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You know you've been spending too much time on the computer when your
friend misdates a check, and you suggest adding a "++" to fix it.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
-- Don Marquis
'Agnosis' is when you don't know. 'Diagnosis' is when you don't know
twice.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
-- Walt Kelly
A Severe Strain on the Credulity
As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and even to the highest
parts of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's rocket
is a practicable and therefore promising device. It is when one
considers the multiple-charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one
begins to doubt ... for after the rocket quits our air and really
starts on its journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor
maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left.
Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in Clark College and countenancing
of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to
re-action, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum
against which to react ... Of course he only seems to lack the
knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
-- New York Times Editorial, 1920
Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever
depths they were once able to plumb.
-- Stanley Kaufman
It is better to kiss an avocado than to get in a fight with an aardvark
We're only in it for the volume.
-- Black Sabbath
Wednesday, 26 August 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
