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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the
average man can see better than he can think.

Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems.  It's easy to
criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.
		-- D. J. Hicks

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the double lock will keep;
May no brick through the window break,
And, no one rob me till I awake.

It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the
problem.

I don't want to alarm anybody, but there is an excellent chance that
the Earth will be destroyed in the next several days.  Congress is
thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists
broadcast signals to alien beings.  This would be a large mistake.
Alien beings have nuclear blaster death cannons.  You cannot cut off
their federal programs as if they were merely poor people ...
		-- Davy Barry, "THE ALIENS ARE COMING, THE ALIENS ARE
		   COMING!"

I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed.  Except perhaps
the time I found out that M&Ms really *do* melt in your hand ...
		-- Peter Oakley

Issawi's Laws of Progress:

	The Course of Progress:
		Most things get steadily worse.

	The Path of Progress:
		A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

If the weather is extremely bad, church attendance will be down.
If the weather is extremely good, church attendance will be down.
If the bulletin covers are in short supply, however, church attendance
will exceed all expectations.
		-- Reverend Chichester

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Monday, 13 April 2026   Michael J. Chappell   Contact me at: mcsuper5@freeshell.org