From: "Neil Preston"
I'd like to offer an amendment (believed to be original) to a proverbial
quotation variously attributed to Disraeli, Twain and others:
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics"
...... and now there are computer models.
--- Neil Preston
From: http://www1.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=1911&mn=43547&pt=msg&mid=3020673
Walter, that ain't no "nice Jewish boy".
His picture sends chills down my spine.
I have seen that look before.
The Devil has never gone to this man and offered him something
for his soul. You have to have a soul, before you can trade it.
Tomorrow is going to be fun.
--- AllParadox
From: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191810&cid=15757347
Said one park ranger, "There is considerable overlap between the
intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
From: MacAlan Thompson
Give a man a beer and he wastes an hour; teach a man to brew, and he
wastes a lifetime.
From: Alan Batie
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to
skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
From: http://www.geocities.com/enematic5000/girls.html
First, we assume that all girls take time and money.
Girls = Time x Money
Furthermore, we take the statement, "Time is money", and we get:
Time = Money
Girls = Money x Money
Girls = Money^2
Moreover, the statement, "Money is the root of all evil" means that:
Evil = the square root of money
Girls = (Evil)^1/2 (Evil)^1/2
which reduces to...
Girls = Evil
From: http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20050415005500230&title=Thanks.+Interesting+stuff&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=300984#c300987
Nothing screams 'poor workmanship' like wrinkles in the duct tape.
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache,
do what it says on the aspirin bottle:
Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children."
--- Author Unknown
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group
for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
--- Drew Carey
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job,
but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of
the night, drop them off at the wrong house."
--- Jeff Foxworthy
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat
it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they
should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, the
day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp."
--- Bob Ettinger
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake
and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you
how to swim.'"
--- Paula Poundstone
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills
than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh."
--- Conan O'Brien
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my
fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner."
--- Lynda Montgomery
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"I think that's how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New York said,
'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough.
Let's go west.'"
--- Richard Jeni
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would
be dead."
--- Johnny Carson
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
--- Paul Rodriguez
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and
that's the law."
--- Jerry Seinfeld
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"Remember in elementary school, you were told that in case of fire you have
to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is
the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?"
--- Warren Hutcherson
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least
they can find Afghanistan."
--- A. Whitney Brown
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken.
--- Unknown, presumed deceased
From: anonymous
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark,
'You should make a point of trying every experience once,
excepting incest and folk-dancing.'
From: anonymous
"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong.
Sometime in life you will have been all of these."
From: Anonymous
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
From: Jeff Merth
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
From: http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/05/27/023252.shtml?tid=134
Moving to the metric system... inch by inch.
From: Alan Batie
Humanitarians help humans but vegitarians EAT vegatables!
From: http://www.promotionworld.com/informer/99feb9.html
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that
all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they
laughed at Fulton, the laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also
laughed at Bozo the Clown.
From: "tAggArt"
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where theives and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There's also a negative side."
From: Jeff Loats
"There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who
gets the credit."
From: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/05/03/1953253.shtml
MBA's: Can't live with 'em. Can't legally torture them to death.
From: "Darkhop Sr."
It's a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
From: http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/04/06/181242.shtml
History does not repeat itself, it rhymes.
From: Allen Brown
Why isn't "phonetic" spelled with an "f"?
From: Martien Verbruggen
We are born naked, wet and hungry.
Then things get worse.
From: Vivek
You go insane if you go without sleep for too long.
And not in a good way, either.
From: Diane Wilson
It is neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never
question anything.
From: Frank Peters
"I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma."
From: LECalder
NINE out of TEN farm animals prefer that you eat more CHICKEN!!
From: Andre Engels
A child is not a glass that is filled but a fire that is set ablaze.
From: Mike Vaughn
A ship is safe in a harbor
But that is not what ships are built for.
From: Jonathan Stowe
You look lovely this evening. Have you decreased in mass?
From: Martien Verbruggen
I took an IQ test and the results were negative.
From: Greg Bacon
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
have not got it.
From: Bernie Cosell
Too many people, too few sheep
From: Matthew Crosby
Disclaimer: It was another country, and besides, the wench is dead.
From: Michael J. Hammel
Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?
From: Tom Wheeley
I know you're supposed to take life one day at a time -- but lately several
days have attacked me at once.
From: Jim
The problem with success is you become what you detest.
--- Jesus Jones, "The Right Decision"
From: Tom Parsons
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things
I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.
From: Zathras
Get really stoned: drink wet concrete.
From: anon
Q: What does it mean when they fly the flag at half mast over
the post office?
A: They're hiring
From: David Thorburn-Gundlach
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
From: Mark Crispin writes:
[Special memo to New Yawkahs: you live in the greatest place in the
world. You don't want to visit any place else, and you especially
don't want to move there. There is nothing outside but desolate
wilderness. Those places let people have guns, not like NYC where
everybody is safe. No need to go there. Stay home.
From: Dirk Nuyens
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
From: Mark Donnelly
"I think so Brain, but if they called them sad meals, then
no one would buy them."
From: Allen Brown
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
From: Osma Ahvenlampi
Possessor of a mind not merely twisted but actually sprained.
From: Bob Richardson
Serenity through confinement.
From: Osma Ahvenlampi
Drilling for oil is boring.
From: Vivek
By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task
completely overwhelm you.
From: Marc Matteo
Web Engineer, The Sacramento Bee
http://www.sacbee.com
"We're a newspaper, we don't actually own any bees."
From: "C. Harald Koch"
"It takes a child to raze a village."
From: Dave Kovac
"To ensure peace of mind, ignore the rules and regulations."
From: "Dave (Grizz) Glaser"
There are very few personal problems that can't be fixed by an
adequate amount of high explosives.
From: anonymous
"I intend to live forever...
so far, so good."
From: Top Changwatchai
"I'm gonna live forever or die trying."
From: "Douglas E. Wegscheid"
A wrong note played hesitatingly is a wrong note. A wrong note played with
conviction is interpretation.
From: Vincent Lowe
"Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush..."
From: Brad Murray
"Be very, very careful what you put into that
head, because you will never, ever get it out."
From: Corey
"The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that
the stupid people are so sure about things and the
intelligent folks are so full of doubts."
From: The Corruptor
"EGO iS NotHinG wIthOuT ArrOgAncE tO BaCk iT uP..."
From: Martien Verbruggen
This matter is best disposed of from a great height, over water.
From: Ingmar Greil
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something
to do with a shortage of flowers.
From: "spaceman"
"My dog's no purebred'" he muttered...
From: Rodger Donaldson
"If I want your opinion, I'll read your entrails."
From: Brian Haymore
"I can please only one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow
isn't looking good either."
From: Dean Malandris
There is a certain species of fish where the parents eat their
young. I used to wonder as to why nature would produce something
so self-destructive and pointless. I would think, "how could the
parents eat the young that they have invested so much effort into
rearing?".
Now, looking at my two-year-old, I can sympathise with the parent
fish.
From: Justin Murdock
There is nothing a vulture hates more than a glass eye."
From: Philo
They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she
went right ahead and built it.
--- Gracie Allen
From: anonymous
"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation
but not the power of speech."
--- George Bernard Shaw
From: David Barr
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
From: Steven Gemelos
"I don't know if there are men on the moon, but
if there are, they must be using Earth as their lunatic asylum."
From: Joan Tine
"If we learn nothing else from history, we learn that we learn
NOTHING from history."
From: Joe Zeff
Shampoo for my true friends! True poo for my sham friends!
From: Ryan Tucker
On 31 Aug 1998 11:45:40 -0400, Paul Joslin spewed:
>Isn't "Postal Worker" much shorter?
Hey now, some of us actually ARE postal workers. Don't go tarnishing our
good name. You don't want to get us disgruntled. -rt (spreading tidings
of joy and barcodes to greater Milwaukee)
From: Marc Lewis
"Skiers on crutches and chickens on springs."
[whiffing sound of Gonzo arriving in a hurry]
"These are a few of my favorite things!"
--- Kermit the Frog and The Great Gonzo
From: Phil Hays
"Times fun when you are having flies".
From: Greg Fischer
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the
self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat
the purpose.
From: Paul Crittenden
Classified Ad:
Man wanted to work in dynamite factory. Must be willing to travel.
From: Julie Prince
"My husband and I are trying to decide whether to get a dog or have
children. We can't decide if we want to ruin our rugs or ruin our lives."
From: Geoff Lane
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, riddle them with bullets.
From: Martien Verbruggen
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets
From: Martien Verbruggen
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
From: bill davidsen
"The action you see on fishing programs is something like the women
in _Playboy_. Not actually *fake*, but not remotely typical of the
average person's experience."
From: Rajappa Iyer
We're too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.
From: Jim Shaffer, Jr.
A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
From: "Camillo Särs"
Aim for the impossible and you will achieve the improbable
From: Dave Williams
"A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a
journalist, you are expected to know the difference."
From: Garland Wesley W
I feel like my life is just a little
umop apisdn * upside down * umop apisdn
From: Ben Combee
...if the highlight of your day is prowling through signatures looking for
pithy quotes or neat phrases, then consider a career with the IRS or NSA...
From: Troy Williams
You might be a redneck if... You buy a police scanner to keep up
with your relatives."
From: Lionel Lauer
Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them.
From: Felix von Leitner
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a
yellow spot into the sun.
From: "Randall M. Clague"
"GPS is just another excuse for men not to ask for directions."
--- Richard Horwitz
at the end of a demonstration
From: anonymous
+-------------------------------------------------+
The generation that took acid to escape reality | /| L|L /\
| is now taking antacids to deal with reality... | / \ / \ | \
+-------------------------------------------------+ DWACON@MSN.COM
From: Michael J. Hennebry
"and it is strange that so few young women are
interrested in launching cars with medieval seige weapons"
From: Roy Leonard
"Stress is when your mouth says 'No Problem' and your gut says 'NO WAY'"
From: John Wiltshire
"Before you argue with a fool ensure he is not similarly occupied"
From: Peter Haworth
Whenever someone says to me, "Have a nice day",
I reply, "Sorry, I've made other plans."
From: goldleaf
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he
gets angry, he'll be a mile away - and barefoot.
From: John Gladu
"Don't have second thoughts - have a lobotomy - LobeTech!"TM
From: Al Gursin
Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
From: Art Hanley
My employer disavows any knowledge of my actions and
keeps hoping that I'll self-destruct in five seconds.
From: Jeff Fisher
An employer once said, -What if I train my people and they leave.-
I say, what if you don't train them..... and they stay..
From: Evan Kirshenbaum
"Revolution" has many definitions. From the looks of this, I'd say
"going around in circles" comes closest to applying...
From: Tom Christiansen
Vitamin C deficiency is apauling
From: Mike Heins
Few blame themselves until they have exhausted all other possibilities.
From: Teresa Baker
WALT DISNEY IS NOT DEAD!
He's in suspended animation.
From: George Allegrezza 01-May-1996 0836
"If you die, you lose a very important part of your life."
From: Henry C. Jones
What is a vasectomy?
Conversion from a utility to a sports model.
From: George Allegrezza 12-Oct-1995 1534
"$1.6 million! How can I get that money without working for Eisner?"
From: Rick Osborne
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
I think so Brain, but me and Pippi Longstocking... I mean, what would
the children look like?
From: anonymous
Federal jurisdiction over citizens is limited to disputes between
a state and a citizen of another state, citizens of different states.
--- Article III, section 2 USC.
A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you
least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left
of your unit.
--- In the August 1993 issue, page 9, of PS magazine,
the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. -- Mark Twain
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -- Yogi Berra
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, however, there is.
From: Alan Batie
Theory is when you understand everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but you don't understand why.
In engineering we combine theory with practice: nothing works and no one
knows why.
From: George Allegrezza 07-Jul-1995 1355
"He has a perfect face for radio."
From: Ed Carp
"Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken
families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night
ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it
opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ...
'Remember who it is you really are.'"
--- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes
The mark of a good conspiracy theory is its untestability.
From: Lee Silverman
Someday we're going to look back on all this and tape over it.
From: "paul g. barnes"
From the I wish I had said it department:
You know how stupid the average person is? By definition, half are
even stupider.
--- David M. Sueme (dsueme@ripco.com)
in rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: Dave Metzger
Always keep an open mind, but not
so open that your brains fall out.
From: Peter Kretzman
"STUFF: Anything that can be used for homebrewing."
"JUNK: Everything else you thought could be used for homebrewing,
but can't."
From: Roger Southwick
"Given the choices of working hard running a business or working
hard for someone else, I'd rather go fishing".
From: Seth Golub
"..And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth,
till the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and
shape up."
From: Ed - Sterrett
... TV Truth: Haunted houses are never locked.
From: Eugene Mah
"For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me."
From: Kevin Kadow
S: Are you aiming for those people?
W: No.... maybe the mime.
From: Bob Nichols
"I never knew of anyone who, on his deathbed, said:
'I wish I had spent more time at the office.'"
From: Mike McNally
Nobody's going to listen to you if you just
stand there and flap your arms like a fish.
From: Derek Harding
The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one
amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives,
and falling rocks.
--- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
From: roberto e russell
"2nd place is only the first loser!!!!"
"This is only temporary... unless it works."
"If there is a superior being at work here he either has a strange
sense of humor or way too much time on his hands"
From: Tom Christiansen
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
From: Jason Costomiris
"There is a fine line between idiocy and genius. We aim to erase
that line."
From: Sean Ahern
I called the Census Bureau to see why they hadn't sent me a
form, and they said that I was too nondescript to influence the
demographics one way or another.
From: Liz Stokes
Hey! Where am I going?
And what am I doing in this handbasket?
From: Cha Minchul
May your Tongue stick to the Roof of your Mouth with the Force of a
Thousand Caramels.
From: Floydd
Be a better therapist and the world will beat a psychopath to
your door.
From: Michael Cook
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to
collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather
teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
--- Antoine de Saint Exupery
From: anonymous
"Love is a sickness invented by bank managers to make us overdrawn."
From: unknown
One of the things I like about this job is that I'm
never bothered by life-insurance salesmen.
From: PIETAN JAMES J
LAW OF COMBAT #1: Incoming fire has the right of way
#2: If the enemy's in range, so are you
#3: Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you
#4: Never forget that you weapon is made by the lowest bidder
#5: In case of emergency pull pin and throw the grenade
#6: If receiving incoming ... duck
#7: Never attract fire. It pisses off the people around you.
Nick Sayer | Disclaimer: "Don't try this at home, | RIP: Mel Blanc
mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us | kids. This should only be done by | 1908-1989
N6QQQ [44.2.1.17] | trained, professional idiots." | May he never
209-952-5347 (Telebit) | --Plucky Duck | be silenced.
From: Jordan M Kossack
CorrectedBy: Curt Howland
"He scrapes his face like an Englishman! He doesn't want
to hide his pretty face behind a manly beard!"
--- Ernest Borgnine from "The Vikings"
The English throw children into pits with hungry wolves for entertainment.
Gee, they are civilized after all!
From: Fluffy the Wonder Bunny
========================= Fluffy the Wonder Bunny ===========================
Sex is not the answer, sex is the question. Yes is the answer.
=============================================================================
"Everyone's entitled to their half-witted opinions." --Barney Lawrence, Q.C.
=============================================================================
The U.S. has George Bush, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, and Stevie Wonder.
Canada has Brian Mulroney, No Cash, No Hope...No Wonder.
=============================================================================
The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and
I wondered, "Where the FUCK is my ROOF ?!?"
================== cadesjardins@descartes.waterloo.edu ======================
From: David Smith
"In Managua, people are cheering in the streets, which are deserted."
--- CBS reporter during eclipse totality, 1991-Jul-11
From: Ron Baalke
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
From: anonymous
Chaos rules the universe! Scientists call it entropy! Everything is
breaking down, tending towards greater and greater disorder! It's
great to be on the winning side!
From: drieux, just drieux
Entropy, Its not Just a Good Idea,
IT's The LAW!!!!!
From: Paul N. Cowley
If entropy is increasing,
where is it coming from?
From: Bob Morris
food (n) that which is eaten. To cows, grass.
To man, cows. To worms, man.
From: David Barr
"Peace: in international affairs, a period of
cheating between two periods of fighting."
From: Nico de Vries) [note country]
"I know my English spelling is bad, but if I used my " O O
"own language you probably couldn't read it at all. " |
From: lydia
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is
for insects."
From: Dark Elf (Jeeby!)
"Anything will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite."
From: HASTINGS DAMON TOD
"The meek shall inherit the Earth --
The rest of us will go to the stars."
"Anyone that does not have a basic understanding of mathematics is
merely a sub-human creature that has been taught not to make a mess
in the house."
From: HASTINGS DAMON TOD
Humans are just gametes' way of producing more gametes. This,
perhaps, is the purpose of the universe.
From: Dan Hartung
MOST DISTURBING FOLLOW-UP NEWS STORY:
"K-9 units are being used to search
for the body's still-missing arm."
From: Anthony J. Albert
"You seem a decent fellow, I hate to kill you."
"You seem a decent fellow, I hate to die."
From: Axello de Roestello
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded
as a bad move.
From: Henry Churchyard
"You know they've reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company
directors?" "Really?" said Arthur, "No, I didn't. For what offense?"
Trillian frowned. "What do you mean, offense?" "I see."
--- Douglass Adams, _Mostly Harmless_
From: Grzegorz Nowakowski
`...this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the
Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded - their fundamental
design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.'
From: Matthew Farwell
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As
pretty as an Airport' appear.
From: Marilyn Pierce
Time is an Illusion, Lunch time, doubly so.
From: Bengt Oehman
`If you wanted a cup of cream and sugar, then why
did you say that you wanted a cup of coffee?'
From: Henrik St|rner
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they
fly by."
From:
Opinions expressed herein must be yours, neither I nor my
employer have any.
When you're as great as I am it's hard to be modest,
but I succeed where others fail.
From: Crunchy Frog
"Watch out! This gun is loaded and so am I."
From:
"Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and
physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat
engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their
surroundings to any desired temperature."
--- Henry Albert Ben, _The Second Law_
"Either you are part of the solution or you are part of
the precipitate."
"Consumer-grade religion does not encourage logical thinking."
This mind intentionally left blank.
From: Doug Mohney
"If I'm ever stuck on a broken spaceship, I hope I've got a couple of
NASA engineers and a case of duct tape aboard..."
From: Thomas J. Nugent
Let a smile be your umbrella, because you're going to get
soaked anyway.
Both the universe and human stupidity are infinite, and I'm not
sure about the former.
From: Bob Posert
When an eel bites your leg, and the pain makes you beg,
that's a moray!
From: Terry Chan
"Chasing bits of truth is like chasing butterflies:
pin them down and they die."
From: Harry Ugol
"Briarpatch household rule #2: If you can't laugh at yourself,
someone else is going to do it for you, and you're not going to
enjoy it nearly as much."
From: George Herson
Quick -- while there's still time -- dispatch your worthless $$$ to:
George "Easy Money" Herson 5312 Verano Place, Irvine CA 92715
george@brooks.ics.uci.edu voice: (714) 856-2174 fax: (714) 857-0424
From: atlantis!orstcs!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!gatech!hubcap!grimlok
"I don't know about your brain, but mine is really...bossy."
From: Lothie
Fave Bondage Quote: "No! Ouch! No! This time I REALLY mean it!"
Fave Bumpersticker: LICK it! SALT it! SUCK it! Maggie's Margaritas
From: Matthew T. Russotto
Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons! -- The Simpsons
Just say NO to police searches and seizures. Make them use force.
(not responsible for bodily harm resulting from following above advice)
From: David Wicks
"Oh, Spiteful One: Show me who to smite, and they shall be smoten!"
From: Ted Frank
"Dear Mr. President,
There are too many states. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot."
From: Smithrud
"I don't know why I did it,
I don't know why I enjoyed it,
and I don't know why I'll do it again."
From: Ken Hill
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| | ------------ | _/||\_ They'll never |
====================| | "Remarkable | || figure this out! |
Fermat was a | | Proof" | _/ \_ |
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From: Tom Neff
"DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT blow the hatch!" /)\ Tom Neff
"Roger....hatch blown!" \(/ tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM
From: Patrick L Humphrey
THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH!
(if that's all right with the rest of you...)
From: Pete Hardie
Digital Transmission Systems, Inc., Duluth GA
Member, DTS Dart Team
Position: Goalie
From: "Michael L. Kaufman"
I have found a proof for the assertion that for n>2 there exists
no a, b, and c such that a^n+b^n=c^n. Unfortunatly, this signature
is too small to contain it.
From: Edward C. Hook
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you
looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated."
From: Robert Sheaffer
In article <1992Jan1.074634.1391@math.ucla.edu> barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>
>That was the headline one the lates "Weekly World News", along
>with a slightly suspicious looking photo.
>
This is a tabloid rag that *routinely* makes up stories, from whole
cloth. Some tabloids operate in this manner.
Others, however, including the National Enquirer, operate differently.
THEY don't make up the stories. Rather, they interview the people
who do.
From: Leslie Robert Lait
When the tornado sirens sound, meteorologists head for the roof;
atmospheric scientists head for the basement.
From: david kehoe
"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's."
--- Susanna Martin, executed for witchcraft, 1681.
From: Rodrick Su
I've got compassion running outta my nose, pal. I'm the sultan of sentiment.
From: Rajarshi Palchaudhuri
"Conan, what is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you,
and hear the lamentations of their women."
From: David Fricker
"Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should
tell us something about the custom of shaving."
From: Steve Chapin
Those two want to go to the zoo, too!
They're aware bears bare their hair there.
From: Karl Swartz
"The more people I meet the more I like my dog."
From: ~HIGH PERF~Michael A. Cooper~NA~G18~x8716~
Remember: Oprah spelled backwards is Harpo!
From: Gregory Berigan
"I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, my father was Zaphod Beeblebrox the second, my
grandfather was Zaphod Beeblebrox the third..."
"What?"
"There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine."
From: Philip Rittenhouse
"Don't try to out weird me; I get stranger things than
you free with my breakfast cereal"
From: Joseph M. Newcomer
The Professor Of English stood before his class, and declaimed "Two
negatives can make a positive, but two positives can never make a
negative!"
From the back of the class, a student muttered, "Yeah, right!"
From: John Stracke
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulderblades
will seriously cramp his style.
From: {amdahl, sun, mtxinu, cbosgd}!rtech!daveb
Kill Tree. Kill Turkey. Merry Xmas.
From: David E Boyes
Being dead is less lonely than being alive in
only that you aren't awake to notice it.
From: Simon Travaglia
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents
and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents
eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar
with it.
From: Eric Salituro
Life is like a metaphor.
From: David R. Smith
"How would *you* like a job where, if you make a mistake,
a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?"
--- former hockey goalie Jacques Plante
From: From Finger file
Obligatory Verse:
How I love to watch the morn,
With golden sun that shines,
Up above to nicely warm
These frosty toes of mine.
The wind doth taste of bittersweet,
Like jasper wine and sugar,
I bet it's blown through other's feet,
Like those of... Caspar Weinberger.
Obligatory Song Lyrics:
Religion and sex are powerplays, manipulate the people for the
money they pay, selling skin, selling god, the numbers look the
same on their credit cards. Politicians say no to drugs, while
we can pay for wars in South America. Fighting Fire with empty
words. While the banks get fat and the poor stay poor and the
rich get rich and the cops get paid. To look away. As the one
percent rules America.
Obligatory Quotes:
Religion
--------
"Your petitioners are Atheists and they define their ideas as
follows. An Atheist loves his fellow man instead of a god. An
Atheist knows that heaven is something for which we should work
now--here on earth--for all men together to enjoy. An Atheist
knows that he can get no help through prayer but that he must find
within himself the inner conviction and strength to meet life, to
grapple with it, to subdue it and to enjoy it. An Atheist knows
that only in a knowledge of himself and a knowledge of his fellow
man can he find the understanding that will help to a life of
fulfillment.
"An Atheist seeks to know himself then and his fellow rather than
to know a god. An Atheist understands that a hospital must be built
instead of a church. An Atheist knows that a deed must be done
instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in
life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanquished, war eliminated. He wants man to understand,
love and accept all of mankind. He wants an ethical way of life.
He knows that we cannot rely on a god, channel action into prayer,
or hope for an end to our troubles in a hereafter. He knows that
we are not only our brother's keepers--but keepers of our own
lives foremost, that we are responsible persons and that the job
is here and the time is now."
--- Murray vs. Curlett, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
(Atheists have to get their scripture
wherever they can find it :-)
Censorship
----------
"I cannot convince myself that there is anyone so wise, so
universally comprehensive in his judgment, that he can be trusted
with the power to tell others: 'You shall not express yourself thus,
you shall not describe your own experiences; or depict the fantasies
which your mind has created; or laugh at what others set up as
respectable; or question old beliefs; or contradict the dogmas of
the church, of our society, our economic systems, and our political
orthodoxy.'"
War
---
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace
to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at
command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance,
how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is;
I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action!
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing
but an act of murder."
Politics & Philosophy
---------------------
"All I know is that I am not a Marxist"
--- Karl Marx; Attr. in Engels, letter to C. Schmidt, 5 Aug 1890
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways,
the point is to change it"
--- Karl Marx; Theses on Feuerbach (1888)
"In short, members of the United States Congress enjoy more job
security than members of the Supreme Soviet."
--- CNN: 7 Nov 1990, 12:15 AM EST
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place
for a just man is also a prison."
--- Henry David Thoreau; Walden (1854)
"Good men must not obey the laws too well."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson; Essays
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing"
--- Thomas Jefferson (1787)
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored
by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency
a great soul has simply nothing to do."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson; Essays
"I have lived some [twenty] years on this planet, and I have yet
to hear the first syllable of value or even earnest advice from
my seniors."
--- Henry David Thoreau [almost]
"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them [public offices],
a rottenness begins in his conduct."
--- Thomas Jefferson (1799)
"Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always
remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in
the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and
amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next
morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded."
--- Carl Jung; Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Penguins
--------
"I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just
another penguin--different, less predictable, occasionally violent,
but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business."
Misc
----
"Statistics are like bikinis--they show a lot, but hide the
important stuff."
"There are two major products which come out of Berkeley:
LSD and Unix. We do not believe this to be a coincidence."
"I hate quotations"
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson; Journals (1843)
"Drugs don't take people, people take drugs"
From: Crunchy Frog
The opinions above are not mine. I stole them all from the person
sitting next to me. If you don't like them, I can get you his
address and you can kill him.
From: Mark Brader
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
--- Miguel de Cervantes, 1613
From: Jane Beckman
Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.
From: Karl P.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
From: Scott Bennett
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags don't wave in
a vacuum."
From: Geoffrey Warren Hicks
"You can have it good, cheap, or fast. Any two."
From: Daniel J. Carreira /ADVISOR Clay
The difference between a sufficiently advanced technology and magic
is indistinguishable.
--- A.C. Clark
--- It's magic. My Mom.
From: Jonathan Allan
"The sum of intelligence on any one planet is constant;
the population is increasing."
From: dave boll
"The speed of time is 1 second per second"
From: Salamander~
The meek shall inherit the earth, and the wise keep moving on...
From: Cory Kempf
Never play Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic.
From: anonymous
Which is worse, ignorance or apathy? Who knows, who cares.
From: Alaric Morgan Kestrel
"For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution
which is absolutely wrong."
--- J. Wagoner, U.C.B. Mathematics
From: Stephen Friedl
"No job is too big; no fee is too big"
--- Gary W Keefe, on business ethics
From: Jeffrey Paul Williams
"Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists"
From: Josh 'K' Hopkins
"Everything that can be invented has been invented"
--- Charles H Duell, Director, US Patent Office, 1899.
(a misquote, actually)
From: John Will
Save the Whales. Collect the entire set!
From: Gilbert Nardo
Save the Universe: Stop Entropy Now!
From: Pine View Alumni, Florida
SAVE THE MANATEES!! If you don't know what one is, maybe you
can challenge one to an IQ test. I predict a manatee win.
From: Robert J Reid
= Astronomy Department ---------- Astronomical Instrumentation Facility ==
= Call an astronomer an astrologer and you're the one who'll see stars! ;^) ==
From: Pug
"Teachers are supposed to teach you *HOW* to learn
not *WHAT* to learn."
From: Matthew T Velazquez
"Crayolas are one of the few things the human race has in common."
From: anonymous
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into
practice with courageous impatience."
--- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
From: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey
CAPTAIN BILL'S CHICAGO TOURS Bill Higgins
See the Loop by Submarine! Fermilab
Shopping? Take our convenient higgins@fnal.fnal.gov
Bathyscaphe to Marshall Field's! higgins@fnal.bitnet
From: "GVA::MLC"
"It's not what we don't know that hurts,
it's what we know that ain't so."
From: Tim Pierce
"Oh, God. My body's making milk. It's like one day discovering
you can get bacon from your elbow."
From: Julian E. Gomez
"We must grasp the bull by the tail, and look the matter squarely
in the face!"
From: Solly Ezekiel
"Asps!! Very dangerous.
...You go first."
From: anonymous
Genius does what it must,
Talent does what it can.
From: Geoff Allen
Please remain seated and keep your hands and arms
above your head at all times. Enjoy your ride.
From: Tom Smith
What do you mean I don't pay my bills,
Why do you think I'm broke!...
From: David Shepherd
"I speak latin to god,
spanish to men,
french to women
and german to my horse."
From: boyd johnson
OBJoke: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
I don't know and I don't care.
From: Arnold E. Nordeng
"The question seems to be of such a character that if I should come
to life after my death and some mathematician were to tell me that
it had been definitely settled, I think I would immediately drop
dead again."
From: Ron Baalke
Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3 times as nutritious as beef.
From: anonymous
"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into
situations where you need it."
From: Gary Lorman
"Any shark that gets to be 11 or 12 feet long with
300 big teeth can be considered dangerous"
From: anonymous
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities."
From: Longshot
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge."
From: SeaWolf
"I regard it as the cheif duty of the state to protect the
individual and give him the opportunity to develop into a creative
personality; that is to say; the state should be our servant and
not we its slaves."
From: Thorfinn
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it
is an enemy.
From: Gisle Benediktsson
+ . . . *
"I don't pretend to understand the * . . . .
universe. It is much bigger than . . . + *
I am." . . + . +
* . . . . . .
-Einstein . + * +
. . + . * .
* .. . . * .. . +
. . . + * . gjb@teal.csn.org
From: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=220967
"Suppose you were an idiot ... And suppose you were a member of Congress...
But I repeat myself."
--- Mark Twain
From: anonymous
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is
the lightning that does all the work.
From: David Zavatson
Beware of health books, you might die of a misprint.
From: John P. Gloria
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
From: William T
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places
and does not cure or even diminish it.
From: Anselm Lingnau
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would
improve man but deteriorate the cat.
From: Paul Joslin
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that
will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
From: RoundUp
"I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power,
the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by-and-by
gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do,
it means death to human liberty, and paralysis to human thought"
From: Jason Fagone
"I do not like work, even when somebody else is doing it."
From: Matthias Urlichs
God made an idiot for practice, and then He made a school board.
From: Rob Chauncey
"Did you know that a cow was *MURDERED* to make that jacket?"
"Yes. I didn't think there were any witnesses, so I guess
I'll have to kill you too."
From: Dan Carpenter
We came into this world with nothing, leave this world with nothing,
It's a wonder we break even.
From: The FASS Theatre Company
Due to financial considerations the light at the end of the
tunnel has been switched off. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
From: Bryan D. Jones
Only The Insane Have the Strength to Prosper. Only those who
Prosper Truely Judge What is Sane.
From: anonymous
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a
suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for
life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When
it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore
so it eats it! (It's rather like getting tenure.)"
--- From CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED,
by Daniel Dennett, p. 177
From: The_Doge
"Act like a dumbshit and they'll treat you like an EQUAL!"
--- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, 1954
From: MacPhil
When ambidextrous people can't do it right, we do it left.
From: Jay Maynard
"[...] have you noticed how many people have joined you on the back of
Rosinante to help subdue this particular windmill?"
From: Marc VanHeyningen
A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is that anything that calls
itself `science' probably isn't.
From: Dave O'Shea
Beware of strong drink; it can make you shoot at tax collectors -
and miss.
55: It's not a good idea, It's just the law.
From: Jim Davis
"He went through more love songs than a fifteen story elevator ride."
From: Robert Lynch
"Lead me not into temptation.....
.....I have enough problems already."
From: snopes
Just when my ant farm started showing a profit,
an ant bank foreclosed on it.
From: Harold G. Andrews II
Support DAM...
Mothers Against Dyslexia
From: anonymous
Americans are a broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person
can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife-beater, and even a newspaperman,
but if a man doesn't drive there's something wrong with him.
From: philip hodder
"It's another one of those irregular verbs, isn't it?:
I give confidential press briefings,
You leak,
He gets charged under Section 2(a) of the Official Secrets Act!"
Bernard Woolley in "Yes, Prime Minister"
From: Averell Sherker
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
--- Julius Henry (Groucho) Marx
From: Michael D. Adams
If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much...
just an occasional sun visor.
From: Curt R Lindmark
"Sex can be messy, but only if it's done right."
From: Chris Vale
"Outside a dog, a book is mans best freind
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read"
From: Saurav Chatterjee
"I'm on a five year plan - BA, MBA, BMW"
From: StarWatcher
"To spend too much time in studies is sloth."
From: Peter Johansson
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness
in the proportion."
From: Kelly Alexander
"Yes, you can carry your AK-47 on the streets, fully loaded. We do
ask that you don't put a round in the pipe, for safty reasons only."
--- Philomath Police Dept.
From: Jamie Paul CURMI
*** Mutate NOW - avoid the rush! ***
From: Kim Greer -- rjj
"You can play on words or on the freeway - just get out of the house"
From: Montykins
"Windle shook his head sadly. Five exclamation marks, the sure
sign of an insane mind."
--- Terry Pratchett, _Reaper Man_
From: Andy Holyer
"In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded."
From: Ross Smith
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics,
the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them
in his famous phrase, `You can't trust any bugger further than
you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it,
so let's have a drink.'
From: Daniel Barlow
"He'd never wanted much, except perhaps to be left alone and
not woken up until midday."
--- Moving Pictures, Terry Pratchett
From: Jorrit Tyberghein
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into
things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
--- Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
From: Jeremy Smith
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that... well, yes I can!
From: anonymous
I always said I wanted to be someone --
I guess I should've been more specific.
From: The Edible Dormouse
The opinions expressed above are not necessarily those of any
person living, dead, undead or the subject of a Schrodinger's
cat experiment. They may or may not be my own.
From: John Roberts
Dolphin researcher:
"Matthews - we're getting another one of those strange
'aw blah es span yol' sounds."
From: J. Zufi
"A winner never quits; a quitter never wins"
From: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey
Every so often, Innumeracy strikes. Out of all Americans, a lot suffer
from it. But we can win the fight against Innumeracy with your help.
All it takes is a few pennies a day.
From: Bruce Watson
"Another Case of too many scientists and not enough hunchbacks."
From: Thomas E. Smith [LORAL]
The opinions stated here in no way reflect
the opinions of the
Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council.
From: Elf Sternberg
I have looked into the abyss, and the abyss has looked into me.
Neither liked what we saw.
From: Elf Sternberg
"Mr. Sternberg, you should never again attempt to write anything in
the English language. It is clearly not your native tongue."
--- Thomas W. Button, Jr.,
third form (ninth grade) English teacher.
From: Cal Jewell
"Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding,
from which comes idiot children and more lawyers."
From: Jonathan Eifrig
"Just as landowners preserve the game they are going to kill during
hunting season, so do the lawyers preserve the criminal class."
From: Stephen Friedl
Attorneys are paranoid because they assume everybody else is
dishonest too.
From: "Stephen H. Underwood"
"It's a control freak thing. I wouldn't let you understand."
From: Gabe M Wiener
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously
considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently
of no value to us."
--- Western Union memo, 1877
From: Marshal "Airborne" Perlman
If you are unable to read, call 1-800-LEARN-TO-READ...
From: The_Doge
"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."
--- Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
From: Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest
"So, if you guys make a living looking at the SUN, why do you spend
so much time at the SYNCHROTRON, working UNDERGROUND at NIGHT?"
From: Kevin L. McBride
Kevin "Hey! Who peed in the gene pool?"
From: Geoff Allen
[If it weren't for kids,] we'd all live in a quiet house, without
Big Bird or Mickey Mouse, or Kool-Aid on the couch.
Thank God for kids.
From: Thomas Gunter
There are three types of people in the world:
those who are good at math and those who aren't.
From: Bobby Haaser
"Your superior intellect
is no match for our puny weapons!!!!!!!!!!" Aliens:Simpsons
"If there's not something wrong with ME, then
there's something wrong with the UNIVERSE. " Dr Crusher:STTNG
"Where there's a WAVE, There's a Coke. T#sah $%" Max Hedroom
"You know... Mistletoe is deadly if you eat it." Batman: Batman II
From: Tom Nugent
"To be average scares the hell out of me." -- Anonymous
From: J Snyder
If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?
From: anonymous
Sheep do not so much fly as plummet!
From: John Grossi
Always store beer in a dark place.
Moderation is for monks.
Women need no excuse.
From: Top Changwatchai
This is only tangentially related, but in Cecil Adams'
_Straight_Dope_ column he mentions various spellings for
Moammar Gadhafi's name, as found in assorted publications:
First name: Muammer, Moammar, Muammar
Last name: Qaddhafi, Qaddafi, Gaddafi, Kaddafi, Khadafy, Qadhafi,
Qadaffi, Gadaffi, Qathafi, Gadaafi, and, in Adams' words,
"...the Library of Congress and the Middle East Studies Association,
to whom one would ordinarily look for guidance, have an unaccountable
fondness for Qadhdhafi, which is an abomination unto God."
From: Anita Kilgour
Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always
optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea
what the heck is really going on.
From: Anthony Lovell
If at first you don't succeed
Get a Bigger Hammer
From: Jim Jagielski
"This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who."
From: Scott E. Farleigh
Parachute Rigger's motto: We bury our mistakes.
From: jack hagerty
"I, like all men, have never grown up. Other men lie and say they
have. I refuse to lie. I try to be a creative child, using my
immaturity in such ways as benefit my society rather than harm it."
--- Ray Bradbury, _Yestermorrow_
From: Kateri/Mary Anne
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in
filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it
run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which
makes the heart run over.
From: dks
It's not the bullet that kills you: it's the hole.
From: Timothy W. Lynch
"There is absolutely no cannibalism in the British Navy.
And when I say none, I mean of course only a certain amount."
--- "Monty Python's Flying Circus".
From: Michael A. Cornell
"There are a great many people in the country today who,
through no fault of their own, are sane."
From: Phil Ross
... If at first you don't succeed, redefine success ...
From: Morten Christian Holmgreen
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
From: Marc Unangst
"There are two ways to solve this problem: the hard way, and the
easy way. Let's start with the hard way."
--- W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
From: JeffZ
"A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for."
From: Jeff Dubin
"I hate people... people make me pro-nuclear"
From: Rafal Kustra (summer student)
"Numbers exist only in our minds. There is no physical entity that
that _is_ number 1. If there were, 1 would be in a place of honor
in some great museum of science, and past it would file a
steady stream of mathematicians gazing at 1 in wonder and awe."
From: Ron Baalke
Quiet people aren't the only ones who don't say much.
From: The One and Only
Give a man a fish and he eats for a night.
Give a man a gun and he will take care of himself.
From: John R. Levine
PS: This may have been the same year the phone book had science
facts for filler. My favorite was "Although the moon is smaller
than the earth, it is also farther away."
From: Scott Cunningham
We're the NSA
So you're the ones I hear on the other end of my phone
No, that's the FBI
From: Ron Baalke
Einstein's brain is stored in a mason jar in a lab in Wichita, Kansas.
From: Jim Wilson
Everybody complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his
judgement.
From: Dennis Bednarek Mfg 4-6971
UP TIGHT
OUT OF SIGHT
EVERY THING IS ALL RIGHT
From: Ed J. Gurney
"Failures are divided into two classes-- those who thought and
never did, and those who did and never thought."
From: Mark 'Henry' Komarinski
Remember: 7 out of 10 people make up 70% of the popualtion
From: Gary Thurman
"We came...We saw...We kicked some ASH!"
--- Gary Thurman ------ FIREFIGHTER/EMT 2
From: Hugh Johnson
"I drank what?"
From: Patrick Chester
"The earth is too fragile a basket in which to keep all your eggs."
"The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to
the stars."
From: Shark
"My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a
natural deficiency in moral fiber," he muttered to himself,
"and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
From: Mark Ira Kaufman
"One can be a racist. Or one can be a human being. But one
may not be both."
--- Rabbi Abraham Joshua heschel
From: Daniel Blum
"Now for a real treat, I'll show you how to clean and gut a typical
FRAT BOY! First, remove the 'Corona' tank top..."
From: Matt Welsh
"Yow!! Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL!"
From: Joe Lindsay
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Open flies like a zipper.
From: Doug Franklin
. OLX 2.1 TD . ..... We're lost but we're making good time. .....
From: bernie wong
... A naked man fears no pickpocket...
From: Daniel Starr
"Wait! Wait! Maybe THIS will work!"
From: Brenda Molina
"What do I have to do to convince you people that I'm human?"
"Die."
From: Iain Odlin
A day without sunshine is like... night?
From: SUBRAMANIAM
Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people
Ingenuity lies in making complex things simple.
From: An Erik Estrada hate monger
"Come on, Dutch. You blow away a broad's date,
the least you can do is drive her home."
From: Jeff "Koganuts" Koga
"You're not the man I knew ten years ago."
"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."
--- Marion R. & "Indiana" Jones,
"Raiders Of The Lost Ark"
From: Lipton Ann Meredith
I don't bite, you know.
Unless it's called for.
--- Audrey Hepburn, Charade
Find me and turn thy back on heaven.
It is better to have loved and lost
than to have your finger caught in a blender.
From: Cory L. Kerens
"Well," the Goddess said, "your heart didn't heal straight the last
time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals
straight this time."
--- Diane Duane, _The Door into Shadow_
From: Randy Epstein
DRIVE CAREFULLY:
90% of the people in the world are caused by accident.
From: Jonathan E. Quist
There are many things a person should experience in a lifetime.
Among them are an infant's first cry, and an infant's first laugh.
From: anonymous
"To stay young requires the unceasing ability to unlearn
old falsehoods."
From: Bill Taylor
Galaxies - results of chaotic amplification of quantum events in
the big bang.
Free will- the result of chaotic amplification of quantum events
in the brain.
From: Gregory N. Bond
"There is Faith, Hope and Charity.
But greater than these is Banking."
From: Gregory N. Bond
Josh> Did you know that fully _half_ of all babies are born within
Josh> one week of a full Moon! No kidding.
And what is worse, half of those babies born within a week of a full
moon have below-average intelligence!
Obviously, the radiation from the alien artifact that is holding the
moon up is affecting them.
From: anonymous
"She wrapped herself in an enigma;
there was no other way to keep warm."
From: Stephanie
"I am a typed director. If I made 'Cinderella', the audience would
immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
From: beth diane garfinkel
"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
--- Arthur Dent,
on being told that the Earth is about to blow up.
From: Bird Rendell H.
"I am getting pretty fond of you, kid.... *Not* that I am ready to
pick-out curtains or anything, you know"
--- the Blue Genie to Aladdin
From: Allen W. Sherzer
"A great man is one who does nothing but leaves nothing undone"
From: Alan Whitton
Three Phrases To Live By: "Cover for me"; "Oooh, good idea, boss!";
"It was like that when I got here."
From: Ken Mayer
If you want it yesterday you've got to give me at least a
week's notice.
From: Benjamin E Delfin
"I am not open-minded. Some of my best friends are bigots!" - me
Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints. - unknown
From: Matt Hucke
"In brightest day, in blackest night no evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might beware my power, Green
Lantern's light!"
From: Russell Michael VanTassell
Is a juggler just a talented individual...
or a schizophrenic playing catch...
From: Greg Ostravich
Member of The Colorado Throwing Up Society: A Denver area juggling club
Throw up 'till you drop! Hurl 'till you hurl!
Juggle 'till you puke! Come throw up with us!
From: Jeff Parker
"If I haven't seen as far as others, it's because I'm standing on the
shoulders of midgets."
From: Dan Blum
"It's nothing, honey - the dog's learning how to juggle."
From: Chocolate Flavored Clorox
"Since we're sharing personal habits, I empty my electic razor into
the toilet, where each whisker, statically charged, repels the other
whiskers and creates a nice pattern which I enjoy viewing."
From: Elmo the Stunt Elk
"Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinions of one's wife's
relatives."
From: Allen Brown
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
From: Ray, just Ray
"they say Confucius does his crossword with a pen"
--- Tori "Hello Earth!" KaTe
From: Stein Kulseth
'When murders are committed by mathematics, they can be solved by
mathematics. Most of them aren't, and this one wasn't'
--- Nick Charles (Dashiell Hammett's "The Thin Man")
From: Chris Richmond
This crazy is a world place. My think losing I'm mind.
From: Norman Richards
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I chose to climb the nearest tree.
And that has made all the difference."
From: Brian Brown
Old Computer People never die, they just go to bits, lose their
memory, and cache in their chips. Old Mathematicians never die,
they just disintegrate.
Walt Disney didn't die. He's in suspended animation.
From: Cory L. Kerens
"Now I try to learn to call you my ex-lover,
But how do you ex-love someone?"
--- Romanovski & Phillips
From: Paul A. Poklepovic
"A paranoid schitzophrenic outnumbers his enemies at least two to one"
--- Paulster's Book of Quotations III, #91
From: anonymous
This life is only a test. If this had been a real life you would have
been told where to go and what to do. This has been a test of the
Emergency Life System
From: Ronal Thompson
and remember, what you think of me is none of my business
From: Andy Barnhart
"A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to
its original dimensions"
--- Oliver Wendell Holmes
From: Ben Hambidge
Bread is the staff of life; Toast is a decadent capitalist luxury.
Smile they said, life could be worse.
So I did, and it was.
From: anonymous
Due to additional budget constraints, the light at the end of the
tunnel will be turned off until further notice...
From: Serge Pontejos
"There is nothing so deep as the ocean
There is nothing so high as the sky
And there is nothing unwavering as a woman
When she's already made up her mind"
--- Lyle Lovett
"She's Already Made Up Her Mind"
From: Yamanari
"The waste.. The waste sometimes brings tears to my eyes. Just the
thought that all of those animals are being put into garbage bags
and thrown in lakes or dumpsters when they could be gloves or shoe
laces, or feeding the homeless."
(kill file suggestion: "/ :rsrodger/h :j")
From: Peter W. De Bonte
Work hard and prosper
"Knolege is powef, Speling is unimportnt"
From: soc1070
A skunk is better company than someone who prides themselves
on being frank.
From: Greg Holley
"My tale is so strange that, were it written with needles on the
interior corner of an eye, yet would it prove a lesson to the
circumspect."
From: Gothick
"Great. I'm a million miles from home, about to be killed, with a
gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax"
From: Peter Loron
Before the invention of eruptions, lava had to be carried down the
mountain by hand and thrown on the sleeping villagers. This took
a lot of time.
From: "S.K. Whiteman"
You know trouble when your dogma attacks your sacred cows....
From: Rick Emerson
"When you ski, you dance with the mountain --
and the mountain always leads."
From: Bill Buckley
"Eat right, sleep tight, get goodly excercise and life's full
splendor will poke you in the eyes."
From: Dante Alighieri
Dear Dad: Hate you, eloping with Mom. Taking your cigars
and sports car. -- Love, Sigmund
From: Christopher Browne
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not
thus handicapped.
From: Robert Lewis Glendenning
"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
--- Niels Bohr (or somebody like that).
From: Mark A. Horton KA4YBR
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which
divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being
correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
From: Ben Fulton
"Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders
what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of"
From: Edward M. Averett
a kinder, gentler, vorpal bunny
From: Archer Sully
You are a good man, but you are in the wrong place and
you are going to die a horrible death.
--- A Chinese Ghost Story
From: Jay Maynard
"Support your local medical examiner - die strangely."
From: Rico
"I've been a chief executive for something for 15 years and now
that I have some time to myself, I realize working is overrated."
From: "Tim Triemstra"
"I'm not responsible for the things I've typed.
After all, my fingers aren't connected to my head!
From: Szymon Rusinkiewicz
For a good prime call:
391581 * 2^216193 - 1
From: Ron Baalke
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
From: Chris Rende
"I don't ever remember forgetting anything."
From: Ronnie B. Kon
"You couldn't deny that, even if you used both hands"
From: anonymous
"Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his
second wife to his success."
"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you
take it out, you lose interest."
From: Christopher J. Hawley
.... somewhere in the spectrum between Real Love and a free lunch.
From: Joseph Alotta
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
From: David Sternlight
Great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of
our information, errors and omissions excepted.
From: Grand Moff Tarkin
"Fear will keep the local systems in line, fear of this
battle station."
From: John English
Fudd's first law of opposition:
If you push something hard enough, it *will* fall over.
Testlicle's deviant to Fudd's law:
What goes in, must come out.
From: John M. Sully
"Life has a way of destroying our sense of childsplay. But under my
wing you'll be back in the pink, drunk without a drink."
From: Allen Brown
Never underestimate the animosity of an inanimate object.
From: Theoharis Mihailidis
Please to meet you, hope you guess my name
From: Ron Baalke
Economists are people who are good with numbers, but don't
have the personality to be accountants.
--- Dr. Richard O'Toole
JPL's manager of legislative affairs
16 March 1993
From: Russell J. Pagenkopf
"Out there. Thataway."
"A most logical choice, Captain."
From: Patrick Chester
|If the Earth is our Cradle, then why are we still here?
From: Maxine Wesley
I believe we are all the same - just some are far better equipped.
From: anonymous
...Development of the space station is as inevitable as the
rising of the sun.
From: Richard Bielak
"When I don't know what I'm doing, I'm doing basic research."
From: Paul Kolenbrander
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the
only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
From: Henry Spencer
"All I really want is a rich uncle."
From: Ron Baalke
Being cynical never helps to correct the
situation and causes more aggravation instead.
From: Cynthia L. Jorden
Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sky seemed a
gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray fowl, with fights of
troubled gray vapors skimmed low over the waters. Shadows present,
foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.
--- Melville, _Benito Cereno_
From: David Hill
"I think prejudice is stupid, because there are so many reasons
to hate people on an individual basis."
--- some comedian whose name I can't recall
From: Bruce Thompson
"A great many people think they are thinking when
they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
From: Geoff Allen
(This was in rec.roller-coaster)
............
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
From: Eric Griswold
(This was in rec.roller-coaster)
"Keep your arms and legs attached to your torso at all times."
From: Bob Stettina
... Life is like... an analogy! Yeah! That's the ticket!
From: Andrew B Stellman
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
"Remember, if we screw up, it's still a lot better than you could do."
From: Randal L. Schwartz
"Welcome to Portland, Oregon ... home of the California Raisins!"
From: Roger D Binns
'When can we hope to leave?' 'You can hope anytime Mr Taylor ...'
--- Beneath the Planet of the Apes
From: Ron "Asbestos" Dippold
I've left my body to science - and science is contesting the will.
From: Michelle Fiera
"For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
From: B R Stragnell
"If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you flick our ears, do we not go 'Ow! Ow! My ears!?'"
From: anonymous
"[The Space Shuttle Orbiter, Columbia,] OV-102 is affectionately
known as 'The Penguin', a name it earned during the leak
investigation. Definition: Penguin - A black & white flightless
bird."
--- Ken Hollis,
HOLLIS@TITAN.KSC.NASA.GOV, in sci.space.shuttle
From: Wraithe
"You go RIGHT ahead and represent the shiny, happy people.
I represent the angry, gun-toting, meat-eating people!"
From: The Keymaster
Life is an adventure to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
From: David Giller
Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Three. One to replace the bulb, and two to fend off all the
Californians trying to share the experience.
From: Erik Troan
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into
the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
From: George Allegrezza 09-Nov-1993 0717
"There's nothing wrong with him that can't be
fixed with some Prozac and a polo mallet."
--- Woody Allen, "Manhattan Murder Mystery"
From: Winston Brown
Always borrow money from a pessimist;
he doesn't expect to be paid back.
From: dave budd
"The importance of bluffing lies not in the actual play, played
against a good player, but in the protection it provides against
the opponent's potential deviations from the good strategy."
--- Von Neumann & Morgenstern
From: Michael Reed
"Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness."
From: Mel Beckman
"You can observe a lot just by watching."
From: Joel Siegfried
"Never make predictions, especially not about the future."
From: douglas craig holland
Proud member of:
Mathematicians Against Drunk Deriving
From: Germano Caronni
Instruments register only through things they're designed to register.
Space still contains infinite unknowns.
From: Sharon Crichton
I fought the lawn
and the lawn won.
From: MCMILLEN David Ross
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work;
I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
From: Tom Fitzgerald
"I went to the universe today;
It was closed...."
From: Gary Thompson
Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which can
be adequately explained by stupidity."
From: David Simmons
"Quod erat demonstrandum, baby.
(ooh you speak French)"
--- Thomas Dolby "Airhead"
From: Peter Krijnen
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog.
Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog.
Sigh!
There's so little hope for advancement.
From: Lee Levine
Or you might try calling the U.S. Naval Observatory in San Diego.
(Bellybutton observatory??? :) )
From: John Clear
"Aviation is proof, that given the will,
we have the capacity to achieve the impossible."
From: George Allegrezza 04-May-1993 1247
"I don't deserve to be treated like this. I'm human, ain't I?"
"Well, there've been some complaints."
From: Thomas Slager
Little pieces of me keep breaking off,
It hurts--but I am getting lighter.....
From: Simon Storry
`Nothing's really a problem...
if you've got a big enough hammer!'
From: You'll put an eye out! 21-May-1993 1536
"She doesn't know you're not normal."
--- my wife, about our 19-month-old daughter
From: Michael D. Adams
Reservations are the condoms in the birth of new ideas.
From: "Dave Hastings, OUCS"
"The technical axiom that nothing is impossible sinisterly conditions
one to the pitfall corollary that nothing is ridiculous"
From: Bruce d. Scott
The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent
From: Jayasooriah
"We buy junk and sell antiques."
From: David Sternlight
They came for the murderers and I said nothing. They came for the
theives and I said nothing. They came for the gypsies and I
raised my voice.
From: Stan Brown
A miss is as good as 1.6 kilometers.
It hit me like 907 kilograms of bricks.
Peter Piper picked 8.8 liters of pickled peppers.
From: Jason Wright
There's more than one way to kill a cat...
I need another cat.
From: Peter Orum
The opinions expressed are those of my wife, aren't they dear.
From: Michael Robert Williams
"If you ever have a world of your own, plan ahead - don't eat it."
From: Stupendous Man
"There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an
intellectual conviction."
--- Sean O'Casey in _The White Plague_ by Frank Herbert.
From: Clay Irving
See the happy moron,
He doesn't give a damn,
I wish I were a moron,
My God! perhaps I am!
From: J.B. the Frog!
"A *kiss* is that little rosy dot over the "i" of Loving"
From: Jeff Hupp
"To the stars. A planet is not a good place to run an
industral society."
From: Frederick Roeber
Paranoid is smart when they're out to get you.
From: Henry Bloomfield
All hearts are different, but everyone has black hair
From: anonymous
Let others share your toys, my son.
Do not insist on all the fun
For if you do, it's certain that
You'll grow to be an adult brat.
From: Bill Riemers
"Yeti! Saw them in the London Underground twenty years ago. Ghosts!
A headless woman used to walk through my bedroom at midnight.
Mermaids? Grandpa was rescued from the Marie Celeste by one.
Vampires? I always wondered where my dad went to at night.
Telepathy? Right now you're thinking that I'm talking crap.
So what can you tell me that I won't believe in?"
--- Andrew Hunt, "CAT'S CRADLE: WITCH MARK"
From: Melissa Preston
I am Woman, hear me Roa... oh, sorry, was I interrupting...
no no, it wasn't important... no, really; it's fine.
From: Howard Stateman
"I have the heart of a little child, and the brain of a genius
--- and I keep them in a jar under my bed"
From: Jim Burke
"Life is uncertain - eat dessert first!"
From: Jeff Makey
Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous
Redundancies Department
From: The Wizard of PoI Stephen R. Coates
Is it Saturday yet? Holes in the knee, punctured gums, sore finger
tips, missing pieces, and worlds borne from piles to palaces.
Ah, the joy and comfort of Lego.
From: Captain Dun'sl
A crayon can take you to more places than a Starship can.
From: anonymous
Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it,
Destructive Testing Systems | we break it.
534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed!
Lawrenceville, GA 30244 |
From: Kevin J. Duling
WARNING: Scientists are known to cause cancer in certain
laboratory animals.
From: Michael D. Maxfield
I'd rather get my cable service from the phone company,
than my phone service from the cable company.
From: Trijntje (Trink) Downes
"You may be right, Pythagoras, but everybody's going
to laugh if you call it a 'hypotenuse'."
From: Ghostrider
Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead
where there is no path so others may follow.
From: Jim Kissel
Have you noticed that no one talks about Pavlov's cat?
From: Allen Brown
Anyone can make something work.
But it takes an engineer to make it *barely* work.
From: Alex Ramos
"This article comes with no warranty of suitability for any specific
purpose, including, but not limited to, a passing grade in
Freshman Writing."
From: Jeremy McDermond
Scott's first Law:
No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.
From: Greykell Dutton
Newsgroups: alt.toys.lego
Mom to Kat, Nik, and Aly
Proud owner of a 3'x2'x5' toy box filled to the brim with Legos.
When my kids get older, I may even let them play with them.
hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu WWIVNet 1@2750 WWIVLink 1@12754 Fido 1:233/14
Proud member of P.E.T.A. - People for Eating Tasty Animals
From: Gabe M Wiener
Sound engineering, recording, and digital mastering for classical music
"I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music
will be put on records forever."
From: Rao Akella
"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a
writer is working when he's staring out of the window."
From: Uppie
"The secret to good teaching is sincerity. As soon
as you learn to fake that, you've got it made."
From: Charlie Gibbs
Honk if your horn is broken.
From: anonymous
.---------.---------------------------------------------------------.
| (__) | |
| w \@@/ | Daemons do it with pointers. }:-) |
| `/v/-e | Creamed honey, it's not a job, it's an adventure. |
| _/ \_ | Life sucks, and then you're a vampire. |
._________._________________________________________________________.
From: Ron Baalke
Common sense is not very common.
From: Scott Coleman
"An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade
of grass and not fall off the face of the earth."
From: Steamed Rhubarb Fondue
"It's 106 miles to Chicago; we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack
of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it."
From: Amos Shapira
"It is true that power corrupts,
but absolute power is better!"
From: jeffrey imes
"If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you."
From: Alan Smith
"But if it's in the paper it must be true!"
From: Bob Westall
"I'm so confused"
From: Sean Reifschneider
Rocky: "They're going to rob the bank! You know what we have to do..."
Bullwinkle: "Yeah, we've got to withdraw all our money!"
From: Ed Carp
If you want magic, let go of your armor.
Magic is so much stronger than steel!
--- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"
From: James LewisMoss
"Argue for your limitations, and you get to keep them."
From: Ian Phillipps
If you ask me, all conspiracy theories are put about by the
same bunch of people.
From: Ben Combee
"More insomniacs get their news from _World News Now_
than from any other source."
From: Richard C. Secrist
"The superior man understands what is right;
the inferior man understands what will sell."
From: Ed Taychert
Never be good at anything you don't like doing.
From: Sharon Crichton
I fought the lawn
and the lawn won.
From: "Randall M. Clague"
"Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind."
--- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
From: Sean Casey
"Wind, waves, etc. are breakdowns in the face of the commitment to
getting from here to there. But they are conditions for sailing --
not something to be gotten rid of, but something to be danced with."
From: Drew Lawson
Your future is managed
and your freedom's a joke
You don't know the difference
as you put on the yoke.
From: Chuck Chuck Bo-Buck... McMath
Jeans by Jordache. Body By Fritos.
From: Jamais Cascio
"I'd rather be a smartass than a dumbass"
--- me
"Too bad you never had a choice"
--- my wife
From: Richard Shetron
What is the Meaning of Life? There is no meaning,
It's just a consequence of complex carbon based chemistry;
don't worry about it.
--- The Super 76,
"Free Aspirin and Tender Sympathy",
Las Vegas Strip.
From: Elf Sternberg
All you have to do is act like normal people, and they can't tell the
difference. You just talk with them about the dull things they're
interested in, and they eat it up. It's no trick at all to
imitate them.
--- J.A. Meyer, "Brick Wall," Sept, 1951
From: Luke Mewburn
`Aah ... Yes, and how does madam wish to pay?'
She slapped her credit card on the counter.
`Eventually.'
--- Lady Sharrow, in Iain M. Banks'
`Against a Dark Background'
From: Randy (Juice) Welch
"Real Miracles Reasonably Priced"
From: David K. Merriman
"You know, just once, I'd like to meet an Alien Menace
that wasn't immune to bullets...."
From: David K. Merriman
"Left to it's own devices, Nature cures stupidity."
From: Rich Addison
Man belongs to the Earth.
The Earth does not belong to man.
From: David Turner
Dogs come when you call. Cats have answering machines.
From: Vince Skahan
"I want to be like Barbie - that B____ has everything"
--- Tee-shirt seen in Philadelphia
From: Norman Anderson
"Could be worse....
could be rainin'"
From: Sarah R. Yoffa
"C'mon you apes! You wanta live forever?"
--- unknown platoon sergeant, 1918
From: Michael Froomkin
They're weak. They're helpless.
They babble incessantly.
They have so much to learn.
Aren't new parents cute?
Michael Froomkin <>
Parent of David Bradley Froomkin, b. 25 Aug 1993!
From: Rudi van Houten
Experience is the harvest of many mistakes.
From: Paul Suliin
Experience has shown us that men and nations will often act
wisely once they have exhausted all available alternatives.
From: Eric Chan
"Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment
ruined"
From: jason downs
"Portions of the preceding were recorded.
As for the rest of it, i'm very much afraid it was all in your mind."
From: Josh Templin
"Smokie Says: Please do not deposit flaming articles into the Death Sphere.
Thank you."
From: Donald W. Treadway
"Women and cats do as they dammed well please.
Men and dogs had best learn to live with it..."
"I'm at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk...."
From: anonymous
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital
crime. For a first offence that is.
From: anonymous
Beating her husband to death is every married woman's privilege....
From: Mark Gendron
You know what they say about paradigms? Shift happens!
From: Mike Carty
The early worm deserves the bird...
--- Robert Anson Heinlein
From: V.S.Carpenter
It takes a big man to cry.
It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man
From: Freeman A. Kilpatrick
"If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.'
From: Mari (Black Panther) Sepp{
"That ship?" said Ford in sudden excitement. "What happened to it?
Do you know?" "It hated me because I talked to it." "You _talked_
to it?" exclaimed Ford. "What do you mean you talked to it?"
"Simple. I got very depressed, so I went and plugged myself in
to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great
length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin.
"And what happened?" pressed Ford. "It committed suicide," said
Marvin.
From: Ivan Van Laningham
the 3 laws of thermodynamics:
can't win.
can't break even.
can't get out of the game.
From: Richard Chandler
"Wait a minute, you expect us innocent children to climb up dangerous
scaffolding and paint naked people all over a church? We'll do it!!"
--- Yakko Warner, Animaniacs
From: Miguel Alvarez Blanco
[Note machine name]
"All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost."
From: Dave Russo
Cats remind us that not everything in Nature has a purpose.
From: Matthias Urlichs
CU l8r, LE g8r!
From: Steve VanDevender
"Bipedalism -- an unrecognized disease affecting over 99% of the
population. Symptoms include lack of traffic sense, slow rate
of travel, and the classic, easily recognized behavior known
as walking."
From: Wolfgang Schelongowski
Getting people to give vast amounts of money when there's no firm
idea what that money will do is like throwing maidens down a well.
--- P. J. O'Rourke, Give War a Chance
From: Don Holzworth
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
From: that one girl
"When I go home she will be waiting for me in her white dress
and I will drink salt water and lose my bad dreams."
--- Richard Peabody,
_I'm in Love with the Morton Salt Girl_
From: Alyosha Bourgea
"Every devil I meet is an angel in disguise."
From: Simon McClenahan
Trees hit cars only in self-defence.
From: Wolfgang Schelongowski
Not responsible for advice not taken. (Niven's law #18)
--- Larry Niven, Niven's Laws
From: Doug Tiffany
"Even a fish stays out of trouble when he keeps his mouth shut!"
From: K.W. Curry
Never insult seven men, when all you're packin' is a six gun
From: Jeffrey Scorsone
If marriage was outlawed only outlaws would have inlaws.
My reality check Just bounced
Everything you know is wrong
Everything I tell you is a lie
The Grabbing Hands Grab All They Can
From: Adam Haberlach
"If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,
why do they have locks on their doors?"
From: Mark Feit
"Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who
can't talk for people who can't read."
--- Frank Zappa, 1940-1993
From: Dianne Hackborn
"Stupidity has a certain charm -- ignorance does not."
From: Dianne Hackborn
"The person who stands up and says, ``This is stupid,'' either is
asked to `behave' or, worse, is greeted with a cheerful ``Yes,
we know! Isn't it terrific!''"
From: Don White
"Americans like to talk about (or be told about) democracy but,
when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvience.'
We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as
a democracy."
From: Bruce Ritchie
"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts.
But I can't stop eating peanuts."
From: S. Spencer Sun
Outlawing drugs in order to solve drug problems is much like
outlawing sex... to win the war against AIDS.