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This is for all ill-treated fellows
Unborn and unbegot,
For them to read when they're in trouble
And I am not.
-- A. E. Housman
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have,
for instance.
-- Franklin P. Jones
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the
center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation
works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop III
Police: Good evening, are you the host?
Host: No.
Police: We've been getting complaints about this party.
Host: About the drugs?
Police: No.
Host: About the guns, then? Is somebody complaining about the guns?
Police: No, the noise.
Host: Oh, the noise. Well that makes sense because there are no guns
or drugs here. (An enormous explosion is heard in the
background.) Or fireworks. Who's complaining about the noise?
The neighbors?
Police: No, the neighbors fled inland hours ago. Most of the recent
complaints have come from Pittsburgh. Do you think you could
ask the host to quiet things down?
Host: No Problem. (At this point, a Volkswagen bug with primitive
religious symbols drawn on the doors emerges from the living
room and roars down the hall, past the police and onto the
lawn, where it smashes into a tree. Eight guests tumble out
onto the grass, moaning.) See? Things are starting to wind
down.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses.
-- Victor Hugo
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something
undreamed of by its author.
-- S. C. Johnson
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
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.
Wednesday, 10 June 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
