I was once a |
| handsome, charming prince and then a |
| mean, ugly old witch cast a spell over |
| me and turned me into a frog." |
| |
| "Oh, what a pity!", exclaimed the girl. |
| "I'll do anything I can to help you |
| break such a spell." |
| |
| "Well," replied the frog, "the only way |
| that this spell can be taken away is |
| for some lovely young woman to take me |
| home and let me spend the night under |
| her pillow." |
| |
| The young girl took the ugly frog home |
| and placed him beneath her pillow that |
| night when she retired. When she awoke |
| the next morning, sure enough, there |
| beside her in bed was a very young, |
| handsome man, clearly of royal blood. |
| And so they lived happily ever after, |
| except that to this day her father and |
\ mother still don't believe her story. /
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/ Kramer's Law: \
| |
| You can never tell which way the train |
\ went by looking at the tracks. /
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/ A serious public debate about the \
| validity of astrology? A serious |
| believer in the White House? Two of |
| them? Give me a break. What stifled my |
| laughter is that the image fits. Reagan |
| has always exhibited a fey indifference |
| toward science. Facts, like numbers, |
| roll off his back. And we've all come |
| to accept it. This time it was |
| stargazing that became a serious |
| issue....Not that long ago, it was |
| Reagan's support of |
| Creationism....Creationists actually |
| got equal time with evolutionists. The |
| public was supposed to be open-minded |
| to the claims of paleontologists and |
| fundamentalists, as if the two were |
| scientific colleagues....It has been |
| clear for a long time that the |
| president is averse to science...In |
| general, these attitudes fall onto |
| friendly American turf....But at the |
| outer edges, this skepticism about |
| science easily turns into a kind of |
| naive acceptance of nonscience, or even |
| nonsense. The same people who doubt |
| experts can also believe any quackery, |
| from the benefits of laetrile to eye of |
| newt to the movement of planets. We |
| lose the capacity to make rational -- |
| scientific -- judgments. It's all the |
| same. -- Ellen Goodman, The Boston |
| Globe Newspaper Company-Washington Post |
| Writers |
| |
\ Group /
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/ Computers will not be perfected until \
| they can compute how much more than the |
\ estimate the job will cost. /
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\
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/ Most people have a mind that's open by \
\ appointment only. /
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\
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/ Why is it that we rejoice at a birth \
| and grieve at a funeral? It is because |
| we are not the person involved. |
| |
| -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's |
\ Calendar" /
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\
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/ The Rabbits The Cow Here is a verse \
| about rabbits The cow is of the bovine |
| ilk; That doesn't mention their habits. |
| One end is moo, the other, milk. |
| |
\ -- Ogden Nash /
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\
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/ There's nothing very mysterious about \
| you, except that nobody really knows |
\ your origin, purpose, or destination. /
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\
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/ QOTD: \
| |
| Money isn't everything, but at least it |
\ keeps the kids in touch. /
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\
\
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/ Riffle West Virginia is so small that \
| the Boy Scout had to double as the town |
\ drunk. /
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\
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/ Oh yeah. Forgot about those. Getting \
| senile, I guess... |
| |
| -- Larry Wall in |
\ <[email protected]> /
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/ "Anything else you wish to draw to my \
| attention, Mr. Holmes ?" |
| |
| "The curious incident of the stable dog |
| in the nighttime." |
| |
| "But the dog did nothing in the |
| nighttime." |
| |
| "That was the curious incident." |
| |
\ -- A. Conan Doyle, "Silver Blaze" /
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\
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/ The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, \
\ only much, much heavier. /
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\
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/ If you go on with this nuclear arms \
| race, all you are going to do is make |
| the rubble bounce. |
| |
\ -- Winston Churchill /
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\
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/ Be sociable. Speak to the person next \
| to you in the unemployment line |
\ tomorrow. /
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\
\
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/ * shortc wants to get in one of \
\ knghtbrd's sigs one of these days. /
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\
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< In the war of wits, he's unarmed. >
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\
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/ The difference between us is not very \
| far, cruising for burgers in daddy's |
\ new car. /
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\
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< Mene, mene, tekel, upharsen. >
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\
\
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/ AmigaDOS Beer: The company has gone out \
| of business, but their recipe has been |
| picked up by some weird German company, |
| so now this beer will be an import. |
| This beer never really sold very well |
| because the original manufacturer |
| didn't understand marketing. Like Unix |
| Beer, AmigaDOS Beer fans are an |
| extremely loyal and loud group. It |
| originally came in a 16-oz. can, but |
| now comes in 32-oz. cans too. When this |
| can was originally introduced, it |
| appeared flashy and colorful, but the |
| design hasn't changed much over the |
| years, so it appears dated now. Critics |
| of this beer claim that it is only |
\ meant for watching TV anyway. /
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/ Hold the MAYO & pass the COSMIC \
\ AWARENESS ... /
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\
\
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< Equal bytes for women. >
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\
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/ There's no easy quick way out, we're \
| gonna have to live through our whole |
| lives, win, lose, or draw. |
| |
\ -- Walt Kelly /
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/ "More software projects have gone awry \
| for lack of calendar time than for all |
| |
| other causes combined." |
| |
| -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man |
\ Month_ /
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\
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/ FOOLED you! Absorb EGO SHATTERING \
\ impulse rays, polyester poltroon!! /
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\
\
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/ Darth Vader! Only you would be so bold! \
| |
\ -- Princess Leia Organa /
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\
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/ Where do I find the time for not \
| reading so many books? |
| |
\ -- Karl Kraus /
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\
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/ We are all born mad. Some remain so. \
| |
\ -- Samuel Beckett /
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/ Hmmm ... a PINHEAD, during an \
| EARTHQUAKE, encounters an ALL-MIDGET |
\ FIDDLE ORCHESTRA ... ha ... ha ... /
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\
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/ Hearts will never be practical until \
| they can be made unbreakable. |
| |
\ -- The Wizard of Oz /
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\
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/ Be cheerful while you are alive. \
| |
\ -- Phathotep, 24th Century B.C. /
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\
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< DYSLEXICS OF THE WORLD, UNTIE! >
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/ "Truth is stranger than fiction, \
\ because fiction has to make sense." /
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/ "The argument that the literal story of \
| Genesis can qualify as science |
| collapses on three major grounds: the |
| creationists' need to invoke miracles |
| in order to compress the events of the |
| earth's history into the biblical span |
| of a few thousand years; their |
| unwillingness to abandon claims clearly |
| disproved, including the assertion that |
| all fossils are products of Noah's |
| flood; and their reliance upon |
| distortion, misquote, half-quote, and |
| citation out of context to characterize |
| the ideas of their opponents." -- |
| Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on |
| Creationism", |
| |
| The Skeptical Inquirer, Winter 87/88, |
\ pg. 186 /
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/ The Lord prefers common-looking people. \
| That is the reason that He makes so |
| many of them. |
| |
\ -- Abraham Lincoln /
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/ Just once I would like to persuade the \
| audience not to wear any article of |
| blue denim. If only they could see |
| themselves in a pair of brown corduroys |
| like mine instead of this awful, boring |
| blue denim. I don't enjoy the sky or |
| sea as much as I used to because of |
| this Levi character. If Jesus Christ |
| came back today, He and I would get |
| into our brown corduroys and go to the |
| nearest jean store and overturn the |
| racks of blue denim. Then we'd get |
| crucified in the morning. |
| |
\ -- Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull /
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/ The buffalo isn't as dangerous as \
| everyone makes him out to be. |
| Statistics prove that in the United |
| States more Americans are killed in |
| automobile accidents than are killed by |
| buffalo. |
| |
\ -- Art Buchwald /
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\
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/ In Marseilles they make half the toilet \
| soap we consume in America, but the |
| Marseillaise only have a vague |
| theoretical idea of its use, which they |
| have obtained from books of travel. |
| |
\ -- Mark Twain /
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/ There are two kinds of pedestrians... \
| the quick and the dead. |
| |
\ -- Lord Thomas Rober Dewar /
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/ Graphics blind the eyes. Audio files \
| deafen the ear. Mouse clicks numb the |
| fingers. Heuristics weaken the mind. |
| Options wither the heart. |
| |
| The Guru observes the net but trusts |
| his inner vision. He allows things to |
| come and go. His heart is as open as |
\ the ether. /
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/ Live from New York ... It's Saturday \
\ Night! /
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/ Herth's Law: \
| |
| He who turns the other cheek too far |
\ gets it in the neck. /
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/ Higgeldy Piggeldy, Hamlet of Elsinore \
| Ruffled the critics by Dropping this |
| bomb: "Phooey on Freud and his |
| Psychoanalysis -- Oedipus, Shmoedipus, |
\ I just love Mom." /
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/ One good turn asketh another. \
| |
\ -- John Heywood /
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/ It [marriage] happens as with cages: \
| the birds without despair to get in, |
| and those within despair of getting |
| out. |
| |
\ -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne /
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/ Your job is being a professor and \
| researcher: That's one hell of a good |
| excuse for some of the brain-damages of |
| minix. (Linus Torvalds to Andrew |
\ Tanenbaum) /
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/ party, n.: \
| |
| A gathering where you meet people who |
| drink |
| |
| so much you can't even remember their |
\ names. /
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/ Fortune presents: \
| |
| USEFUL PHRASES IN ESPERANTO, #2. |
| |
| ^Cu tiu loko estas okupita? Is this |
| seat taken? ^Cu vi ofte venas ^ci-tien? |
| Do you come here often? ^Cu mi povas |
| havi via telelonnumeron? May I have |
| your phone number? Mi estas |
| komputilisto. I work with computers. Mi |
| legas multe da scienca fikcio. I read a |
| lot of science fiction. ^Cu necesas ke |
| vi eliras? Do you really have to be |
\ going? /
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/ Oh, that sound of male ego. You travel \
| halfway across the galaxy and it's |
| still the same song. |
| |
| -- Eve McHuron, "Mudd's Women", |
\ stardate 1330.1 /
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\
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/ A musician of more ambition than \
| talent composed an elegy at the death |
| of composer Edward MacDowell. She |
| played the elegy for the pianist Josef |
| Hoffman, then asked his opinion. "Well, |
| it's quite nice," he replied, but don't |
| you think it would be better if..." |
| |
| "If what?" asked the composer. |
| |
| "If ... if you had died and MacDowell |
\ had written the elegy?" /
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/ * seeS uses knghtbrd's comments as his \
| signature <knghtbrd> seeS: as soon as I |
| typed them I realized I'd better snip |
| them |
| |
\ myself before someone else did ;> /
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\
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/ And in the heartbreak years that lie \
| ahead, Be true to yourself and the |
| Grateful Dead. |
| |
\ -- Joan Baez /
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/ Our congratulations go to a Burlington \
| Vermont civilian employee of the local |
| Army National Guard base. He recently |
| received a substational cash award from |
| our government for inventing a device |
| for optical scanning. His device |
| reportedly will save the government |
| more than $6 million a year by |
| replacing a more expensive helicopter |
| maintenance tool with his own, |
| home-made, hand-held model. |
| |
| Not suprisingly, we also have a couple |
| of money-saving ideas that we submit to |
| the Pentagon free of charge: |
| |
| (a) Don't kill anybody. |
| |
| (b) Don't build things that do. |
| |
| (c) And don't pay other people to kill |
| anybody. |
| |
| We expect annual savings to be in the |
| billions. |
| |
\ -- Sojourners /
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\
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/ System/3! System/3! See how it runs! \
| See how it runs! |
| |
| Its monitor loses so totally! |
| |
| It runs all its programs in RPG! |
| |
| It's made by our favorite monopoly! |
\ System/3! /
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\
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/ Dreams are free, but you get soaked on \
\ the connect time. /
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\
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/ VII. Certain bodies can pass through \
| solid walls painted to resemble tunnel |
| |
| entrances; others cannot. |
| |
| This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has |
| baffled generations, but at least |
| |
| it is known that whoever paints an |
| entrance on a wall's surface to |
| |
| trick an opponent will be unable to |
| pursue him into this theoretical |
| |
| space. The painter is flattened against |
| the wall when he attempts to |
| |
| follow into the painting. This is |
| ultimately a problem of art, not |
| |
| of science. VIII. Any violent |
| rearrangement of feline matter is |
| impermanent. |
| |
| Cartoon cats possess even more deaths |
| than the traditional nine lives |
| |
| might comfortably afford. They can be |
| decimated, spliced, splayed, |
| |
| accordion-pleated, spindled, or |
| disassembled, but they cannot be |
| |
| destroyed. After a few moments of |
| blinking self pity, they reinflate, |
| |
| elongate, snap back, or solidify. |
| |
| IX. For every vengeance there is an |
| equal and opposite revengeance. |
| |
| This is the one law of animated cartoon |
| motion that also applies to |
| |
| the physical world at large. For that |
| reason, we need the relief of |
| |
| watching it happen to a duck instead. |
| |
| X. Everything falls faster than an |
| anvil. |
| |
| Examples too numerous to mention from |
| the Roadrunner cartoons. |
| |
| -- Esquire, "O'Donnell's Laws of |
\ Cartoon Motion", June 1980 /
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< Blow it out your ear. >
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\
\
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/ People don't change; they only become \
\ more so. /
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/ There is no sin but ignorance. \
| |
\ -- Christopher Marlowe /
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/ Every cloud has a silver lining; you \
| should have sold it, and bought |
\ titanium. /
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/ Jack-and-Jill Party: \
| |
| A Squire tradition; baby showers to |
| which both men and women friends are |
| invited as opposed to only women. |
| Doubled purchasing power of bisexual |
| attendance brings gift values up to |
| Eisenhower-era standards. |
| |
| -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: |
| Tales for an Accelerated |
| |
\ Culture" /
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/ Every program is a part of some other \
\ program, and rarely fits. /
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/ Bread and Circuits: \
| |
| The electronic era tendency to view |
| party politics as corny -- no longer |
| relevant of meaningful or useful to |
| modern societal issues, and in many |
| cases dangerous. |
| |
| -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: |
| Tales for an Accelerated |
| |
\ Culture" /
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/ The Constitution may not be perfect, \
| but it's a lot better than what we've |
\ got! /
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\
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/ An American is a man with two arms and \
| four wheels. |
| |
\ -- A Chinese child /
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< Lake Erie died for your sins. >
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/ One is often kept in the right road by \
| a rut. |
| |
\ -- Gustave Droz /
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< Contest void where prohibited by law. >
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\
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/ Why does New Jersey have more toxic \
| waste dumps and California have more |
| lawyers? |
| |
\ New Jersey had first choice. /
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/ O Lord, grant that we may always be \
| right, for Thou knowest we will never |
\ change our minds. /
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\
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/ Never volunteer for anything. \
| |
\ -- Lackland /
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/ Only the fittest survive. The \
| vanquished acknowledge their |
| unworthiness by placing a classified ad |
| with the ritual phrase "must sell -- |
| best offer," and thereafter dwell in |
| infamy, relegated to discussing gas |
| mileage and lawn food. But if |
| successful, you join the elite sodality |
| that spends hours unpurifying the |
| dialect of the tribe with arcane talk |
| of bits and bytes, RAMS and ROMS, hard |
| disks and baud rates. Are you |
| obnoxious, obsessed? It's a modest |
| price to pay. For you have tapped into |
| the same awesome primal power that |
| produces credit-card billing errors and |
| lost plane reservations. Hail, |
| postindustrial warrior, subduer of |
| Bounceoids, pride of the cosmos, keeper |
| of the silicone creed: Computo, ergo |
| sum. The force is with you -- at 110 |
| volts. May your RAMS be fruitful and |
| multiply. |
| |
\ -- Curt Suplee, "Smithsonian", 4/83 /
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/ "I have a bone to pick, and a few to \
| break." |
| |
\ -- Anonymous /
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/ Patch griefs with proverbs. \
| |
| -- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About |
\ Nothing" /
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/ Subject: Bug#42432: debian-policy: \
| Proposal for CTV for Draft for Proof of |
| Concept for Draft for Proposal for |
| Proposal for CTV for a CTV to decide on |
| a proposal for a CTV for the CTV on |
| whether or not we shoud have a CTV on |
| the /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc |
| transition now, or later. |
| |
\ -- Ed Lang /
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/ He is a man capable of turning any \
| colour into grey. |
| |
\ -- John LeCarre /
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/ To err is human; to admit it, a \
\ blunder. /
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\
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/ It's a lot of fun being alive ... I \
\ wonder if my bed is made?!? /
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\
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< Reunite Gondwondaland! >
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\
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/ If you teach your children to like \
| computers and to know how to gamble |
| then they'll always be interested in |
| something and won't come to no real |
\ harm. /
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\
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/ I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse. \
| |
\ -- Groucho Marx /
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/ Anybody with money to burn will easily \
\ find someone to tend the fire. /
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/ San Francisco has always been my \
| favorite booing city. I don't mean the |
| people boo louder or longer, but there |
| is a very special intimacy. When they |
| boo you, you know they mean *you*. |
| Music, that's what it is to me. One |
| time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a |
| standing boo. |
| |
| -- George Halas, professional football |
\ coach /
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