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... I'm IMAGINING a sensuous GIRAFFE, CAVORTING in the BACK ROOM of a
KOSHER DELI!!
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and
miss
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
... all the modern inconveniences ...
-- Mark Twain
With trembling hands he unfurled the ancient cracked parchment,
this was the place, it had to be. Uncertainly he began to mumble the
chant "rdbms, sql, third normal formal form, java, table, scalable".
Something moved... From outside they heard a scream and a thud.
The sales department had awoken.
Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know
any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he
doesn't know much.
-- Will Rogers
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing,
but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.
-- Robert Benchly
The people of Halifax invented the trampoline. During the
Victorian period the tripe-dressers of Halifax stretched tripe across a
large wooden frame and jumped up and down on it to `tender and dress'
it. The tripoline, as they called it, degenerated into becoming the
apparatus for a spectator sport.
The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for
castrating pigs during Sunday service.
-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.
Saturday, 11 July 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
