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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple
pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops
its head into the shop. "What! no soap?"  So he died, and she very
imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies,
and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top,
and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the
gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
		-- Samuel Foote

Commitment, n.:
	Commitment can be illustrated by a breakfast of ham and eggs.
The chicken was involved, the pig was committed.

It's men like him that give the Y chromosome a bad name.

Gray's Law of Programming:
	`_n+1' trivial tasks are expected to be accomplished in the same
time as `_n' tasks.

Logg's Rebuttal to Gray's Law:
	`_n+1' trivial tasks take twice as long as `_n' trivial tasks.

Burn's Hog Weighing Method:
	(1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a
	    sawhorse.
	(2) Put the hog on one end of the plank.
	(3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again
	    perfectly balanced.
	(4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.
		-- Robert Burns

Encyclopedia Salesmen:
	Invite them all in.  Nip out the back door.  Phone the police
and tell them your house is being burgled.
		-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government
working for you.
		-- Will Rodgers

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
		-- A. E. Neuman

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Thursday, 21 May 2026   Michael J. Chappell   Contact me at: mcsuper5@freeshell.org