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I don't know anything about music.  In my line you don't have to.
		-- Elvis Presley

Of what you see in books, believe 75%.  Of newspapers, believe 50%.
And of TV news, believe 25% -- make that 5% if the anchorman wears a
blazer.

A [golf] ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the tree.
Hitting a tree is simply bad luck and has no place in a scientific
game.  The player should estimate the distance the ball would have
traveled if it had not hit the tree and play the ball from there,
preferably atop a nice firm tuft of grass.
		-- Donald A. Metz

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can,
too, provided you use them for business purposes.  For example, if you
subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you
can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax
decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper?  Outside?  What
if it rains?"
		-- Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"

Boss, n.:
	According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the Middle Ages
the words "boss" and "botch" were largely synonymous, except that boss,
in addition to meaning "a supervisor of workers" also meant "an
ornamental stud."

Please ignore previous fortune.

Signs of crime: screaming or cries for help.
		-- from the Brown University Security Crime Prevention Pamphlet

Nobody can be exactly like me.  Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
		-- Tallulah Bankhead

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Tuesday, 3 February 2026   Michael J. Chappell   Contact me at: mcsuper5@freeshell.org