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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
-- Russell Baker
Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it.
-- Mark Twain
Harvard Law:
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure,
temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will
do as it damn well pleases.
Did you know that if you took all the economists in the world and lined
them up end to end, they'd still point in the wrong direction?
The trouble with a kitten is that
When it grows up, it's always a cat
-- Ogden Nash
In Pocatello, Idaho, a law passed in 1912 provided that "The carrying
of concealed weapons is forbidden, unless same are exhibited to public
view."
The qotc (quote of the con) was Liz's:
"My brain is paged out to my liver"
You can always tell the Christmas season is here when you start getting
incredibly dense, tinfoil-and-ribbon- wrapped lumps in the mail.
Fruitcakes make ideal gifts because the Postal Service has been unable
to find a way to damage them. They last forever, largely because
nobody ever eats them. In fact, many smart people save the fruitcakes
they receive and send them back to the original givers the next year;
some fruitcakes have been passed back and forth for hundreds of years.
The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then
pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear
safety glasses.
-- Dave Barry, "Simple, Homespun Gifts"
Monday, 26 October 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
