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You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you
can with just a kind word.
-- Bumper Sticker
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on
people.
-- W. C. Fields
With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once
build a nuclear balm?
... indifference is a militant thing ... when it goes away it leaves
smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is
not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.
-- Stephen Crane
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his
thumb with a hammer.
-- Marshall Lumsden
Who needs friends when you can sit alone in your room and drink?
Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot off a
policeman's tie.
The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic
devices, such as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers,
where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with
sledgehammers. With their devices thus permanently destroyed,
consumers would then be free to go out and buy new devices, rather than
have to fritter away years of their lives trying to have the old ones
repaired at so-called "factory service centers," which in fact consist
of two men named Lester poking at the insides of broken electronic
devices with cheap cigars and going, "Lookit all them WIRES in there!"
-- Dave Barry, "'Mister Mediocre' Restaurants"
Thursday, 16 April 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
