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%%NF
A limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
       But the good ones I've seen
       So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
%%NF
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made
sense from things she found in gift shops.
       -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
%%NF
God is Dead
       -- Nietzsche
Nietzsche is Dead
       -- God
Nietzsche is God
       -- Dead
%%NF
Don't tell any big lies today.  Small ones can be just as effective.
%%NF
May a Misguided Platypus lay its Eggs in your Jockey Shorts
%%NF
"Qvid me anxivs svm?"
%%NF
Santa Claus wears a Red Suit,
       He must be a communist.
And a beard and long hair,
       Must be a pacifist.

       What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

              -- Arlo Guthrie
%%NF
"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
%%NF
Naeser's Law:
       You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it
       damnfoolproof.
%%NF
A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a
fur coat.
%%NF
Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the
Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats
in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the
moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter -- for they had a machine,
a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every
respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside
it, for it was all they had -- first they saved up all their atoms,
then they  put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they
chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine...
              -- Stanislaw Lem
%%NF
Laws of Computer Programming:
       1.  Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
       2.  Any given program costs more and takes longer.
       3.  If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
       4.  If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
       5.  Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
       6.  The value of a program is proportional the weight of its
           output.
       7.  Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of
           the programmer who must maintain it.
%%NF
Surprise due today.  Also the rent.
%%NF
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable,
and praiseworthy...
       -- Ambrose Bierce
%%NF
To be is to do.
       -- I. Kant
To do is to be.
       -- A. Sartre
Yabba-Dabba-Doo!
       -- F. Flinstone
%%NF
Conversation: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching
his breath is called the listener.
%%NF
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
              --Einstein
%%NF
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for
the first time.
              -- Alfred E. Wiggam
%%NF
A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the
poor to protect them from each other.
%%NF
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
%%NF
99 blocks of crud on the disk,
99 blocks of crud!
You patch a bug, and dump it again:
100 blocks of crud on the disk!

100 blocks of crud on the disk,
100 blocks of crud!
You patch a bug, and dump it again:
101 blocks of crud on the disk!...
%%NF
God did not create the world in 7 days; he screwed around for 6 days
and then pulled an all-nighter.
%%NF
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
              -- Jules de Gaultier
%%NF
Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.
%%NF
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
%%NF
When Marriage is Outlawed,
Only Outlaws will have Inlaws.
%%NF
Beware of low-flying butterflies.
%%NF
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
%%OF
There was an old pirate named Bates
Who was learning to rhumba on skates.
       He fell on his cutlass
       Which rendered him nutless
And practically useless on dates.
%%NF
Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are
the molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic.  A fourth affirms, with
Haeckel, the condensation or precipitation of matter from ether --
whose existence is proved by the condensation or precipitation....A
fifth theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know any
more about the matter than the others.
%%NF
This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget it.
%%NF
First Rule of History:
       History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each
       other.
%%NF
As the trials of life continue to take their toll, remember that there
is always a future in Computer Maintenance.
%%NF
Fine day to throw a party.  Throw him as far as you can.
%%OF
A bather whose clothing was strewed
By breezes that left her quite nude,
       Saw a man come along
       And, unless I'm quite wrong,
You expected this line to be lewd.
%%NF
Misfortune:  The kind of fortune that never misses.
%%NF
Hark,Hark,the dogs do bark
The Duke is fond of kittens
He likes to take their insides out
And use them for his mittens
       From "The thirteen clocks"
%%NF
If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some
memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin'
it, even if they don't know what it means.
%%NF
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: "Of course it is
none of my business but --" is to place a period after the word "but."
Don't use excessive force in supplying such moron with a period.
Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you
talked about.
              -- Lazarus Long
%%NF
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking
              -- H. L. Mencken
%%NF
Condense soup, not books!
%%NF
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the
average man can see better than he can think.
%%NF
It is better to kiss an avocado than to get in a fight with an aardvark
%%OF
There once was a hacker named Ken
Who inherited truckloads of Yen
       So he built him some chicks
       Of silicon chips
And hasn't been heard from since then.
%%OF
Chaste makes waste.
%%NF
Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
%%NF
If you think last Tuesday was a drag, wait till you see what happens
tomorrow!
%%NF
Sure, Reagan has promised to take senility tests.  But what if he
forgets?
%%NF
'Twas midnight, and the UNIX hacks
Did gyre and gimble in their cave
All mimsy was the CS-VAX
And Cory raths outgrave.

"Beware the software rot, my son!
The faults that bite, the jobs that thrash!
Beware the broken pipe, and shun
The frumious system crash!"
%%NF
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the
poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal
bread.
              -- Anatole France
%%NF
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
%%NF
Glib's Fourth Law of Unreliability:
       Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the
       probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting
       some useful work done.
%%NF
A.A.A.A.A.: An organization for drunks who drive
%%NF
If I don't drive around the park,
I'm pretty sure to make my mark.
If I'm in bed each night by ten,
I may get back my looks again.
If I abstain from fun and such,
I'll probably amount to much;
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.
              -- Dorothy Parker
%%NF
Happiness:  An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the
misery of another.
%%NF
When the government bureau's remedies do not match your problem, you
modify the problem, not the remedy.
%%NF
Excellent time to become a missing person.
%%NF
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder
aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
              -- Senator Soaper
%%NF
Churchill's Commentary on Man:
       Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the
       time he will pick himself up and continue on.
%%NF
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
   Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
   Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
   Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
   Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
   'Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed!

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
   On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away
   Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
   Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
   "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
   A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed!

              -- Monty Python
%%NF
Velilind's Laws of Experimentation:
       1.  If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only
           once.
       2.  If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data
           points.
%%NF
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never
learned to walk.
              -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
%%NF
What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?
              -- Peter S. Beagle
%%NF
"I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem."
              -- Ashleigh Brilliant
%%NF
The ladies men admire, I've heard,
Would shudder at a wicked word.
Their candle gives a single light;
They'd rather stay at home at night.
They do not keep awake till three,
Nor read erotic poetry.
They never sanction the impure,
Nor recognize an overture.
They shrink from powders and from paints...
So far, I've had no complaints.
       -- Dorothy Parker
%%NF
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
%%NF
Magpie:  A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone
that it might be taught to talk.
%%NF
Liar:  A lawyer with a roving commission.
%%NF
This fortune intentionally not included.
%%NF
Ehrman's Commentary:
       1.  Things will get worse before they get better.
       2.  Who said things would get better?
%%NF
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you.  This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
              -- Mark Twain
%%NF
Brain:  The apparatus with which we think that we think.
%%NF
For a good time, call 642-9483
%%NF
God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh
%%NF
PLUNDERER'S THEME
(to Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius)

Pillage, rape, and loot and burn, but all in moderation.
If you do the things we say, then you'll soon rule the nation.
Kill your foes and enemies and then kill your relations.
Pillage, rape, and loot and burn, but all in moderation.
%%NF
I never fail to convice an audience that the best thing they could do
was to go away.
%%NF
MOCK APPLE PIE (No Apples Needed)

  Pastry to two crust 9-inch pie       36 RITZ Crackers
2 cups water                             2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons cream of tartar               2 tablespools lemon juice
  Grated rind of one lemon                 Butter or margarine
  Cinnamon

Roll out bottom crust of pastry and fit into 9-inch pie plate.  Break
RITZ Crackers coarsley into pastry-lined plate.  Combine water, sugar
and cream of tartar in saucepan, boil gently for 15 minutes.  Add lemon
juice and rind.  Cool.  Pour this syrup over Crackers, dot generously
with butter or margarine and sprinkle with cinnamon.  Cover with top
crust.  Trim and flute edges together.  Cut slits in top crust to let
steam escape.  Bake in a hot oven (425 F) 30 to 35 minutes, until crust
is crisp and golden.  Serve warm.  Cut into 6 to 8 slices.

              -- Found lurking on a Ritz Crackers box
%%NF
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which
otherwise require harder thinking.
              --Jerome Lettvin
%%NF
The men sat sipping their tea in silence.  After a while the klutz
said, "Life is like a bowl of sour cream."
     "Like a bowl of sour cream?" asked the other.  "Why?"
     "How should I know?  What am I, a philosopher?"
%%NF
Love is sentimental measles.
%%NF
It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the
flag.
%%NF
McGowan's Madison Avenue Axiom:
       If an item is advertised as "under $50", you can bet it's not
       $19.95.
%%NF
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
       -- Harry S. Truman
%%NF
Excellent day to have a rotten day.
%%NF
Old soldiers never die.  Young ones do.
%%NF
"White House carpenters have reworked the master bedroom, remodeling it
so that Ronnie can sleep with his head in the hall.  That way, by the
time he wakes up, somebody will have already shined his hair."
%%NF
Philadelphia is not dull -- it just seems so because it is next to
exciting Camden, New Jersy.
%%NF
Ducharm's Axiom:
       If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize
       yourself as part of the problem.
%%NF
Finagle's fourth Law:
       Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only
       makes it worse.
%%NF
Fifth Law of Applied Terror:
       If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Corollary:
       If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you
       live.
%%NF
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage.  But
this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is
somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.
%%NF
Finagle's third Law:
       In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct,
       beyond all need of checking, is the mistake
Corollaries:
       1.  Nobody whom you ask for help will see it.
       2.  The first person who stops by, whose advice you really
           don't want to hear, will see it immediately.
%%NF
Monday:  In Christian countries, the day after the football game.
%%NF
A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
%%NF
Fie for shame, you lascivious, lewd, lecherous, libidinous, lustful,
licentious, dirty bum!!
%%NF
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain
of being a damned fool.
              -- Bellamy Brooks
%%NF
"If God wanted us to have a President, He would have sent us a
candidate."
              -- Jerry Dreshfield
%%OF
Why is Mrs. Carter always on top when she and Jimmy make love?
Because all Jimmy Carter can do is fuck up.
%%NF
"I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent."
              -- Ashleigh Brilliant
%%NF
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
              -- Hawkwind
%%NF
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together
              -- Herbert Prochnow
%%NF
Earn cash in your spare time -- blackmail your friends.
%%NF
"If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows."
              -- Yiddish saying
%%NF
If you push the "extra ice" button on the soft drink vending machine,
you won't get any ice.  If you push the "no ice" button, you'll get
ice, but no cup.
%%NF
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you will look forward to the trip.
%%NF
Underlying Principle of Socio-Genetics:
       Superiority is recessive.
%%NF
Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology:
       There's always one more bug.
%%NF
Molecule:  The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter.  It is
distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit
of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate,
indivisible unit of matter...The ion differs from the molecule, the
corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion....
%%NF
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
%%OF
A team playing baseball in Dallas
Called the umpire blind out of malice.
       While this worthy had fits
       The team made eight hits
And a girl in the bleachers named Alice.
%%NF
Mathematicians do it in theory.
%%NF
Never call a man a fool; borrow from him.
%%NF
Harris' Lament:
       All the good ones are taken.
%%NF
Captain Penny's Law:
       You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of
       the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom.
%%NF
Il brilgue: les toves libricilleux
    Se gyrent et frillant dans le guave,
Enmimes sont les gougebosquex,
    Et le momerade horgrave.
%%NF
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad
example.
              -- La Rouchefoucauld
%%NF
Ambidextrous:  Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket
or a left.
%%NF
There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be
doing.
%%OF
       "God built a compeling sex drive into every creature, no
matter what style of fucking it practiced.  He made sex irresistibly
preasurable, wildly joyous, free from fears.  He made it innocent
merriment.
       "Needelss to say, fucking was an immediate smash hit.  Everyone
agreed, from aardvarks to zebras.  All the jolly animals -- lions and
lambs, rhinoceroses and bazelles, skylarks and lobsteres, even insects,
though most of them fuck only once in a lifetime -- fucked along
innocently and merrily for hundreds of millions of years.  Maybe they
were dumb animals, but they knew a good thing when they had one."
              -- Alan Sherman, "The Rape of the A*P*E*"
%%NF
$3,000,000
%%NF
Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say.
%%NF
Democracy is also a form of worship.
It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
       -- H. L. Mencken
%%NF
Question:
Man Invented Alcohol,
God Invented Grass.
Who do you trust?
%%NF Some stuff from MIT, via Doug Tygar.
IBM had a PL/I,
       Its syntax worse than JOSS;
And everywhere this language went,
       It was a total loss.
%%NF
Menu: A list of dishes which the restaurant has just run out of food.
%%NF
Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis:
       If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented
       it wasn't worth doing.
%%NF
Silverman's Law:
       If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will
%%NF
       In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the
last resort of the scoundrel.  With all due respect to an enlightened
but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
              -- Ambrose Bierce
%%NF
Truth will be out this morning.  (Which may really mess things up.)
%%NF
Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
%%NF
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
in students.
              -- John Ciardi
%%NF
ROMEO:  Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
MERCUTIO:  No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-
       door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
%%NF
The Third Law of Photography:
       If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined
       when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of
       the dark leaks out.
%%NF
Be free and open and breezy!  Enjoy!  Things won't get any better so
get used to it.
%%OF
There was a young lad name of Durcan
Who was always jerkin' his gherkin.
       His father said, "Durcan!
       Stop jerkin' your gherkin!
Your gherkin's for ferkin', not jerkin'.
%%NF
"You'll never be the man your mother was!"
%%NF
Advertisement: The most truthful part of a newspaper
              -- Thomas Jefferson
%%NF
Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes
to work.
%%NF
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
%%OF
A mathematician named Hall
Has a hexahedronical ball,
       And the cube of its weight
       Times his pecker's, plus eight
Is his phone number -- give him a call..
%%NF
Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term.
Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.
%%NF
Don't go surfing in South Dakota for a while.
%%NF
       "I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of
that is -- 'Be what you would seem to be' -- or, if you'd like it put
more simply -- 'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it
might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not
otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be
otherwise.'"
%%NF
Colvard's Logical Premises:
       All probabilities are 50%.  Either a thing will happen or
       it won't.
Colvard's Unconscionable Commentary:
       This is especially true when dealing with someone you're
       attracted to.
Grelb's Commentary
       Likelihoods, however, are 90% against you.
%%NF
The Schwine-Kitzenger Institute study of 47 men over the age of 100
showed that all had these things in common:
       1)  They all had moderate appetites.
       2)  They all came from middle class homes
       3)  All but two of them were dead.
%%NF
Communists do it without class.
%%NF
Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on
society.
       -- Mark Twain
%%NF
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short.  Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.

              -- Stanislaw Slem
%%NF
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to
ourselves.
%%NF
John Birch Society: That pathetic manifestation of organized apoplexy.
              -- Edward P. Morgan
%%OF
Cunnilingus is next to godliness.
%%NF
How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're
on.
%%NF
Nudists are people who wear one-button suits.
%%NF
Are we not men?
%%NF
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied:
       You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat.
       You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los
       Angeles.  Do you understand this?  And radio operates exactly
       the same way:  you send signals here, they receive them there.
       The only difference is that there is no cat.
%%NF
Magnet, n.:  Something acted upon by magnetism

Magnetism, n.:  Something acting upon a magnet.

       The two definition immediately foregoing are condensed from
the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the
subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of
human knowledge.
%%NF
Hand:  A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and
commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
%%NF
Hofstadter's Law:
       It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take
       Hofstadter's Law into account.
%%NF
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you
really make them think they'll hate you.
%%NF
Wit:  The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery...
by leaving it out.
%%NF
Christian: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely
inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not
inconsistent with a life of sin.
%%OF
Said Einstein, "I have an equation
Which to some may seem rabelaisian:
       Let V be virginity
       Approaching infinity;
Let P be a constant persuasion;

"Let V over P be inverted
With the square root of Mu inserted
       N times into V ...
       The result, Q.E.D.,
Is a relative!" Einstein asserted.
%%OF
There once was a couple named Kelley,
Who lived their life belly to belly.
       Because in their haste
       They used Library Paste,
Instead of Petroleum Jelly.
%%NF
If time heals all wounds, how come the belly button stays the same?
%%NF
Hail to the sun god
He sure is a fun god
Ra! Ra! Ra!
%%NF
       "The meat is rotten, but the booze is holding out."
Computer Translation of "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak"
%%NF
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining
and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
              -- Mark Twain
%%NF
A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard
              -- Prof. Steiner
%%NF
Hippogriff:  An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half
griffin.  The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and
half eagle.  The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one quarter
eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold.  The study of
zoology is full of surprises.
%%NF
Occident:  The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient.
It is largely inhabited by Christians,  powerful sub-tribe of the
Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which
they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce."  These, also, are the
principal industries of the Orient.
%%NF
My love, he's mad, and my love, he's fleet,
    And a wild young wood-thing bore him!
The ways are fair to his roaming feet,
    And the skies are sunlit for him.
As sharply sweet to my heart he seems
    As the fragrance of acacia.
My own dear love, he is all my dreams --
    And I wish he were in Asia.
%%NF
DeVries' Dilemma:
       If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want
       hits the paper.
%%NF
Pardo's First Postulate:
       Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Arnold's Addendum:
       Anything not fitting into these categories causes cancer in
       rats.
%%NF
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn
what it is I'll get married again.
              -- Clint Eastwood
%%NF
Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name
correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into
(Nick-les Worth).  Which is to say that Europeans call him by name, but
Americans call him by value.
%%NF
Garter:  An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of
her stockings and desolating the country.
%%NF
Finagle's Creed:
       Science is true.  Don't be misled by facts.
%%NF
Drive defensively, buy a tank.
%%NF
Did you know that clones never use mirrors?
%%NF
Tonights the night:  Sleep in a eucalyptus trees.
%%NF
Show respect for age.  Drink good Scotch for a change.
%%NF
Old programmers never die.  They just branch to a new address.
%%NF
Major Premise:  Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as
       quickly as one man.
Minor Premise:  One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds;
       therefore --
Conclusion:  Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second.
%%OF
There once was a young man named Gene
who invented a screwing machine
Concave and convex
it served either sex
And it played with itself inbetween.
%%NF
We wish you a Hare Krishna
We wish you a Hare Krishna
We wish you a Hare Krishna
And a Sun Myung Moon!

              --Maxwell Smart
%%NF
Give thought to your reputation.  Consider changing name and moving
to a new town.
%%NF
Main's Law:
       For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
%%NF
Weinberg's Second Law:
       If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
       then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy
       civilization.
%%NF
       I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay
dead that scares the shit out of me.
              -- R. Geis
%%NF
"When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut."
%%NF
Census Taker to Housewife:  Did you ever have the measles, and, if so,
       how many?
%%NF
If I kiss you, that is a psychological interaction.
On the other hand, if I hit you over the head with a brick, that is
also a psychological interaction.
The difference is that one is friendly and the other is not so friendly.
The crucial point is if you can tell which is which.
%%NF
Acid -- better living through chemistry.
%%NF
Everyone knows that dragons don't exist.  But while this simplistic
formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the
scientific mind.  The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact
wholly unconcerned with what does exist.  Indeed, the banality of
existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to
discuss it any further here.  The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the
problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the
mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical.  They were all,
one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely
different way......
%%NF
Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.
%%NF
On a clear disk you can seek forever.
%%NF
One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they
never have to stop and answer the phone.
%%NF
Rocky's Lemma of Innovation Prevention
       Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will
       reject the proposal.
%%NF
SHIFT TO THE LEFT!  SHIFT TO THE RIGHT!
POP UP, PUSH DOWN, BYTE, BYTE, BYTE!
%%NF
       "What the hell are you getting so upset about? I thought you
didn't believe in God."
       "I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. "but the
God I don't beleive in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God.  He's
not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be."
              -- Joseph Heller
%%NF
       Them Toad Suckers

How 'bout them toad suckers, ain't they clods?
Sittin' there suckin' them green toady frogs!

Suckin' them hop toads, suckin' them chunkers,
Suckin' them a leapy type, suckin' them flunkers.

Look at them toad suckers, ain't they snappy?
Suckin' them bog frogs sure make's 'em happy!

Them hugger mugger toad suckers, way down south,
Stickin' them sucky toads in they mouth!

How to be a toad sucker, no way to duck it,
Get yourself a toad, rear back, and suck it!

              -- Mason Williams
%%NF
Keep grandma off the streets -- legalize bingo.
%%NF
I really hate this damned machine
I wish that they would sell it.
It never does quite what I want
But only what I tell it.
%%NF
Evangelists do it with Him watching.
%%NF
Faith is the quality that enables you to eat blackberry jam on a picnic
without looking to see whether the seeds move.
%%NF
Keep America beautiful.  Swallow your beer cans.
%%NF
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the double lock will keep;
May no brick through the window break,
And, no one rob me till I awake.
%%NF
Oh, when I was in love with you,
    Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
    How well did I behave.

And now the fancy passes by,
    And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
    Am quite myself again.

              -- A. E. Housman
%%NF
There was a young lady from Hyde
Who ate a green apple and died.
       While her lover lamented
       The apple fermented
And made cider inside her inside.
%%NF
All a hacker needs is a tight PUSHJ, a loose pair of UUOs, and a warm
place to shift.
%%NF
       "A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on
the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an
infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric
precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from
inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical
accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality
for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly
defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the
information in the first place."

              -- IEEE Grid newsmagazine
%%OF
A pretty young maiden from France
Decided she'd "just take a chance."
  She let herself go
  For an hour or so
And now all her sisters are aunts.
%%NF
Steele's Plagiarism of Somebody's Philosophy:
       Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have
       another drink.
%%NF
Others will look to you for stability, so hide when you bite your
nails.
%%NF
Es brilig war.       Die schlichte Toven
    Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
Und aller-mumsige Burggoven
    Dir mohmen Rath ausgraben.
%%NF
       On his first day as a bus driver, Maxey Eckstein handed in
receipts of $65.  The next day his take was $67.  The third day's
income was $62.  But on the fourth day, Eckstein emptied no less than
$283 on the desk before the cashier.
       "Eckstein!" exclaimed the cashier.  "This is fantastic.  That
route never brought in money like this!  What happened?"
       "Well, after three days on that cockamany route, I figured
business would never improve, so I drove over to Fourteenth Street and
worked there.  I tell you, that street is a gold mine!"
%%NF
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots
%%NF
Cynic: One who looks through rose-colored glasses with a jaundiced eye.
%%NF
Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
              -- Leo C. Rosten
%%NF
"We don't care.  We don't have to.  We're the Phone Company."
%%NF
Do what comes naturally now.  Seethe and fume and throw a tantrum.
%%NF
Hanlon's Razor:
       Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
       stupidity.
%%NF
"It's Fabulous!  We haven't seen anything like it in the last half an
hour!"
              -- Macy's
%%NF
Xerox does it again and again and again and ...
%%NF
God is a polythiest
%%NF
Next Friday will not be your lucky day.  As a matter of fact, you don't
have a lucky day this year.
%%NF
"Here at the Phone Company, we serve all kinds of people; from
President's and Kings to the scum of the earth..."
%%NF
Remember, even if you win the rat race -- you're still a rat.
%%NF
The Abrams' Principle:
       The shortest distance between two points is off the wall.
%%NF
Who needs companionship when you can sit alone in your room and drink?
%%NF
Predestination was doomed from the start.
%%NF
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
       -- Art Hoppe
%%NF
If a President doesn't do it to his wife, he'll do it to his country.
%%NF
Hackers do it with all sorts of characters.
%%NF
Idiot:  A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human
affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
%%NF
A Law of Computer Programming:
       Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you
       will find the programmers cannot write in English.
%%NF
Friends, Romans, Hipsters,
Let me clue you in;
I come to put down Caeser, not to groove him.
The square kicks some cats are on stay with them;
The hip bits, like, go down under; so let it lay with Caeser.  The cool Brutus
Gave you the message: Caeser had big eyes;
If that's the sound, someone's copping a plea,
And, like, old Caeser really set them straight.
Here, copacetic with Brutus and the studs, -- for Brutus is a real cool cat;
So are they all, all cool cats, --
Come I to make this gig at Caeser's laying down.
%%NF
Monday:  In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.
%%NF
Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the
world has ever seen.
%%NF
The past always looks better than it was.  It's only pleasant becasue
it isn't here.
              -- Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley)
%%NF
If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
%%NF
Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming
       Never test for an error condition you don't know how to
       handle.
%%NF
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so
ingenious.
%%NF
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
              -- Noelie Altito
%%NF
Shaw's Principle:
       Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will
       want to use it.
%%NF
Ocean:  A body of water occupying about two-thirds of
a world made for man -- who has no gills.
%%NF
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied
harder.
              -- Pope John Paul I
%%NF
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
%%NF
       THEORY
Into love and out again,
    Thus I went and thus I go.
Spare your voice, and hold your pen:
    Well and bitterly I know
All the songs were ever sung,
    All the words were ever said;
Could it be, when I was young,
    Someone dropped me on my head?
              -- Dorothy Parker
%%NF
A very intelligent turtle
Found programming UNIX a hurdle
       The system, you see,
       Ran as slow as did he,
And that's not saying much for the turtle.
%%NF
"You must realize that the computer has it in for you.       The irrefutable
proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do."
%%OF
Hugh Hefner is a virgin.
%%NF
Computers are not intelligent.  They only think they are.
%%NF
An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.
%%NF
Hackers do it with bugs.
%%NF
Hackers do it with fewer instructions.
%%OF
77.  HO HUM -- The Redundant

------- (7)       This hexagram refers to a situation of extreme
--- --- (8)       boredom.  Your programs always bomb off.  Your wife
------- (7)       smells bad.  Your children have hives.  you are working
---O--- (6)       on an accounting system, when you want to develop
---X--- (9)       the GREAT AMERICAN COMPILER.  You give up hot dates
--- --- (8)       to nurse sick computers.  What you need now is sex.

Nine in the second place means:
       The yellow bird approaches the malt shop.  Misfortune.

Six in the third place means:
       In former times men built altars to honor the Internal
       Revenue Service.  Great Dragons!  Are you in trouble!
%%NF
Arnold's Laws of Documentation:
       1.) If it should exist, it doesn't.
       2.) If it does exist, it's out of date.
       3.) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the
           first two laws.
%%NF
Katz' Law:
       Man and nations will act rationally when all other
       possibilities have been exhausted.
%%NF
Probable-Possible, my black hen,
She lays eggs in the Relative When.
She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
Because she's unable to postulate how.
       -- Frederick Winsor
%%OF
Do something big -- fuck a giant
%%NF
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering:
       Don't worry if it doesn't work right.  If everything did, you'd
       be out of a job.
%%NF
Fats Loves Madelyn
%%NF
Think twice before speaking, but don't say "think think click click".
%%NF
Dawn:  The time when men of reason go to bed.
%%NF
If anything can go wrong, it will.
%%NF
Accuracy: The vice of being right
%%NF
Law of Communications:
       The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications
       between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased
       area of misunderstanding.
%%NF
Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as
they ought to be.  Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out
a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
%%NF
Joe's sister puts spaghetti in her shoes!
%%NF
The number of licorice gumballs you get out of a gumball machine
increases in direct proportion to how much you hate licorice.
%%NF
United Nations, New York, December 25.  The peace and joy of the Christmas
season was mared by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military
forces of the world.  Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of
every persuasion.
   Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the
world.
       -- Isaac Asimov
%%OF
There once was a freshman named Lin,
Whose tool was as thin as a pin,
       A virgin named Joan
       From a bible belt home,
Said "This won't be much of a sin."
%%NF
Christ:  A man who was born at least 5,000 years ahead of his time.
%%NF
Lysistrata had a good idea.
%%NF
Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
%%NF
Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.
%%NF
Ducharme's Precept:
       Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment
%%NF
Turnaucka's Law:
       The attention span of a computer is only as long as its
       electrical cord.
%%NF
Eleanor Rigby
Sits at the keyboard and waits for a line on the screen
Lives in a dream
Waits for a signal, finding some code that will make the machine do some more.
What is it for?
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
%%NF
A gleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet (sort of).
%%NF
Afternoon very favorable for romance.  Try a single person for a change.
%%OF
The difference between this school and a cactus plant is that the cactus
has the pricks on the outside.
%%NF
Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string.
%%NF
The world is an 8000 mile in diameter spherical pile of shit.
%%NF
As I was passing Project MAC,
I met a Quux with seven hacks.
Every hack had seven bugs;
Every bug had seven manifestations;
Every manifestation had seven symptoms.
Symptoms, manifestations, bugs, and hacks,
How many losses at Project MAC?
%%NF
Man:  An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he
is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.  His chief
occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species,
which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest
the whole habitable earth and Canada.
%%NF
Travel important today;  Internal Revenue men arrive tomorrow.
%%NF
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered
to date.
%%NF
Do not read this fortune under penalty of law.
Violators will be prosecuted.
(Penal Code sec. 2.3.2 (II.a.))
%%NF
"An American is a man with two arms and four wheels".
              -- A Chinese child
%%NF
My love runs by like a day in June,
    And he makes no friends of sorrows.
He'll tread his galloping rigadoon
    In the pathway or the morrows.
He'll live his days where the sunbeams start
    Nor could storm or wind uproot him.
My own dear love, he is all my heart --
    And I wish somebody'd shoot him.
%%NF
Ginsberg's Theorem:
       1.  You can't win.
       2.  You can't break even.
       3.  You can't even quit the game.

Freeman's Commentary on Ginsberg's theorem:

       Every major philosophy that attempts to make life seem
       meaningful is based on the negation of one part of Ginsberg's
       Theorem.  To wit:

       1.  Capitalism is based on the assumption that you can win.
       2.  Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break
           even.
       3.  Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the
           game.
%%NF
Military  justice is to justice what military music is to music.
              -- Groucho Marx
%%NF
Fourth Law of Applied Terror:
       The night before the English History mid-term, your Biology
       instructor will assign 200 pages on planaria.
Corollary:
       Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except
       study for that instructor's course.
%%NF
Boy: A noise with dirt on it.
%%NF
Ban the bomb.  Save the world for conventional warfare.
%%NF
Artistic ventures highlighted.  Rob a museum.
%%OF
There once was a plumber from Leigh,
Who was plumbing his maid by the sea,
       Said she, "Please stop plumbing,
       I think someone's coming!"
Said he, "Yes I know love, it's me."
%%NF
Avoid reality at all costs.
%%NF
The Briggs - Chase Law of Program Development:
       To determine how long it will take to write and debug a
       program, take your best estimate, multiply that by two, add
       one, and convert to the next higher units.
%%NF
Weinberg's First Law:
       Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
%%NF
God is an atheist.
%%NF
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --
"I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
              -- Ambrose Bierce
%%NF
Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks.
%%NF
Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.
%%NF
Honorable: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach.  In legislative
bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the
honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."
%%NF
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
%%NF
The United States Army;
194 years of proud service,
unhampered by progress.
%%NF
Sex is not the answer.       Sex is the question.  "Yes" is the answer.
%%NF
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
              -- Bert Whitney
%%NF
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
       Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get
       out.
%%NF
Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you.  They're too
busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
%%OF
A beat schizophrenic said, "Me?
I am not I, I'm a tree."
       But another, more sane,
       Shouted, "I'm a Great Dane!"
And covered his pants leg with pee.
%%NF
       In the beginning was the DEMO Project.  And the Project was
without form.  And darkness was upon the staff members thereof.  So
they spake unto their Division Head, saying, "It is a crock of shit,
and it stinks."

       And the Division Head spake unto his Department Head, saying,
"It is a crock of excrement and none may abide the odor thereof."  Now,
the Department Head spake unto his Directorate Head, saying, "It is a
container of excrement, and is very strong, such that none may abide
before it."  And it came to pass that the Directorate Head spake unto
the Assistant Technical Director, saying, "It is a vessel of fertilizer
and none may abide by its strength."

       And the assistant Technical Director spake thus unto the
Technical Director, saying, "It containeth that which aids growth and
it is very strong."  And, Lo, the Technical Director spake then unto
the Captain, saying, "The powerful new Project will help promote the
growth of the Laboratories."

       And the Captain looked down upon the Project, and He saw that
it was Good!
%%NF
Justice: A decision in your favor.
%%NF
You will be Told about it Tomorrow.  Go Home and Prepare Thyself.
%%NF
Kleptomaniac:  A rich thief.
%%NF
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
              -- Charlie McCarthy
%%NF
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
%%NF
Celebrate Hannibal Day this year.  Take an elephant to lunch.
%%NF
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he
knows what it is.
%%NF
If while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel
in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary
qualifications, that field's employment market is glutted.
              -- Marguerite Emmons
%%NF
Wasting time is an important part of living.
%%NF
Never be led astray onto the path of virtue.
%%NF
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
              -- Groucho Marx
%%NF
Horngren's Observation:
       Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
%%NF
Fairy Tale:  A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.
%%NF
Ass: The masculine of "lass".
%%NF
Massachusetts has the best politicians money can buy
%%NF
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
%%NF
Majority: That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.
%%NF
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
                                   -- Mae West.
%%NF
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no
guarantee of eventual success.
%%NF
Things are more like they used to be than they are new.
%%NF
Don't cook tonight -- starve a rat today!
%%NF
Families, when a child is born
Want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence,
Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope the baby will prove
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life
By becoming a Cabinet Minister

              -- Su Tung-p'o
%%NF
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
%%NF
Test makers do it sometimes/always/never.
%%NF
Hurewitz's Memory Principle:
       The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional
       to.....to........uh..............
%%OF
CLONE OF MY OWN (to Home on the Range)

Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
       With the Y chromosome changed to X.
And when she is grown,
My very own clone,
       We'll be of the opposite sex.

Chorus:
       Clone, clone of my own,
       With the Y chromosome changed to X.
       And when we're alone,
       Since her mind is my own,
       She'll be thinking of nothing but sex.

              -- Randall Garrett
%%NF
Message will arrive in the mail.  Destroy, before the FBI sees it.
%%NF
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
              -- R. Geis
%%NF
If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way.
%%NF
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it
every six months.
              -- Oscar Wilde
%%NF
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
%%NF
Help!  I'm trapped in a PDP 11/70!
%%NF
You've been leading a dog's life.  Stay off the furniture.
%%NF
"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my
tongue."
%%NF
Accordion: A bagpipe with pleats.
%%NF
       "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said
       Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously.  "Of course you don't --
till I tell you.  I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'"
       "But glory doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice
objected.
       "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful
tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
       "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean
so many different things."
       "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master --
that's all."
%%NF
Wiker's Law:
       Government expands to absorb all available revenue and then some.
%%NF
Good day for overcoming obstacles.  Try a steeplechase.
%%NF
God isn't dead, He's just trying to avoid the draft.
%%NF
The cow is nothing but a machine with makes grass fit for us people to
eat.
              -- John McNulty
%%NF
THE GOLDEN RULE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
       The one who has the gold makes the rules.
%%NF
       The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood
as he reported to Fafhrd: "I have seen much, yet cannot explain all.
The Gray Mouser is exactly twenty-five feet below the deepest cellar in
the palace of Gilpkerio Kistomerces.  Even though twenty-four parts in
twenty-five of him are dead, he is alive.

       Now about Lankhmar.  She's been invaded, her walls breached
everywhere and desperate fighting is going on in the streets, by a
fierce host which out-numbers Lankhamar's inhabitants by fifty to one
-- and equipped with all modern weapons.  Yet you can save the city."

  "How?" demanded Fafhrd.

  Ningauble shrugged.  "You're a hero.  You should know."

       From "The Swords of Lankhmar", By "Fritz Leiber"
%%NF
Death:  to stop sinning suddenly.
%%NF
"He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both
eyes..."
%%NF
Stay away from flying saucers today.
%%NF
Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon,
there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he
was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how
completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday....
       -- Walt Kelly
%%NF
If at first you don't succeed, give up, no use being a damn fool.
%%NF
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.
%%NF
Bankers do it with interest (penalty for early withdrawal).
%%NF
Slick's Three Laws of the Universe:
       1)  Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad
           check.
       2)  A quarter-ounce of chocolate = four pounds of fat.
       3)  There are two types of dirt:  the dark kind, which is
           attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is
           attracted to dark objects.
%%NF
"That must be wonderful! I dont understand it at all."
%%NF
Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop
writing.
              -- R. Geis
%%NF
Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving
from where you left them to where you can't find them.
%%NF
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are
safe, for you can watch both of his.
%%NF
BLISS is ignorance
%%NF
If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
%%NF
Our country has plenty of good five-cent cigars, but the trouble is
they charge fifteen cents for them.
%%OF
There was a young girl named Saphire
Who succumbed to her lover's desire.
       She said, "It's a sin,
       But now that it's in,
Could you shove it a few inches higher?"
%%NF
Please ignore previous fortune.
%%NF
The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.
%%NF
Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr Gandhi, what do you think of
    Western Civilization?
Gandhi: I think some people may survive.
%%NF
There's little in taking or giving,
    There's little in water or wine:
This living, this living, this living,
    Was never a project of mine.
Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is
    The gain of the one at the top,
For art is a form of catharsis,
    And love is a permanent flop,
And work is the provence of cattle,
    And rest's for a clam in a shell,
So I'm thinking of throwing the battle --
    Would you kindly direct me to hell?

              -- Dorothy Parker
%%NF
Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning:
       It's on the other side.
%%NF
Reclaimer, spare that tree!
Take not a single bit!
It used to point to me,
Now I'm protecting it.
It was the reader's CONS
That made it, paired by dot;
Now, GC, for the nonce,
Thou shalt reclaim it not.
%%NF
WHERE CAN THE MATTER BE

       Oh, dear, where can the matter be
       When it's converted to energy?
       There is a slight loss of parity.
       Johnny's so long at the fair.
%%NF
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will
find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on
the computer.
%%NF
There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
              --Mark Twain
%%NF
Never count your chickens before they rip your lips off
%%NF
My own dear love, he is strong and bold
    And he cares not what comes after.
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,
    And his eyes are lit with laughter.
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled --
    Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him.
My own dear love, he is all my world --
    And I wish I'd never met him.
%%NF
Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
I never soiled with such a deed.

              -- A. E. Housman
%%NF
Let He who taketh the Plunge Remember to return it by Tuesday.
%%NF
Noncombatant: A dead Quaker.
              -- Ambrose Bierce
%%NF
Electrocution: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements.
%%OF
Opinions are like assholes - everyones got one, but nobody wants to
look at the other guy's.
              Hal Hickman
%%NF
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!
%%NF
Mad:  Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence...
%%NF
Barometer:  An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of
weather we are having.
%%NF
Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as
they ought to be.  Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out
a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
%%NF
Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of
body is better.
              -- Foolish Dictionary
%%NF
If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances
are 50-50 it will.
%%NF
Waiter:       "Tea or coffee, gentlemen?"
1st customer: "I'll have tea."
2nd customer: "Me, too -- and be sure the glass is clean!"
       (Waiter exits, returns)
Waiter: "Two teas.  Which one asked for the clean glass?"
%%NF
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
              -- Walt Kelly
%%NF
A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
%%NF
Paul Revere was a tattle-tale
%%OF
There was a young man from Bel-Aire
Who was screwing his girl on the stair,
       But the banister broke
       So he doubled his stroke
And finished her off in mid-air.
%%NF
Chicken Little was right.
%%NF
Keep you Eye on the Ball,
Your Shoulder to the Wheel,
Your Nose to the Grindstone,
Your Feet on the Ground,
Your Head on your Shoulders.
Now....try to get something DONE!
%%NF
Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then
give it back to them.
%%NF
Children seldom misquote you.  In fact, they usually repeat word for
word what you shouldn't have said.
%%NF
"It is bad luck to be superstitious."
              -- Andrew W. Mathis
%%NF
Keep in mind always the two constant Laws of Frisbee:
       1)  The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc
           straining to land under a car, just out of reach (this
           force is technically termed "car suck").
       2)  Never precede any maneuver by a comment more predictive
           than "Watch this!"
%%NF
"The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start
with a large fortune."
%%NF
Interpreter:  One who enables two persons of different languages to
understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to
the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
%%OF
In the Garden of Eden sat Adam,
Massaging the bust of his madam,
       He chuckled with mirth,
       For he knew that on earth,
There were only two boobs and he had 'em.
%%NF
College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the
faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if
the trustees played.  There would be a great increase in broken arms,
legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the
loss to humanity.
              -- H. L. Mencken
%%NF
Politicians do it to everyone.
%%OF
"As for Carter being for registration but against the draft, isn't that
sort of being like for putting it in and not taking it out? Even if it
was possible not to follow through, you'd still be getting screwed."
%%NF
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was
in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
%%NF
Afternoon: That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted
the morning.
%%NF
"All flesh is grass"
    -- Isiah
Smoke a friend today.
%%NF
There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of
paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write.
%%NF
"When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that
can't happen."
              -- Richard Nixon as a boy (on the Teapot Dome scandal)
%%NF
"The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live
elsewhere."
%%NF
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman
out of a divorce.
              -- Don Quinn
%%NF
       History has the relation to truth that theology has to
religion -- i.e. none to speak of.
              -- Lazarus Long
%%NF
"Now the Lord God planted a garden East of Whittier in a place called
Yorba Linda, and out of the ground he made to grow orange trees that
were good for food and the fruits thereof he labeled SUNKIST..."
%%NF
The goal of science is to build better mousetraps.
The goal of nature is to build better mice.
%%NF
Alliance:  In international politics, the union of two thieves who
have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that
they cannot separately plunder a third.
%%NF
Losing your drivers' license is just God's way of saying "BOOGA, BOOGA!"
%%NF
Hartley's First Law:
       You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float
       on his back, you've got something.
%%NF
All things dull and ugly,
   All creatures short and squat,
   All things rude and nasty,
   The Lord God made the lot;
Each little snake that poisons,
   Each little wasp that stings,
   He made their brutish venom,
   He made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous,
   All evil great and small,
   All things foul and dangerous,
   The Lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet,
   Each beastly little squid.
   Who made the spikey urchin?
   Who made the sharks? He did.
All things scabbed and ulcerous,
   All pox both great and small.
   Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
   The Lord God made them all.

              --Monty Python
%%NF
Conway's Law:
       In any organization there will always be one person who knows
       what is going on.

       This person must be fired.
%%NF
He waxn't much of an actor, he wasn't much of a Govenor -- Hell, they
HAD to make him President of the United States.  It's the only job he's
qualified for!
              -- Michael Cain
%%NF
Sattinger's Law:
       It works better if you plug it in.
%%NF
"Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth
Corner, Vermont."
              -- Clarence Darrow
%%NF
Today is a good day to bribe a high-ranking public official.
%%NF
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking
advantage of them.
%%NF
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why
you should.
%%NF
Labor:  One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
%%NF
Automobile: A four-wheeled vehicle that runs up hills and down
pedestrians.
%%NF
Hackers know all the right MOVs.
%%NF
If God had wanted you to go around nude, He would have given you bigger hands.
%%NF
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU.
%%NF
Don't feed the bats tonight.
%%NF
Good news.  Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day.
%%NF
Xerox never comes up with anything original.
%%NF
Bradley's Bromide:
       If computers get too pwerfule, we can orgranize them into a
       committee -- that will do them in.
%%NF
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well
as afterward.
%%NF
Love is a word that is constantly heard,
Hate is a word that is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
Love, I have read, is hot.
But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
And Love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
       -- Ogden Nash
%%NF
Adult: One old enough to know better.
%%NF
Procrastinators do it tomorrow.
%%NF
The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to show up
at the steam fitters picnic.
%%NF
Cabbage:  A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise
as a man's head.
%%NF
Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the earth.
%%NF
Stop searching.  Happiness is right next to you.
%%NF
Familiarity breeds attempt
%%NF
Ingrate: A man who bites, the hand that feeds him, and then complains
of indigestion.
%%OF
Build a better mousetrap, the saying goes -- and with the brassiere,
Yankee Ingenuity did exactly that.  But their true stroke of genius was
the new bait.  The old fashioned mousetrap was loaded with cheese;
nobody cares much about cheese, except mice.  But when American
Know-How reloaded the brassiere with tits, every heterosexual male in
the country was hopelessy trapped.
              -- Alan Sherman, "The Rape of the A*P*E*"
%%NF
Duct tape is like the force.  It has a light side, and a
dark side, and it holds the universe together....
              -- Carl Zwanzig

%%NF
You can create your own opportunities this week.  Blackmail a
senior executive.
%%NF
Bank error in your favor.  Collect $200.
%%NF
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
%%NF
The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.
%%NF
"Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?"
              -- Lily Tomlin
%%NF
"I've had one child.  My husband wants to have another.  I'd like to
watch him have another."
%%NF
You might have mail
%%NF
Laissez Faire Economics is the theory that if each acts like a vulture,
all will end as doves.
%%NF
Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government:
       No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the
       legislature is in session.
%%NF
Stay away from hurricanes for a while.
%%NF
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up
in the morning, and does not stop until you get to school.
%%NF
Cigarette: A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of
tobacco in between.
%%NF
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
              -- Voltaire
%%NF
...the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost would never throw the
Devil out of Heaven as long as they still need him as a fourth for
bridge.
              -- Letter in NEW LIBERTARIAN NOTES #19
%%NF
Living in Hollywood is like living in a bowl of granola.  What ain't
fruits and nuts is flakes.
%%NF
Die: To stop sinning suddenly.
              -- Elbert Hubbard
%%NF
Children are natural mimic who act like their parents despite every
effort to teach them good manners.
%%OF
A pretty young lady named Vogel
Once sat herself down on a molehill.
       A curious mole
       Nosed into her hole --
Ms. Vogel's ok, but the mole's ill.
%%NF
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
              -- G. B. Shaw
%%NF
God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can chose our friends.
%%NF
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
%%NF
You may be recognized soon.  Hide.
%%NF
God is not dead!  He's alive and autographing bibles at Cody's
%%NF
"A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a
good many ohter people are restrained from doing by conscientious
scruples and the police."
              -- Mr. Dooley
%%NF
"All my friends and I are crazy.  That's the only thing that keeps us
sane."
%%NF
Down with categeorical imperative!
%%OF
Sex is like a bridge game --
If you have a good hand no partner is needed.
%%NF
...And malt does more than Milton can
to justify God's ways to man
                   -- A.E. Housman
%%NF
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which
otherwise require harder thinking.
              ---Jerome Lettvin
%%NF
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law.
              -- Roy Santoro
%%NF
"Might as well be frank, monsieur.  It would take a miracle to get you
out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles."
%%NF
!07/11 PDP a ni deppart m'I  !pleH
%%NF
Miss:  A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they
are in the market.
%%NF
"Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new
Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process..."
%%NF
"Sometimes I simply feel that the whole world is a cigarette and I'm
the only ashtray."
%%NF
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
%%NF
Year:  A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
%%NF
There was a young poet named Dan,
Whose poetry never would scan.
       When told this was so,
       He said, "Yes, I know.
It's because I try to put every possible syllable into that last line that I can."
%%NF
f u cn rd ths, itn tyg h myxbl cd.
%%NF
AI hackers do it robotically.
%%NF
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
%%NF
Why did the Lord give us so much quickness of movement unless it was to
avoid responsibility with?
%%NF
Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient.  Don't believe a
thing he tells you.
%%NF
Don't knock President Fillmore.  He kept us out of Vietnam.
%%NF
You worry too much about your job.  Stop it.  You are not paid enough
to worry.
%%NF
Brain fried -- Core dumped
%%NF
Excellent day for drinking heavily.  Spike office water cooler.
%%NF
Ink:  A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and
water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote
intellectual crime.
%%NF
Good day to avoid cops.  Crawl to school.
%%NF
Nihilism should commence with oneself.
%%NF
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are
totally worthless.
%%NF
The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the
stupidity of your action.
%%NF
A diva who specializes in risque arias is an off-coloratura soprano...
%%NF
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on
people.
              -- W.C. Fields
%%NF
Bolub's Fourth Law of Computerdom:
       Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so
       vividly manifests their lack of progress.
%%NF
I can resist anything but temptation.
%%NF
Do not drink coffee in early A.M.  It will keep you awake until noon.
%%NF
Peace:  In international affairs, a period of cheating between two
periods of fighting.
%%NF
You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading
this sort of trash.
%%NF
Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a
larger object.
%%NF
HE:  Let's end it all, bequeathin' our brains to science.
SHE:  What?!?  Science got enough trouble with their OWN brains.
              -- Walt Kelley
%%NF
Q: How many IBM cpu's does it take to do a logical right shift?
A: 33. 1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.
%%NF
A chubby man with a white beard and a red suit will approach you soon.
Avoid him.  He's a Commie.
%%NF
Pig:  An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race by
the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior
in scope, for it balks at pig.
%%NF
Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems.  It's easy to
criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.
              -- D. J. Hicks
%%NF
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of
them keeps paying for it.
              -- Peggy Joyce
%%NF
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism
to decadence without touching civilization.
              -- John O'Hara
%%NF
Abstainer:  A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying
himself a pleasure.
%%NF
A penny saved is ridiculous.
%%NF
You will be a winner today.  Pick a fight with a four-year-old.
%%NF
Antonym: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.
%%NF
You have the capacity to learn from mistakes.  You'll learn a lot
today.
%%NF
Hi! How are things going?
       (just fine, thank you...)
Great! Say, could I bother you for a question?
       (you just asked one...)
Well, how about one more?
       (one more than the first one?)
Yes.
       (you already asked that...)

[at this point, Alphonso gets smart...       ]
May I ask two questions, sir?
       (no.)
May I ask ONE then?
       (nope...)
Then may I ask, sir, how I may ask you a question?
       (yes, you may.)
Sir, how may I ask you a question?
       (you must ask for retroactive question asking priveleges for
        the number of questions you have asked, then ask for that
        number plus two {one for the current question, and one for the
        next one)
Sir, may I ask nine questions?
       (go right ahead...)
%%NF
Important letters which contain no errors will develop errors in the
mail.  Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the
Boss is reading it.
%%NF
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long
walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.  They
then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy
health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old,
not because of their habits, but in spite of them.  The reason we find
only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the
others who have tried it.
%%NF
If all be true that I do think,
There be Five Reasons why one should Drink;
Good friends, good wine, or being dry,
Or lest we should be by-and-by,
Or any other reason why.
%%NF
The first riddle I ever heard, one familiar to almost every Jewish child,
was propounded to me by my father:
    "What is it that hangs on the wall, is green, wet -- and whistles?"
    I knit my brow and thought and thought, and in final perplexity
gave up.
    "A herring," said my father.
    "A herring," I echoed.  "A herring doesn't hang on the wall!"
    "So hang it there."
    "But a herring isn't green!" I protested.
    "Paint it."
    "But a herring isn't wet."
    "If its just painted its still wet."
    "But -- " I sputtered, summoning all my outrage, "-- a herring
doesn't whistle!!"
    "Right, " smiled my father.  "I just put that in to make it hard."
              -- Leo Rosten
%%NF
AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccccccccckkkkkk!!!!!!!!!
You brute!  Knock before entering a ladies room!
%%NF
Deliberation:  The act of examining one's bread to determine
which side it is buttered on.
%%NF
"There are three possibilities: Pioneer's solar panel has turned
away from the sun; there's a large meteor blocking transmission;
or someone loaded Star Trek 3.2 into our video processor."
%%NF
Grain grows best in shit
              -- U. K. LeGuin
%%NF
The Supreme Court does it with all deliberate speed.
%%NF
You're being followed.  Cut out the hanky-panky for a few days.
%%NF
Did you know....

That no-one ever reads these things?
%%NF
You could get a new lease on life -- if only you didn't need the
first and last month in advance.
%%NF
Birth:  The first and direst of all disasters.
%%NF
Once Law was sitting on the bench
       And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
"Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench!
       Nor come before me creeping.
Upon you knees if you appear,
'Tis plain you have no standing here."

Then Justice came.  His Honor cried:
       "YOUR states? -- Devil seize you!"
"Amica curiae," she replied --
       "Friend of the court, so please you."
"Begone!" he shouted -- "There's the door --
I never saw your face before!"
%%NF
Good day for a change of scene.  Repaper the bedroom wall.
%%NF
Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has
been discontinued.
%%NF
Look out!  Behind you!
%%NF
Van Roy's Law:
       An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
%%NF
Minnie Mouse is a slow maze learner.
%%NF
Things will be bright in P.M.  A cop will shine a light in your face.
%%NF
Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
              -- Adlai Stevenson
%%NF
We really don't have any enemies.  It's just that some of our best
friends are trying to kill us.
%%NF
Alexander Graham Bell is alive and well in New York, and still waiting
for a dial tone.
%%NF
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are
headed.
%%NF
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are
headed.
%%NF
If the weather is extremely bad, church attendance will be down.  If
the weather is extremely good, church attendance will be down.  If the
bulletin covers are in short supply, however, church attendance will
exceed all expectations.
              -- Reverend Chichester
%%NF
Only adults have difficulty with childproof caps.
%%NF
They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid!
%%NF
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what value there may
be in owning a piece thereof.
%%NF
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think
themselves cleverer than we are.
%%NF
When you do not know what you are doing, do it neatly.
%%NF
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
%%NF
Green light in A.M. for new projects.  Red light in P.M. for traffic
tickets.
%%NF
Cleveland still lives.  God must be dead.
%%NF
Keep emotionally active.  Cater to your favorite neurosis.
%%NF
Hindsight is an exact science.
%%NF
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
              -- Albert Einstein
%%NF
Give your child mental blocks for Christmas.
%%NF
Blessed are they who Go Around in Circles, for they Shall be Known
as Wheels.
%%NF
Law of Procrastination:
       Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that
       there is nothing important to do.
%%NF
What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket.
%%NF
Surprise!  You are the lucky winner of random I.R.S Audit!  Just type
in your name and social security number.  Please remember that leaving
the room is punishable under law:

Name       #
%%NF
I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life.
%%NF
A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no
responsibility at the other.
%%NF
Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and
visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite
bomb.
%%NF
How doth the little crocodile
    Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
    On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
    How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
    With gently smiling jaws!
%%NF
Troubled day for virgins over 16 who are beautiful and wealthy and live
in eucalyptus trees.
%%NF
Surprise your boss.  Get to work on time.
%%NF
Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight.
%%NF
Half Moon tonight.  (At least its better than no Moon at all.)
%%NF
AI hackers do it with robots.
%%NF
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
%%NF
Day of inquiry.  You will be subpoenaed.
%%NF
Jones' First Law:
       Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of
       endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an
       obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the
       importance of their original contribution.
%%NF
Rule of Feline Frustration:
       When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly
       content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the
       bathroom.
%%NF
Spend extra time on hobby.  Get plenty of rolling papers.
%%NF
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.
              -- F. P. Jones
%%NF
In case of atomic attack, the federal ruling against prayer in schools
will be temporarily cancelled.
%%NF
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
%%NF
Doctors take two aspirin and do it in the morning.
%%NF
Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules:
       The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of
       the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety
       percent.
%%NF
Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things.
%%NF
       "I cannot read the fiery letters," said Frodo in a quavering
voice.
        "No," Said Gandalf, "but I can.  The letters are Elvish, of
course, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Mordor, which
I will not utter here.  They are lines of a verse long known in
Elven-lore:

       "This Ring, no other, is made by the elves,
       Who'd pawn their own mother to grab it themselves.
       Ruler of creeper, mortal, and scallop,
       This is a sleeper that packs quite a wallop.
       The Power almighty rests in this Lone Ring.
       The Power, alrighty, for doing your Own Thing.
       If broken or busted, it cannot be remade.
       If found, send to Sorhed (with postage prepaid)."
%%NF
Vote anarchist
%%NF
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing
to go through hell to get it.
%%OF
Reagan can't act either
%%NF
Flappity, floppity, flip
The mouse on the mobius strip;
       The strip revolved,
       The mouse dissolved
In a chronodimensional skip.
%%NF
Collaboration: A literary partnership based on the false assumption
that the other fellow can spell.
%%NF
Screw up your courage!  You've screwed up everything else.
%%NF
Lunatic Asylum: The place where optimism most flourishes.
%%NF
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body.
This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
%%OF
Getting an education at the University of California is like
having $50.00 shoved up your ass, a nickel at a time.
%%NF
Do something unusual today.  Pay a bill.
%%NF
Dallas still lives.  God must be dead.
%%NF
Remember that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be
worse in Cleveland.
%%NF
There's one fool at least in every married couple.
%%NF
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to
guarantee them.
%%NF
       "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might
be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's
logic!"
              -- Lewis Carroll
%%NF
Think of your family tonight.  Try to crawl home after the
computer crashes.
%%NF
UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist.
%%NF
It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the
lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as
high as the eagle?
%%NF
It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the
lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as
high as the eagle?
%%NF
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
%%NF
Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today.
%%NF
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
              -- Mark Twain
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Arthur's Laws of Love:
       1.  People to whom you are attracted invariably think you
           remind them of someone else.
       2.  The lover letter you finally got the courage to send will
           be delayed in the mail long enough for you to make a fool
           of yourself in person.
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Tonights the night:  Sleep in a eucalyptus trees.
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Help a swallow land at Capistrano.
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Statisticians do it with 95% confidence.
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God made the world in six days, and was arrested on the seventh.
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Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your
shoes.
              -- Mickey Mouse
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Large cats can be dangerous, but a little pussy never hurt anyone.
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Please take note:
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God is not dead -- he's been busted
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Life is like an onion:  you peel off layer after layer, then you find
there is nothing in it.
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Jesus Saves,
Moses Invests,
But only Buddha pays Dividends.
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Acid absorbs 47 times it's weight in excess Reality.
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Speak roughly to your little boy,
    And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy
    Because he knows it teases.

       Wow! wow! wow!

I speak severely to my boy,
    And beat him when he sneezes:
For he can thoroughly enjoy
    The pepper when he pleases!

       Wow! wow! wow!
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The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided
by the number of people in the group.
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       "And what will you do when you grow up to be as big as me?"
asked the father of his little son.
       "Diet."
%%NF
Never call a man a fool.  Borrow from him.
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Hire the morally handicapped.
%%NF
Those who can't write, write manuals.
%%NF
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
              Salvador Hardin
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What this country needs is a good five cent ANYTHING!
%%NF
Draft beer, not people
%%NF
Those who can, do.  Those who can't, simulate.
%%NF
Those who can, do.  Those who can't, simulate.
%%NF
Mathematicians take it to the limit.
%%NF
Mathematicians take it to the limit.
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....It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it
is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists
have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of
smell.
              -- Ambrose Bierce
%%NF
Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch.
%%NF
Hummingbirds never remember the words to songs.
%%NF
Reality is an obstacle to halucination.
%%NF
Future looks spotty.  You will spill soup in late evening.
%%NF
California is a fine place to live -- if you happen to be an orange.
       -- Fred Allen
%%NF
The world is coming to an end!  Repent and return those library books!
%%NF
George Orwell was an optimist.
%%NF
Stop searching.  Happiness is right next to you.  Now, if they'd only
take a bath...
%%NF
Anything labeled "NEW" and/or "IMPROVED" isn't.  The label means the
price went up.  The label "ALL NEW", "COMPLETELY NEW", or "GREAT NEW"
means the price went way up.
%%NF
If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?
%%NF
A day for firm decisions!!!!!  Or is it?
%%OF
I came; I saw; I fucked up
%%NF
Kin: An affliction of the blood
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Good day to let down old friends who need help.
%%NF
Fine day to work off excess energy.  Steal something heavy.
%%NF
Broad-mindedness: The result of flattening high-mindedness out.
%%OF
Coito ergo sum
%%NF
Physicists do it with charm
%%NF
Succumb to natural tendencies.  Be hateful and boring.
%%NF
Statisticians probably do it.
%%NF
"It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either."
              -- Kevin White, mayor of Boston
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God isn't dead, he just couldn't find a parking place.
%%NF
Earn cash in your spare time -- blackmail your friends